Everyone is hiring, but every company is still short staffed. The Lowes out where Im at lost 30% of their staff last week. They "quit". Where's everyone going? No company has a surplus of people, they're all short staffed no matter the industry, even though they're all hiring. COVID money has been halted ....... Where is everybody? What are they doing for work?
A couple times a month I make a 10hr long interstate travel and I can tell you the roads are almost empty. Both directions.......pick a day. Even Memorial Day Weekend and July 4th, roads super thinned-out. Is it just gas? Or something else? I don't see any MORE people on foot, or bike, or anything like that.
Are shit tons of people actually dying and were not being told?
Yesterday I drove past a graveyard that I pass by everyday.........seemed like a lot of new arrivals. The amount of people with just flower markers, who haven't received their stone yet, were in the hundreds. I drive by there everyday. Its getting packed
My husband and I have noticed the same thing. We can’t get people to apply for anything. Pay rates are through the roof too so it isn’t like the offers are poor. We were discussing months ago what it could be. We feel like the COVID money isn’t it other than people were paid to sit home and are lazy now. But one thing we wondered but don’t know how to confirm is it that so many people are dying and estates are getting settled and inheritance is allowing people to stay home??
I had 5 people quit within 3 weeks of getting their 90 day employment bonus. Never called me, just stopped showing up. I usually run about a 20 person crew. This year I had 12. I had 5 show up yesterday. I paid a 1000 dollar premium for each person to work only 3 months plus way overpaying to begin with. I have guys doing 15 dollar an hour jobs but paying them 25.
If I could find someone to buy my company Id retire tomorrow. I may do so anyway, I can always use the 300k worth of equipment I own, even though a lot of it is duplicates, on the farm. Im thinking I could build another pole barn to store it and use it when the other stuff breaks down and then cannibalize the older stuff for parts. Its all mostly paid for anyway,.
My whole huge company went to permanent work from home. I know of several other large companies in my area that have done the same- that could account for the lower traffic in part
Everyone is hiring, but every company is still short staffed. The Lowes out where Im at lost 30% of their staff last week. They "quit". Where's everyone going? No company has a surplus of people, they're all short staffed no matter the industry, even though they're all hiring. COVID money has been halted ....... Where is everybody? What are they doing for work?
A couple times a month I make a 10hr long interstate travel and I can tell you the roads are almost empty. Both directions.......pick a day. Even Memorial Day Weekend and July 4th, roads super thinned-out. Is it just gas? Or something else? I don't see any MORE people on foot, or bike, or anything like that.
Are shit tons of people actually dying and were not being told?
Yesterday I drove past a graveyard that I pass by everyday.........seemed like a lot of new arrivals. The amount of people with just flower markers, who haven't received their stone yet, were in the hundreds. I drive by there everyday. Its getting packed
My husband and I have noticed the same thing. We can’t get people to apply for anything. Pay rates are through the roof too so it isn’t like the offers are poor. We were discussing months ago what it could be. We feel like the COVID money isn’t it other than people were paid to sit home and are lazy now. But one thing we wondered but don’t know how to confirm is it that so many people are dying and estates are getting settled and inheritance is allowing people to stay home??
I had 5 people quit within 3 weeks of getting their 90 day employment bonus. Never called me, just stopped showing up. I usually run about a 20 person crew. This year I had 12. I had 5 show up yesterday. I paid a 1000 dollar premium for each person to work only 3 months plus way overpaying to begin with. I have guys doing 15 dollar an hour jobs but paying them 25.
If I could find someone to buy my company Id retire tomorrow. I may do so anyway, I can always use the 300k worth of equipment I own, even though a lot of it is duplicates, on the farm. Im thinking I could build another pole barn to store it and use it when the other stuff breaks down and then cannibalize the older stuff for parts. Its all mostly paid for anyway,.
My whole huge company went to permanent work from home. I know of several other large companies in my area that have done the same- that could account for the lower traffic in part
Interesting thought. Baby boomers' money.