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.
A high school kid no less!
https://timellison.substack.com/p/people-are-dying?s=w
This,
Hiring Manager: ‘I Can’t Find Employees!’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4002366/posts
And, this ...
SMART, I hope to follow that plan as well!!
These are the wrong questions. The right question is: If I offer $x/hr will I get anyone? If not then try $(x + y). Keep upping the offered rate until you can find employees.
As a customer neding a new roof can I set the price of a new roof? Can I say I will only pay $7,000 for new roof? No one will do at that price and I cry there is a shortage of roofing contractors!!! LOL., You sound so stupid to me.
We went to Hilton Head Island last fall. Almost every restaurant on the island was closed down permanently. Both fast food and finer restaurants.
I think the level of addiction is much higher than we realize. May not be just drugs, but also gaming and porn. They can’t bear to leave their “safe space” for more than a few hours before they are jonesing to get back into their alternate reality.
https://tinyurl.com is your friend.
But don’t they need money to live?
This is a problem. While there is a minimum wage set, many say the real minimum wage is zero (in other words, no job).
However, the minimum wage is not zero, but what you can get in federal/state benefits.
So, this drives up the cost of doing business by forcing wages higher, and paying in taxes the cost of keeping people on the dole.
Similarly, in South Korea EVERYONE has a job of some kind. You don’t see people loitering and gathering to sell drugs or themselves like in western countries.
The "cheap labor" bureaucrats and korporate MBAs really believe that. They knew the illegally imported Replacement Americans couldn't do the jobs but the intent was to have their next generation step up. That has not happened and will not happen. The Bell Curve applies.
The threat of "take this reduction in pay and lifestyle or some illegal will" turned out to be an empty threat. The employee knows just how few people can replace them and how short-staffed they are because they can't find talent.
The U.S. Supreme Court isn't looking at overturning Roe v. Wade for legal or moral reasons; they're looking at overturning it at the request of the policymakers who recognize that they've exhausted the planetary search for talent and realize many of those who were aborted were the only ones capable of helping to keep the system running.
Along with their kids getting their inheritances they’re living off of, and houses they’re living in. I know of a couple myself.
If we are lucky. Being 64, I am pretty conservative in my investment funds and still took a beating.
5 million retirees, who worked part time(and some fulltime) to have something to do, were scared out of the workforce permanently due to covid. Early retirees also a contributor for similar reasons.
Once the recession gets fully engaged, there will be a lot less jobs to fill.
Does the labor participation rate include people who are retired?
“Maybe they move on from your ad because the wages are not stated.”
We post our Ad at Indeed. And while we do not state the compensation, Indeed provides an estimated salary range for similar positions in the area. The are ~30 ads for similar positions in the area as of this morning. Most do not state a salary and rely upon Indeed for an estimate. The few that do state a salary are not getting responses either (otherwise they would not continue to renew the ad for the same position). In the past, we have asked similar businesses in the area if they have any resumes for candidates that they did not hire and we would get five to ten second and third choices. We would then contact them for interviews. But the resumes have dried up, which is why there are 30 ads for similar positions.
When I’ve hired over the past 10 years I’ve been looking for entry level engineers - I told HR give me all the resumes with engineering/hard Science degrees or that have 2 years in a manufacturing/engineering role independent of degree.
I go through them myself and tell them who to phone screen.
One time I was hiring 5 people I brought in 12 all on the same day and did a round-robin with 2 supporting functions and 3 of my own personnel. End of day we sat down - tossed a few on the floor, had a few that were absolute must hires, and then discussed the 2-3 that were left to decide who would be the best choice. I had to make a hard choice call on 1. Took me less than a month to hire all 5. This was in 2014.
Did the same thing at different companies in 2016 and again in 2019.
Part of what is frustrating me with my current interview process is the lack of ability for someone to just make a decision.
You will never be 100% correct on everything...make your best bet based on the information you have and get something done....realize that you will need to coach/train any new hire .... but set the expectation early that as to their responsibilities and goals, who they can ask for advice/help, and that they need to make a decision to keep things moving...escalate as needed when there is an issue and don’t let me or your boss be blind sided.
Let them run unless you see them heading off course then correct them back with a light hand on the tiller. Call out shenanigans and poor decisions early, advise on what they can do better.
The energy of the team will explode when you do this.
Many Boomers retired after Covid. Simply decided to not go back and took early retirement. This means there was a shift upward for those who are productive and valuable.
I'm 70, and plan to retire at the end of the year. If the economy doesn't crash (more than it already has) I think I can make it.
Mr. GG2 was talking to some manager in a store and he said they were paying $21 per hour and couldn’t get anybody to apply. Then last week he was at the planning office in the rural county we are getting ready to move to and they found out he was a semi retired contractor and offered him a good job in the county maintenance dept. They can’t get anybody. It pays well.
My best friend and I were discussing this at lunch recently and we couldn’t discard the theory that perhaps more people have died than we all know about. Insurance companies and motto downs are reporting shocking increases in death rates.
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