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So.. the US Border Patrol is having such a hard time finding people to fill the 5000 new job openings made by Trump that they're going to country music festivals, county fairs, and Spartan races to recruit, and are also altering their polygraph test to make it easier for applicants to pass it.
 
Buchan said:
I never mentioned Detroit and St. Louis.

Baltimore has a port. Chicago isn't a coastal city but it has a shoreline, and it's one of the most affluent cities in America, which meets @Nogbadthebad's criteria for being above 'violence, lawlessness and decay'.
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Chicago being the middle of the midwest is the exact opposite of what a coastal city is. Houston which is highlighted in your article is in the conservative haven of Texas. Stop pushing semantics.
 
Carolina Red said:
So.. the US Border Patrol is having such a hard time finding people to fill the 5000 new job openings made by Trump that they're going to country music festivals, county fairs, and Spartan races to recruit, and are also altering their polygraph test to make it easier for applicants to pass it.
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They could hire Mexicans...
 
Again, the only named group Trump criticised were anti-fascists. The rest was just the usual fence-sitting ("hate groups" etc).
 
Nogbadthebad said:
Seems to me like he is prepping for the end game.

The language and rhetoric at its core, if you ignore the endless crap he spouts off between, is that everything said about him that is bad is a lie, and that these people are out to get him. he is essentially priming these people for civil war when he is either impeached or declared unfit. I would suggest its because he knows one of those two is likely to happen soon enough.

Hos base will never accept whatever evidence is put forward against him because he has told them, pretty much since january, that it is all lies. He will destroy the country on his way out I think, I suspect the US will be a relatively untouched coast of affluent cities, and a post apocalyptic center full of violence, lawlessness and decay.
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Scorched earth. He will leave the institutions burning on his way out.
The division he will create will only get worse when he leaves.
His crew are convinced it's a coup.
 
Nogbadthebad said:
Seems to me like he is prepping for the end game.

The language and rhetoric at its core, if you ignore the endless crap he spouts off between, is that everything said about him that is bad is a lie, and that these people are out to get him. he is essentially priming these people for civil war when he is either impeached or declared unfit. I would suggest its because he knows one of those two is likely to happen soon enough.

Hos base will never accept whatever evidence is put forward against him because he has told them, pretty much since january, that it is all lies. He will destroy the country on his way out I think, I suspect the US will be a relatively untouched coast of affluent cities, and a post apocalyptic center full of violence, lawlessness and decay.
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A few of the pundits on TV have been suggesting this as well. At a minimum, it shows that his Presidency is completely ruderless and being driven by the whims of his own paranoia and insecurities.
 
Carolina Red said:
So.. the US Border Patrol is having such a hard time finding people to fill the 5000 new job openings made by Trump that they're going to country music festivals, county fairs, and Spartan races to recruit, and are also altering their polygraph test to make it easier for applicants to pass it.
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Wow, that is terrifying. I can only imagine some of the nuts trying their luck now.
 
Mick1991 said:
Wow, that is terrifying. I can only imagine some of the nuts trying their luck now.
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Tbf - there is an important proviso, and it makes a lot of difference. Then again, 75% failing is scary.

The bill would grant a waiver to the polygraph test for applicants with experience in law enforcement or the military. Applicants at the agency tasked with securing the border have a 75 percent failure rate, according to CBP.
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Neutral said:
Tbf - there is an important proviso, and it makes a lot of difference. Then again, 75% failing is scary.
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I don't know too much about it. From what I seen on a news segment the other day the job entails a fairly large humanitarian aspect to it? Very risky to be lowering standards in that sort of field.
 
Neutral said:
Tbf - there is an important proviso, and it makes a lot of difference. Then again, 75% failing is scary.
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Not exactly the same, but:

Over the last 18-24 months I've constantly heard from companies having issues with filling low-to-mid-level labor. Initially I thought the labor market was just tight, hence low unemployment (but still worry about lower participation rate). Then a few months ago one company illuminated me a bit with an anecdote about the fail rates on drug tests they were seeing in their training programs, as high as 100% fail rate in some classes of 12 or so. And this was one of those 'trade' jobs that are severely lacking these days, so an individual can make a healthy living if they get their act together.

Its super scary to think of this gutting of the labor force, in terms of the long-term impacts to the economy.
 
MTF said:
Not exactly the same, but:

Over the last 18-24 months I've constantly heard from companies having issues with filling low-to-mid-level labor. Initially I thought the labor market was just tight, hence low unemployment (but still worry about lower participation rate). Then a few months ago one company illuminated me a bit with an anecdote about the fail rates on drug tests they were seeing in their training programs, as high as 100% fail rate in some classes of 12 or so. And this was one of those 'trade' jobs that are severely lacking these days, so an individual can make a healthy living if they get their act together.

Its super scary to think of this gutting of the labor force, in terms of the long-term impacts to the economy.
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I vaguely recall some woman in Ohio(?) saying she had a ton of vacancies in her factory...but, due to people failing drug tests, she couldn't fill them.

EDIT: found it http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/29/us/ohio-factory-owner-cnntv/index.html
 
Neutral said:
I vaguely recall some woman in Ohio(?) saying she had a ton of vacancies in her factory...but, due to people failing drug tests, she couldn't fill them.

EDIT: found it http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/29/us/ohio-factory-owner-cnntv/index.html
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Just bizarre, and her commentary that this has only become an issue of last 2 years. I'd take a bet that drug issues are an element in this Border Patrol fail rate... probably ask the candidates if they've ever done drugs, and either they lie and the poly spikes, or they tell the truth and flunk.
 
MTF said:
Just bizarre, and her commentary that this has only become an issue of last 2 years. I'd take a bet that drug issues are an element in this Border Patrol fail rate... probably ask the candidates if they've ever done drugs, and either they lie and the poly spikes, or they tell the truth and flunk.
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Well an enhanced War on Drugs led by KKK Sessions should help things even more :wenger:
 
Neutral said:
I vaguely recall some woman in Ohio(?) saying she had a ton of vacancies in her factory...but, due to people failing drug tests, she couldn't fill them.

EDIT: found it http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/29/us/ohio-factory-owner-cnntv/index.html
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Rediculous really. Almost everyone I know who does recreational drugs doesn't let it affect their jobs. Now hangovers are a fecking problem for me, the worst days I have had in work are the days my staff have fecked me due to being on the sauce the night before (including me). One thing that really pisses me off about living in the US, too much involvement in you're personal life by the employer. Healthcare decisions for you're family, drug testing for jobs that in all honesty require drugs just to get through you're shitty day and the requirements for college degrees for jobs you can learn in a week.
 
GiddyUp said:
Rediculous really. Almost everyone I know who does recreational drugs doesn't let it affect their jobs. Now hangovers are a fecking problem for me, the worst days I have had in work are the days my staff have fecked me due to being on the sauce the night before (including me). One thing that really pisses me off about living in the US, too much involvement in you're personal life by the employer. Healthcare decisions for you're family, drug testing for jobs that in all honesty require drugs just to get through you're shitty day and the requirements for college degrees for jobs you can learn in a week.
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If that is Ohio, that is probably not recreational use.
 
The latest handbags.....Drumpf cuts aid to Egypt over "human rights" issues and the Egyptians snub Kushner's visit to Egypt today in protest.

 
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The first letter of each paragraph in the body of the letter :D
 
kps88 said:
Who thought it was a good idea to end his rallies with a creepy choir version of You Can't Always Get What You Want? :lol:
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That's the intro to the original. I think they fade it out before Jagger's vocals kick in. One of my favourite tunes of all time and a kick in the balls that Drumpf uses it. I wish Mick n Keef would sort it out (maybe they don't have the rights?)
 
Trump "our people have always had the will to endure and overcome, this is the challenge of our times" He's soooooo right, just not how he meant it.

The contrast between the unhinged free flowing angry Trump of last night, to this calm, measured Trump that puts all his energy and concentration in to reading from the autocue.

 
berbatrick said:
If that is Ohio, that is probably not recreational use.
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Yeah, Ohio is swamped with hard drugs - wouldn't be surprised if it was something more than dope.

While I think there is currently a grey area for employers to do drug testing because marijuana is legal in many places, it goes without saying that, in Ohio for example, weed is still illegal, along with coke, heroin, etc... How 'bout don't be stupid enough to get high the day before you go for an interview or exam? And I don't think it's an invasion of privacy to test for substances that can make the prospective employee a problem in the workplace. I've worked in places where people dealt weed out of the kitchen, or people that did coke and had jobs close to children. I wouldn't want to risk having a person under the influence of a hard substance do something damaging to the business or create a scene with a customer.
 
Edgar Allan Pillow said:
Don't these substances stay in blood stream for 6 months or so?

Anyway, I think drug testing for employment is idiotic and must be scrapped.
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Not according to this information. Depends on the drug but nothing more than a few days to a week for the hard stuff.


http://www.ohsinc.com/info/detection-time-frame/

Like I said, they're illegal anyway - workplace safety is paramount. Also, I've seen someone get chance after chance after being hired by multiple places over the course of a few years, and the guy always relapsed and got back on heroin. He never got the treatment he needed (partially the fault of our healthcare system) and couldn't perform.
 
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