Posted on 04/26/2021 4:41:52 AM PDT by Prov1322
Well close up shop and learn to code then.
I really don’t understand why you’re getting so much pushback for stating basic economics.
When steel gets scarce, the price rises and you either pay more for it, or you don’t get it.
When fuel prices rise you either pay more for it, or you don’t get it.
But, for some reason, it’s heresy for employees to expect to be paid market rates when good employees are scarce.
If you can make $18/hr sitting at home doing nothing, how does raising the pay from $12 pre-pandemic to $14 today induce you to get off the couch and work? At $20/hr, those jobs don’t exist. This is a huge, massive problem as the amount you get from not working is basically right at the median salary in the US of around $40k/year - basically half the country can make the same or more not working and another large chunk is close enough it may make them think twice. Why work for $45k/year if I can make almost the same thing not working.
Odd to me too. They call me a Marxist for pointing out there is free market for labor.
My wife and have been to 4 different favorite restaurants in the past 3 months that have all shortened their hours because of this BS.
One is owned by an 80 year old lady who’s now putting in 60+ hours a week to stay in business. Waiting on tables, busing, cash register, everything.
Sure, I’ll bite: how am I a traitor?
Here's a hint.
Hire back the white males you laid off because of Microsoft's Brian Valentine "Think India! Two for the price of one!"
Companies used to not be so utterly greedy: they'd TRAIN people in the technology they needed, taking the risk of attrition.
But now the Ivy MBA crowd (and the cult of the CEO started by Jack Neutron Welch) have convinced business to push ALL risks onto potential employees.
(While Jack negotiated a severance package which included $2 million/year *for life*. No value added once he's left the company.)
"Train yourself, hoping you picked a stable, popular technology, and then run an uphill gamut against hiring white males in favor of H1-Bs and diversity hires; and if you fail to get a job on either count, it's your own fault. And now you're out the money for the training, and a gap in your resume which makes you even harder to hire. But you deserve that because racism."
So white males took the hint, and ran like droves from IT.
You stupid greedy lemmings in management ate your own seed corn.
Sod off.
A lot of Freepers are small business owners or once ran a small business at one time and they feel they are entitled to set wages and cheap labor for perpetuity. The also have COLOSSAL EGOS.
See post #43 for an explanation.
People do not want to be forced to wear masks all day. Businesses are becoming nazi like.
We can’t find truck drivers where I work regardless of what the wages is. Just none available. And to add insult to injury the ones on the payroll lay out for various reasons.
We had one retire just recently who was in his mid seventy’s. Never laid out of work. They don’t make’em like him anymore.
True, they’re getting everyone used to getting a gov’t check!
You are clearly posting to the wrong patriot.
Unlike the government, businesses can’t print money or raise taxes.
Indeed, most are not. The very smallest of small business owners are staffed by family that have taken on the risk. It is the move from family-only to hiring others that is the most difficult calculation. Especially since there are basic laws of economics that they have little control over, but still have to account for. Local price of wages being one of them.
On the other hand, big business is pretty much filled with greedy brutes. "We have to freeze everyone's raises this year because of 'Rona" while at the same time taking millions in bonuses because "they saved so much in operating costs." :)
I don’t employ one single H1B—not one. I hire the best, and I pay top dollar. If you are competing with H1Bs, that means you have *no talent* and you are a bottom-feeder, low-earning, low-productivity developer.
If you have skills, then go get a developer job—you can have one today, at a high salary, if you’re good. If you have business sense, although I think we’ve established you do not, go a step further and start your own company and implement the hiring practices you prefer.
If you profit off of the new indentured servant trade disguised as H-1B then you are a traitor and a human trafficker. But you are nice to pets I’m sure...
PAY MORE.
They can and do raise prices. All the time.
Couple that with working under the table (no taxes), on your timetable and you’d be nuts to go back to a 8 - 5 grind.
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