Reply #5: Have you evern been on a job through public assistance? [View All]

[ThomCat]

They don't teach any skills. People get shoved into the most boring, mind-numbing jobs with the most repetitive tasks that require no skills what-so-ever.

Companies know that you're not going to be there for long, so even though the purpose is supposed to be to teach job skills, companies don't want to lose one of their workers by having someone stick teaching you, and they don't want to get nothing out of you too, by having you leaning skills you haven't mastered. Assigning a skilled worker to teach you something means that they have two people essentially doing nothing all day. So they have you do something easy and repetitive instead. They don't lose an employee, and they gain your labor too. Instead of losing two, they gain one.

You should always keep in mind that regardless of the intent of any program, companies are going to do whatever is best for their bottom line. They don't give a damn about what is best for people.