Reply #3: It's total bullshit

[Warpy]

The US has the largest educated workforce in the world and a lot of it is out of work or underemployed, thanks to the fools like the one who wrote this article.

The problem isn't that he can't find qualified workers, the problem is that he can't find qualified workers who will take a higher stress job at WalMart wages. He's justifying his own greed and unwillingness to pay a living wage with that tired old excuse that Americans aren't good enough.

His other problem is that he wants some other company to train workers. Well, I'd suggest if he wants workers who do things his way, perhaps he might consider an apprenticeship program and treating journeyman workers with the respect they deserve so they don't leave.

We've been through a long period of oversupply in labor in this country, with an attendent overeducation and overqualification as baby boomers have needed not only training but constant retraining to stay employed. Perhaps that might be another factor at work, unrealistic managerial expectations.

In any case, the workforce isn't the problem. He is.