MOST shops are advertising hiring with signs. McD’s has signs that states “17/HR TO START” all over their locations. Pollo Loco and Yoshinoya has $16/HR TO start signs’ too.
That’s not the business I am referring to. I am referring to companies who have to compete to stay in business. Compete on a national or work market level. Imagine what will happen will Boeing, Lockheed, and or Raytheon decide to pull chocks. Lockheed has already been downsizing it’s sunnyvale facilities and ops for the last 20 years. Large corporates are looking for reasons to leave and set up shop where the profit margins make more sense, where labor is lower, where facilities costs are lower. CA is giving them that excuse to leave.
The only reason companies like google still hang around the expensive Silicon Valley is because the can get lots of H1B visa types to live 10 to 15 per a two bedroom apartment so they split their salaries 10 to 15 ways to pay the 3500 to 5000 per month rents.
Gas at 5 to 7 bucks a gallon, rents through the roof, traffic a nightmare and roads falling apart. Gangs and crime. Pretty soon those Taco Bell’s, pollo locos, and McDonald’s will be all the illegals remaining can afford on their state welfare checks.