Anyone hiring?

[Moderate Right]

Anyone hiring? Tell us what's up.

I own my own small business. At a time when there are literally millions of people collecting unemployment, employers everywhere can't find anyone to even apply, let alone hire. And, it is happening at all levels, not just the bottom of the totem poll. I drove by a billboard the other day from Reynolds aluminum. They have to put up a billboard just to hopefully find applicants and you know they have to be paying a decent wage with benefits. Another manufacturer in the area needed to hire 125 workers at over $20 per hour plus benefits and spent $5000 on employment adds and only found two workers. I've run full page ads and got two calls, none hired. I saw a creative ad the other day I think from a restaurant who they claimed were hiring for management jobs but I got the definite impression that that was their way of coping, by hiring "management" and then making them work 60-70 hours per week for a salary.

 

[Simon W. Moon]

Where I work is hiring like crazy.

There was a hiring moratorium imposed last year.
So, everywhere that has needed someone for the past year now has their application ads out.

idk if they're getting people or not.
my dept is full

 

[American]

This post is nonsensical right wing propaganda.

You are best served to not quote me in the future.

No it isn't. Only the Left needs to use propaganda to get support. Hypocrisy and lying are a leftwing way of life.

 

[Moot]

Minimum wage doesn't matter.

People are happy getting the relief checks, higher unemployment, etc. Even places with sating wages of $18 per hour are having a hard time filling spots.

yes, and people still can collect the many various forms of welfare?

Or more money for teenagers to spend on video games?

Nice

I don't think you guys are living in the real world.

Ice cream parlor raises minimum wage to $15/hr, flooded with job applications

As small businesses struggle with hiring shortages, calls for minimum wage increases grow louder. Jacob Hanchar, the co-owner of Klavon's Ice Cream Parlor in Pittsburgh, joined Stephanie Ruhle to discuss why he raised employees' wages to $15 per hour and why that has helped his business.

www.msnbc.com

 

[HIP56948]

We are offering more than that for one worker with zero experience

THAT's the exception. What you're offering is pretty damn nice. Most employers for people who are not college educated offer them chump-change with no benefits. Places like Walt Disney world (here in Florida) pay their workers so cheap that many of the workers have to sleep in their cars at night...in the la-la land's parking lot. Even Best Buy has Microsoft Certified Techs at slave wages. I'm certainly not complaining, I have a small farm, here in Sarasota county, paid for, ...but most of the retail and even some pretty-good tech people have to sleep on somebody's couch or in their car. THE problem is not you, it's the insane rents here. Most of the rents here = 45-60 per night. When you're only making 70 dollars after taxes ...per day....somethings gotta give. Shoot, I remember making (many years ago..I'm 77) about 60 bucks daily after taxes. My apartment was around 60 bucks per week.
The real estate in this country is hurting those who can least afford it. Another large problem...if the workers are struggling to pay outrageous rents, they can't purchase items that keep the economy going. I have no solutions, only questions.

 

[KevinKohler]

There's part of your problem right there. What makes a supervisor worth 4x times everyone else, who probably works harder?

Job responsability.

 

[KevinKohler]

What country are you originally from?

US

 

[noonereal]

No it isn't. Only the Left needs to use propaganda to get support. Hypocrisy and lying are a leftwing way of life.

Your posts are from a cult that lives in an alternate reality and as part of the cult mores it is required that this alternate reality always be applied. Up is down, left is right, fact is fiction. We all get it.

But thanks for your comment!

 

[skeptic llc]

For what sort of job would you really be offering over $60K a year with zero experience? Since you are in the Pacific NW, that would be the area you would be getting from? I'm assuming though they would at least need a degree or certifications of some sort, and likely a background check as well. Those would cut down on who would be able to fit your match. Also, the location itself as well as the hours could cause problems for some.

Qualifications needed have nothing to do with educational level, except indirectly (literate, professional, able to write in complete sentences with no jargon, smart enough to handle multiple tasks and goals). Location is not an issue, remote is fine. Background check, maybe, criminals not invited. And the hours *are* a problem, that's the trade-off for having a real career. Gotta check email, can't go dark.

 

[Helix]

they're hiring a number of people where i work. i told my management to send the new kids my way when things are messing up. i had someone who did that for me when i started there, and it was (and still is) a big help.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Anyone hiring? Tell us what's up.

I'm getting ready to hire.

 

[skeptic llc]

THAT's the exception. What you're offering is pretty damn nice. Most employers for people who are not college educated offer them chump-change with no benefits. Places like Walt Disney world (here in Florida) pay their workers so cheap that many of the workers have to sleep in their cars at night...in the la-la land's parking lot. Even Best Buy has Microsoft Certified Techs at slave wages. I'm certainly not complaining, I have a small farm, here in Sarasota county, paid for, ...but most of the retail and even some pretty-good tech people have to sleep on somebody's couch or in their car. THE problem is not you, it's the insane rents here. Most of the rents here = 45-60 per night. When you're only making 70 dollars after taxes ...per day....somethings gotta give. Shoot, I remember making (many years ago..I'm 77) about 60 bucks daily after taxes. My apartment was around 60 bucks per week.
The real estate in this country is hurting those who can least afford it. Another large problem...if the workers are struggling to pay outrageous rents, they can't purchase items that keep the economy going. I have no solutions, only questions.

Wish I had answers, but I just don't. I'll shelter my kids via inheritances (shhh, don't tell them, I don't want them to depend on it), but the new economic world is ****ing hard to navigate or even understand.

 

[skeptic llc]

I'm getting ready to hire.

Awesome, please report back on how it goes.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Awesome, please report back on how it goes.

I can report now.
It's a one day gig...I need seven crew members, two grips, a soundie, a PA/gopher/intern, two more camera ops, and a TD.
Director already attached to shoot by producer, (me) and I'm actually the DP, for the first time since about 2017.
I guess they don't mind an old guy with crappy eyesight after all!
I'm the one using the PA because I am too old, beat up and decrepit to hump all the gear anymore like I used to.
He/she's not really an AC because I'm operating and I'll build the camera rig and the other ops can build their own as well.

Grips: $300
Soundie: $300
PA: $200
Camera: $650
TD: $450

Shoot is June 14, 6:00 AM call, Laguna Beach, (one location, indoors) ten hours, plus appr 1.5 - 2 hrs striking set.
All equipment provided.
Sorry, wish it was a union shoot but it's not.

 

[Waddy]

I just had this discussion with a former employee who is also a friend. (I'm retired). He has a job offer for $20 per hour, 40 hours per week. Sounds good, but he will lose his benefits if he takes the job. He asked; "What if the job doesn't work out? Then I'm left with no benefits, no money at all. Can't risk it. The government money is dependable, at least." Sounds like rational decision making to me.

 

[EMNofSeattle]

Here's a thought....raise the minimum wage.

Banning all immigration and mass deportations would help Americans more.

 

[Port & Starboard]

I have 3 jobs going on (drywall and mold remediation) that I didn't really want to take on because I'm trying to slow down a bit and just drive the truck a few days a week. I took them on as a favor for friend who is over loaded with work. They are at various stages of completion All immigrants sub crews.

My son has 2 jobs going on (drywall) under my license. Both with immigrant sub crews.

Why waste time and money on doing payroll or paying "workers comp" for lazy "Biden Buck Babies" who often do shoddy work when and if they show up at all

There are so many competent immigrant sub crews out there that show up when you ask them, and knock out jobs much more neatly and competently. Most of my contractor friends are staying with sub crews in the future instead of taking back the "Biden Buck Babies"

It's easier to just stroke a check for sub crews.

God bless Central America & Mexico!

 

[Wayne Jr]

Here's a thought....raise the minimum wage.

We already pay more than double the minimum wage, even more than what Libs want it raised TO....still can't keep people.

 

[Port & Starboard]

Here's a thought....raise the minimum wage.

16 - 21 bucks an hour enough? That's what my roofing buddy pays his guys.

We have plenty of tradesmen in my area who would rather take the unemployment and go fishing all day.

 

[roguenuke]

Qualifications needed have nothing to do with educational level, except indirectly (literate, professional, able to write in complete sentences with no jargon, smart enough to handle multiple tasks and goals). Location is not an issue, remote is fine. Background check, maybe, criminals not invited. And the hours *are* a problem, that's the trade-off for having a real career. Gotta check email, can't go dark.

It is still a single job out of millions that people would have to find. Where it is is still likely to be part of searches people do when it comes to finding a job. Finding your job would be like looking for a needle in a hay stack. It doesn't mean people are lazy because they are skeptical or concerned about the type of job this is. Especially since most such jobs are not available. Even you said you only have one of these jobs available. And hours do matter to many people. Just because you can't find someone though doesn't mean people aren't looking. Like I said though, it would be like looking for a needle in a hay stack.

 

[Luther]

I don't think you guys are living in the real world.

Ice cream parlor raises minimum wage to $15/hr, flooded with job applications

As small businesses struggle with hiring shortages, calls for minimum wage increases grow louder. Jacob Hanchar, the co-owner of Klavon's Ice Cream Parlor in Pittsburgh, joined Stephanie Ruhle to discuss why he raised employees' wages to $15 per hour and why that has helped his business.

www.msnbc.com

Right on!

Now we have a lot more teenagers living at home applying for the Ice cream parlor

Think of how much more $money$ they'll have to piss away on Video games(wink)

 

[Logophile]

Wish I had answers, but I just don't. I'll shelter my kids via inheritances (shhh, don't tell them, I don't want them to depend on it), but the new economic world is ****ing hard to navigate or even understand.

I wouldn't depend on anything you leave them unless it's in a currency the fed can't get its hand on or hidden under a mattress. Biden has an eye on trust funds. And you must know how much the ultra left despises shared family wealth. Thanks!!

 

[Luther]

I have 3 jobs going on (drywall and mold remediation) that I didn't really want to take on because I'm trying to slow down a bit and just drive the truck a few days a week. I took them on as a favor for friend who is over loaded with work. They are at various stages of completion All immigrants sub crews.

My son has 2 jobs going on (drywall) under my license. Both with immigrant sub crews.

Why waste time and money on doing payroll or paying "workers comp" for lazy "Biden Buck Babies" who often do shoddy work when and if they show up at all

There are so many competent immigrant sub crews out there that show up when you ask them, and knock out jobs much more neatly and competently. Most of my contractor friends are staying with sub crews in the future instead of taking back the "Biden Buck Babies"

It's easier to just stroke a check for sub crews.

God bless Central America & Mexico!

Sounds to me you sold out America for that all mighty dollar(Hence our problem)

God bless Central America & Mexico!

To hell with Mexico/Central America

 

[Lord of Planar]

16 - 21 bucks an hour enough? That's what my roofing buddy pays his guys.

We have plenty of tradesmen in my area who would rather take the unemployment and go fishing all day.

That's not enough for what amounts to a seasonal job. How are people suppose to live during the off times?

 

[Perotista]

Anyone hiring? Tell us what's up.

Plenty of signs that say we're hiring around my area.