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.
Not just women. Men have little chance at advancement. So I have seen many cases where they stay home. The women has a chance to get promotions. But her husband is wasting his time at work. He will never get the promotion he is qualified for. So he just stays home and she works. I know of several of these situations.
Welfare is easier than working. Here In Hawaii a single mom gets close to 65,000 a year in welfare. Why would anyone work when they can live off the work of someone else?
Many “Americans” get free shit all the time. I work 2 jobs and looking around it seems many have it better than me and do absolutely nothing. Better health care, phones, free rent and college, food, etc. I hate Biden’s Amerika.
Not a terribly bad idea. There used to be employers that provided housing for their employees, and some of those housing units still exist (often as more of a museum piece than anything). Look up the history of the Austin Powder Company in Glenwillow, Ohio, where a row of "company" homes still exists, but not as company homes..
Personally, I've considered buying a modest trailer, living in it for a couple of years, and selling my house while the market is insane, then buying another when the market takes its inevitable dive. But that is actually a good amount of work, and I've noticed that trailers and RVs are through the roof expensive as are houses now days.
“Henry arms is trying to recruit CNC machinists starting at 17 dollars an hour what a joke.”
That’s a good one! HaHaHaHaHaHa!!!
I DID bust up laughing!
Bottom line: until employers are willing to pay “fair” wages to match what the economy is doing, they won’t get any (good) help.
When I was in college I was a certified structural welder at 15 an hour. That was 35 years ago. Welding jobs today are still only paying 15 to 20 an hour. That’s the cost of importing millions of illegal aliens a year.
Apparently not, if they are just walking away from jobs. 52% of young adults are now living with one or both parents.
The previous high was 48% in 1940 at the end of the depression and just before we entered WWII.
Things are getting really weird as our civilization is collapsing.
“I hire somebody to chew my food.”
https://youtu.be/N1n5XqwUkYw
toward the end of that chart the centennial population increases significantly. But otherwise it looks like there is a fairly constant age distribution over the next 30 years.
Was that the point you were trying to make. Or did I misread the chart?
This is my question, too. I hope some smart Freeper can answer this.
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I’ll offer my two cents. Ever wonder what the euphemistic term ‘brain fog’ means, which is used to describe what many who took the jab experience. Some doctors have also reported that the jab contains enzymes from snake venom. Snake venom has an anesthetizing effect. Connect the dots. How long the ‘fog’ lasts is unknown but it might explain why people are lethargic and don’t give a damn if they work or not. It will be a long time before we understand what all was ‘engineered’ in the bioagent jab and for what purpose. Many jab recipients still don’t believe how and to what extent they have been experimented on.
I know of a couple in auto industry some years ago. The wife was the main breadwinner. The husband quit to be a stay at home dad, but still did consulting work. The wife was putting in long hours so somebody had to be around to be a parent.
The population growth in the US is barely at the replacement rate. And if the economy “grows” (assuming growing the economy adds jobs) the country will need to add millions of skilled workers. Immigration will help (Illegal immigration doesn’t usually bring in skilled labor.)
With the exiting of the boomers from the workforce, the entire worker supply is going to need to be resupplied from somewhere. Robotics will help. But we will likely be in an employee deficit for a while to come.
Some think they are worth more than what the pay scale is the feds and some states keep that idea alive %15.00 per hour to say you want fries with that.
To lazy to work it’s ok the gubment pays you slacker money.
Yes, there were many people who retired during the pandemic.
Housing is a main culprit. For some strange magical reason my house appreciated around $400,000 in two years without adding on a darn thing. Rent prices are going through the roof, this is in an outlying area a decent way from the city SUBURBS.
We mismanaged and did the “better to burn out, than fade away” stuff while throwing in “empowerment”, not keeping score in little league games so feelings don't get hurt, worshiped comparative advantage (Ricardo wrote two darn paragraphs on that yet that is all that was focused on, he even emphasizes *with conditions*) while growing government to obscene levels.
Well, here’s this....
I have been working jobs that were ‘okay’ for the last several years. Back in 2019, I took a job that paid more than I’d ever made, doing something that was VERY different than what I’d been doing. I was hired in December...and in April, The Coof hit. In May, we were forced to shut down when our state did (WA). I was out for 6 weeks on emergency unemployment. We finally were allowed back, but I lost the job in July due to my boss being...”:well, “a jerk”. I lived off of money we had saved up until late September. I was getting desperate as those places I applied to didn’t want to hire someone nearing 60.
My oldest son (early 20’s) was also looking for work and decided to try his hand with Doordash. I went out with him for a couple of his first days to ‘show him the ropes’. While I was helping him out, I realized that I REALLY liked that kind of job. So, I also became a Dasher. Within a year, I was making as much as I was in my best-paying job. My son went on to another job, but I’m still Dashing. I’m making MORE than I ever have. It’s not stellar, but I’m loving what I do.
I have met other Dashers out there and a lot of them strike me as people who may have TRIED to get jobs, but there was ‘something’ that kept them out. Age, weight (I’ve met a few really overweight people), or the fact that they’re part-timing moms or dads (sometimes taking their kids out Dashing with them).
Every once in a while, we get a flood of new Dashers, thinking it’s ‘easy money’. They find out that they really DO have to work hard to do it right and get the good money, and they drop out.
Since I started back in October of ‘20, I’ve done just under 7000 Dashes. In our business, that’s pretty good.
The biggest drawback is...of course...gas prices. Plus, I have to do my best to keep my car in good working order (tires, oil changes, etc.) or I’m up the creek.
To tie it into the thread, pretty much EVERYWHERE I go- restaurants, grocery stores, and businesses I deliver to- I’m seeing and hearing “We’re Hiring”. At some of the grocery stores, I’m seeing MUCH older baggers and clerks than I’ve ever seen before. Even some of the fast-food workers are getting older.
Wrong. Wages need to go up. We don’t need to import ONE MORE PERSON. That is just exacerbating the problem.
I'm turning 66 in August. December 9th will be 31 years with my current employer. I enjoy my work. 100% remote home office. It's all software engineering. I work 40 to 60 hours a week now. My wife turns 64 in July. She has been a police/fire/EMS dispatcher since 1994. She is the senior employee at the local PD. She still works 4 x 10 hour shifts each week.
The "hiring for all positions" signs are in places all over my local area. That's usually a sign of imminent demise of a business. My favorite local "family restaurant" just went away. I've been eating there for over 20 years. The owner was just frustrated with the inability to hire staff. He had reduced hours from 7 AM to 9 PM to 7 AM to 3 PM to deal with the problem, but that still didn't help. He's a "boomer" as well. He decided retirement was the answer.
Ah, here comes Comrade Central_va, ignoring government distortion of the labor market and economy as a whole…
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