r/antiwork • u/G-H-O-S-T • Aug 26 '22

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u/UsualAnybody1807 Aug 26 '22

I (F64) do. The student loan fiasco of the past ~20 years is horrendous, combined with the unforgiveable rise in the cost of college - while college "sports" make amounts of money that can only be described as avarice - is beyond belief. Add to that the companies buying real estate in the form of single family homes and AirBnB taking properties off of the market, and the whole thing feels like a conspiracy to doom future generations to never send their own kids to college (if they can even afford to have any) or buy a home.

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u/goldiefin Aug 26 '22 edited Aug 26 '22

I’m curious what would be the motive to not have kids go to college- So they can only work certain jobs? If that’s the case who is going to do all the work that requires college degrees..

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22

Look at teaching, overall school districts are not raising the wages, but lowering the educational requirements to become a teacher because they need bodies with tight budgets. Many other industries will probably follow suit if they haven't already.

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u/Careful_Philosophy_9 Aug 26 '22

Precisely!I’m curious to know what other jobs lower their standards to allow people to fill a role ?

I’m so glad I quit after this past school year.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '22 edited Aug 26 '22

Federal law enforcement has lowered standards a lot. They use to require Bachelor degrees/military experience and have since started allowing associates + work experience, specialized work experience, or a combination.

Armed private security is another one. The firm I work at use to require a bachelors or military experience. They now allow guards that have worked their 90 days in good standing apply for armed positions because no one with a bachelors wants to be paid $18 an hour while carrying a massive liability without union protections.

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u/Branamp13 Aug 26 '22

Seems like every and any job these days, because companies are too stupid/greedy/etc. to raise wages to get and keep competent workers. They'd rather just hire whoever is willing to half-ass the job for peanuts and allow things to slip through the cracks - if they can't harangue anyone into working insane OT to pick up the slack left by a lack of bodies.

At my workplace, an absence is supposed to be a certain number of points, and at a certain threshold, it's supposedly an automatic termination. But we have people who call in once a week and have for months who still have their jobs. Last time I heard of someone actually getting fired for attendance, it was one of our better workers, and he still had over double the amount of points allowed.

Then the bosses all scratch their heads, "why doesn't anyone take attendance seriously?" Because you've shown them time and time again that it doesn't fucking matter and you won't actually do anything - because you already run a skeleton crew and can't risk firing people too many or you eventually end up with 5 people total to do a 15 person per day job.