Good looking intake Monte.
As for the hired help part, we try to hire maintenance mechanics here all the time. Base pay for an Apprentice PM guy is $18 plus insurance. Pay goes up with abilities. Last guy hired seemed to be pretty good, but was gone in 4 months from booze. Most of the people who apply can't pass a basic core knowledge test. They interviewed 3 in the last 2 weeks and hired none.
Even for the floor the average is 10 hired, 2 make it 6 months. We don't build rockets or anything difficult here, but people just don't seem to have any kind of work ethic anymore.
there is clearly a lack of work ethic these days. the problem is the good employee's are all taken and happy with their current jobs. it would take something special to get them. so we are pretty much left with the scraps. but thats not because there are no qualified people out there, they are all just working at a better gig. if you are a small company looking for quality people you will have to step up your game and offer more to get them. it's called competition.
