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Nobody Wants To Work: Job Openings Soar To All Time High 9.3 Million As Record Numbers Quit Their Job
Nation & State ^ | 6-8-2021 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 06/08/2021 8:49:47 AM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 06/08/2021 8:49:47 AM PDT by blam
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Biden sees no evidence all the free money being doled out has anything to do with people not wanted to work so it cant be that.


2 posted on 06/08/2021 8:50:47 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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Nobody Wants To Work: Job Openings Soar To All Time High 9.3 Million As Record Numbers Quit Their Job

If they quit their jobs voluntarily then in most states they can't collect unemployment.

3 posted on 06/08/2021 8:52:51 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Yeah. All that “free” money. There couldn’t possibly be any strings attached to it.


4 posted on 06/08/2021 8:54:35 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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IMHO there are multiple factors at work here:


1. I agree wholeheartedly that the free money bit is detrimental.


2. There's also the fact that a lot of folks were practically forced to not work for a while. Whether or not they collected more in unemployment than their old paycheck, the fact is it created a habit of avoiding work.


3. Even before the china virus there was an issue with today's young adults avoiding work more than the generation X did as young adults, which was more than the boomers did, which was more than the greatest generation did. Basically, our work ethics have been declining for at least 70 years with each generation.


4. Don't forget the massive boomer generation being ready to retire. As each year goes by we have more and more people saying they're too old to work, they've done their due. And they're right -- I don't blame them. I'm doing retirement planning myself. I'm just saying they get counted as "quitting" in many of the labor statistics.

5 posted on 06/08/2021 8:56:32 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Solzhenitsyn wrote about it. Collectivism is an economic model which fails to consider human psychology in its plans. Give a man free stuff and he will quit working.


6 posted on 06/08/2021 8:57:44 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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Muzzles have something to do with it in NYS.

Not all part-timers work because they have to do it.

For some who can choose, muzzles are reason to refuse to do it.


7 posted on 06/08/2021 8:59:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: blam

Nobody wants to work for a Chamber Of Commerce Small business at the wages being offered.


8 posted on 06/08/2021 8:59:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Another $3600 in July? Tell me that’s not right.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3965957/posts


9 posted on 06/08/2021 8:59:46 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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I have relatives who were grateful to have a WPA job even though it required digging dirt with a shovel 8 hours every day, day after day...
10 posted on 06/08/2021 9:00:25 AM PDT by blam
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Just 6 of Austin, TX’s city 34 pools are open due to lack of lifeguards. Easy job, lots of power and can look at bikinis.


11 posted on 06/08/2021 9:01:23 AM PDT by bgill
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We were on the way home from a long overdue visit to grandchildren last night. As we had a two hour layover in Minneapolis, my wife was agitated for a hot meal, so I sat her near the boarding gate in a fairly isolated section of the airport. Although it was about 7 pm local time, a LOT of places in the airport were already closed and a place called SMASH BURGER which looked reasonably decent had a long line in which I waited patiently while the Mrs. rode shotgun on carry-ons not far away.

The help was doing the best they could, but I finally got our order about 10 minutes before boarding time. Other passengers weren't so lucky an abandoned their orders to catch flights. The food was pretty tasty, though, even at airport prices.

12 posted on 06/08/2021 9:02:35 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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I know a company that hired 45 people since January.

They have less than 5 more employees on staff today than they did in January.


13 posted on 06/08/2021 9:02:45 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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“Another $3600 in July? Tell me that’s not right.”
It’s not right. It’s $300 per month. Rather than waiting till you file your taxes to get the child (under 6 yrs old) credit they are piecing it out.


14 posted on 06/08/2021 9:09:13 AM PDT by moehoward (.)
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Living this right now.

Pay well above average. Still having trouble getting people in the door.

On the other side, my real estate taxes are skyrocketing.


15 posted on 06/08/2021 9:11:20 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: blam

I just want to beat on my drum all day.

They’re paying me to do it.


16 posted on 06/08/2021 9:11:23 AM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Tell It Right

‘IMHO there are multiple factors at work here:”

5. Stolen elections might cause some to opt out.


17 posted on 06/08/2021 9:13:24 AM PDT by moehoward (.)
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“people leaving their job voluntarily due to better prospects elsewhere”

Sounds like a flexible and dynamic economy at work.

If your offered “job” doesn’t support a pay scale a worker can afford, automate or go out of business.
$10 an hour to bang nails in the hot sun for 10 hours a day is NOT a good gig, even for a HS kid.

Pay more, get more quality hires.

Pay less, and hire your illegals.

Job creators choice.


18 posted on 06/08/2021 9:15:26 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuitss)
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My Dad was a country boy (raised on a reservation herding sheep in the high desert) and did some of those WPA jobs because the family needed cash. He once told me that the city folk who came out to work on those jobs spent as much time leaning on the shovels as digging with them.

They referred to the agency as We Putter Around and told me that the knob provided on the government issued shovels to keep the wood in the handles from splitting or splintering was derisively referred to as a "WPA chinrest."

Still, even the most indolent of WPA employees outworks most of what we have today!

19 posted on 06/08/2021 9:16:36 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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People who resign are usually moving on to a better job at higher pay. If employers are offering sign-on bonuses, then that encourages lateral moves, too. So you would expect to see a lot of turnover when employers are desperate for workers.

As workers move up, the worst and lowest-paying positions will be left behind. Those employers will have to find inexperienced people, and persuade them to enter the labor force. Some undoubtedly will.


20 posted on 06/08/2021 9:16:43 AM PDT by proxy_user
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