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Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:53 am to CSinLC
Gen Z can't play on their phones sipping coffee all day if you work with your hands. Getting a psychology degree with $120,000 student debt while being a liberal victim is more fulfilling.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:54 am to diat150
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Of course it does idiot. Most people don’t make 120k a year.
If you buy a new 70K pickup on a 120K salary you're a fricking moron
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:54 am to CSinLC
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But it’s not just about numbers. The skills required to work in manufacturing have evolved, according to Garrity. “A lot of the openings that we see today, it’s not just manual of days past, but combining manual and digital skill,” he said.
Train people. Stop focusing on trying to hire people who can do the job day 1. You want a robust workforce like we had half a century ago? Train your employees like we did half a century ago. Stop expecting them to pay money upfront to “learn a trade”; fricking train them.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:54 am to faraway
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central Alabama. these guys are getting laid off. not hiring.
outside of the heavy growth areas, trades are seeing a downturn
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:54 am to go ta hell ole miss
The only difference is a Ford is a middle class item and a G6 and a $2MM house is not.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:55 am to diat150
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Of course it does idiot. Most people don’t make 120k a year.
And most people can't afford a brand new truck.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 8:58 am to Turnblad85
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these jobs the ceo is talking about don't exist.
Very very very few are making 120k as a Ford flat rate mechanic. I
You don't need them to make $120k (or anything close to that peak) for my point to stand.
That job at $60k is better than being on welfare.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:00 am to Joshjrn
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Train people. Stop focusing on trying to hire people who can do the job day 1. You want a robust workforce like we had half a century ago? Train your employees like we did half a century ago. Stop expecting them to pay money upfront to “learn a trade”; fricking train them.
The problem is the populations who have refused to adapt, so do because they dream of this halcyon image of easy factory jobs that paid too much and provided inefficient benefits, and they refuse to imagine doing anything else.
That's why so many of those areas in the Rust Belt are drug-infused shitholes, now.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:00 am to Turnblad85
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outside of the heavy growth areas, trades are seeing a downturn
A downturn in what? Shreveport is NOT a heavy growth area, and there are now hiring ads and posters everywhere for skilled trade. I work for a skilled trade and we just hired 5 dudes under 23 years old. And they are all working their asses off.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:02 am to CSinLC
Parents of millennials shunned and even demonized trades and painted college as the only way to go to be successful - even if it meant taking out $150k in debt to get a liberal arts degree from a private school. Meanwhile college has become even more expensive and I worry if my kids wanted to go I may not be able to afford even a public university for them.
Trades are more attractive than ever.
Trades are more attractive than ever.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:04 am to CSinLC
But, You need to go to college to make a good living...
Crazy, they can't find mechanics...
Crazy, they can't find mechanics...
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:06 am to Hangover Haven
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But, You need to go to college to make a good living...
You don't
But 5000 isn't a lot of jobs
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:07 am to Joshjrn
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Train people. Stop focusing on trying to hire people who can do the job day 1.
NAILED IT.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:11 am to SlowFlowPro
Well, depends on location. frick Detroit, if thats it
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:13 am to CSinLC
Mingo must be playing golf, baw would be wilding in here.
The part the CEO is leaving out is he’s likely laid all those positions off multiple times when it made sense, or the openings are in Mexico where he moved his plant to, and he’s pissed there’s not an endless tap of skilled labor he can turn on and off as production dictates.
The part the CEO is leaving out is he’s likely laid all those positions off multiple times when it made sense, or the openings are in Mexico where he moved his plant to, and he’s pissed there’s not an endless tap of skilled labor he can turn on and off as production dictates.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:14 am to fightin tigers
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At 120k/y a mechanic would be strapped trying to buy a Ford truck for himself and an SUV for his wife.
So? 120k baw isn’t the target market. Drive a sedan
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:14 am to Powerman
I know how to work a wrench
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:16 am to CSinLC
His schtick is getting old. He’s spent two years trying to pretend he’s Mike Rowe, and his other talking point is he always drive China EV. cuz they rerry good.
Posted on 11/15/25 at 9:16 am to SlowFlowPro
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You don't need them to make $120k (or anything close to that peak) for my point to stand.
That job at $60k is better than being on welfare.
I guess you're the national arbitrator of what a mechanic is worth.
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