Posted on 06/22/2022 5:48:32 AM PDT by bort
Seems so simple yet some can't grasp that concept.
Yes. September is the last month for government rent assistance due to covid. But there is a clause for emergency assistance. Due to your circumstances, it can be extended. Most skate through without resistance. SNAP, WIC, Healthcare, and all of the government bennies you can get? Why work?
Pass a drug test
Show up on time
Maintain a body temperature somewhere in the general area of 98.6
What’s the logic behind not stating the compensation? The fundamental reason that people work is to be paid. I expect that a lot of people assume based on the lack of mention alone that the compensation is subpar, without contacting you to confirm whether they’re correct or not. In that sense wages might well be your problem.
LOL!!! That is like saying the laws of supply and demand don't work.
If I offer $1,000/hr I will get labor. If I offer $1/hour I will not. The goal is to find the price point.
reply: "You need to check the labor participation rate."
I respectfully disagree with using the labor participation rate for discussions like that. That's calculated as:
people working + people looking for work
------------------------------------------------------(divided by)
people age 16 or older not incarcerated, on disability or in military
Basically if you're old as dirt you're still counted as part of the "labor force" (you increase the divisor in the equation). Nobody in their right mind expects my mother in her 80's to get out and find a job. But as long as she's alive and stays retired she reduces the "labor force participation rate". As long as the many, many baby boomers keep retiring we'll keep having an even lower "labor force participation rate".
So use that metric for things like determining if the SS system is stable (enough workers still working and contributing for the SS to keep making payments to retirees). That's a valid use of the "labor force participation rate", at least how the gubment calculates it. But it shouldn't be used as a barometer of a healthy economy or if it should be easy for employers to find employees.
I should try that. Selling nude photos is a great idea. $15 to get one. $40 NOT to get one.
I retired at 54 I have enough money to live nicely on.
If some one wants me to come to worm for them. They better be willing to pay me more then I am making being retired.
I get offered jobs fairly often.
I tell them they can’t afford me.
They asked me how much I need I tell them.
It ends the conversation quickly.
bkmrk
Those suppliers of services that are unwilling to pay the going rate for labor need to go out of business.
Fixed it.
For young people that typically do these jobs, owning or even renting a place of their own is out of each in most of the country even if they work themselves to death and kiss the manager’s boots daily. The days of kids buying cheap used cars/gas and having fun on a minimum wage salary are long gone.
Most of the people I see working these service jobs now are older people that probably need health insurance and supplement for their retirement.
College is now a path to extreme pointless debt unless they get one of the very few high paying jobs through family connections or are autist programmers.
Some tradies and especially owners make good money but not everyone has the physical and mental fortitude to effectively work in trades. If everyone did, those jobs would pay nothing too.
Why work if they see no benefit and everything fun is priced out of reach? They sit home and do activities that are nearly free like pirated video games and cartoons. Waiting to inherit their parent’s assets.
That is crazy talk. Borderline mentally ill or fascistic thinking, I can't decide which.
>>>I think many people in their mid 50’s to 60’s suddenly retired all at once during COVID and there wasn’t enough replacements plus with many handouts some don’t want to work<<<
I think you’re on to something!
“Jack up the hourly rate and you’ll find more employees. Ultimately, that is what it comes down to.”
Seems so simple yet some can’t grasp that concept.
We grasp the concept. Depending on the business and what they are selling, and their profit margins in that business, they may not be able to just jack up the hourly rate paid to employees.
Agreed. It establishes a trend line, but mostly worthless under the current formula.
We send people with a GED and no specific skills to work for $15/hour. Two or three hours in, they leave without notifying anyone. Why? Maybe “It’s not for me.” or, “He disrespected me”, but at least the girlfriend works.
That is a very large part of the problem.
>>>According to my children, a lot of young people are selling nude photos of themselves online. Some are clearing six figures a month. I was speechless.<<<
Oh dear Lord!
As someone who has looked for a job in the past my take is since you DON'T say what the salary is for the position that eliminate you as someone I can deal with. Your ad reeks of "were a bunch of low balling a-holes".
See if it was a good position you would be offering good money and state that up front. Games games games....
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