re: Is Gen Z etc totally out of touch about salaries?

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If you have no skills and/or education, you don't have many choices.

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On the contrary, in the year 2022 you have plenty of choices relative to the way things “used” to be. That’s the reason this thread exists. 15/hour is not competitive in a major metro market. If you are getting any bites at all you are getting the absolute bottom of the barrel employees that are somehow even less attractive as candidates than someone who simply has no experience or higher level education.

For 15/hr in a place like Houston you are probably looking at people who didn’t finish high school and/or have been in and out of prison.

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If you have no skills and/or education, you don't have many choices. If only there were ways of fixing that.

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Yes easy to say "get an education" when tuition and housing cost 800 hours of min wage in your day but it costs 3,000 hours now.

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You do know you're posting in a thread where the entire premise is that a business is having trouble filling a position because they're offering below market value?

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Roger has the critical thinking skills of a 15/hr employee in the year 2022.

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Just because people aren't taking them doesn't mean they don't exist.

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Except millions are unemployed, and jobs are available.

Seems like we have a match made in heaven here. I believe that's the entire topic of this thread.

Anyone wanting to work can work.

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The real unemployment rate was 7% in April, 0.1 percentage points higher than in March. This alternate measure of unemployment, known as U-6, gives a broader definition of unemployment. It includes people who would like to find a job but haven't looked for one in the past month. It also includes those who are underemployed and marginally attached.7

The real unemployment rate in April 2022 includes 456,000 discouraged workers, increasing from 373,000 in March 2022, and down from 562,000 a year ago.6 Discouraged workers are people who have given up looking for work but would take a job if offered. They are not counted in the unemployment rate, because they haven't looked for a job in the past four weeks.

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Strange, people looking for work, jobs available...

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Except millions are unemployed, and jobs are available.

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And?

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Seems like we have a match made in heaven here.

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It's actually a match made in hell. The specific job in the OP is below market hence not being filled.

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Anyone wanting to work can work.

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Sure, but they aren't because some jobs aren't high enough on the demand curve.

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Strange, people looking for work, jobs available...

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And?

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These people don't these want jobs.

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They don't want to pay worthless employees

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Employees don't want to work worthless jobs for $15/hour, and can't afford to.

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The unemployed right now, are basically unemployable.

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Based on what metrics?

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they'd be better off shutting doors than losing money

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But they aren't losing money.

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If only someone had posted a link in this thread that shows so many people claim to be looking for work.

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key word, but you know that and you know it's BS. you're just here to argue... something

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Employees don't want to work worthless jobs for $15/hour

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They have no leverage. No skill, no education.

No initiative.

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You do know you're posting in a thread where the entire premise is that a business is having trouble filling a position because they're offering below market value?

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Roger has the critical thinking skills of a 15/hr employee in the year 2022.

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