Posted on 09/28/2021 2:31:57 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Total BS. They both use labor from the same labor pool. You don't understand basic economics. Hell, just steal the other guys workers. Just walk up and hire 'em for $5.00/hr more.
Right. Management is throwing a tantrum and refusing to hire at rates needed to get employees. So your post is dead on.
Without seeing all the numbers from the business (including an analysis of competition and the market) it is impossible to evaluate what management is doing.
Name calling without proper analysis is just not appropriate.
Oh BS. We know what is happening. Just talk to the shelf stockers at a local store. They will tell you. They pay is not going up, doesn’t keep up with inflation and no one is coming in to get jobs. It’s not rocket surgery.
Fo you have a very large freezer?
Friends of ours have been trying to have generac generators installed, since the Texas ice storm, early this year.
Their electricians cannot find the transfer switches for them.
No idea when they’ll come in, either.
That is a separate but related issue. Trucking management is absolutely horrid, and it costs them a lot of money. But the price of freight (hello fuel) plus the basic commodity has outpaced an industry and eaten the independent trucker.
No...just standard....but there’s just me so it’s sufficient.
Vacuum seal your beef and chicken. It will make it last MUCH longer.
And, frozen veggies, as well.
They also take up less space that way.
I had a problem with my washing machine - still under warranty I was told IF parts were available it would be a couple of weeks to repair - if parts were not available it could be a few months... Luckily the parts were still available...
Where do you get one of those....I’ve heard they expand freezer time. I’ve had to throw out good meat because I didn’t use it soon enough.
I had a problem with my washing machine - still under warranty I was told IF parts were available it would be a couple of weeks to repair - if parts were not available it could be a few months... Luckily the parts were still available...
But here’s the beauty of our excess - worst case I would drop off my clothes at a laundry and pick them up the next day. That’s the beauty of living in a first world country.
Biden will be out of office before commie thugs around him can destabilize enough supply chains to crash the systme..
That is what I am seeing even here in fly over country. I told the doc today that his clinic’s admin is falling apart. Boy did I get a reaction out of that. Turnover and nobody wants to work. Where they had 5 doing billing two months ago there are 2 now. They either quit outright or quit to go work in the pot growing places for more money and less responsibility and free samples.
Even his nurse, an RN, quit and she had been there for a long time. The new one has enough tattoos to be a billboard or graffiti wall. Other than that, just OK.
The doc is getting on in years and if it gets too messed up he will bail. Bad news for me.
Change and decay in all about I see. That needs to become a tagline.
We sort of know what has happened. Covid / corona / rona / C-19 etc. People got paid too much to stay home and now they can’t get over that and go back to work. I’d also say lots of people just hung it up and retired.
Applications to become an indian in the tribe have gone up to 2,000 a week. The bennies are just too good to pass up I guess. The giverment programs are lush and they have not used up all the money shoveled to them in the last 16 months or so yet with more on the way. Such problems you would not believe. Oy!
“We were receiving 2,000 applications
for citizenship a week at one
point, which is 10 times the volume
we normally receive,” Interim Registrar
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our office temporarily closed to
in-person services has allowed us
to focus heavily on catching up on
the backlog of applications. We’re
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I had a 3 month wait on kitchen cabinets. Due Oct 29th to come in.
Franklin TN
Thin and crispy crust only
“Unless they are transporting nothing but sailboat fuel, I cannot correlate what my eyes are seeing with the claims of trucker shortages.”
The other day someone posted that CA has enacted new regulations for big rigs that cost as much as buying a new rig, and this is one reason they can’t move cargo out of LA and Long Beach.
I mostly agree. But, still, there are some weird spot shortages. Our local Wally World cannot keep French sliced canned green beans in stock to save their lives. (My daughter is partial to them.) Maybe once a month they’ll have a decent stock on hand. Otherwise, if one searches the back of the shelves and through the regular cut green beans, one in 5 times one can turn up a stray can of the Frenchies.
By chance, I was in a WalMart 6 hours from us, yesterday, picking up a few items to continue a trip back home. Glory be, they had lots of the French sliced canned green beans, and at a lower price too (which was odd, because this was in a large city and about 99% of everything looked significantly more expensive than in our low-cost-of-living area.) Anyway, I picked up 6 cans. Probably should have made it a dozen, but my wife would have yelled at me “we don’t have the space”. (We try to keep well stocked in general and eat all the oldest stuff first. But, our food storage space IS kinda limited.)
OTOH, I understand the trucking issues, but, good golly. The number of trucks on the roads is just astonishing. This as viewed on a 27 hour bus trip to near Harrisburg, PA, and a 13 hour drive back by car. (Long story.)
The only thing more astonishing was the amount of trip mileage occupied by work zones. I guess this is mainly the Trump $$. If Biden’s plan goes through, we might as well call it “work zones EVERYWHERE”.)
I believe the reference is to ITEM pickers, not fruit pickers.
And even if not, get caught up with the times. Robots that can outperform human fruit pickers (including with regard to selection) are here. Not in big numbers yet, but, that may well change.
Those are 2 very good points, and, to the first I'll add a "note": Often, working brings along a lot of costs. Transportation, maybe equipment and such (in the case of yard work), taxes (ok, 2nd point), and so on. It's not one's gross income that counts, it is the net.
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