This is my question, too. I hope some smart Freeper can answer this.
Didn't you get the memo that we're not supposed to openly talk ab-
Oh, forget that I said that!
Regards,
following...
Not sure why but I see a heck of a lot of younger folks on the golf course during the week...
There is a mindset that the employee can set wages then find ( shop ) someone for the job at that set wage.
Question: do you shop like that? Do you have a set price for bacon at $3/pd and when you can't find any at that price do you say there is no bacon?
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
Cannot pass drug tests.
Businesses cannot keep insurance with drug using employees.
I am also confused by this.
Gas is expensive.
Food s expensive.
Rent is expensive.
And no one wants to work because people no longer have a work ethic? That doesn’t really make sense. People may not want to work, or may not want to work for paltry wages — but you need money to survive. Millions of people are (apparently) surviving without working. How do they manage that?
I retired early. It gave my company the sads. They are so desperate, they keep rehiring a guy who has quit 3 times.
We need a workfare system: If you receive any gov't transfer payment, you show up for work at 8AM every morning and work to 5PM and earn your handout, whether it's cleaning toilets in gov't buildings or sweeping streets, you work. This system is in place in Europe and it doesn't take people long to figure out they may as well find a better-paying job than what they receive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
-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.