It used to be that local refineries...

It used to be that local refineries could hire an entry-level worker straight on the outside of high school, train them onward the floor and get them up to spe within a small in number weeks. Those were the days when the technology involved in running the refinery's gigantic machinery was relatively simple and easy to learn.

Not in such a manner these days. Now, entry even workers in most heavy industries must learn complicated technology that has taken those already onward the job years to learn. According to Jeff McSorley, training supervisor at BP Cherry Point Refinery, when novel employees go through the company's