re: Apparently, there are now more job vacancies than unemployed people - do you believe this?

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do you believe this?

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I have little faith in most stats put out by the government

I always love seeing beggars in walking distance of a fast food place with a “now hiring” banner up.

Or even people trying to find a white collar job in their field for months without success. Get a fricking hourly customer service job, they’re always hiring. Continue to job search while you’re getting paid.

Yes...anything below 5% unemployment is a worker's market (~5% of the available workforce isn't interested in working)....we're below 4% now.

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Job vacancies that don't provide a living wage

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What exactly do you consider a living wage? Be specific.

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What exactly do you consider a living wage? Be specific.

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Specifically, whatever Bernie Sanders tells her

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Job vacancies that don't provide a living wage, in mnay cases.

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Very low unemployment always correlates with increases in wages/benefits because industries have to compete over scarce labor.

If you remember the rudimentary lesson from Economics, increased scarcity means higher value. Higher value means the customer (in this case employers) are willing to pay more.

God bless free market capitalism!

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companies just don't want to train anyone anymore

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yup

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They put in job requirements wanting a lot of very specific experience that filters out a lot of potentially good applicants that could do the job with a moderate amount of on the job training.

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Yup. I have been applying for jobs that have a requirement of 3-5 years experience now, because the ones that require 0-1 years experience don't pay shite ($40-50k for ME jobs). I'm comfortable, so I just won't settle for that low of a salary when I could've gotten that without any degree at all.

Eta: I recently applied for a position with a company who had a requirement of someone having familiarity with their own proprietary diagnostic software. It isn't a big company either. I know the company well, and I know that they don't have anyone internally that fits their requirements.

Companies also DGAF about employee retention. They blame it on people job-hopping, but they started it all by cutting pay raises and benefits. My gf got her MBA, and they gave her a 2% raise as an operations manager with 10 years of experience. That is how you lose qualified people. She'd be dumb not to be looking elsewhere. Hell, we went to the beach and met someone that told her to come interview for a position with a 45% raise from where she is now.

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There is no excuse for not having a $15 per hour minimum wage.

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Sure there is.

1.) Some jobs are not worth $15/hr to an employer.

2.) forcing an employer to pay $15/hr for jobs that do not provide more than $15/hr of value are a net negative for businesses.

3) Businesses not wanting to pass the increased costs to the consumer, usually react to MW increases by decreasing labor through layoffs and/or reduced hours.

I feel sick that I have to explain this still in 2018. We are the most educated generation in US history, yet filled with so many deluded imbeciles.

I don't think it is a troll. Just another entitled millenial who grew up being told that Bernie Sanders is a competent mind, and should be listened to.