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.
52% of young adults are now living with one or both parents.
I admit we have a 28 year old son living with us. But he's special needs and we haven't found a place for him outside the home. We're getting on in years, so we need something soon.
The average IQ of a central American illegal is < 90. And that is being nice.
Probably the question is not about a low unemployment rate, it’s about the workforce participation rate. It’s the participation rate that’s the problem.
Some say people left to find better jobs. But everyone is short of labor. Trucking, manufacturing, medical care, banks, restaurants, retail, everybody.
Some say it’s because people are living off their savings. But the stock market has shed trillions of dollars during this bear market, so that can’t account for the large number of unfilled positions.
You are right, there are people working. But there are only a few who actually go to work and they furiously try to keep up.
So there are two possibilities...either there are a whole lot of people who just don’t want to work and are not counted as unemployed...or they are dead. And it is true that more people are dying than usual and it’s not because of covid.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/allcausemortality
So why are people dying? Lockdowns, vaccines, fentanyl?
You’re absolutely correct. Like I said, it ain’t for everybody, but I sure like what I do.
Who is ignoring it? Employees MUST price that in along with everything when coming up with a wages being offered.
Fixed it.
Who sets the pay scale?
I told my Gen Y kid at least two decades ago he lived in a charmed demographic because their numbers would not be able to replace the disappearing boomers. Individuals may have trouble but the group would not.
The biggest problem though for that group is a white, straight. conservative male. I would not have a Chinaman’s chance in getting a job today even without the age consideration and I am a very well experienced and qualified engineer. Even if I do say so myself.
We do not have enough trained, sober, clean working bodies and the illegals don’t help that.
Bookmark — every business in this area has raised wages but still can’t get workers
The company owner it’s all related to overhead costs.
Your idea is good. We are getting ready to put a large RV on our acreage in the country and sell our house for a fortune and wait 12 mos.
At the hands of today’s hr you will never be hired. Sorry.
Looks like the company owner can set the salary as low as he wants and people won't come if they can get more elsewhere. So he has no staff but hey, he set the pay scale.
Proving once again, the poor are not so poor. It is the working low and middle class who get raped and are poor.
For the poor everything they need is free or essentially so. Try to get money from them, tell me how that comes out. They have none.
You on the other hand have something to take and will eventually pay. Somehow when you make a dollar over the threshold you are magically able to pay. See the “poor” with Silver obamacare plans you and I just can’t afford. One dollar over, one penny over the threshold and you can suddenly afford to pay your own way.
The system is not broken. The system is wrong.
I work for a Fortune 500 company. One year ago HR operations were shut down in the US and sent to India. Imagine the worst CF that you've ever seen and then make it three times worse. It got so bad that they were forced to hire a recruiting firm stateside to help bring the India team up to speed.
I did manage to hire an experienced Systems Engineer back in April, but it was not easy. I personally recruited him, and rode herd on the HR boobs while they did everything in their power to piss my guy off with their incompetence. The contracter's recruiter who was assigned to the position walked off the job immediately after extending the offer. No goodbye, no FU, no nothing. Just gone. I had to drag our CTO into the conversation to get HR moving on it again.
That job offered a six-figure income, and the HR dept could not have cared less about it!
“The first rule of welfare is We Do Not Talk About Welfare. The second rule of welfare is We Do Not Talk About Welfare!”
I know a lot of Boomers who did well retired early. I know this because suddenly, its a lot easier for me to get jobs and I get a lot more calls from headhunters than I used to. I hope it continues. The last year or so has been great as far as that goes.
A main factor in your success is the desire for a good, productive outcome.
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.
And, why I suspect a lot of "energy" is expended in doing the opposite of your working methodology. Insecure, incompetent types would immediately look bad by comparison if they allowed others to excel. Big egos need a lot of space to grow, leaving no space for real talent.
Many blessings for your continued success.
“Was that the point you were trying to make.”
The point is that I questioned an earlier poster’s explanation of our current shortage of employees. He says it’s due to “The massive Boomer retirement and die-off.”
The chart I referenced doesn’t show to me a massive Boomer retirement and die-off. The poster might be correct but I don’t see it in that chart.
A & W in the little town I now live in is offering $18.25/ hour for new employees with ZERO experience.
Yet the health system I left expects qualified engineers with literally decades of experience to accept $35/ hour.
The employers had too much choice and power to artificially suppress wages (illegals etc) and forgot that skills and talent need to be compensated fairly.
Now the boomers are leaving, and nobody is willing to work for peanuts anymore.
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