More corporate propaganda to justify more immigration. We have a surplus of labor, skilled and unskilled. The indicator. Wages are going down not up. In fact, wages have been going down in real terms since 1969.
Yeah, but they know how to put on a condom.
Why is it so hard to fill these jobs?
Too many potheads.
In those states making marijuana legal, do employers in those states still get to screen for drugs? A person smokes legal weed and becomes unemployable for a whole range of jobs. And then, of course, the worker problem becomes worse and you need more immigrants. It is almost like a conspiracy. Also, how many companies will flee states where drug use is legal?
I know a guy who owns a tile business. He pays $10/hour to unskilled labor which is high hereabouts. He can’t keep employees. The largest cause is they get DUI’s and lose their driver’s license. Some won’t show up after he pays them until they run out of money. They are unreliable. Some are functionally illiterate and can’t do simple math. There’s nobody he can just leave on a job alone and expect the job to get done. When he does get somebody good, he teaches them what they need to know and they go off and get a higher paid job. (Can’t blame them. But good workers are hard to find and other companies have deeper pockets than he does.)
I went in to look at my house when it was being built in early ‘95. The crew were smoking joints and drinking malt liquor. I mentioned this to the contractor. He sighed and said, “We fire them when we catch them. But it’s so hard to find help we don’t try too hard to catch them.”
Stoners, sluts and other parasites.
There are several variables not usually considered.
I was once told by a US Army private that with his officers and NCOs working really hard to fill every minute of his day with productive work, practice, training and learning, he knew that he would still have at least an hour or two of slack time, not including lunch and coffee breaks, during the duty day. Usually more.
This lead to the discovery that the US Army itself has the ideal goal of getting just one hour a day of work out of each and every soldier and officer on average. And they almost never get it.
Pondering this leads to some very interesting conclusions about labor.
“Productivity” is the golden calf of economists, yet it is one of the most meaningless of terms. A rule of thumb is that, the harder one works, they less they are paid for their work.
Though it is not done, a corporation can be evaluated by at what level in their organizational pyramid useful work almost ceases to be. That is, somewhere in middle management, work is devolved to memo pushing, meeting attending, and coffee drinking, with just a few individuals spending perhaps an hour a week doing something useful.
The next obstacle to hiring are the people who are doing the hiring. Their objective is to get the hardest working, lowest paying, most experienced and youngest person for a given job. “We want recent college graduates with four years of experience, willing to work at half pay for a six month probationary period”, is a contradiction in terms.
They often must reeducate college graduates in basic literacy and math skills, in effect paying them to not work while being taught what they should have learned in school.
Add to this “personal problems” like the unwillingness to show up to work on time on a regular basis, drug, alcohol and tobacco use, medical conditions, previous criminal convictions, below average mental health, years of ‘empty resume’ unemployment, and general dishonesty.
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four words: Can’t pass drug test
The Remedy?
End all federal welfare, turn it back to the cities who would have to include it in their budget.
Raise the threshold for benefits very high, including work requirements and drug testing.
Penalize single parent gimme-girls, require them to attend “morality training”
Here is a short summary of my experience(s):
80% do not really want to work at manual labor or factory work. They think it is beneath them.
80% cannot pass a drug test.
80% cannot prove they have a high school diploma.
80% think they are overqualified for any job but CEO of Apple.
It's the "character mismatch." They aren't teachable. And I'm not talking about minority urban youth, here.
~ They typically pay between $50,000 and $90,000 a year and with benefits the compensation can climb to $100,000. That’s rich in most nations ~
Is it a joke. From my knowledge everything including food, clothing, electronics, vehicles, even real estates are 50% to three times less expensive in the US comparing to Europe or Russia. How someone in a sane mind could ever consider a $90,000 job undesirable on this terms? I know that as an exception from the rule above legal advise and medical services are priced atrociously in US but you must be a really sick gangster to complain.
The pay for what I do and the associated risk is not anywhere near what is appropriate.
After 35 years in this industry, I'm leaving. The final straw was what obamacare allowed industry to do to our health plans - shift costs to employees - that and non negotiable wage increases which are less that the rate of inflation. Corporate America thinks they can find illiterate immigrants to do what I do? - I wish them all the luck in the world.
This is the heart of the problem. People don't need to work. They just live off the government.
That is why real unemployment is over 25%.
We are in a depression. It has been engineered to put totalitarians in power and keep them there.
And on and on. As somebody who runs a large department, I've heard them all. Every little inconvenience in life is presented to me as "high drama" and thus a reason for them not to come to work or to show up late.
Employees have taken days off to binge-watch a season of a TV show on Netflix. They've taken the Friday before the Super Bowl so that they can "prepare" for the party - and then of course, they needed to take the Monday after off as well. One employee was taking her daughter to a Justin Beiber concert that night and she needed the afternoon off to pull her daughter out of school early and get ready for it.
Many Americans do not take their jobs seriously. They generally do not aspire to move up the ladder either. They are content to do a "simple" job so that they can punch in and punch out of on a regular schedule so they can get home to have leisure time. Yet they are the first ones to gripe when they get a 2% raise or are asked to work a little overtime.
I think the bottom line is that there is so much leisure available that work has now become a nuisance for most people. They would rather stay home and watch their television shows or surf the Internet than to get up and come to work in the morning. And if they can fake or exaggerate a "disability", they will sit home and collect Worker's comp, SSI, or even welfare as long as we keep sending them checks.
That's a big part of the problem, right there. Besides, they won't need their own insurance until they are 26...
Some of it, in all fairness is the location, weather (climate) considerations, and sometimes the expense of living there.
“any American with a strong work ethic and can pass a drug test.”
Therein lies the problem, years ago drug tests were rare, now they are required everywhere.
The stoners can thank lawyers and insurance companies for that.
A company gets far lower liability insurance rates if they have a ‘zero tolerance’ drug policy. The reason is if an employee is hurt in an accident and has any illegal drugs in their system the company is open to law suits.
The Federal Reserve, the largest corporations and their paid for politicians have spent decades suppressing wages and devaluing the dollar. There isn’t a shortage of workers. They’ve destroyed the fair labor market.
Our education system has been controlled by liberals for the past century and drug tests.
Johnny cant read...but he can put a condom on a banana.
