Where did all the employees go?

[fuzzybuddy]

My husband was a fork lift operator for years. Actually, you do need a special operator's license to drive a fork lift. The company he worked for trained you, gave you a written and driving test, then you received your license. I forget how many years it was good for, but every few years he had to take the test again and got a new license.

I apologize, I thought it was just in house training. But I think the job pays a good wage, and that's why those ads on TV , month after month make me question where workers went.

 

[caroln]

I apologize, I thought it was just in house training. But I think the job pays a good wage, and that's why those ads on TV , month after month make me question where workers went.

Oh my gosh, no need to apologize! I was just rectifying a misconception about the job skills needed. As far as wage, it varies widely from company to company. My husband was paid an okay wage, but not as much as others. He would have changed companies, but his age was becoming a factor in getting hired elsewhere. By the time he retired the company was switching over to robotics anyway. Robots taking product off the line and loading trucks! Wave of the future! If I was young again and looking for a career, technology related fields and robotics would head the list! So many people losing their jobs to robots though. Where do you go, what do you do, when you're say, 55 or so, and your job of 30 years goes *poof* due to a robot taking it over? Go flip hamburgers? Sad state of affairs.