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.
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.
All I can say is hang in there, and, thanks for being a good role model business.