It’s a buyers’ market, companies are using listings to cycle people through the door, but they don’t really have an opening, unless a real winner comes in, then they’ll find room.
The companies with the open positions have competition; government handouts are more lucrative than jobs in many cases.
The open positions do not pay what the available workers want for pay. The workers get by on government redistribution. The businesses get a double whammy — they get taxed, then the distribution of the taxes to the workers competes with the businesses for employees.
“Parasitism is a part of every free market.”
My BIL has hired and fired for cause three new graduates in agribusiness in the last year. There were root causes. One couldn’t show up for work on time and lied about other things. One’s mom didn’t like where he was living near the work location and so subsidized him and moved him to more posh digs 30 miles away and he could not show up for work on time. The third didn’t realize he was going to have to go out in the heat and cold to go to the production facilities.
The BIL says that it took more time to manage them than the time it took to do their job without them.
It’s a real problem. I was suckered into one of these, did 2 long interviews in person and a phone interview. Then after the 3rd interview they said ‘The CFO changed his mind and we’re not going to have this position at all’.
Really pissed me off for wasting so much time and gas.