- Joined
- Nov 2, 2004
- Messages
- 4
Californias loss will be just about everybodys gain when Buck opens their new plant in nearby Post Falls in a few weeks, and it is my fervent hope to be among the hundred and fifty new employees to be selected to work there. I can imagine few more proud occupations than helping to create the very knives I grew up with and still carry daily.
Odds are not particularly favorable, however, as the local Coeur dAlene Job Service is in charge of collecting resumes, and one of their more important (than me) caste members assured me in classic I-Might-Be-Public-But-I-Sure-Aint-a-Servant manner that it is the only possible way to apply for employment with Buck, unless I huddle on their doorstep in my sleeping bag and stake out CJ Buck for a few weeks.
When major employers start up in this area (and many do - for the same reasons Buck did), the worker bees at the Job Service employment office sift through what is typically thousands of resumes, then present their choices of candidates to the employer. I can only hope the folks at Buck have given them decent guidelines of who they should be looking for, else I am afraid Job Services selections may resemble the last batch of trainees they recently delivered to my place of employment. The less said about pierced-eyebrow, nose, -lips and -try not to think about what else, 19 year-old hip-hop rapper wannabes who got fired from their last three jobs, the better.
Hmph. I worry too much. Surely the folks at Buck know what they are doing, and even if I am not destined to live happily ever after as a Made in the USA Buck Knife-Maker, I will at least get to watch Buck begin a new chapter in its history by taking back production of most of its knives from the Asian continent, and I can go back to training people who cant read or spell and dont dig work how to multi-task on a computer, and everything will be fine. Really, it will.
....now, where did I put that sleeping bag?
- JP
Odds are not particularly favorable, however, as the local Coeur dAlene Job Service is in charge of collecting resumes, and one of their more important (than me) caste members assured me in classic I-Might-Be-Public-But-I-Sure-Aint-a-Servant manner that it is the only possible way to apply for employment with Buck, unless I huddle on their doorstep in my sleeping bag and stake out CJ Buck for a few weeks.
When major employers start up in this area (and many do - for the same reasons Buck did), the worker bees at the Job Service employment office sift through what is typically thousands of resumes, then present their choices of candidates to the employer. I can only hope the folks at Buck have given them decent guidelines of who they should be looking for, else I am afraid Job Services selections may resemble the last batch of trainees they recently delivered to my place of employment. The less said about pierced-eyebrow, nose, -lips and -try not to think about what else, 19 year-old hip-hop rapper wannabes who got fired from their last three jobs, the better.
Hmph. I worry too much. Surely the folks at Buck know what they are doing, and even if I am not destined to live happily ever after as a Made in the USA Buck Knife-Maker, I will at least get to watch Buck begin a new chapter in its history by taking back production of most of its knives from the Asian continent, and I can go back to training people who cant read or spell and dont dig work how to multi-task on a computer, and everything will be fine. Really, it will.
....now, where did I put that sleeping bag?
- JP
Something tells me the trend will be to see more -- not fewer -- Bucks made in the Far East.
