[sammyg2]

I've brought in 4 new mech engineers straight from college over the past 8 years.
Starting pay was around $80k.

I remember one incident in particular.
Mr. wet-behind-the-ears had been hired as a reliability engineer a month earlier, and I was giving him a tour of the repair shop where the equipment over overhauled. As I pointed out a few typical failure causes, his eyes glazed over and he tuned out.

I said hey, this stuff is important.
His answer was that he only planned to be in the reliability engineering department for 6 to 9 months so he didn't need to bother learning the "nuts and bolts".
He lasted about a year.