I work in healthcare management. I'm talking about true entry level. We are supposed to require a HS diploma (per corp policy) but I tell my managers if they like someone without, go ahead and hire (no one checks this shit). Our entry positions would be housekeepers, kitchen workers, and nursing assistants. The nursing assistant is the only thing that requires a certification (government bullshit, but I get it), and that is only a two week course.
I don't start anyone under 10 bucks an hour, so we are already above min wage. It's hard work, for the money it really is, but if people put in effort and can actually show the fuck up for work, then there are opportunities for advancement. You could be a housekeeping manager and make 45k a year and not even have a HS diploma. You used to be able to make upwards of 60k a year without education as a kitchen manager but the Feds passed a bullshit law requiring a certification for that position (score one for the education lobby).
What you are talking about in the tech world, which I don't know much about, is a big problem with education in general. It is bullshit to think people with a two year degree are going to work for $14 an hour. Shit Target down the road from me pays that. Aldi's starts at like $16.
We have lost people to Amazon as well, although that is a shitty job, there is a reason they pay what they do.
We have a similar problem with LPNs, it's not a long course, but still and then we can only pay them 18 an hour... It's a joke given the amount of pressure the Ohio Department of Health puts on that position. Don't ever let anyone you know get an LPN, get RN or just forget about it. Ok, now I'm just ranting...lol
Our education system is fucked up.
Oh boy, when you're being limited by the United Emirates of Ohio's ORC, that really does put a damper on what you can do. But it is nice to see some place that actually looks for those without experience for the entry level jobs.
You are correct, the "everyone needs a degree to work here, even the toilet cleaner" has really messed up the system. It's just crazy. There are plenty of places around me that are constantly burning through people because they want (as an example of a place north of me) technicians with a degree and experience in chemical handling (industrial coatings company) but refuse to pay more than $10. I've had plenty of electrical positions offering wages that were just stupid - $25 an hour sounds decent until they say it's in Hillsboro, OR or even worse, LA...
It's just a mess. But I agree with Sanders on one point, the minimum wage has not kept up with inflation. Beyond that, he's an idiot.
United Emirates of Ohio
lmao...
That is nuts about the chemical tech, we pay our dishwashers $10 an hour. We used to pay them $9 until they told me I can't hire high school kids anymore (total bullshit, they were some of our best workers, and I can't get around that. what type of adult is going to work for 10 an hour... niggers that ride the bus, that's who)
I don't believe that the government needs to set a min wage. Just look at Ohio, I don't know anyone who hires at min wage. The market has already decided that it is too low.
Once you get out of the larger cities, there are still plenty of $7.25 an hour jobs out there. The little town I grew up in still has some small industries but they constantly are looking for people because no one wants to handle hot iron for minimum wage.
I don't know how these companies are getting workers anymore, not with Amazon sopping up the workforce. I have noticed a lot of the long-time established shitty industries around me are casting their nets further and further, but who is going to drive 40 miles one way down two-lane highway for a job that requires you work in a factory that blows glass, but pays less than Amazon?
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