I am posting here because your name is familiar. I live in AL and have worked for 25 years in manufacturing or chemical processing facilities as an engineer. I'm just sharing my "anecdotal evidence" for what it's worth.
We lost 1/2 of the workers in one of our 2 main divisions from 2020-23 due to 'the great resignation'. They were mostly …
I am posting here because your name is familiar. I live in AL and have worked for 25 years in manufacturing or chemical processing facilities as an engineer. I'm just sharing my "anecdotal evidence" for what it's worth.
We lost 1/2 of the workers in one of our 2 main divisions from 2020-23 due to 'the great resignation'. They were mostly replaced with Gen Z. So, we replaced a highly experienced workforce with a completely green one. Even if these kids wanted to do a good job (which they don't), they are extremely dumb, like zero common sense. I'm shocked that they're even toilet trained sometimes - that's how dumb some of them are. And their supervisors sadly are happy when they bother to show up because their absenteeism rate is so high, it causes the reliable workers to work overtime and extra shifts to cover, so the reliable/experienced workers are burned out. Many of the overworked leave, so that exacerbates the problem because they get replaced with another useless Gen Z. Don't get me wrong, they aren't ALL bad, but enough of them are to make industrial workplaces extremely dangerous. Imho this is what was causing all of the food processing fires a years ago or so. We don't do DEI hiring, but imagine adding THAT to an already bad problem. We also don't hire illegals, but they are common at food processing facilities at least here in AL. Imagine working at a place where you can't follow safety rules because you don't know the language. Supervisors are trained in basic Spanish, but they aren't fluent. Having illegal workers would be another reason a workplace wouldn't want to media to know the full story regarding an accident. Anyway, this is my theory. It's a combination of things that we have done to ourselves. Russia and China are just eating popcorn while they watch the shitshow.
Also, I saw this last night on twitter and figured I'd share as example. This young woman made a tik tok video explaining to her followers exactly how dumb she is like she's bragging. Sometimes I wonder if they are being paid to make these videos. https://x.com/DaleStarkA10/status/1756741802433106082?s=20
One more thing I just remembered. It was about a year ago, but I went through the plant just chit-chatting with operators and supervisors and 2 of them told me they were scared to come to work. I asked if it was because of all the clueless new workers? And they said 'yeah, it's really bad.' So there are numerous instances of what we call "near misses" on a daily basis that don't get reported because we (fortunately) avoided an accident.
Thank you for adding these points and your perspective. I have family involved in manufacturing at a management level and I certainly believe your experience. It’s really frustrating to see what things are like now 😕
I am posting here because your name is familiar. I live in AL and have worked for 25 years in manufacturing or chemical processing facilities as an engineer. I'm just sharing my "anecdotal evidence" for what it's worth.
We lost 1/2 of the workers in one of our 2 main divisions from 2020-23 due to 'the great resignation'. They were mostly replaced with Gen Z. So, we replaced a highly experienced workforce with a completely green one. Even if these kids wanted to do a good job (which they don't), they are extremely dumb, like zero common sense. I'm shocked that they're even toilet trained sometimes - that's how dumb some of them are. And their supervisors sadly are happy when they bother to show up because their absenteeism rate is so high, it causes the reliable workers to work overtime and extra shifts to cover, so the reliable/experienced workers are burned out. Many of the overworked leave, so that exacerbates the problem because they get replaced with another useless Gen Z. Don't get me wrong, they aren't ALL bad, but enough of them are to make industrial workplaces extremely dangerous. Imho this is what was causing all of the food processing fires a years ago or so. We don't do DEI hiring, but imagine adding THAT to an already bad problem. We also don't hire illegals, but they are common at food processing facilities at least here in AL. Imagine working at a place where you can't follow safety rules because you don't know the language. Supervisors are trained in basic Spanish, but they aren't fluent. Having illegal workers would be another reason a workplace wouldn't want to media to know the full story regarding an accident. Anyway, this is my theory. It's a combination of things that we have done to ourselves. Russia and China are just eating popcorn while they watch the shitshow.
Also, I saw this last night on twitter and figured I'd share as example. This young woman made a tik tok video explaining to her followers exactly how dumb she is like she's bragging. Sometimes I wonder if they are being paid to make these videos. https://x.com/DaleStarkA10/status/1756741802433106082?s=20
One more thing I just remembered. It was about a year ago, but I went through the plant just chit-chatting with operators and supervisors and 2 of them told me they were scared to come to work. I asked if it was because of all the clueless new workers? And they said 'yeah, it's really bad.' So there are numerous instances of what we call "near misses" on a daily basis that don't get reported because we (fortunately) avoided an accident.
That is so alarming!! I still don’t understand where all the people went? I know a lot died, but most of them in U.S. were elderly people.
Thank you for adding these points and your perspective. I have family involved in manufacturing at a management level and I certainly believe your experience. It’s really frustrating to see what things are like now 😕