This is an interesting take. I too see help wanted signs at every fast food place around. I even saw one with an immediate hiring bonus. Previously unheard of for a fast food worker. I find it interesting that the writer alludes toward company sponsored health care and even child care in his piece. Company sponsored health care is more the domain of the businesses looking to hire top talent. I can tell you that it is not an inconsequential expense and the fastest rising expense in my office. But childcare? Is company sponsored childcare a thing now? That's news to me. Much less for a fast food worker. It's simple really. The free market economy will eventually correct itself. If folks no longer want to work at entry level wages, then the business will correct itself and pass the cost on to their clientele. And we have the choice to saddle the extra expense or go elsewhere. Simple as that really. What does concern me is the expectation toward the corporation. I am not talking about the greedy few that make news and all the libs love to point out.... The regular folks that are doing things right. If I want talent, I know I have to pay for it. And I do. There is nobody in my business that earns anything less than a very solid middle class wage and I hope it can stay that way. But I can tell you that I won't be hiring twenty year olds based on their ability to manipulate social media. That is just absurd. I will hire people that are eager to work and present to me an air of appreciating a solid well paid position. We used to appreciate our ability to have a job. I see that table is turning though and I am not so sure that the long term impact will be something we are able to be proud of. But then long term results don't seem to be part of the current thought process.
I see your points and I am sure that it make sense in the context of your business. There isn't a one solution fits all approach to be had here. And it would be silly to compare the workplace of even 10 years ago to the workplace we have today. So much has changed in the job market in the last couple of decades that anyone without direct knowledge of the job market on a macro level is probably talking out of a lack of real information about the current job situation most people face. I know I would have a difficult time navigating a career move these days simply because I have little experience with the nuances that dictate a successful job search in today's job market. Fortunately, I'm retiring in two weeks and don't have to worry about such things. If this article makes one thing clear, it is that people are no longer satisfied with dead end service jobs that keep them poor and living hand to mouth. I think the pandemic has inadvertently shown people what they are really worth. From the real heroes on the frontlines to the people that raked in billions as a result of this pandemic, the job market is rapidly transforming the job market. For the better or for the worse I guess we'll see.
Yeah? Well, get ready to be pissed off! I had a conversation with a co-worker today who is struggling in her department because she's having to share her entire staff with the manufacturing supervisor to keep all of the machinery operating on the production floor. What's most interesting about the discussion she and I had is what completely puts your opinion in the hopper. In the past couple of months it's been especially difficult to hire enough people to operate the factory at anywhere near capacity, despite lots of pent up demand from customers who have their own commitments. We've expended lots of time, money and energy advertising the jobs, offering sign-on bonuses and interviewing candidates. The jobs are not part-time although, admittedly, a number of them are 2nd or 3rd shift, but not all. They are also not low-wage starting positions. The pay is better than respectable . . . hovering around $15 hourly in most cases. Of those who have been offered and accepted jobs, a number of them have never shown up for work. Why? Because they never intended to work in the first place. The only reason they interviewed is because the Department of Employment Security requires confirmation that the recipients of unemployment benefits are actively seeking work, interviewing, and not turning down suitable job offers. Human Resources is required to report the failure of new hires to show up for work, and they do so. Unfortunately, red tape probably prevents the suspension of benefits, as these parasites are doing this in numbers, milking a system they know cannot keep up with them. Care to know how many accepted jobs and have not shown up? As of today, 25 . . . yes, twenty-five! Those 25 are abusers of the system . . . every last one of them! Having learned this today, I'm no longer as open-minded as I was recently trying to be about the reasons for jobs remaining unfilled. So Joe, if you are still adamant that Biden's lounge-at-home program is not destroying commerce in America, you can go pound sand! No, better yet . . . you can piss off!
I just sat at the table with my wife. I have long been making a living in a construction bid market that is turned on it’s ear. Every cost has increased at unprecedented levels. Even shipping pallets cost me fifteen times more than they did last year. I am paying a dollar more a gallon for fuel than I did six months ago….. And then I hear my wife’s tribulations. Trying to keep a university technology system up and running without money…. We are printing and giving away so much cash that grocery stores can’t keep current prices up with inflationary increases that are so out of control….. We have lost our way folks. Six more months of this and we will have half the nation in the unemployment lines. It’s time we stopped worrying about all this peripheral stuff that has consumed everybody’s thinking and get back to the business of building and economy that provides jobs.
Has it occurred to either of you that we are slowly coming out of a once in a 100 year pandemic that destroyed the economies of pretty much every industrialized nation on the planet and couple that with the damage the Trump Administration did to our trade alliances leading up to it, and toss in a complete disruption of logistics, manufacturing, food suppliers, and countless other ecomonic sectors from hospitality to travel, and you think we should be completely back to normal at this point? Whine and bitch and complain if it makes you feel better or simply keep blaming and judging everyone you blamed and judged before we ever heard about any pandemic.
just more dimwitted magidiot parroting. Nothing to see here Texas' lieutenant governor suggests grandparents are willing to die for US economy The lieutenant governor of Texas argued in an interview on Fox News Monday night that the United States should go back to work, saying grandparents like him don’t want to sacrifice the country’s economy during the coronavirus crisis. Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, 69, made the comments on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight” after President Donald Trump said he wanted to reopen the country for business in weeks, not months. Patrick also said the elderly population, who the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said are more at risk for COVID-19, can take care of themselves and suggested that grandparents wouldn’t want to sacrifice their grandchildren’s economic future. Daily coronavirus updates:Get USA TODAY's Daily Briefing in your inbox “No one reached out to me and said, ‘as a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?’” Patrick said. “And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in.” The Latest US and World News - USATODAY.com
Has it occurred to you that there is a parasitic, self-proclaimed "victim" class out there that is riding for free on the backs of honest, hard-working Americans? There always has been and, as long as you fail to acknowledge the seriousness of the problem, there always will be.
I'm sure you believe it is the only problem out there because when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
You sound like a broken record that can only see one side of a much larger and vastly more complicated issue. Simple answers only make you feel better about yourself.
because people can't change things right, Tuffy McTufferson? Bank of America boosting its hourly minimum wage to $25 by 2025 Bank of America boosting its hourly minimum wage to $25 by 2025 - CBS News
This is just a sign of the short-sightedness of the "$15-minimum-wagers". No one with skills is going to work for what someone with no skills will get paid. This forthcoming wage inflation, coupled with product shortages resulting from liberal opposition to efforts at maintaining CDC compliant output during COVID are ushering in an age of hyperinflation. We can all thank Joe Biden and the Democrat Party for what's to come. You ain't seen nothing yet.
