Posted on 05/03/2018 2:29:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What would it take to get you to work on the railroad?
A little extra cash? How about a sign-on bonus of up to $25,000?
That's what two major railroad companies are offering in an effort to recruit more workers in what The Wall Street Journal called "a historically tight labor market."
The Journal said BNSF Railway, based in Fort Worth, Texas, and Union Pacific Corp. in Omaha, Nebraska, are filling jobs as the demand rises to ship more products across the western side of the country....
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
They have a new trick. They only test if you’re injured on the job.
If its not bad they go to their own doctor and pay it themselves.
If you have to go to the hospital, and you have a hot drug test....
First, you get fired, then workers compensation won’t pay the hospital bill, and finally, you get stuck with the bill.
So they don’t have to pay screen you and then don’t have to pay if your hot.
You are correct. Years ago, I was a case management nurse that contracted with a workers compensation insurance company, and a failed drug test, meant no workers comp coverage.
What does that mean?
FMCDH(BITS)
Not in Ventura County CA
Finding competent men at all - at least ones who speak English - is very difficult.
You’re hired. Grab a shovel.
You’re hired and going straight to management!
The beaches here are really that good. Very clear water, lots of fish to see when snorkeling. Yes, the water is that blue and because of the reefs that surround the beaches there is almost no surf in the swimming areas. The weather is in the 89 to 95-degree range all year, cooler in the summer when it rains.
There are also a couple of very nice golf courses here but jogging bicycling are difficult due to narrow roads.
The houses often look like machine-gun bunkers because they are made of concrete and the island beyond the tourist areas is rather run down in places, kind of like an old middle-class or working-class suburb in the US. The concrete houses are actually nice because they are low maintenance - never a termite problem - and are typhoon, tsunami, and earthquake proof. They also tend to be rather energy efficient because of the 8 inch thick concrete rooves and walls.
I don’t think there are shrimp or lobster caught locally but there are lots of other fish to catch. There are several charter boats for fishing excursions.
If you are ex-military it is a good place because of the navy hospital and doctors and a commissary. Since I am not ex-military I can’t use those items and fly to Hong Kong twice a year to see a specialist for arthritis in my hands and feet.
Guam is an odd place economically because it is so remote. Most places that are low tax have a low cost of living, here it is low tax and expensive. 91 octane gas for my Mazda is $4.85 a gallon right now. A loaf of generic bread is $4.25 and ground beef or pork are over $3.00 a pound. Apples or grapes can be over $4.00 a pound but you can grow watermelons, mangoes, and papaya in your yard as well as other tropical fruits. If you are into exotic cheeses and wines this is not the place to be.
Taxes are low. The property taxes on our house valued at $300,000.00 was $674.00 last year. There is no sales tax or territorial income tax, just US income tax which all stays on Guam.
The real issue is the nepotism and corruption in the local government and the fact that the culture views laziness as a virtue (Which isn’t always a bad thing).
Despite some of the negative things, Guam is still a really pretty place and, if you can afford it, a good place for a retiree to live.
“sleepers” - what, are you a Euro or an Ozzie? Nobody here knows what a “sleeper” is.
LOL...you guys are dating yourselves! Nobody under 60 will get those gags. Good ones, too!
Millennials can’t cut it...wait until they hear “Rise up so early in the morn.”
I lived and worked in both.
Coveffe
It means that auto correct/aurofill is useless and I wasn’t paying attention
Unemployment
I work for one of those railroads, and we are hurting for help right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnH7cw0ql1I
enjoy.
Offer more pay. You will get competent applicants.
Must be bad there on the East coast. Not so much inland. Raises and bonuses are becoming common here. Must be East coast high tax states dragging the stats down.
Foxconn (state of the art flat panels) in Racine Wi, when the 200,000 sq ft plant is finished later this year, will be hiring 13,500 with average wage around $55K. With completion they may build a second plant nearby (Apple building plant nearby) to go with the announced Madison plant.
None of that counts all the new roads and freeway lane, new housing, stores etc just for the new Foxconn hires. Then there all the suppliers who will build nearby and so on.
At 2.9% unemployment many hires will have to dome from other states - Wi just does not have enough people to supply the demand. So tight, whatever your statistics say - well you know what they say about those numerical manipulations.
The market sets the price.
Exactly. All these yahoos claiming they cant find anyone sound like idiots. They are not offering enough.
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