I just got an email from a local non-profit saying they are closed until January 15th due to staffing shortages. And, everywhere I look... same thing... "now hiring" .
Some people are home because they are quarantined, but, that many? No way.
Perhaps the workforce has shrunk because some fear working and being exposed to covid?
Or because they are making more money via unemployment?
Or because they had to quit or get the jab, and they chose to quit?
Other reasons? What is going on? The lack of employees everywhere is very concerning... it's just resulting in more division. I wish I had a solution.
Covid happens. Business cut workers due to the scare.
Business now working on skeleton crews, pushing their employees as far as they can bend.
Covid restrictions start to lift.
Employees demand more help because the strain is too much.
Boss Man puts up now-hiring sign to shut up the employee and promise them they will look for more people.
Employee continues to do back-breaking work loads because "Boss Man says he will get some more people, we just have to hold out a little longer!"
Boss Man continues running on skeleton crew and stringing his employees along because he can get the same output without the cost of employees.
Employee finally gets pissed and quits because he can't keep killing himself doing 3 peoples' jobs in a 12 hour shift.
Boss Man hires another poor sap to take his place, rinse and repeat.
What is this called, my friends?
Calling it a scam is putting it lightly...
It's Slavery...
There is no worker shortage. There is an honest employer shortage.
I call bullshit. I am an employer. Granted full employment for my company is only 20 to 25 employees but I have been giving away work for 2 years due to not enough help. I am surviving with 7 people right now.
I have a 90 day employment bonus which doubles your wages for those 90 days. The catch is you have to complete the 90 days to get the bonus. Ive hired at least 25 people in the last 2 years, 3 have made it the full 90 days and 2 have quit shortly after getting the bonus. Starting wage is 18.00/hr. So all you have to do to make 36 dollars an hour is make it about 4 months. There is also about 15 hours of ot a week. So add in a bunch of hours at 54/hr.
This is a people dont want to work problem. I have taken away this incentive because it failed so miserably. It cost me a few grand for 1 friggin employee.
Well if you were in Texas I'd take you up on that. I've got no problem busting ass as long as I get comped like that. Most employers expect the world for 12 dollars an hour.
What is their pay after 90 days? Still $18?
Probably. No one expects people to stay after the bonus period.
If the mandates fuck me over (im in education in a blue state and unions are pushing for MORE measures) I would gladly take you up on your offer.
I don't doubt you treat people well, but the Corporate Overlords will milk as much life out of people to make a penny as they are allowed to get away with.
Let me ask you, if you went through the experience I laid out above, would you bother giving 110% on your next job?
Our enemies have successfully demoralized people to see work as nothing more than a means by which to attain an end.
There is no pride in work anymore.
Once you trick people into forgetting what they are truly capable of, that's the first step to "breaking" them and turning them into a loyal wage slave.
But it also takes all passion out of their soul.
The reason you can't find anyone to work for you is because their respect for the sanctity of work has been mercilessly slaughtered by the 8-5 grind by methods as described above.
It's just one of many schemes, and one that's only been tenable since Covid gave them the excuse.
Same here fren.
Almost true. My father in law is that boss man and he is working crazy hours along with his crew. He argued with the heads of his company for months and finally got raises for all of his guys. Something is going on. Everywhere i look its short staffed.
I have thought this exact thing. And it is sad. Employers need to stop with the greed.
Most of us are barely making it. Theres about 5 or 6 hands in my pocket before i get to make a dime. I make less than my top employees, no bonus this year and have never taken more than any employee in the company in yearly bonus. 2 out of the last 9 years i have taken a bonus at all. I am at my breaking point. I pay unearthly amounts in taxes, put in more time than anyone at all and i am actually scared to calculate my own hourly rate. Employees are either amazing gems i would die for or more recently decent enough at the work, but entitled selfish pieces of shit that put in one good year and then want to make more than me. Theres a lot more than greed. If i were in it for the greed i would take my experience and go work for someone else for much more. My last offer was for 4 times what i make as a starting offer. If i were greedy i would close the company, cut off the 95 people that work for me and go get mine. So please, i know there are those and you see them on the news all the time but most business owners are not greedy people and 85% deserve every penny they can make. If it werent for stubborn pride in completing the goals i have, and truly genuinely committing to my employees i would be gone in an instant.
It sounds like you're one of the honest employers we're all talking about, and you're getting screwed just as bad as the employees of dishonest employers.
I don't know what the percent breakdown is of good to bad employers, but I know the bad ones are not just a few.
I am not a socialist. I agree that business owners should reap rewards. But there are some greedy pricks out there.
I wish you the best. It sounds like you have some difficult equations to balance. Good luck with your efforts.
Yea, it has been an incredibly tough couple years. I just wanted to build a company that was the one I wanted to work for coming up. And I have, uncle sam loves me, my insurance brokers and lots of vendors love me, and I constantly have to deal with new laws, new taxes, new regulations and nothing ever goes in our favor. Battling out this whole vaccine mandate garbage might be the final straw for me. I am in the NYC market and I am fighting tooth and nail to protect my employees and leave them with the choice to take it or not depending on their own decisions. Already costing me work. And your point is taken, there are totally greedy assholes out there that really do take advantage of people. I think if you look at the whole picture theres a lot more shitty employees than there are shitty owners. But I do recognize thats from my perspective and not the whole picture. In my life my bossses have been about 50/50. Most people I know I wouldnt hire in a million years. The simplest lowest hanging thing I require is honesty, and people are borderline incapable of truly being honest in my opinion. I do wish you all the best, my frustrations are not with you or anyone on here, you guys are truly amazing and I love this community. I come here for some sanity in an insane world. I wish all of you the best and I do get the frustrations of whats out there and how bad the market can be. I think for my own opinion the govt is the single worst force that destroys the labor markets and makes it so theres a much smaller slice of the pie at the end of the day to divide up amongst the employees, employer etc. We are carving up scraps while paying the better part to an entity that does little to help and a lot to burden and cripple us.
I agree with this. It's exactly what's happening at my job. Say they're hiring but no one new ever shows up. We are 70 people short, out of 110 contracted employees. But we got $15 as a Christmas bonus, so there's that.
Fuck off with your commie bullshit
It's not Communist, it's Corporatist.
Work your slaves like a mule and when they break just replace them.
That's what Amazon does.
That's what every Monopoly does.
As my friend always said, they socialize the losses and privatize the gains. I was hired at a large company, year two or three they called us into a room, cancelled our pension, retirement benefits and took away half my time off.
Seems like the only person bound to abide by contracts and promises is me and my little frens.