Hiring shortage,,,,

So these families getting all this money, are they technically filing for and collecting unemployment?

Tom P. wrote:

Either that or people have found out how much they can make staying home. A family of 5 can get the equivalent of $40,000 a year government programs by staying home and no child care. Plus they can get up to $3,600 per child under 6 years old and $3,000 for ages 7 to 17 advance tax credits add that to the other programs heck of a good living for doing nothing plus healthcare. Who would work with everything covered.

I mean, the reason I work is to not feel like a POS and actually do something and feel accomplished. But that’s me.

castle-rock-clown wrote:

So these families getting all this money, are they technically filing for and collecting unemployment?

They don’t need to, they be on government assistance programs.

castle-rock-clown wrote:

Help wanted signs all over the place. The baby boom generation is aging out of being in the workforce, it’s called retirement, and they worked their entire adult lives for it

This is exactly what happened. Despite the BS blaming the government for paying people not to work and “lazy” younger generations, eventually, people had to go back. Except if they could retire. The stats show this happening in real-time, the pace of people aged 55 and over that quit full-time employment went up by 20 to 70% over the normal pace, depending on the month. This retirement process has taken hundreds of thousands of people per quarter out of the workforce at all levels.

The tail end of the Baby Boom generation got sent to work at home during the COVID shutdown or they got laid off and suddenly questioned, “Why am I doing this?” The stock market was at an all-time high, their 401k is stuffed with money, they were going to retire soon anyway, so decided the hit the eject button. It’s that simple.

Who can blame them? Going from an environment they were comfortable with (going to the workplace to do their work) to being forced into a total change in how they do their jobs, why stay? There was even more incentive to leave if they were front line or healthcare workers having to deal with a b!tchy, entitled public.

The other thing that happened is that the hospitality industry, which contains some of the hardest and lowest-paying jobs, got shut down. Employees in that industry got a chance to question, do I really want to keep working nights and weekends as a server in a restaurant for low wages and marginal (if any) benefits. Their answer was “no” so they started looking and they found PLENTY of other jobs that pay more and have benefits. So when the hospitality industry got moving again, they were somehow shocked to find their employees didn’t want to come back to low-wage, crappy jobs because they were working for a company like Fedex making more money and with real benefits. Shocking.

castle-rock-clown wrote:

ther jobs were bare bone wages and the attitude from employers was “you don’t like it? There’s the door. There’s five others willing to take your place”.

Basically, the “it’s a privilege to work here” attitude is still alive and well in business. There are still many companies that cannot adapt their culture and mindset to adjust to the new reality. They blame “lazy” workers, they blame “government handouts”, they blame the education system, everybody but their crappy organization and culture.

I know two terrific examples of this toxic company mindset here in the Twin Cities. Just look at the job boards, it’s not hard to figure out who they are. Their leadership is always b!tching about how they can’t keep employees and it’s always somebody else’s fault.

Some reasons we are seeing a hiring shortage right now, in no particular order, is:

– Minimum wage is not enough to live on in the majority of the united states.

– Service industry workers are now tired of being literally sacrificed in the name of corporate profits. Historically, it was like a symbolic sacrifice. Like a “we know this isn’t enough money to actually live off of, especially if you have a family, so we can take advantage of you for like 20-30 years because we know if you miss even one paycheck, your whole world will crumble and you’ll be out on the street”. But now it’s like a “LOL you will probably catch Covid from some spitwad of a customer, or from some coworker who we forced to work even when they were sick, and then you’ll probably die because our health care system is a total abomination”. But would you please think of the shareholders?

– Since the pandemic started, WASPS, boomers, karens, and other self-righteous D-bags have somehow all found ways to become even more entitled and have shedded any remaining ability to show empathy for fellow human beings. So service industry workers are tired of literally risking their lives to ‘serve’ these asshats.

***If your business relies on paying your employees LESS than a living wage for you to turn a profit, then you don’t have profitable business. You have some monkeybuttized US version of a sweat shop.

***If your business somehow pays less than unemployment benefits from the government, then you are not a competitive business. Also, see bullet above.

The US government has backed businesses over citizens/workers since the beginning of time. The only difference in the last 20 years is that Rupert Murdoch and others realized they can at a minimum distract the average citizen from understanding the true dynamics at play, and in a lot of cases even control HOW they think, act, and vote.

It’s not left versus right, it’s the rich versus the poor, and it’s playing out exactly how they want it to right now. The rich have convinced large swathes of the poor to support business/corporate interests over their own, villainizing ‘lazy workers’ and ‘immigrants’ in the process. While we all argue about ‘lazy workers’ being the problem, they pass more and more legislation helping billionaires and corporations.

In the last year, the US government spent ~$50 billion on unemployment benefits, and that represented probably the largest amount ever. We may spend half that in the next 12 months. Even so. That represents .7% of their total $6.6 trillion spending. 75 cents for every $100. In most years, it’s more like 30 cents for every $100.

Basically, the “it’s a privilege to work here” attitude is still alive and well in business. There are still many companies that cannot adapt their culture and mindset to adjust to the new reality. They blame “lazy” workers, they blame “government handouts”, they blame the education system, everybody but their crappy organization and culture.

I know two terrific examples of this toxic company mindset here in the Twin Cities. Just look at the job boards, it’s not hard to figure out who they are. Their leadership is always b!tching about how they can’t keep employees and it’s always somebody else’s fault.

I have seen this first hand as well.