There ARE jobs; they just don’t pay what the applicants think they are worth.
I compete against Chicom manufacturers who pay fifty cents per hour. I cannot afford to pay a green worker more than minimum wage to do manufacturing tasks that don’t even require literacy. I have hired and fired over 50 people in the last ten years. Most don’t last a day. It’s just too hard for the pampered kids who think they should get $25/hr for unskilled labor.
BTW, I beat the Chicoms every day with higher quality, better technology, and faster turnaround. My workers were all born in the Old Country and grew up the hard way. They are outstanding, tough men of character who think it is macho to work in 105F ten hours straight to meet a deadline. No whining; they love their overtime checks.
I started working at age eleven for fifty cents per hour when it was 105F, and my job was not in the shade!
Sometimes people only learn the hard way. My parents were products of ranch and farm life during the Dust Bowl and the Depression. If our country is lucky, the current crop of youngsters will learn from the pain our country is about to endure.
Yeah. Overtime. I put a couple of hours of overtime on my weekly 40 a while back. My net pay was less than a regular 40. Something about the tax structure. Learned my lesson. Had about the same in overtime this last week. I just put down my regular 40. Told the boss I would just add them to a short week. Pretty happy to have this job. That good paying one deserted me last year.
Anyone out there want to describe what Hoggin Daze ice cream tastes like? I have never had it before.