Thread 514074041

Why aren't enough rural Americans getting jobs in warehouses and construction?

>The shortages are twofold. In rural regions, unfilled roles in construction, health care, transportation, and warehousing make up nearly one in four postings, threatening to stall the very projects driving America’s growth. At the same time, the AI economy is opening new doors: more than 15% of IT and computer science postings are remote, proving that millions of high-value digital jobs can be done from anywhere. Together, these realities point to a future where America’s workforce must be both locally rooted and digitally connected.

Mike Rowe, founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation, told me:

“The future of AI demands that we reinvigorate the skilled trades – immediately – and close America’s skills gap. If we can’t build it, wire it, and maintain it, we can’t have it.”

He also reminded the audience in Pennsylvania:

“We took shop class out of high school and convinced a whole generation they needed a four-year degree to succeed no matter the cost. That was a big mistake. Welding, plumbing, and electrical work aren’t just viable—they’re vital. And the shortages in those fields are acute.”
https://fortune.com/2025/08/21/rural-america-jobs-not-enough-workers-ai-mike-rowe-lightcast/

>bring in a bunch of jeets and make AI, to take away millions of jobs
>why aren’t these lazy tuckers slaving away for Shekelstein and ZOG

Why doesn't he get a fucking job? He does fuck all except cry in the media and demand more immigrants. 20 years he has been dining out on that one 'reality tv show' that was obviously faked. Fuck him, the fucking scumbag.

I don't give a fuck what Mike Rowe says about anything.
And archive your links you marketing jeet I'm not giving you a single click.

nothin out here but us pines
fuck off mike
nobody fuckin asked

Huh? Nice but tell us, what is nuclear family? have seen this shill before.

>>514074041 (OP)
what’s the pay for these jobs? I’ve never seen a well paying job sit empty

Not my problem MIKE! Fuck you and fuck rural America.

>>514074041 (OP)
OH NO WE HAVE TO IMPORT MILLIONS OF JEETS

>>514074041 (OP)
Rural American need more immigrants fo dem jobs and sheittt.

>>514074041 (OP)
Whenever they say "rural" they don't mean "2 hours away from Chicago" they mean "literally in the middle of bumfuck nowhere where no one under age 50 wants to live under any circumstances."

Yeah, you can pay a welder $25/hour in the suburbs of a major city and they'll be happy as a clam. If you want the same welder in the middle of fucking Montana on an 8-month job building a data center you will have to pay $75/hour. No one is going to move there for part time work or temp work. Of course Shlomo Shekelberg sees that he actually has to pay a real wage and freaks out and demands he only pay $25/hour and bribes retards in the media to shill the trades.

Complete BS.
There are plenty of rural Americans willing to work these jobs but there aren't enough of them out there.

>opera singer celebrity tells me I should shovel shit for a living
pottery

>>514075279
>I’ve never seen a well paying job sit empty
and you won't.

>>514074128
Lmao this, turns out that no one wants to work under the sun 24/7 on nigger-tier conditions, and by the time people are desperate enough to try and work like this, kikes will already have automated farms

>>514074041 (OP)
how is nobody tired of hearing this entitled kike boomer talk?

>>514074041 (OP)
>there are lots of jobs

No there are not

>>514074041 (OP)
Farmers are losing generational farms due to immigrant arrests and Tariffs. Big city investors are buying all food production to automate.it. Minimum wage jobs for Rural america. When remote working elite Leftist want to leave Trump militarized cities they can live like fat cats in poor ass America.
You won!
Kek

>labor shortage

Anybody who says this is unironically your class enemy, to borrow a marxist term. They are saying "I don't want to pay you enough to have a life of dignity". I am seeing this shit everywhere for years and I'm so absolutely fucking god damn tired of it.

>>514074041 (OP)
Even days of the week
>Mass layoffs in the fake news media
Odd days of the week
>"No one wants to wurrrrk anymore!"

>>514074440
His entire grift was "millennials are lazy" and boomers paid him millions to feed them that line over and over. It was like ASMR to them.

>>514075279
Funny how pay is the #1 concern for employees and pay is also the only subject NEVER mentioned in any of the 179 episodes of Dirty Jobs.

>>514074041 (OP)
>why does nobody want to spend their one and only brief sensory experience on earth working these horrible jobs in the middle of nowhere?

wow mike it is a mystery get Dick Tracy in there

>>514079401
This. There are no labor or "skills" shortages anywhere in the west

>>514074041 (OP)
Why does anyone pay attention to this trained opera singer larper?

>>514074041 (OP)
>construction, health care, transportation, and warehousing
>rural
wat

>>514074041 (OP)

>Mike Rowe Foundation
>funded by the Koch Brothers
>Exists to set the narrative that wages are sufficiently high and labor supply is too low, justifying big business’s practice of employing immigrant scab labor

>>514074041 (OP)
Well? What's he waiting for?

I quit construction and went into software engineering when I learned that the "high 6 figure paying trade jobs" the media talks about are EXTREMELY rare and hard to come by, and that I was going to be lucky to get 50k a year working a standard 40 hour. My younger brother was an intern for a company that specialized in manufacturing autoparts and he maid more than what my foreman was making at the time.

>>514074041 (OP)
What is Kike Rowe talking about? I'm out in here in rural America and the problem is the lack of jobs, not the lack of workers.

>>514074041 (OP)
I will never understand how people like him get away with advocating for labor jobs, wears blue collar outfits, and talks with all those labor job made up jargon, but doesnt in fact actually work.

>>514074041 (OP)
mike rowe is the john wayne of dirty jobs hosts

>>514078773
>>514079728
>>514080749
because someone who works at fox news, and has seen High Noon 20 times, thinks mike is their idea of a real, rugged, rough-and-tumbler rustler, a man that knows how to wear cowboy boots the right way

>>514074041 (OP)
I live in rural America.
This is probably true, but the boomers are still shipping what little jobs exist off and won't pay people properly.

Sorry people aspire for more than beer and painkillers.

>>514080531
They also have a habit of being the really dangerous shit. Like when they talk about welders being able to make up [insert exaggerated wage here] they tend to leave out the part where the ones who make that much are the guys doing shit like underwater pipeline work where 15% of people doing it will end up dying on the job.

>>514074041 (OP)
I don't understand why they're pushing this "no one wants to work" bullshit. It's not true. I own a business in a small town. People are constantly asking for jobs. Ever since covid people have been begging to work. I haven't had to post a listing for a job in five years. I have a list of people waiting to work, and at least once a week someone comes in asking for a job.

There isn't a shortage of workers, there is a shortage of jobs. This faggot is straight up gaslighting.

>>514083931
Nobody wants to work for the shit pay and benefits they're offering.

>>514074041 (OP)
>Mike Rowe
why has no one killed this faggot yet?

>>514074041 (OP)
Wasn't this faggot a theater kid?

>>514074041 (OP)
>“The future of AI demands that we reinvigorate the skilled trades – immediately
True so what does he propose other than people who are already living a hand to mouth existence find more time and money for school or whatever? If society needs all theses things then society is going to have to start investing in its citizens.

>>514078120
That, and a lot of small-town/rural jobs pay absolute shit. Unless you are part of a megacorp doing something lucrative like resource extraction. The local hog farm in bumfuck North Carolina offers horrendous sanitary and safety conditions in exchange for insultingly low salaries.

>>514074041 (OP)
Dang maybe he should go get a job to help out then.

>>514084144
Is this real?

The biggest issue I've seen is unironically a top down problem with the leadership skills of people at the extreme top and middle of corporate command chains. Something I've figured out from working at my job for 5 years, which is entirely commission-based, is that they have a script they are trained to use when dealing with employee-related issues. The common threat to bring out, if you have a worker who's broken a piece or two, is, "we're going to stop paying you for damaged product you've delivered."

It's a monumentally stupid policy for a couple of reasons. The first being that it's not true. Wage deductions work like writeups, in that the employee has to give written consent to it. In my state, it cannot be a blanket agreement that was signed upon employment. The thing that was broken and the bill needs to be handed off for them to sign, and they are allowed to refuse to sign it. They may not be terminated for their refusal to sign, and if they do not sign it, the employer must pay them as normal, and their only legal recourse would be suing the employee (which would involve demonstrating negligence or misconduct on the employee's part, rather than simple buffoonery).
So for an already unpleasant job, which they already have trouble keeping staffed because they expect everyone to be clean on it and fulfill customer service roles in addition to hard manual labor, they put this absolutely disgusting earworm in their worker's ear, as if that's going to do anything but damage a relationship that is completely transactional. I'll lose a $100 bill on the bus and shrug over it. If I suspect there's even a chance someone's stolen a 20 from me, however, it would be difficult to not see them as a person to avoid. This is how they keep losing people. A completely empty threat.

>>514075279
>what’s the pay for these jobs?
Too high obviously. That's why they're pushing to get more people into it, so they can lower wages even further.

>>514074041 (OP)
>Joblessness in Tech is 7% and climbing

Mike Rowe repeats same thing he's been saying for ten fucking years, more at 11.

>>514074041 (OP)

>Welding, plumbing, and electrical work aren’t just viable—they’re vital. And the shortages in those fields are acute.

I'm 38 and too old to learn those skills.

>>514074041 (OP)
>Mike Rowe warns rural America has a massive labor shortage:
good - that nigger has never worked a day in his life other than tv faggotry
keep up the work NEETS
they are starting to feel some hurt but it's going to get a lot worse for them
NEVER STOP NEETING

>>514074041 (OP)
this faggot is as fake as bill nye. its like his job is to just humiliate millenials and zoomers even though hes never done a real job in his entire life.

>>514079546
>Funny how pay is the #1 concern for employees and pay is also the only subject NEVER mentioned in any of the 179 episodes of Dirty Jobs.
/thread

>>514074041 (OP)
If no one is taking the job, you have to offer more money until you find someone willing to settle for that amount. It's that simple.

>>514074041 (OP)
someone needs to kick this faggots ass

>>514090067
>noooo we don't want THAT kind of free market

>>514074128
>this
These jobs would be fine if you weren’t slaving nigger a field nigger 60 hours a week.
Go talk to your avg 30-35 year old tradie who’s been doing it for a decade. 90% of the time he’s divorced, alcoholic, fucked up back/ACL/knees, depressed, fat etc.
These jobs are fucking miserable. Imagine working 60 hours a week and passing out once you get home while your friends are fucking partying at in university and passing out next to a slut after cumming in her ass. Than he graduates and works a few hours a day at home from his laptop while you work your ass off every day until you either retire or end up on disability.

>>514074041 (OP)
If Nigger Rowe ever goes to an event where people ask him questions, somebody needs to ask, "Why don't these companies offer better pay if they are desperate for workers?" I'm curious to how the faggot would answer

Interesting how the people with no stake in the country anymore arent keeping the lights on.

>>514074041 (OP)
What the hell does that TV faggot know about jobs? He just reads the crap on the Q cards that the fluffer holds for him.

>>514091647
He's been on extremely high paying dangerous jobs and knows how crucial they are, that's where he's coming from.

>>514091720
No he hasn't. He just made up bullshit to entertain retards.

>>514091720
>spends an hour a week being inept at manual labor
>that's where he's coming from

>>514091850
Right he's a complete fool, an opera singer. But he was moderately in shape so it was showing how an "average retard" would fare

>>514074041 (OP)
>Mike Rowe
Ok great, it's this thread again, and OP is a IKE, like MIKE.

>Get to WORK, da RET da RENT da RENT is due!

>>514091720
>He's been on extremely high paying dangerous jobs
Toughest job that this cocksucker ever had was making a salad.

>>514092134
https://youtu.be/9G_c10wMiow

>>514092212
>20 second clip of the jerkoff posing as an oilman apprentice
Wow, I was so wrong...

>>514074041 (OP)
Same here, if I was unemployed I'd find a deep north job in the mining industry.
Sounds comfy, there are just no women, so people typically import them.
Perhaps that's why they don't have many workers, gotta attract those big city girls back.
How is that situation in the US

>>514091424
He'd probably stammer some bullshit about the company having to be competitive or profitable, or trot out the old boomer line about "back in my day we earned a dollar fifty an hour and LIKED it!" ignoring that inflation exists. I swear boomers fundamentally don't understand inflation; their stock market goes up and that's good, but burgers cost ten times as much and their brains melt.

>>514084928

Empty threats, emptt promises, empty rhetoric all around while they complain how nobody takes responsibility, ownership. Be that mirror to them and they take it personally because they know how impotent they are. They've hired immigrants to bully like it's highschool and then bitch about how sales have stagnated. Well, yeah, you're stuck in highschool Mr. Manager, and refuse to utilize new revenue streams because you don't want to spend thirty seconds clicking a box and adding shipping costs to an order....

>>514092363
Yeah, sucking at it. As the show went on he gave up earlier

Nobody cares about what this boomer has to say.

Kill yourself

>>514092821
Apparently OP does

>>514092852
>Apparently OP does
kek, the daily spam posts of Rowenigger has increased the likelihood of an ass beating if he ever steps foot in public

>>514074041 (OP)
Who asked that jew?

>>514074041 (OP)
>another memeflag thread

>>514094382

Has this clown had an actual job in the past 25 years?
>more than 15% of IT and computer science postings are remote, proving that millions of high-value digital jobs can be done from anywhere.
The problem there is a lot of these companies are really fucking against that, so you can't count on jobs letting you do WFH even if there's no practical reason against it. You can't expect some revitalization of young people staying in rural towns and remote working for some tech company when the tech companies are all in the cities and they'll either have to move if the current one folds/fires them/decides to end WFH. Hell, get a WFH job, then find out some slimy manager insists on 3 days/week in the office, suddenly the remote days don't matter, you still have to be in commuting distance.