re: Why are so many employers not able to get or keep employees?

My brother the psychologist had an interesting explanation on low job retention. Young people today were raised with self esteem promotion....participation trophies, 'A' for effort, etc. When you start a job there's this thing called 'the boss'.
The boss is irritating because he keeps telling you what to do. And if you do something wrong he criticizes you. Who needs that shite. I quit.

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Because nobody wants to pay good money to stupid people

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My wife, for some ungodly reason, wanted Taco Bell the other night around 10 pm. Off I went.

This Taco Bell always has, from about 8 pm to midnight, a line of cars out to the street, that moves very slowly. That night was no exception.

From the time i pulled into the line, to the time I left the drive thru window with my order... 27 minutes.

When I was waiting at the window, it appeared the store had two employees working. Both were cursing each other out. I don't know the inner workings of the Taco Bell operations manual, but I would assume it calls for more than two employees.

Given the line of cars every night that I see... I have to assume what I observed was a nightly occurance.

Yet... every night... line of cars.

So Taco Bell might be willing to throw another dollar an hour at a potential third worker / fourth worker. But what incentive do they have to take major steps to fix the problem?

Clearly, their customer base has decided to continue going there, despite these "issues".

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If those jobs don't cover rents, who is renting the apartments or are they empty.

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I'll give you a hint as to what's happening.

Credit card balances are skyrocketing.

the store next to mine can't keep employees.

he might have a slightly different issue adding to his problems because he's running a CBD store, but i honestly think it's folks that get hired and then no-show because the unemployment folks consider that "good faith".

there's been no follow up from the unemployment folks as to why they didn't stay.

i've only had 3 people come in asking for a job and 2 of them had experience that was in line to be possibly useful, but in all the cases, they weren't all that serious about actually maintaining a job.

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And so long as we continue to subsidize that, they will continue to do so.

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How are we still doing this?

Enhanced UI is gone.
Eviction ban is gone.

What are stupid shite are we doing? Maybe employers are not paying enough. Which is a damn bad sign for inflation.

I've got some kf the highest starting pay for a restaurant in town and I had one application in 4 weeks for my kitchen. The girls are making crazy money and I'm doing well with that. No clue where everyone else is at

We need more automation.

Nah, they'll just move in with parents.

They aren't going back to work, tis time to replace them with machines.

The lazy DEMS figure that the gubment will send them some more cash soon....