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.
$7,000 for a new roof? What are you in a mobile home?
LOL!
Yes, you set the price you’re willing to pay. Hire the company with the cheapest price or only hire companies who pay top wages and give full benefits.
You’re a nasty individual.
I concur. So what’s left? Maybe there is an incentive out there we don’t know about.
Or, the COVID was so good to everyone they were actually able to save up.
Or maybe they paid off all their credit card bills during COVID. Now they’re running them back to max after getting used to all the couch time?
‘course those two possibilities seem inconsistent with a guy that would have taken the COVID bennies. Guy like that would have been more likely to buy rims, a bag of weed, and a new game system than saved anything.
Because your little town is representative of the country’s economy.
Well, Vietnam happened and 50,000 people watched the names scroll across the screen. No scroll for the 200,000K in the last three years that died from CCP Fentynal.
If this is true it's massive news that's NOT being reported by those whose job that is. I know the media is utterly corrupted by Leftist/Communist/Democrats but hiding such a thing is a whole other level of evil.
My daughter was talking with a gal that has lost 6 friends due to drugs in the last couple of years. Sad.
25/ hour for firewood stacking. Last two walked away.
33/hour for housecleaning
Rural
This is a coordinated attack. The CCP is pushing as much Fentynal as they can into our country.
No, this is entry-level green as grass staff. $18.25 / hr.
There are no benefits etc, but it’s still a pretty good gig for a high-schooler in the middle of nowhere.
Yes, I have been concerned about this possibility too.
Trouble is, I work for a large “company” and I have seen no die off.
It’s very possible my “company” is different, but I have seen no indication from FReepers that the kids are dying off in their environments either.
I know. The whole thing is weird.
Well, beyond weird but folks get upset when I point out how weird.
I saw a great FReeper tagline today “Noah was a conspiracy theorist.... until it started raining.”
I'm nearly 68 so I don't think I should have to work but then again.....
BTTT!!!!
As you suggest, that sort of complicity between government and elite misconduct is very nearly the key to understanding the rottenness of our era. Decades of progressive education have eroded the character of America's best and brightest and impaired the institutions and agencies they are responsible for. The public recognizes the results even though they rarely see or understand the details.
Yes, anyone with all those quals is working and make $250K/yr. This is bait to prove they “need” to import 5 more H-1B visa coolies to do the work.
When restaurants and small business establishments were forced to close due to the outrageous government lockdowns, many of the entry-level and semi-skilled employees who worked in those places went to work for larger establishments that didn’t close. If you have local restaurants in your area that can’t find help, I’ll bet most of their prospective employees are already working at Walmart, Amazon or FedEx.
Yes, there is that. But I see signs at fast food establishments offering close to $20/hr. Where are the people who previously worked for $12-$15/hr going where they are getting more than $20/hr? Alberta's Child suggests Walmart, Amazon, FedEx. I don't know, perhaps.
We have free market for labor. If $20 doesn't get anyone then try $21. There is no set correct amount a job should pay. The job pays whatever the market rate for labor is at the time.
This comes as shock to a lot of Freepers that are old school and think a job pays x then find someone who will take x. That is old school 20th century baby boom thinking. The labor vs jobs available are now even or slightly in favor of the worker so management is freaking out instead of acting like rational humans and adapting. Management has been in the driver seat so long they can't comprehend the change.
All three of my kids are still home, but productive. After graduation, they were expected to cover their share of the bills. We provide them a place to live, water, electricity, and internet for free. We cover their first 2 years of college and get them their first car. Everything else is on them (except Sunday breakfast, lunch, and dinner when I cook).
My 22 year old is finishing his last semester of college in December to complete his BA. He took a semester off to work on the Trump campaign. He works 30 hours a week while going to school full time. He’s getting married in January of 2023 and will be out of the house.
My 20 year old has a serious medical condition. Took time off between high school and college for major surgery and recovery. Starts college in the fall. After saving up several thousand dollars at his job, he took the summer off to focus on his health. I’m in no rush to push him out the door. I expect him to stay with us during and after college, so he can save for a down-payment on a home instead of wasting money on rent. Like my eldest, he covers his own car, insurance, phone, clothes, entertainment, and food.
My youngest is still in high school. I expect that he will either live with me forever or be fabulously successful. He has Asbergers, along with a ridiculously high IQ, and is a tech genius.
It helps that all 3 are kind, respectful, hardworking, live clean lives ( no drugs or alcohol), take care of chores and help around the house.
As long as my husband and I have a roof over our heads, our children will not be on the streets.
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