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Ship Design

T e Brain-Drain

Conundrum

By Darren Guillory, Technical Solutions Specialist, SSI ow do you balance the fact that your skilled work- a vehicle that had a standard transmission. The hard jolt of force will get older and retire and leave you with not shifting correctly is burned in my memory. The moment a group of younger individuals that will not have you cause a stall and must restart the car while other drivers

Hthe “experience” that your more tenured employ- glare at you in traf? c. You learn quickly how to smoothly ees have? Back in the day individuals would not pass down shift from one gear to the next just so this doesn’t happen knowledge to younger workers in fear of being replaced. The to you again. Now imagine a 15-year-old, or for that matter days of reckoning are upon us. An older workforce is leaving a 20-year-old today getting into a car with a standard trans- with years of knowledge bottled up in their heads with no way mission. Their mind would be blown away with the little to capture the information. What is the solution? Can brain- gearshift and the extra peddle down by the break. That is drain be mitigated? just a simple example of brain-drain. No one taught them

Here is an example of brain-drain that every older indi- because the technology of cars meant that we didn’t need vidual can relate to. As a young man I learned to drive in standard transmissions any longer. Now imagine an entire 14 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • August 2024

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