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Originally Posted by upswinging
This was a thought provoking, insightful post. I always thought my personal situation was abnormal- I bust my ass at everything I do, even volunteering/ helping people out it doesn't matter - and for some reason I rationalized other people's lack of motivation was due to unsatisfaction, poor pay, hours etc. and not a lack of discipline, self respect etc etc.
I assume there's not a good way to screen those people out during the hiring process?
I'm not saying there aren't good workers (like you seem to be) left and I think people like you think they can't get to a good paying job so, maybe, they don't try hard enough. Those jobs, even at entry level, are still available in certain industries. You'll have to absorb some less than ideal schedules to get them, but I could have you making $60,000ish in two years, with the right work ethic (not door to door or insurance or anything like that either).
As far as screening those poor applicants out, I wish I could. It honestly seems like people are at least smart enough to Google what to say at an interview and with sites like Glass Door it's not hard to learn enough about a company in very little time to know what I want to hear.
I genuinely don't like it when automation replaces people, but sometimes I want to say that had they worked a little harder it might not have happened that way.
I've literally have a group that knows the target production rate is X units per hour and guess what I get from them, X. Not X+1, not X+anything, X. I get the absolute minimum and somehow, I've become very happy with that. If I can just get the minimum I feel like it's a good day, and that's sad.