adidas considering building factory in Detroit

**Gpwrangler** · July-05-15, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by FormerEastsider

Hopefully the people they plan to employ don't have to have a PhD. in engineering.

Robot training takes about a week. No degree required as long as you can pass the drug and background screens.

**Zacha341** · July-05-15, 08:38 AM

That alone will make a percentage of folk ineligible to even think about working there. Or other jobs where they screen. Add credit checks and it's over for an even higher pool of potential applicants.

Originally Posted by Gpwrangler

....you can pass the drug and background screens [?].

**Gpwrangler** · July-05-15, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by Zacha341

That alone will make a percentage of folk ineligible to even think about working there. Or other jobs where they screen. Add credit checks and it's over for an even higher pool of potential applicants.

Don't know what to say about that.

**Zacha341** · July-05-15, 10:35 AM

^^^ The credit check screen is a bit much as it is not that hard to see your FICO numbers slide down from a few missed payments due to lack of or an interruption in cash flow. And you need employment to increase cash flow, yet.... wash, rinse, repeat.

**Wheels** · July-05-15, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by Gpwrangler

Robot training takes about a week. No degree required as long as you can pass the drug and background screens.

You really don't have a clue what you are talking about!

**Gpwrangler** · July-05-15, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by Wheels

You really don't have a clue what you are talking about!

OK, maybe two weeks but I'm a slow learner.

**Oddz313** · July-08-15, 10:13 AM

Originally Posted by Gpwrangler

OK, maybe two weeks but I'm a slow learner.

To become a controls engineer it takes a lot longer than 2 weeks, now to operate certain machines it can be a couple weeks.

**warsaw7** · July-08-15, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by Oddz313

To become a controls engineer it takes a lot longer than 2 weeks, now to operate certain machines it can be a couple weeks.

Speaking of robots........

http://www.freep.com/story/news/2015...otic/29853735/

**Gpwrangler** · July-08-15, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by Oddz313

To become a controls engineer it takes a lot longer than 2 weeks, now to operate certain machines it can be a couple weeks.

Right. You can get a job and learn to operate a robot cell in a week or two. I wasn't referring to a degreed engineering position. And I DO know what I'm talking about