"People just don't want to work anymore"

[StrictlyRockers]

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If employers would start paying a decent wage, I’m sure that they could find employees.

[rickyhall]

1. I'm retired but I work on my own projects every day so not to get bored.

Besides my legs hurt if I don't walk every day.

[onecaliberal]

2. For fucks sake. Made more than that before a degree.

[Mr.Bill]

10. High School graduate here.

I made more than that 40 years ago at a blue collar job.

[Tommymac]

24. Problem is where is this targeted? Off Shore US IT work pays that range to folks in Asia.

$15/hour is a fortune in some counties in Southeast Asia and Central Asia/ India.

Problem arises when US residents are the target.

My guess is this one is targeted to Off Shore work and the salary is stated to discourage US applicants from applying, to insure the need for offshoring is in the public record because no one else will take the job.

Corporations in the IT field use this HR dodge all the time, common practice since at least the year 2000.

Just points out the need for Unionization in the IT field, but that won't happen anytime soon since the majority of IT workers seem to be libertarians.

Fuck Ayn Rand and her sophomoric philosophy of personal greed. She is worse then Karl Marx.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. People want to get paid

Like they are worth something. If rich people lost all thier money and had to work at a minimum wage job with a toxic boss,dealing with asshole customers all day with a grueling workload and didnt get enough money to not be in deep poverty they'd stop working too.

So why are the rich pigs bitching about workers that don't want to be working all day at shit jobs just to keep thier head barely above water?

Richies pay workers more and treat them well like you value them than you might get people to work.

Rich people are fucking stupid.

[StrictlyRockers]

13. I agree with you.

Rich people who are insulated from reality don’t realize this is the reality.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Wages are only part of it. Another part is childcare and what schools are doing.

[Demsrule86]

5. At my hubs job, they are paying kids with no degree or experience 18.50 per hour to start...

That job won't be filled anytime soon...bet he than uses HIB visa to fill it...

[Demobrat]

8. What kind of work is it? N/T

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

17. Above the circled part...

...it says "Proficient in Microsoft..."

Looks like a tech / office job.

[Midnight Writer]

12. I also bet he will use HIB visa. He has to demonstrate first that he can't fill it with American.

So he posts a ridiculous job listing, knowing it will go unfilled, and then can claim he needs to import help.

[Amishman]

36. As a career IT worker, this is my take as well. unfillable listing to justify an H1B

And yes, they will have to pay the H1B more than this listing, but that isn't the real appeal of it for the employer.

The H1B worker is essentially an indentured servant. Make the position salaried and give them a 60+ hour per week workload, and they have to do it as their ability to remain in the country is tied to their job.

The H1B visa program needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

[Alice Kramden]

39. Excellent point n/t

[edhopper]

6. Maybe people got tired of working in shit jobs

for asshole bosses, for low pay.

Maybe the break they got during COVID made them realize that it's not worth it.

[Demobrat]

7. The army of low-paid women who traditionally do the scut work

is not available because there is no child care.

[monkeyman1]

9. corporations - pay people garbage , pay ceo's millions! pay no tax's !

END OF STATEMENT !

[TNNurse]

11. My friend applied for jobs in FL.

She got a sales job, but got offered one which was 35 hours but not full time and no benefits. One said no lunch but a 5 minute "snack break". She skipped those.

[blueinredohio]

16. The non union factories around here

either give no lunch and two ten minute breaks or a 20 minute lunch but work eight and a half hours. Ten minutes is not enough time to walk to the bathroom!

[Shermann]

20. 5 minutes should be plenty

...if you eat like the Cookie Monster!

[Wolf Frankula]

14. If you're talking about Republican Senators

that's true.

Wolf

[hadEnuf]

15. I'm curious why when a republican is in office

job conditions like these are described as a "red hot economy" and they are hailed as "job creators". But when it's a Democrat, it's a "people don't want to work" crisis and a "critical employee shortage" crisis.

Sort of in the same vein as that hurricane Katrina photo where a black family was described as looting while a white family in the same situation was described as "searching for food".

[littlemissmartypants]

30. Red hot as in baked potato in aluminum maybe.

Nobody wants to hold it for too long. They can't, without getting burned anyway.

[DinahMoeHum]

18. The employment systems are broken. . .

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. . .and disrespect for labor has broken the job market. . .

https://www.asktheheadhunter.com/15984/who-broke-the-labor-market

[TexasTowelie]

19. A couple of years ago I was looking at some jobs in Austin.

One of the jobs wanted a PhD in Mathematics and a wide variety of computer experience with a salary of $40,000. Totally unbelievable.

[GoCubsGo]

21. I have seen $12/hr jobs requiring a Master's degree.

That was 10 years ago, but still...

[LizBeth]

22. I had an application last night having me do an assessment test. Fuckin' hour and half of bullshit

for an entry level job. I completed it only because I had invested so much time already and competitive enough to want to see it to the end. But thoroughly bullshit like I have never seen. I got thru two glasses of wine taking the damn thing.

[Hotler]

28. I've taken one of those and will not take another one. To me, those don't measure

job skills. I think it's a way to find out if you can be groomed to their corporate way and thought. And their way is usually based off of some book for business owners about 7-fuck up ways to be successful, and squeeze more work out of people while paying them less.

[LizBeth]

41. 19 an hour and I have an interview tomorrow on the phone. A Saturday so they are working with me

because thru the week I am at present job and can't get in for interview for it. I figure it is because I am one of the very few that actually took the damn thing and they are desperate. We will see tomorrow. But you are right. The questions were all about a yes person. I put often enough I wouldnt lie for them, so on them.

[Hotler]

42. Cool. Best of luck with interview. nt

[marble falls]

25. Did you apply for PPE, did your friend actually apply for unemployment?

[marble falls]

27. We need to engage with those whose job is to help us. You had so many doubts ...

... that tied you into doing nothing, they are there to help us, not gate keep us out. But we have to at least ask.

[DBoon]

29. Bosses who say, "People just don't want to work anymore"

are usually terrible people to work for. Complaining about the workforce is a sure sign of someone who does not respect their employees.

[wryter2000]

33. Amen

I'm retired now, but when I was working, that was the single biggest clue that I didn't want to work for that idiot. It meant "You need to do everything I say, whether it's idiotic or not, and work your butt off for low pay, all the while putting up with my abuse."

To me, it was the equivalent of deciding to date someone who complained bitterly about their ex.

[DBoon]

34. I've also learned never hire a contractor who complains about the building codes

for the same reason

[ck4829]

31. K&R

[Dukkha]

32. A typical job hunt:

Bachelors degree or higher preferred for entry level position
Must have 5 years experience in software that literally nobody uses but us
Fill out lengthy online application re-stating everything you already put in attached resume
We expect lots of groveling and sucking up in your cover letter about us
We'll contact you in a week to schedule an interview in a time that's most inconvenient for you
Go through interview process and be told to wait for another contact date, even though your desperate for a job now
Though we stated immediate positions available, we'll just sit on your resume and waste your time to satisfy hiring managers massive ego
Weeks later after you have forgot about us, maybe, we'll send you cut-and-paste email stating "out of may candidates you just didn't make the cut. We encourage you to give up on your hopes and dreams and we'll keep your resume on file"

repeat cycle many times over many months.
and they can't fathom why there's a worker's revolt.

[2naSalit]

35. People just don't want to work...

Like they are trapped in a feudal system where they are the serfs anymore.

[Crowman2009]

37. Hey idiot bosses! It's called upward mobility.

You know when someone higher up in the job food chain dies of COVID, it leaves a ton of vacancies. Also, someone could either get promoted, quit, retire, die or become debilitated as well further down the job ladder.

[Javaman]

38. and again, my problem with capitalism pay model...

if you base your business on paying your employees the least amount that you can, then you shouldn't be in business.

those days are over, the workers of this nation are finally waking the fuck up.

this is what will eventually push us all to have a living wage for all workers.

once you have all workers getting a living wage, poverty will take a dive.

and to extrapolate, if poverty goes down, so does many of the problems associated with it.

[joetheman]

40. This is the main complaint from a bunch of wealthy MFs who never worked a day in their adult lives.