Closeish . Try again . <| sep |> What the hell does she mean , near full employment ? The amount of people not in the labor force is at near record levels . jonesrecord 94708000 a m e r i c a n s n o t l a b o r f o rceparticipationratedrops The Obama admin used some slick accounting tricks to make the unemployment numbers lower and thus meaningless . Always look at the % of americans working . Edit for all you downvoters who blame this on retiring boomers it ' s not just that they have deliberately excluded those who are SO unemployed they no longer bother looking for work , even though they would work if they could . lieunemployment . aspx <| sep |> It will be 75 in like 2 hrs don ' t worry . <| sep |> While placing a call to the service rep may not be a skill , troubleshooting an instrument is . For a lot of automated instrumentation , troubleshooting is very limited . And one hardly needs an MLS degree for instrument troubleshooting a mechanic or engineer would be better suited . And , it also takes a human clinical laboratory scientist to determine that a CBC and basic metabolic panel from an E . D . patient would need to be sent out while a TSH on an outpatient could wait . Erm , no . There should be a policy present as to what gets sent out and what doesn ' t . That ' s certainly not a decision techs are supposed to be making , especially in high volume labs .