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<blockquote data-quote="Mutineer" data-source="post: 5305591" data-attributes="member: 69587"><p>Although well-worn, you bring up a good point.</p><p></p><p>The usual problem of "nobody" wanting to do a crap job.</p><p></p><p>The skilled working-class got the shaft because over the past four decades, much of our manufacturing has gone to other countries.</p><p>Stinging from this, the mantra became "if you don't go to college, you'll be a ditch-digging loser."</p><p></p><p>The result was that many people went to college so they wouldn't become ditch-digging losers.</p><p></p><p>Then the educated college types got the shaft when very many of their cushy, high paying tech jobs were sent to other countries, and/or they were replaced by immigrants with work visas.</p><p></p><p>I can only see two possible solutions to FedEx's problem, and robotics are too far off for this.</p><p></p><p>Significantly raise the pay for employees and contractors. By doing that, FedEx will be admitting to everybody involved that they were wrong and stupid. This also gives their current contractors a tiny shred of power.</p><p></p><p>Or bribe some politicians and have them declare a "transportation emergency" or other such nonsense, to enable the importation of transportation work visas and emergency waivers cuz there's a "labor shortage, we can't find any qualified labor, and Americans are on drugs and don't want to work."</p><p></p><p>They've been itching to pull a stunt like that for years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mutineer, post: 5305591, member: 69587"] Although well-worn, you bring up a good point. The usual problem of "nobody" wanting to do a crap job. The skilled working-class got the shaft because over the past four decades, much of our manufacturing has gone to other countries. Stinging from this, the mantra became "if you don't go to college, you'll be a ditch-digging loser." The result was that many people went to college so they wouldn't become ditch-digging losers. Then the educated college types got the shaft when very many of their cushy, high paying tech jobs were sent to other countries, and/or they were replaced by immigrants with work visas. I can only see two possible solutions to FedEx's problem, and robotics are too far off for this. Significantly raise the pay for employees and contractors. By doing that, FedEx will be admitting to everybody involved that they were wrong and stupid. This also gives their current contractors a tiny shred of power. Or bribe some politicians and have them declare a "transportation emergency" or other such nonsense, to enable the importation of transportation work visas and emergency waivers cuz there's a "labor shortage, we can't find any qualified labor, and Americans are on drugs and don't want to work." They've been itching to pull a stunt like that for years. [/QUOTE]
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