Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force
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#2I wonder what the success rate is for their retraining program to turn factory workers into coders.
When watching Andrew Yang's Presidential pitch for UBI he said most government retraining programs only have a success rate of 17%.
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#3There are programs in the failing coal towns to teach former coal miners how to code. I'm not sure the stats on the success rate though.
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#4There are programs in the failing coal towns to teach former coal miners how to code. I'm not sure the stats on the success rate though.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Extremely low: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/23/1859813/-Students-C...
huh. who'd of guessed that coal miners can't code?
A lot of people would have guessed that a program running mostly on warm fuzzies and hope wouldn't be good at producing skilled workers.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Extremely low: https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/23/1859813/-Students-C...
huh. who'd of guessed that coal miners can't code?
I suspect that most laymen find our line of work to be kind of trivial and think that success in this field is more related to youth than intelligence. To them, "coding" is more akin to carpentry (a trade) than physics (a science).
Also, pointing out that not every coal miner can learn to code is seen as culturally insensitive and perpetuating the stereotype that rural people are dumb. Which I understand, but a little honesty could have seen these resources better leveraged to help these people in different ways.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
huh. who'd of guessed that coal miners can't code?
I suspect that most laymen find our line of work to be kind of trivial and think that success in this field is more related to youth than intelligence. To them, "coding" is more akin to carpentry (a trade) than physics (a science). Also, pointing out that not every coal miner can learn to code is seen as culturally insensitive and perpetuating the stereotype that rural people are dumb. Which I understand, but a littl…
Your suspicions are exactly opposite from what I can tell talking to a number of blue-collar people. A lot of the ones I’ve talked to seem very apprehensive about learning anything technical involving a computer, and it all seems kind of mystical in there eyes. Honestly I think a lot of what holds people back is a lack of confidence and a willingness to learn more than anything else.
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#9It kind of bothers me that there's always an assumption on HN that we need to retrain people into coders instead of any one of the hundreds of other jobs in high demand. You'd probably have a lot better results retraining warehouse workers into plumbers, electricians, and HVAC installers, for example. Or on the corporate side, QA testers, entry level IT support, etc.
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#10Headline might be more clear as 'Amazon to Retrain a Third of its U.S. Workers...'