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> It's not brain surgery, it doesn't need a decade of schooling. It's almost like that condescending attitude towards the trades is why so few young people are
by ThePadawan 4y ago
> It's not brain surgery, it doesn't need a decade of schooling.
It's almost like that condescending attitude towards the trades is why so few young people are doing those apprenticeships anymore. That and the shit pay.
- vkou 4y agoThere's plenty of people going into trades, what there isn't is enough people doing a particular trade that can handle a massive demand spike caused by an acute political or economic crisis. You're not going to solve that problem by making people feel warm and fuzzy about learning a trade that will only have that high level of demand for a few months, or a year, or even three years. You are going to solve that problem by treating it like the emergency that it is. But if you don't actually treat it like an emergency, it's not going to get solved. The attitude I mean to project isn't one of condescension, it's one of 'just get the work done well enough to solve the short-term crisis.' When you're on a ship, and the ship's got a hole in the bottom, you're not going to get to shore if you start lamenting that you don't have a certified first-rate caulker on board. You may have to make do with having the third-rate one take a look at it.
- moepstar 4y agoCurrently, the situation is that even if you have enough installers available, there are no heatpumps to buy - one of the bigger suppliers [0] has basically run dry since at least march... [0] https://www.rjtec-shop.eu/de/luft-wasser-wp/monoblock/ https://www.rjtec-shop.eu/de/luft-wasser-wp/monoblock/
- timbit42 4y agoI suspected as much. Selling new heat pumps from vendors in other NATO countries probably wouldn't help much but it could match Germany's installation ability and would be of some help.