Mike Rowe: “For every five tradespeople that retire this year, two replace them.”

“It’s been that way for 12 years.”

“I don’t need to be a mathematician, this is bad arithmetic.”

“7.2 million able-bodied men today, in their prime working years, are not only unemployed … they’re not even looking.”

“What are they doing?”

“2,000 hours a year, on average, on screens.”

“I got a call from a company called BlueForge Alliance … in charge of something called the maritime industrial base.”

“The maritime industrial base consists of 15,000 individual companies, all of whom are tasked with delivering thermonuclear-powered submarines to the US Navy—three a year, two Virginia-class, one Columbia.”

“BlueForge Alliance calls me and they say, we need to hire some tradespeople, and we were wondering if you and your foundation could help.”

“I said, I’ll try, as you probably learned, it’s pretty skinny out there … how many do you need?”

“They said 100,000.”

“100,000 tradespeople for one industry that most people don’t even think about.”

“They said, we’ve looked everywhere … do you know where they are?”

“I said, yeah I do, they’re in the eighth grade.”

“That’s 100,000 building submarines. There’s 80,000 in the automotive industry alone for technicians. Right now … 80,000 openings.”

“You start to go down the list and you begin to realize our workforce is wildly out of balance.”

How much do they caust?

Get ready for a double-feature this summer 🌚🙉🐥

Here's what the audience had to say after a pre-screening 🧑🏿‍🦲👩🏿‍🦱 "Dafuq dat beepin' iz?"

Here's a lesson for ya. In the basement of a paper machine there is a "rail car" used to move long items lowered thru a hole in the operating floor from teh machine to near the roll turning lathe room. I say rail car in quotes because it does ride on rails but it is not meant for huge loads and runs off a small 5kw LP powered onboard generator and a small VFD drive. It has a corded pendant that was originally about 12' long. Over the years that cord was run over a few times and cut... so it got shorter and shorter. by now it's about 2' long and you have to walk very closely beside this thing as you drive it. it moves past a tank dyke curb with a gap too small for a man's foot. So as you walk you just step up onto the dyke and keep walking. Well they let a women drive it. She stepped between the rail car and the concrete dyke and the rail car crushed her foot horizontally while anohter part of it protruding tore up her ankle.

There are a few lessons here 1) maint guys need to analyze why that cord got cut and come up with some way to make sure it doesnt happen again other than shortening it. Maybe a pipe sticking up to suspend the cord from?? 2) when you train someone to do a job don't train them only on what TO do... train them on what NOT to do. Show them the gotchas. it's natural to focus on teaching how do get a job done though.

👩🏻‍🦰: "Da movie wuz great, can't wait to meet my next baby daddy at the premiere, these kids need a man in they life"

👦🏾: "Gib me dat bitchaz muh'fugga"

👩🏻‍🦰: Did you like the movie baby?
👧🏽: Dafuq dat beepin' wuz?

😎: GHIBBLER!