Nope. That's not it. Try again.
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.
she would need a job that paid over $46,000 to have the equivalent take-home income.
plus lets say she found a job for 60,000
that’s a difference of 12,000
assuming 2000 work hours per year for full time
that only $6 per hour
plus insurance..
here in IL if you are on low income state insurance everything is free with no deductible
A friend of mine had to go to the ER in an ambulance. Both the ride and visit were free. If I did that I would have to pay at least a grand out of pocket with the deductibles and co pays
Freshly minted college grads can’t find jobs.
Many companies are still demanding confirmation of covid vaccination status.
Many companies are still mandating covid vaccinations, in spite of the evidence of their danger.
Many people who got the poison jabs are disabled, dead, or dying.
Many companies are hiring diversity candidates only, meaning "no white males need apply". These companies just happen to be the hardest hit by the "disabled, dead, and dying from the poison covid jabs" phenomena.
Don't expect the MSM to report any of this. You have to be actively applying and interviewing to even get a clue to what is really happening.
Yep. That’s how price inflation happens. Prices go up for the businesses supplying goods and services.
It is inevitable in a fiat money based economy.
The answer is simple. We have a lazy society that lives on the government tit.
Parents need to kick their kids out if they are over a certain age, and force them fend for themselves.
My parents basically told me that either I was in school and living with them, even for college, or I was working and living on my own. My choice, but 3 months after school was over I had to be employed and able to pay for apartment, utilities, etc. even if I had to work at McDonalds to do so.
That was the rule for me and for my three sisters. None of us are failures.
I think that sort of tough love is necessary and I think that most parents of these younger generations don’t practice this at all. Perhaps they were forced down that road and hated that their parents did it to them without having the introspection that it has value.
My parents did help me when I got laid off from a construction job. They weren’t heartless. But they did expect me to get back up and find another job as soon as possible, and more or less badgered me every day until I did so. I hated being badgered so it was easier and better for me overall to obtain employment.
Many employees cannot pass the drug screen
edit to post 41
thought it said 48,000 instead of 46,000 ( eye sight going)
but still only $7 an hour difference
Which requires a rise in prices, then people complain when
Wal-Mart raises the price on a lawn chair a nickle.
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Raise the price a dime. When they complain cut it
a nickle and tell them it is now a reduced price.
Raising wages has been done and it did not work.
Just an anecdotal story, but my son is a 22 year old entry level mechanic. He was working at a car dealership and walked out (justifiably) due to an abusive co-worker. In three days he had 4 job offers. He’s now working at the Kenworth dealership as a diesel mechanic trainee for $18.00 an hour plus some type of commission. He was referred to them by a mutual friend. A vice president of the company called him on a Saturday morning and told him to quit looking for a job, he was hired. The point of this is how hard it seems to be to find a drug free conscientious worker.
I think Riverrunner has it right. I’m a credit analysts with over 25 years of experience. I get calls from headhunters at like least twice a week offering me $55-60k a year. I try not to be rude, but really?
Eliminate welfare and other subsidies and make those with “education” loans start paying. Then, the price mechanism will find the honest level of wages. Employers can’t compete for workers with higher wages when the government makes it too easy for people to stay unemployed through “benefits”. All that happens is employers’ products and services start becoming uncompetitively priced and profit margins get squeezed to the point of there being little reason to be in business.
Of course, increasing numbers of younger Americans are unemployable because the government schools are vomiting out hordes of virtually illiterate “graduates” with a profound sense of entitlement and no work ethic.
That is a strong possibility too. Many mother’s chose to stay home after seeing the schooling their kids were getting.
Mine are all moved out even though my youngest is 22. I'm actually for young adults living with their parents as long as they're working and saving and investing for their own place. Two of my kids did that, with them showing me each month how much they were setting aside. One of my kids moved out early on his own ambition. Only one had to be told after high school to either work and contribute or get out.
But we're weird. Most families aren't doing that. Combine that phenomenon with the baby boomers retiring in droves, especially with the china virus accelerating an already big retirement phase, and there's a yuge shortage of labor.
There are tons of job openings, nobody is going to work for peanuts when there are better opportunities out there.
I was at the Outer Banks, NC last week and many of the restaurants were either closed or were short staffed. I asked one owner why and he told me that local real estate has become so expensive, and rents so high, that seasonal workers that normally staffed these business, literally have no ability to live/rent at there. Made sense to me.
Nope. That's not it. Try again.
As a former small business owner (20+yrs photography studio) I will take a stab at this.
Low wages and bad bosses.
It’s that easy.
So many business just pay terrible wages, doesn’t really matter what the business makes or sells, wages rule who applies and who you get to pick from.
Add in managers/bosses who believe being an autocrat or an asshole is the way it has to be, and people leave, quickly.
I found when hiring assistants or cashiers performance bases pay was a great motivator. I set a reasonable goal for sales and when met, everyone gets a bonus. Top performer get another.
When employees get out of hand or argue with each other or a customer I step in immediately. I once quietly told two girls if they can’t work together both can leave now and don’t come back. Since it was the highest paying photo-assistant job in Las Vegas, everyone got back to work, false smiles and all.
When a customer is involved, I offer a full refund and ask them to leave. (Only had to call the cops once, trespassed her big ass and she just wanted to yell at me) I talk to the employee privately and get their side. Generally I always take my peoples side, until it become a pattern then let them go.
Unfortunately, fast food franchises are so far in debt generally a wage increase is hard to swallow. This is usually indicative of poor long term planning or mismanagement. Business fail because of bosses/owners/managers.
Your business fails because.
You opened up in a saturated market.
You hired the wrong people.
Your borrowed too much money and can’t afford the loan and wages.
Terrible location
Unforeseen event (pandemic/fire/embezzlement)
You are clueless about business.
X-number of people got aggressive and applied for better open jobs during ‘Covid’. Add to it....some retired or went into private business ideas.
So what remains....are jobs with a salary structure that is at the same level as 2019. You can also add in...both NY and Cal have tens of thousands who left, and they aren’t exactly places where people want to venture into these days.
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