Eager to Create Blue-Collar Jobs, a Small Business Struggles<br />Carmakers are “constantly pushing costs down, costs down, costs down,” Ms. Quillen said from the passenger seat of the Tahoe, speeding east.<br />Ms. Quillen, who employs 57 people on her factory floor, would like to create more jobs at higher pay in her hometown, where she went to high school<br />and met her husband, Nick Quillen, a former teacher who now oversees the factory floor.<br />“We’re going to end up giving them free consulting.”<br />“I’m getting used,” Ms. Quillen said.<br />“Everyone jokes about millennials,” Ms. Quillen says, “but the generation younger than<br />me, I’ve noticed their sense of responsibility to come to work is nonexistent.”<br />After two days of orientation, new hires are sent for a drug test.
