Very well said! Good luck with the 'higher' management. Maybe I should be
wishing them luck instead ???

Ace
"CW" wrote in message
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Where I'm at right now, we do have that type of assembly work and yes, it
is
quite lucrative but very boring work. Our requirements are not nearly so
high for that job for a couple of reasons. As you pointed out, the higher
IQ
individuals are not willing to do such a job and, of course, the job
doesn't
require it. Yes, people like that are very important. Unfortunately,
getting
the higher management to see that is proving difficult. Day before
yesterday
was the last day for our spring winder. He found an assembly job with
another company making a few dollars an hour more. My thought is that
there
are no unimportant jobs. If a job was unimportant, why would anybody pay
you
to do it? You can't have a top without a bottom. Without a solid
foundation,
the top will collapse.


"Ace" wrote in message
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Good for you and/or your employer.

Just another view on the subject of education. Say you have a very
lucrative hand assembly job for some of your machined components, but the
actual procedure is so simple/boring that 'nobody in their right mind'
would
sit there all day doing it.

Will you insist on the person you hire for the job have math skills, etc,
or
would you settle for someone with a somewhat lower IQ who would be very
happy to sit there all day? In other words, what happens to the
individuals
who don't happen to have the intellectual capacity on par with your top
machinists?

Are they to be forever 'held back' in school till they become laughing
stock
of their so called class mates? Or should they be given a 'lower' grade,
and proceed along with their friends/peers and ultimately enter society
with
some sense of dignity, get that boring assembly job you have and work
tirelessly etc. for you?

I saw a scenario similar to this happen. After a employee was pestered
for
so long, he did quit...... It took four(4) other employees to do the same
job, each only able to tolerate it for about 2 hours. Oh
well............

Ace

"CW" wrote in message
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A little background. I'm the foreman of a small machine shop. Business
has
been picking up greatly and we are in need of machinists. We are having
very

Snippity snip, etc....