Worker shortage?

[Bluto]

OK Boomer, listen up!

That’s how my son started the time-to-find-a-job conversation when he turned 16.

While some of his friends got a traditional job packing groceries or flipping burgers he decided to check out fiver.com and similar sites. He did some data entry, research… whatever. Basically he made what his colleagues made in a week in just a few hours. Since then he turned up the hustle and is easily making $1500/week in under 15 hours while still attending virtual high school and hanging out with friends.

My daughter is 15 and does makeup tutorials on social media. I won’t pretend to understand it but she pulls in over $1000/week in literally minutes a day.

Both have college prepaid and plan on attending, but when you look at the money they are making and all the free time they have, even I have to question the need for a full time job where you make peanuts working for the man.

They are not alone and this generation (the producers, at least), as much as we mock them, seem to be headed off to a pretty good start. If you could have worked part time as a teenager and made twice as much as your colleagues would you be slaving away now???

[SteyrAUG]

OK Boomer, listen up!

That’s how my son started the time-to-find-a-job conversation when he turned 16.

While some of his friends got a traditional job packing groceries or flipping burgers he decided to check out fiver.com and similar sites. He did some data entry, research… whatever. Basically he made what his colleagues made in a week in just a few hours. Since then he turned up the hustle and is easily making $1500/week in under 15 hours while still attending virtual high school and hanging out with friends.

My daughter is 15 and does makeup tutorials on social media. I won’t pretend to understand it but she pulls in over $1000/week in literally minutes a day.

Both have college prepaid and plan on attending, but when you look at the money they are making and all the free time they have, even I have to question the need for a full time job where you make peanuts working for the man.

They are not alone and this generation (the producers, at least), as much as we mock them, seem to be headed off to a pretty good start. If you could have worked part time as a teenager and made twice as much as your colleagues would you be slaving away now???

They'd be crazy to do it differently.

When I was in high school I realized I could raid the scrap wood bin in wood shop class and make sticks for nunchaku, assemble them at home and then sell them for $25 a pop. Back in 1983 I was making $150 a week working only about 5 hours on my own time. That was what my friends made working 40 hour weeks at a McJob. And I always got good grades in wood shop for my creative "wind chimes."

[Backfire]

There are a couple of people I have seen that stream games, some are millionaires, social media is pretty powerful but you need to fit the bill, not everyone can do it

[Backfire]

You honestly think these folks aren’t working?

They are they took warehouse jobs that are now paying $17+ hr. They took entry level manufacturing jobs that had no choice but to up their starting pay to complete with Amazon et al...

And I’m just using Amazon as a general example of a wide swath of businesses that quickly adjusted pay to grab people.

These low paying jobs that once had a pool of people to pick from have two choices, go out of business or adjust their business model to accept lower profit margins in order to pay competitive wages.

No one wants to work... yeah, ok... no one wants to work shit jobs for shit pay when big box warehouse or gorilla manufacturing is hiring folks at nearly twice the pay.

People are gonna eat, people are gonna put some kind of roof over their heads. The idea these people just magically stopped working and all live on grandmas couch is laughable at best.

Is that why Amazon is delivering g thru USPS now? Used to vote e to my door with an Amazon truck. Now is post office

[tn1911]

Is that why Amazon is delivering g thru USPS now? Used to vote e to my door with an Amazon truck. Now is post office

Actually the plan to push bulk to the USPS was underway years before the great Chinamart flu...

Source?

My lady friend who spent many years working for Amazon in the front office.

[SomeOtherGuy]

You don’t know anyone who owns or runs a small business.

LOL

Same here. I know dozens of small and midsize business owners (half or more from representing them). A few businesses are using convenient excuses, but in my pool 80-90% really would like to hire people but cannot find anyone qualified who's interested.

A few are not offering adequate wages, but that's less and less common. Keep in mind that current employees are working for $X and if you offer the new hires more, then current employees need to paid even more than that or they will be PO'd and probably walk. Businessmen with a brain know that retention is easier and cheaper than new hiring (fast food might be a rare exception) so they want to keep current employees happy enough to stay.

This is an across the board issue, even in skilled professional fields that take years to gain qualifications for. I heard from the president of a large charitable foundation that a lot of smaller charities are losing their 501(c)(3) exempt status because they simply cannot find any qualified accountants to do their required annual returns. That's not hard work for a CPA and it does pay normal rates, so this is a bit of a canary for a shortage. Stories are similar in other professional white collar fields.

[Backfire]

The auto tech trade is so bad I’ve had employers try to poach me. Fortunately for my current employer of 11 years he’s always taken great care of me so I’m sticking it out with him. I had a really good offer at a close by location that I told him about which in turn got me a raise. Getting a competent tech that is a great worker is hard to come by even when the pay is good.

Closing a dining area to cut down on workers isn’t happening. I don’t know if Burger King was just an example or what but my Burger King has the dinning open. It’s the only fast food joint in town that seems to keep employees and is efficient.

15 people in checkoute at bass pro, 1 guy at the gun area running around, they can't seem to hire anyone. Bk dining has been closed for a while where I am at.
Restaurant hours was 10- 6pm, dunno man.
You can't say this many jobs open and no quified people....
Nursing was flooded, now 20k sign on....

[Adrenaline_6]

Yup...big difference between available workers and qualified workers. It doesn't matter though. The roller coaster called recession just went over the first crest. Consumer spending will dial way back because of it. Layoffs are a coming.

[SomeOtherGuy]

Bk dining has been closed for a while where I am at.
Restaurant hours was 10- 6pm, dunno man.

Locally the McDonalds, which sees HUGE business from tourism, closed its dining room from March 2020 and just reopened it sometime in May 2022. I think other fast food places did the same but don't know.

Nursing was flooded, now 20k sign on....

A ton of nurses are women who want children, or more children. The Covid-19 stabs have unknown effects on fertility. Whatever the long term effects may be, a huge number of menstruating women will have disrupted menstrual cycles in the 1-3 months after Pfizer or Moderna, which is as obvious as anything could be to a woman who wants to have kids. Women share these kind of biological details with each other in a way that men usually don't, and nurses more than anyone will share with each other. One nurse gets jabbed early on, her cycle is messed up, suddenly every nurse in the hospital knows and maybe 1/3 of them are freaking out about it.

Locally a large portion of all nurses refused Covid stabs (as did a ton of non-clinical hospital workers who were mandated to get stabbed, and a small but non-zero portion of MD/DO physicians). At one of our two major hospitals, nurses and anyone else not getting jabbed were fired over it. As the vaxxes look worse and worse over time - less effectiveness and more side effects - no one will be changing their minds. Curiously, the other one of the two local hospitals made religious exemptions really easy to get around the time of mandate enforcement, while the first - allegedly religious but they certainly don't act like it - did not issue a single exemption to anyone. Guess who has a nursing shortage.

My perspective may be slightly skewed because the local area is more rural, more Christian, and far more family focused than any big city I know of. It may be a non-issue for most nurses in a "Sex and the City" environment.

[gsd2053]

There are no jobs out there.

Yeah. Unless you wanna work 40 hours a week.

Yep, and they want you when THEY need you. On top of that. It's got to be done their way. PSHHHHIT!