I need low skilled employees at my company. The job is literally counting, folding and packing t-shirts.
It pays minimum wage to start with raises available by learning and expanding your usefulness to the company. We will train, if you are willing.
It is a job best filled by students. The hours are very flexible. No weekends or holidays.
We can’t find a soul. Not even a nibble. Those expressing any interest want to start at $10 an hour.
Very discouraging.
What a wonderful opportunity for an exposure to work life, learning the discipline of work, and of meeting the minimum standards of productivity in a competitive business.
Post-WWII youth would have jumped at such an opportunity to begin work, recognizing that more opportunities could come to them if they worked hard.
RE: We can’t find a soul. Not even a nibble.
Not even “immigrants” from South of this country? :)
Ok, offer $11.00/hr. It’s called the free market. Labor is just another commodity. It’s not rocket science.
I do not know where you are, so this may not be applicable.
In Iowa, McDonalds often starts at $10. Janitorial work starts at $11.
You actually make my point. You are saying “Can’t find any good employees”, but the reality is “Can’t find anyone who will do the work for what I pay”.
Two very different problems. Raise the wage. That is how the market works. A college student views their time as worth much more than minimum wage. Heck, I made $10 an hour in the 1990’s as an intern (but engineers will not work for free).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QztsrEfenf8
You still need a low-skilled worker to feed the machine. But higher productivity means you can afford to pay him enough to get him to take the job. More shirts folded per man-hour.