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.
Their dead... we lost three vietnams worth of working age people last year to fyntenal alone, then add suicide, add COVID, add Vaccine deaths and injury. We are being killed by our elites and they are laughing at us as they gas light us into the grave. Next year will likely be the big die off.
Unemployment is at 3.9% (or close to that.)
And you are wondering why businesses can’t find people? Because everyone is working already.
Businesses cannot compete with free money.
Free money is one of communism’s biggest weapons against free enterprise.
The other weapon is immorality which breeds lack of responsibility.
The objective is chaos and collapse of the society so that martial law can be justified and accepted by the people.
They are working remotely.
It really does t matter when they get their work done. My wife starts early. Takes a break to walk to dog. And them will put in some time when I am cleaning up after dinner.
Same amount of time—but at different times.
When one can get a clerk job for 18 dollars an hour.
Yes small town USA.
One better be willing to pay skilled and mostly skill labor a lot more.
Henry arms is trying to recruit CNC machinists starting at 17 dollars an hour what a joke.
That ripples through the job market.
Jack up the hourly rate and you’ll find more employees. Ultimately, that is what it comes down to.
I started a part time job came out of retirement because EVERYTHING is so damned expensive I just could not do it anymore, they started me at $18.00 an hour I was SHOCKED but they can’t get staff members!! I have to say I work with young people and I can’t find them through my entire shift, I don’t know where they go BUT they are NOT working!!!
You’re a comedian. ;)
You’re right, but too late. Spiraling inflation, like the 70s, will always leave the worker without a chair, in the game of musical chairs. Unions will be raking in the money, what there is of it.
Businesses are trying to reopen after the massive loss of lockdowns and with the rising costs of inflation. They won’t even be able to keep up with inflation in wages, let alone attract people.
COVID (the government) threw everyone out of their jobs. Inflation will keep them out until they’re starving.
Part of the problem is that so many of the better paid class live like my neighbors. These folks need a lawn service, pool service, house cleaner, pet sitter, etc. They even pay a guy to come by and wash their cars. They do nothing for themselves. She told me they spend over $1k/month just for the help. There’s only so many people to fill all these jobs.
The “free money” stuff ended more than a year ago.
This is a demographic cliff. It was coming, but lots of people ignored it. COVID may have accelerated it a bit, but it’s been coming for years.
Labor participation is decent. Unemployment is virtually non existent (for now) and the economy is still moving. In six months that will likely change. But for now…we simply don’t have the working bodies.
No.
People will work if the incentive is sufficient. Pay them a decent wage and they will come.
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.
This left the low-end service worker jobs empty. Even with the massive wage spiral for this group, there just are not enough replacement workers. And they have the upper hand when it comes to those jobs. Employers are not willing to train people right now as they leave after 90-days or 180-days. Just too expensive to the bottom line as margins get squeezed by inflation.
That was certainly the case in my company. Early retirement packages were offered to all employees with at least 20 years tenure. Many took the packages which were quite generous, nine months of pay, benefits paid for a year were typical. I was offered one as well but don't regret it as the imposter Biden administration has caused my 401k to take quite the hit. I'm going to have to work another few years just to get back where I was - if I'm lucky!
Many of my co-workers regret taking the package for the same reason. Some of them were forced back into taking jobs for much less money.
Yep. I retired a year ago. I’m now 68. My wife was a stay at home ACTIVE grandmother. The fun part of it is I no longer fear April 15th. None of my income is taxable at the state level any more, and my “income” is so low, I don’t have to worry about federal taxes either. Rather than relying on “income” to retire, we established a low cost of living. e.g. Paying off all debt. In a low property tax state, living is actually very cheap. In our case, about 1/4 of our SS payments alone.
-Many people who could have retired years ago decided they've had enough when it came to Jim Jones Jab mandates.
--as many quit, others joined them because the workload kept increasing due to staff shortages
-Pay hasn't kept up with inflation forcing people to find higher paying jobs elsewhere. Seasonal jobs in particular are hard to fill.
-Many people have moved since 2020, California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, in particular have faced a large number of departed.
-Cities where the Democrats hosted riots in 2020 have had residents and employees leave.
-Many employers haven't increased employees' wages in order to cover additional cost of the legal minimum wage increases. Some industries don't have room to increase wages.
“The massive Boomer retirement and die-off. “
Not according to this chart, which is animated. It shows pre-senior population rising as the years go on.
I think the following URL is the longest I’ve ever seen, but it works for me.
I am a technologist and technical manager with 40 years of experience. I’ve been looking for a job for more than six months. It is my experience that companies don’t know how to hire people, and the work ethic among Americans is non-existent.
You need to check the labor participation rate.
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