Go To Work

At first I was in utter disbelief at the numbers I was reading. When I considered the source. Then I had to add a caveat.  Before I took the figures as truth.  There are probably some fudging of  the numbers here. I must take into consideration. Anytime I see " River City Breweries" involved in any jobs program. I proceed with caution. They have been promising the Memphis area 500 good paying jobs for   years. All the while getting grants and tax breaks from the state and city. Now they have sold the company for a huge profit.  The new owner hired the old one (Carolyn Moody) as a consultant. Now the process starts all over again.                 

This is an excerpt from  the article I was reading:
"The new brewery and bottler had received 28,000 local job applications, reviewed 6,000 resumes, and determined only 2 percent showed the potential prerequisite qualifications. And too many of the first hires hadn't possessed the skills to survive probation.

Blues City plans to eventually hire hundreds but needed 60 workers initially. "After Blues City went through the first round of 6,000 resumes and still didn't have enough qualified candidates, I could tell they were getting discouraged," recalls Carolyn Hardy, who sold the former Hardy Bottling Co. to Blues City and remains there as a consultant. "We got with Southwest and the mayors. I was sure that Blues City wasn't only one with that type of problem."

A picture is worth a thousand  words. What do you get from the picture above? Was this the first day of class? It looks like the student wearing the suit was the one using his hands. Obviously h e missed the first few classes. Why would you wear a three piece suit to work in a factory? If the course is almost over and he hasn't learned that. He is not ready to go  to work.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/oct/14/memphis-new-industrial-training-course-matches/