re: A main reason for unemployment is that people's bad choices have caught up with them

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When you're operating a 15 person crew and you hitting numbers is reliant on 15 people being there a certain percentage of the time, single mothers cause a huge problem with that because their absentee rate is comically high.

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This EXACTLY sums up a large majority of my work stress, except our team is about 35.

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Ok, boomer

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Can we please end this stupid arse saying?

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or do yall usually find out about their kids and personal situations after hiring them?

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Legally you can't ask. If the interviewer does ask and the person doesn't get the job, that's an easy discrimination claim.

However, the information tends to get volunteered pretty readily. People don't realize it's a criteria considered and just talk about their kids unprompted.

Once hired, the information comes to light within a few weeks because they call in for sick kids. Where I worked any unexcused absence counted against a balance allotted for the year. Once the balance hit zero, the person could be fired. Single mothers would blow through that the fastest.

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If they can make it through that school, then a 10 week unpaid internship with us, they've all been 100% successful

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This is why only dregs are applying with you.

The amount of young(ish) people with no high school diploma/no ged and no drivers license is shocking. How could they ever hope to land a decent job?

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Snowflakes are the ones who say "okay boomer."

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Wrong

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This is an odd thread considering that unemployment is now at a 50-year low.

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right, but I still see and hear so many people talking about “this economy” as if it’s 2010.

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Was talking to a guy that owns a Chik Fil A (operator..not store manager). He said in this current economy it is next to impossible to find solid employees unless you steal them from comparable places and give them a big pay hike. The people out there now who are fully unemployed are the absolute bottom of the barrel. All of the hard workers and punctual loyal folks already have decent jobs. Only the total shitbirds are left.

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This is very much true. I had an opening a few months ago. I received about 150 resumes. I interviewed 4 people. Horrible pool to pick from right now.

If you seriously believe this is the reason that so many jobs have become low wage you need to go back to school. Corporations buying corporations until there is little to no competition and then keeping wages low by conspiring and agreeing with the very few competitors that are out there to set a max amount of pay at each level of employment is the real answer. At the heart of this is the open and shamelessly corrupt act of bribing of politicians to approve mergers that should never have been approved but that's only the tip of the iceberg of the corrupt and unethical things that you can literally pay a politician to do. They have ingeniously labeled this 'lobbying' in order to avoid calling it what it really is which is outright bribery. At the end of the day this is all legal of course because guess who makes the laws? Whatever you do don't confuse what's legal with what's ethical and moral. It's incredibly depressing when people have to bust their arse at a 50+ hour a week low wage jobs just to barely make ends meet and often have to borrow money or pull out the credit card (same thing as borrowing money) to get through to the next payday and some people just give up because it's not worth it.

So agreed that bad choices can catch up to you, but to say that it's the primary reason for unemployment and low wages is ridiculous.

Everything is on a Bell curve. With the low unemploymment right now most of the out of work are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy down on that low end tail.

You got 150-180 million people of employment age and you are picking among the worst 6 million what do you think you will get?

Of course there's a certain amount of flux at any given time of people looking to move/advance, but that doesn't help the net problem, just creates another hole - eventually somebody is stuck looking in that bottom 6 million.