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.
Illegals and subsidized poverty.
1. Employers have no flexibility to pay more without raising prices considerably.
2. Employees have no incentive to perform well because they can always take a job across the street for the same pay.
we went to Charlottesville yesterday and were turned away from dine in lunch at 3 places- “go thru the drive thru or order carryout from your car”
We went to a family owned mexican place that was bustling- i am sure the owner don’t play with “sick and sad” employees.
Because I don’t know the wage scale at similar businesses and I prefer to let the applicant make a demand, rather than setting the compensation too low and discouraging people from applying to the position. We do state “compensation, with excellent benefits, commensurate with experience.”
That’s why the injection molding business is nearly 100% automated now.Still all the companies, just fewer employees. Maybe they should die?(Go out of the living business)
These posters are the type that think there are "jobs Americans won't do".
1. Employer can't find staff.
2. Employer raises wages and hires a few new staff.
3. Employer raises prices accordingly (this is driven by higher staff costs as well as inflation in all other areas of running the business).
4. A brief article appears in the local newspaper: "ABC Restaurant will close at the end of the month after serving the community for 50 years."
A company run by idiots that can't understand the laws of supply and demand SHOULD GO OUT OF BUSINESS. Short answer is yes.
All I know is my garbage pickup service ended abruptly, stating they can’t find enough workers.
The labor participation rate has stayed low because retirees are now outnumbering new entries into the labor pool. Retirees don’t count in the unemployment rate, but they are considered “available workers” as long as they aren’t in prison or nursing homes.
Because everyone is working already.
Everyone who wants to work is working.
The examples I know of are all subsisting on SSI (disability) and other government handouts.
Good. That is the way capitalism is supposed to work. After these idiots close then the other restaurants in that market still open will have a larger labor pool to choose from which will stabilize wages.
My middle child is extremely bright and hardworking. Unfortunately, he also has a medical condition that causes him physical pain if he pushes his body too far.
He was working part-time at a convenience store/gas station that also has a drive thru. There were plenty of times he was pulling double duty, on his feet running around for hours on end doing the job of 2 people because they were short-handed. He would come home exhausted and hurting.
It certainly didn’t help that the public can be obnoxious, nasty, or downright abusive at times.
When they offered hiring bonuses to new people, the bosses didn’t give anything to the staff that stuck it out during COVID. They hired new people for more than their existing staff was making (put up a banner advertising the hourly rate).
My son asked for fewer hours but was constantly being called in to help because he was reliable, punctual, honest, and got the job done right. He helped bust a counterfeit ring, caught gas theives and shoplifters, and his part-time gig had him working over 40 hours a week.
A few weeks ago, he came to me to advise that he had saved up several thousand dollars and wanted to take some time off. He didn’t want to keep plugging away for $11 an hour. He gave them a month to find his replacement. They were still upset.
Gone are the days where employers can treat people like garbage.
When he returns to college in the fall, he will find something else. For now, he is taking the summer off.
As Muhammad Ali said, “Thank God my Grandaddy got on that boat!”
Don’t worry millions of replacement workers are flooding over the border
Fixed it.
Maybe they move on from your ad because the wages are not stated. Why pursue a job, spend the time to send out a resume, interview, only to find the wage does not meet an expectation. I’ve seen people go through this time after time. Pretty soon they learn just skip that ad.
I can easily pass a drug test.
Just don’t want to play the Covid-19 games again. Nor deal with the public.
Currently no public at my job but they’re starting down the Covid-19 path again so I’m looking.
Hope I land something quickly.
All prayers appreciated.
Thank you all and God bless.
That's inevitable when the individual quickly realizes they're in over their head.
I'm seeing folks in positions well beyond their capabilities and many are either folding in place by leaving stuff undone or disappearing as quickly as they can. It's worse now because staffing is so thin that those over their head can't hide in a group. The trend is for roughly a half-experience hire, meaning that the person filling the position has about half the experience of the person who vacated the position, not at the time the departed left but at the time the departed was hired into the position originally.
The responsibilities of those who fold in place fall onto others around them, increasing their workload and influencing their departure as well. I've witnessed paired departures where one had told the other, "if you go, I go, because I don't want to get stuck with all that's going to roll downhill."
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