Where Are All The Workers? Companies worldwide are suddenly scrambling to manage a labor crunch

Business Week ^ | April 2007 | Peter Coy and Jack Ewing

[xrp]

Why should I work when the government will take care of me!?!?

[2banana]

Europe has an unemployment rate at 10-20%

Socialism tend to get in the way...

[Marie2]

“What’s going on here?” The market is working. If you can’t get enough workers for the pay you are offering, INCREASE THE OFFER.

[nmh]

TWO wonderful replies!

Right on!

[rhombus]

Hey where are all the Walmart haters? If conditions are so bad there, why aren’t they quitting?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Where are all the workers? Gee, why don’t they ask the pro-abortion lobby.

[poobear]

There is a shortage of skilled labor in this country. You can pay all you want. They quit because they DON’T WANT TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

poobear
Mechanical Contractor, Inc.

[randog]

I can believe this. There are tons of software jockeys (don’t even get me started on “web developers”), but try finding a guy that can debug his code with an oscilloscope.

[End Times Sentinel]

We should look into rounding up some of our mexicans and sending them over.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

[Salvation]

**Where Are All The Workers? Companies worldwide are suddenly scrambling to manage a labor crunch**

Easy answer:

They were aborted. Never born.

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[mysterio]

Factory managers in Ho Chi Minh City report many of their $62-a-month workers went home for the Tet holiday in February and never came back.

$62 a month? I suppose you're going to have to offer a better salary if you want workers to stay. It's amazing how the free market proponents are often dumbfounded when no one wants to take the crap wage they offer. That's part of the free market as well.

[PeterPrinciple]

There is a shortage of skilled labor in this country. You can pay all you want. They quit because they DON’T WANT TO WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are right but I would modify it..........Good workers quit because they are tired of BS. I am one of them.

[Vigilanteman]

The problem in each case: not enough people who are both able and willing to do the work for the posted pay.

I'm having a very hard time finding somebody to mow my lawn for $5 too. However, if I pay $20, there is a very reliable young man (gringo) in our neighborhood who is glad to do it.

[ridesthemiles]

**Where Are All The Workers? Companies worldwide are suddenly scrambling to manage a labor crunch**”

They have been se poorly educated the employers cannot find talent to hire.
The schools taught 2 generations of “students” that they could get good grades for “trying” to do the homework, etc.
That chicken is coming home to roost.

Employers don’t pay an employee for “trying”.

[dalereed]

“We should look into rounding up some of our mexicans and sending them over.”

Make that all of the illegals from anwhere and I agree!

[coronado]

Many, many millions of American citizens have been aborted. Ergo, labor shortage now.

[tundra1946]

Finding a guy to do your bookkeeping with an abacus is hard also. And don’t get me started about the difficulty in finding someone to impress the characters in the wet clay.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

My hubby is an expert on Labview. Do you know of any freelancing opportunities? There isn’t much call for data acquisition here in Fresno, unfortunately.