The folks at Siemens have been singing their tune for years. Give them <100 qualified candidates for every opening and they will proclaim a shortage of skilled workers. Despicable bunch of wankers, if you ask me.

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The folks at Siemens have been singing their tune for years. Give them <100 qualified candidates for every opening and they will proclaim a shortage of skilled workers. Despicable bunch of wankers, if you ask me.
I think it's a ploy to get a broader qualified workforce so they don't have to pay as much as they do now.

Thats a pretty decent looking "free" lunch.

I found that a bad choice of words, the man is obviously working for his food and yet they say he gets a free meal...

In the face of skyrocketing tuition fees in Britain, I wonder, how many manufacturing jobs have been "off-shored" there in the past few years? I wonder, how the export of those jobs has impacted the morale of the worker?

And yet I can't help but think of Mike Rowe's words here, and wonder, is it like this in Britain too?

It seems to me that no one's hiring, because no one's buying things. And that's because nobody who needs things has any money, and people with money don't need things and won't hire people to make things to sell, because no one's buying things.

It doesn't matter how much money you stuff in the pockets of producers, they won't hire workers or build factories if there aren't paying customers out there with money to buy what they produce.

You need to boost aggregate demand find a way to put money in the pockets of people who desperately would want to buy more stuff, but don't have the money to do so.

It's been a bit of a social science experiment.

For decades now the west has been telling it's children that they are all special and unique precious flowers. Their self esteem has been stroked and coddled. They've been protected from anything in their life ever being "hard".

Now there is a huge number of depressed, disenchanted youth all expecting to be ceo', celebrities and sport stars and unwilling to put in a hard days work and start at the bottom.

When I look at some of these protests, I do have to wonder. Do these kids have any skills? Or is it "my parents didn't pay for me to spend 7 years drinking through a history major for nothin', where's my job?" Honestly, how many of our cohort are qualified for little other than barista gigs at a Starbucks? That shit might wake you up, but it don't make the world turn.

There is blame on all sides here. I agree with @raverman. We've gotten soft.

It's also culture... We have no heroes or role models who ever worked hard to achieve greatness.

Our TV is filled with reality TV shows that almost prove that the way to be a Top Chef or exec in Trump enterprises is to have it given to you , not work and study for it.

We've allowed anything but fame and glory to be seen as a demeaning failure.