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In reply to the discussion: Krugman: When a business owner complains about being unable to find workers, ask how much he pays. [View all]MessiahRp
(5,405 posts)A LOT of jobs used to spend the necessary time and energy to train workers on site. Even College Grads come out of school only having learned concepts and theory and need real world experience and you can't always force potentially talented good workers to go somewhere else for that experience because ultimately they may be offered to stay there.
The lack of on site job training is just one of the MANY ways employers have been trying to skip out on obligations to their workforce. Eliminating Pensions, cutting health insurance benefits to the bone, lower wages... it's all part of a cycle to make sure as little as possible is spent on their workers while the execs up top reap every single dollar of profit in a never ending race to show their fellow business owners who can be the greediest of the bunch.
Hell some of them don't even bother with pretenses... they use temp work agencies specifically to not pay any benefits or have any official obligation to the employee for the entire length of the not-so permanent contract. It's disgusting. If they can't screw you over here, they'll just outsource the job and there's nothing here to stop them. So much for being Patriotic Americans.