Aging workers, fewer skilled workers, and a growing demand for nuclear facilities has led the company to start an apprenticeship program.

The starting rate of pay is $19.30 per hour, and current plans call for the hiring of 50 apprentices per year.

Over 2,600 people have already applied for the 50 openings. They may still be looking for good people.

Television station WSMV in Nashville did some investigative reporting on State of Tennessee employees and their usage of Wikipedia.

Channel 4's Jeremy Finley found some state workers editing sometimes lengthy entries for Web sites that clearly have nothing to do with work. One person took the time to add all the lyrics of the theme song for "All in the Family."
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The I-Team was able to trace 677 contributions to Wikipedia.com to state office Internet addresses. One of the entries included time spent adding the name of a "Star Trek" role-playing game.

Apparently some of the employees were found to be, what, a little bored on the job. Employees of any large organization, whether it be government or private enterprise, should be aware that just about anything they do when on the job can probably be tracked by someone. I don't necessarily think this is a firing offense, at least the first time. I think there are still some people out there that don't completely understand the rules of the employment game.

The Nashville Business Journal reports that Tennessee's unemployment rate was 4.7% in October, down from 5.1% in 2006.

The report summarizes gains in a number of sectors, but notes that Tennessee lost 7,400 manufacturing jobs as compared to October 2006.