Brehs, where have all the employees gone? Labor shortage everywhere

[AQz]

A lot of people are remote. Rent and gas are high.

 

[Unfiltered]

Working full time at ten an hour which is what most these shytty jobs are won’t even cover rent or even a used car, why work when the outcome of working and not working is the same

I'd say most them is 12 which is very little. You gotta live with a friend or family member.

Know a dude mid 40z loving with his aunt driving a BMW , got plenty hoes too.

Lott stunting going on.

 

[Unfiltered]

I mean you can do security and make 350 a week and that beats McDonald's.

I think people are just realizing the money is just too small. If you're making 400 a week why do that full time? Work part time and do other things. I think Walmart figured it out a while ago they don't enough so they advertised as part time work for some extra money. MAZON DOES FHIS AT THE WAREHOUSE WITH 4 HPIF SHIFTS THEN LEAVE.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

They aren't that big in population. They aren't lazy, they actually getting good jobs while in college. nikkas in my generation was making 8 dollar a hour in college outside of the college trapper then graduate to only get 9 dollar a hour. That shyt was horrible

Yup.

When I was in college (mid 00s), people would work at $10-12/hr bank job for about 20 hrs/week, which was good money for filling your gas tank or having $$$ to take girls on dates. When summer hit, people wanted internships paying big bucks. I remember some of my engineering homies making like $1,000 to $2,000/week AFTER TAXES for internships in their sophomore/junior years in summer. For a college kid with a scholarship and no heavy bills? That's some serious cheese.

Spent my whole senior year trying to make sure I graduated with a job. Literally got an offer the day before graduation. Everyone thought I was crazy for going on all those interviews but that shyt came in handy.

Fukk AT&T. Finance hiring manager was a straight up bytch. Don't remember her face but I do remember wanting to reach across the table and dislocate her jaw.

 

[Wild self]

A lot of Boomers retired...Gen Z is still young, Gen X doesn't have numbers and Millenials are aiming for higher paying jobs.

A lot of these pizza delivery and fast food jobs were meant for teenagers back in the 80s. High school kids delivered food and flipped burgers. Then companies realized that it's HARD to force a middle class teen to do whatever when they don't NEED a job and just do it to pay for gas or buy new sneakers. They started looking at young adults with GED/High School diplomas that could work crazy hours...better if it's a single parent that's more desperate.

Nowadays, teens are more focused on college (started with the Millenials) so they aren't as willing to do that kind of work. They'd rather do internships, extracurriculars or work part-time jobs at nice stores instead of McBurgers. Then the struggling adults said "fukk it" and are aiming for higher pay. Bullshyt hard jobs with low pay ain't cutting it. Companies want employees but don't realize you gotta pay $$$$$ in a sellers market.

Gen Z ain't with the exploitation work. Plus they know how to make money off of,social media.

 

[Wild self]

This for sure. When I went back to looking for a gig at the top of the year I was appalled at what people are still trying to pay employees. Just searching I’d still see jobs at like 10/hr seriously. I didn’t really get my first job until my mid 20s because prior to that I’m like I can just hustle up on what you’re trying to pay me. This was mad long ago, so definitely can’t fathom people still paying the same wages. I talked to one company not long ago about an IT position covering multiple locations over a wide area and you had to drive your vehicle. This fool on the phone told me 12/hr in 2022! I just laughed and ended the call.

Who pays a measly $12 an hour in 2022???

What state was that? Mississippi?

 

[Wild self]

We've spent the last 30-40 years telling people they're pieces of shyt for working lesser jobs that don't pay well, and a lot of them finally got the message.

Even TLR is like, "if you don't work a STEM white collar job making $250k a year, you're worthless"

Now look at that, the economy is about to implode

 

[Legal]

Even TLR is like, "if you don't work a STEM white collar job making $250k a year, you're worthless"

Now look at that, the economy is about to implode

Not sure how people didn't see this coming. On top of people in their mid 30s and up that are just tired of getting shyt on, we're now at the point where we've got generations of people in and entering the workforce that have been conditioned to think a good portion of jobs aren't worth their time. Doesn't help when you see examples of older generations getting played like herbs for their work and loyalty.

Sucks, but the only way out is through. Overall, we've got to find some way to incentivize people to work those lower tier jobs, and the answer is almost always just money.

 

[Wild self]

It would mean something if things didn’t operate relatively. You increase wages, businesses increase prices to offset the pay increase. You pay lower-skill workers that much then higher skilled workers will demand higher wages. Then we start back at one *Brian McKnight

Put price caps on essential needs like housing and food.

 

[Wild self]

@Wild self and I have theorized for a while now that the million + people who died in COVID and because of COVID (not being able to get to the hospital because beds were full) is what's causing the shortage. And then let's not forget the people who have long COVID and CAN'T work.

The US has never been in a situation where over a million people died in less than 2 years. The landscape of society changed. It has been normalized to us but that doesn't change the effect it had on our workforce and on the supply chain and other issues.

Over2 million Americans died from COVID and millions more are permanently disabled from the pandemic


Plus the baby boomer generation retiring en masse with Gen Z on that violent Drill shyt, and workforce issues will arise.

 

[Vandelay]

It's complicated, and it's not one single issue driving it. If you want a single simplified issue; Covid...Covid fukked everything up.

But it fukked up several things that were inevitably going to go bust anyway. Covid just sped them up and had them all hit simultaneously.

It's a societal issue and it's going to take societal solutions to fix it. Anyone saying otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about.

 

[CapitalforCapital]

The reason is the Gig economy.

 

[Wild self]

I believe this is corporate PR bullshyt to push legislation for cheap immigration to suppress wages.


These companies are lying I don't believe it.

No, a lot of illegal immigrants are protesting low wages too.

The entire world is fed up with America's reputation for low wages.

 

[FeverPitch2]

2008 wasn't long ago.

At work sweatin' and chopping it up with customers

"Be glad you have a job."

Employers in the 2000's went ham with this mentality.
Now it's biting them in the ass.
American workers finally understood that they were being exploited and want off the hamster wheel.
It's no more complicated than that.

 

[FeverPitch2]

I love looking at postings on the job boards where they have a crazy list of duties and requirements.
Then they offer $45-50K.