Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 06/22/2022 5:48:32 AM PDT by bort
The "help-wanted" sections of newspapers and job sites are overloaded with small businesses begging for employees. Every fast-food restaurant you enter has help-wanted signs. There is an obvious employee shortage going on all around the country. Serious question: What is causing this issue? Gas prices and inflation are through the roof, which would suggest that even dead-beats would be forced to get jobs. Is there some sort of secret COVID payments still going out? I'm at a loss.
I do wonder how many women are deciding to not return to work, possibly choosing to home school. We had an era where every female was made to feel bad if they weren’t aiming for a high-end career. Of course, for the vast majority, it’s a big lie. I’m not sure, just wondering if we’ve a new generation that has different goals, or the current ones realizing that chasing a career isn’t the most important thing for them.
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There’s a couple things at play here I think:
1) skill set mismatch - for example need a machinist not a social studies or IT type
2) I’ve personally been interviewing for a position - started the process mid April, first interviews early May, next round will be next week (with COO and VP HR), granted it’s a more senior position, but I’ve actually become concerned that people aren’t allowed to make a decision. My boss will be a VP....make the call already....I’m much more of an asking forgiveness over asking permission type.
3) Some companies I feel are having issues with turnover so they keep the jobs listed even when they hire as within a few weeks they know they will lose someone anyway
Outside of that I know there have been issues with passing drug screenings and background checks which some companies still care about.
I’ve started to hear rumors of companies starting to cut back hiring as their forecasts for the next few quarters start to come in showing drawbacks...so expect many of those signs to disappear...makes me nervous for my own interviews as I’m hoping they don’t put on a hiring freeze just as I get to the end of the process.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
i had heard people are being paid $24/hr for unemployment.
the jobs don’t pay as well as unemployment.
stop those payments and people will start taking jobs again.
The major flaw in the entire welfare program is higher benefits when the father is not in the home. 72% of black children have no father present in the home, and the welfare system helps this happen. The latest scam is the father buys a home, and rents it to the mother of his children but is careful never to use that address as his own. The rent subsidy then becomes income to the father and the mother pays little or nothing for housing.
We need to revamp the system to workfare, and have no income penalty when the father lives in the home.
AMF to them. Go out of business if you are unwilling to pay the going rate for labor. Somelse will and have a larger market share. Or, Learn To Code.
They are carelessly hoping you are an H1B - which is what the employer is really looking for.
We have managed to hire recently by raising the wages but most importantly by offering job titles that serve as an ego boost. A percentage of our hires still prove to have been lying on their resumes and are unemployable, but the title brings in many decent applicants who would not bother applying for the job if it had a traditional name. This is why the big tech companies offer so many crazy-sounding CXO positions - bragging rights mean even more than cash, especially to female employees under 50.
Well - many don’t like not seeing a salary range, it’s a red flag. You should know what range is acceptable. I saw this posted on LinkedIn - vast majority of comments say it should be part of the job posting.
There's your "reparations" right there!
In our market the real minimum wage has gone up by 35% in the last 18 months. Some industries just don’t offer the unit value to hire laborers at $32/hour.
Same with Sig in New Hampshire. Advertising for engineers, starting pay $19.00 p/hr. McDonalds $16.00 p/hr plus a meal.
The incentives are not there due to current wages/steep inflation/public debt/large supply of workers that dilute wages, various economic bubbles which price out of whack, so on and so on...
People found more comfort in greasing the government/underground economy/day trading, etc... than being what is referred to as a “wage cuck” that sees a productivity and wage gap with the traditional economy that cannot keep up with the cost of living.
Even STEM degrees are getting to be worthless due to “cheap labor” and cost control measures.
When you put all your focus on appeasing shareholders, doing anything you can to lower labor cost like outsourcing/renting politicians to import cheap labor/appeasing certain demographics, and other short-term civilization destroying policies you are going to get a negative reaction.
What flaw? The collectivists worked very hard on that feature. :)
Simple...
Companies that treat their employees like crap are losing people left and right..
Companies that value their employees have a waiting list...
If a company cannot find or retain employees, don’t go whining to the media and the fed to help you..
Help your damn self, come on down from your high horse and change your own philosophy..
That too.
Boo frickin' hooo. They should go out of business. Then their competitors will have a greater market share and the ability to meet the demand to raise wages and to attract the labor they need. Capitalism at work.
People didn't need as much stuff. Many could get by without a car. The food was made by scratch, and a radio was the only entertainment appliance. Plus, since women generally were not working, there wasn't the glut of labor supply.
We’ve had laborer hirings which have taken weeks, for semi-skilled people of good vitrue. My advice is; hire for virtue, train for skills, and get on with it.
Blacks have not thought through the reparations argument very carefully. The purpose of reparations is to restore the economic well-being of the individual to their original state. Most US slaves came from what is now Angola and the Congo. I did the calculations some time ago, but if you compare current black incomes in the US with those in those African nations, each black owes non-black US citizens about $14,000 for each year between the Emancipation Proclamation and today.
Heck, I would be happy for them to show up at 9 and go home at 3. Something is better than nothing.
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