NY FedPosted on 04/19/2015 7:35:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It's not about finding workers; it's about finding the right workers.
According to the latest supplemental survey from the New York Fed's manufacturing and business leaders surveys, employers in the New York area are facing two main problems: finding workers who can show up on time and workers who can hold a conversation.
The survey showed that in April, 65% of manufacturing employers had difficulty finding punctual workers and 60% had trouble finding workers with interpersonal skills.
Among business leaders, a broader survey group, 42% had trouble finding punctual workers while about 48% had trouble finding workers with interpersonal skills.
These results also play into a theme we've been hammering on: As the labor market improves, employers won't have trouble finding workers, but will have trouble finding the right workers.
NY Fed
And this survey highlights another trend in the labor market: wage growth.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Interpersonal skills? Really?
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The rnc membership renewal notice is sitting here waiting to be mailed back with the simple note: “No backbone, no bucks.” Same thing I tell their phone callers. They say they are hearing a lot of that but apparently the word isn’t getting funneled up to the elite chambers.
I am a baby boomer that knows how to work, but I disagree with this as good news. If the country goes to hell (with one of the reasons no one wants or can work), then my IRA and social security will dwindle to nothing and us baby boomers will be working into our 80’s.
My Edward Jones financial advisory went on a rant saying the younger generations will not put up with having to support us via social security. She’s a lefty that would accept no counter argument. But she’s right, using lefty logic social security will be defunded by the same bunch of losers now entering the workforce when they assume positions of power.
In fact, I suggest you check out ETF's...they perform much better and are cheaper than any traditional brokerage account.
well, when you can’t speak English, that tends to cause interpersonal communication issues.
I find it increasingly difficult to engage our young engineers in conversations. So much so that the other day I was on the phone with one and after long periods of silence I had to tell him it was his turn to speak. Engineers are somewhat introverted and I expect that but many of these young people are downright uncomfortable speaking to other people. They would rather tap it out or something.
Punctuality? One sent out a text message 30 minutes before a meeting he was to chair delaying it for 30 minutes that turned into almost an hour. Why? He was not ready for the meeting. He was late and had not prepared.
A couple of years ago a friend of mine was put on a job that was about a month behind schedule and approaching $100 million cost overrun.
First day there he noticed almost an hour after work was supposed to start no one was working because the welders hadn’t shown up.
All the welders had decided they were so important they could come in to work anywhere from 45 min to an hour or more late.
He let the welders know if they didn’t show up for work on time he would assume they had quit.
Next day all the welders decided they were going to show him who was boss and they all showed up an hour late.
None got in the gate.
Within about 2 days my buddy had about 50 new welders on the job and each understood you show up late you just quit.
The new welders were getting more done in one week than the old welders were getting done in 2 weeks.
The part I didn’t buy was the advanced computer skills. I think that is reinforcing the idea that we have to increase the H1B visas.
How about being able to Xerox copy their rear end? Even though doing that got a young lady at Deere and Company in 1980 fired, lol.
Might have to teach’em English first.
Because they’re hiring illiterate lazy boneheads. I know a lot of intelligent hard working individuals who can have an intelligent conversation. They don’t have jobs because you a$$holes are hiring people for their looks or because they chopped off their wee wee.
There's your problem right there.
All the smart ones who're willing to work are leaving New York and moving to states that don't tax the living sh*t out of 'em.
Which makes it easier for employers to offer depth-of-the-Great-Recession wages and complain that qualified applicants aren't turning out. Supply and demand does apply - raise the offer and watch voluntarily non- and under-employed workers appear.
I was shopping at store around Christmas time and two
teenage boys were stocking stuff and talking to each other.
I asked a question about a product and they both just looked
at me. We had a starring contest and they won. I got the
manager and she said they are hired to help them learn
interpersonal skills...
A result of democrat program of dumbing down reaches tipping point back to the drawing table.
Ah yes, the blank stare.
That’s when you know there is nothing behind the eyes but air.
Well, just how much training does your nephew or friend’s son really need?
Maybe had never seen a machine before
Thanks. I know exactly what you mean.
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I think part of the problem is financial. The job doesn’t pay enough an hour, and the government benefits are too high.
That double whammy means smart people—who are fewer and fewer today—seek better paying jobs, middle intelligence people go on welfare while scamming an easy to scam system, and the drugged and dumb seek manufacturing or broom pushing work.
Meanwhile, illegals work their tails off in agriculture, construction and service jobs, and further squeeze the stupid into crappy jobs.
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