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re: This employee shortage isn't letting up
Posted on 4/20/22 at 2:34 am to LSUwag
Posted on 4/20/22 at 2:34 am to LSUwag
Our company call center in Ca reopened and we literally had 100 employees quit on the spot because they didn’t want to work at the call center and wanted to continue to work from home.
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Posted on 4/20/22 at 2:40 am to Korkstand
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He's probably going off the lists out there where diversity is measured by how many languages are spoken and micro-cultures there are in a country, which puts a lot of third world countries at the top. Of course language barriers and isolated cultural practices negatively impact the social health of a nation as a whole.
Absolutely correct. Like all of these Scandinavians moving into the likes of Syria and Somalia. They move into these happy countries, but the language barrier causes tensions and ends up ruining things for everyone.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 2:55 am to dgnx6
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This is what it’s like being a manager. It’s a shitty job but her other option was what? Do everything half arse and stay the cashier. News flash, these stores need to turn a profit. Labor costs cut into that. I guess that other option is to just not have these stores in rural areas and then there would be no stores. And she wouldn’t have her 50k a year job.
Newsflash, these stores will not only be turning a profit but out of business if they have no workers.
So many corporations just exist to goose the stock price with "rising" quarterly earnings and they don't care enough about their workers nor do they care about what the company will be like in 5 years because they hope to have retired by then so they let everything turn to poop. Not gonna be there problem. Eff it.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 6:18 am to PUB
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NO reason to have any loyalty to your employer in today's world. Thinking that 5% of them give a shite about their employees might be a gross exaggeration.
got to tell you that i am sorry that you have apparently had the work experience that you have had. i must work for the 5% (or less than 5%).
what's funny is that out of all the people that I have hired, I have never once told them about the profit sharing that we offer until after they start in their position with us. i tell them afterwards, but never in the interview process.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 6:36 am to latxwoman
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Where is everyone? They left Louisiana.
I am beginning to think that there has been a huge drop in population.
Yesterday, I went to Walmart in Houma at about 6 pm, which in the past has been one of the busiest stores in the region. The store was dead. The general merchandise entrance had just a few cars, and the grocery side was about half full. Usually the place is buzzing and there are lines at the self checkouts. The store was as quiet as a funeral home.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 6:42 am to LSUFanHouston
Actually it will let up. Our country is heading for a recession. Unemployment rates will go up and people will be more inclined to take whatever job they can get.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 7:49 am to Gorilla Ball
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Our company call center in Ca reopened and we literally had 100 employees quit on the spot because they didn’t want to work at the call center and wanted to continue to work from home.
These are the types of companies that will have big problems in the new economy IMO…. With few exceptions, there is no reason a call center-type job cant be done remotely.. sure, there will always be some lazy asses- but the majority of people realize they can be more productive without an old school manager peering over their shoulder and without having to spend a couple of hours in traffic commuting every day.. The company you work for had better learn to adapt, and quickly or they’ll be left in the dust .
Posted on 4/20/22 at 7:50 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Where is everyone?
Collecting checks.
Socialism is taking root here and we're just letting it happen.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 7:51 am to BK Lounge
Commuting headache, wall to wall chatter of people next to you, drab and dreary surroundings. Even once you account for the lazy assholes (which you can easily track), I imagine productivity would likely be up.
Too many companies have property leases they are letting blind them.
Too many companies have property leases they are letting blind them.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 7:55 am to Eurocat
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Newsflash, these stores will not only be turning a profit but out of business if they have no workers. So many corporations just exist to goose the stock price with "rising" quarterly earnings and they don't care enough about their workers nor do they care about what the company will be like in 5 years because they hope to have retired by then so they let everything turn to poop. Not gonna be there problem. Eff it.
If this woman opened up her own general store and didn’t stock it and left boxes laying around and paid herself 50k a year. She’s not staying open long and most likely has her arse sued by someone tripping over the boxes.
You mother frickers don’t live in reality. She has zero risk. Zero.
It’s like that person saying how expensive internet is? Well it’s less expensive than what businesses pay.
This post was edited on 4/20/22 at 7:58 am
Posted on 4/20/22 at 7:59 am to LSUFanHouston
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Talking to him, he said they had one other server tonight, 1 busboy, and 2 cooks. Normally on a Monday night they would have 5-6 servers, 3-4 busboys, and 5-6 people in the kitchen.
Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if this will end.
When you elect Democrats, expect shortages.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:12 am to Eurocat
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So many corporations just exist to goose the stock price with "rising" quarterly earnings and they don't care enough about their workers
This country had a 30-40 year run where this was not the case. Granted, it was primarily the post-WW2 era where spirits were high and Much of Europe was rebuilding. But there was a bit of a social contract where corporations actually cared about their employees in the sense of paying them a wage high enough to where one spouse could work, the wife could start home to raise the kids, they could bug a home, and live comfortably. Many if they even enjoyed a nice pension for when they retired.
That all started going to crap in the late 70’s, and it’s not entirely fair to blame the corporations. There were a lot of societal and global factors contributing to the change. The 80’s accelerated it with its “greed is good” mentality, and we’ve done little to counter it. This reckoning is long overdue and my hope is it continues. There will be short term challenges, but if the paradigm is changed in the long term I think it’ll end up being a good thing.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:42 am to The Spleen
I agree with you spleen, very well stated!
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:48 am to TigerGman
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You eat out in Metairie?
Or you can go to Orleans Parish and get shot!
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:53 am to Korkstand
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It seems clear that society benefits when we set aside our differences and work together, yes?
This works within the context of Western culture and those who present "differences" assimilate into that culture.
You are primed to see this outlook b/c you were raised in a country of Western culture with immigrant assimilation into that culture.
There is a reason why you don't see the same results in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, etc. In those countries people who are different are forced into "setting aside those differences". The output is not nearly as comparable .
Posted on 4/20/22 at 8:54 am to LSUFanHouston
Mexican. Eat Mexican and you will not have this problem.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:10 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:Is your point that voluntary "organic" assimilation works better than forced assimilation? No argument here.
There is a reason why you don't see the same results in countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, etc. In those countries people who are different are forced into "setting aside those differences". The output is not nearly as comparable .
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:36 am to PUB
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And then the shite jobs with 2% COLA raises ... People are sick of this crap.
I have an awesome job, but our COLA raises aren’t even 2%.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:37 am to LSUFanHouston
I think a lot of young people look at their parents and grandparents and say ' they got ripped off'. Sure the parents/grandparents had a good job for 30 or so years and a pension but had a butt load of bills to pay, working for the 'Man' and paying those taxes to Uncle Sam.
And what did they get ?
Inflation is like 20% , and the parents can't afford to take a vacation to Port Allen. One parent got cancer, one can't remember shite (alzheimer's ). Neighborhood has turned to shite with drugs and shootings.
So young folks say F it , F the Job, F the Rat Race, you only live once. And they hit the road and traveled to Tibet or Key West.
The week after that I graduated from high school I packed up and went to LSU and basic training. I had odd jobs since I was in the 6th grade. I worked during holidays and Spring Break ( no ski trips for me). Solid work after graduation , took one day off for my Mom's funeral. My boss's boss treats him like shite and it rolls downhill.
If I knew then what I know now I would have run away from home after I graduated from high school.
And what did they get ?
Inflation is like 20% , and the parents can't afford to take a vacation to Port Allen. One parent got cancer, one can't remember shite (alzheimer's ). Neighborhood has turned to shite with drugs and shootings.
So young folks say F it , F the Job, F the Rat Race, you only live once. And they hit the road and traveled to Tibet or Key West.
The week after that I graduated from high school I packed up and went to LSU and basic training. I had odd jobs since I was in the 6th grade. I worked during holidays and Spring Break ( no ski trips for me). Solid work after graduation , took one day off for my Mom's funeral. My boss's boss treats him like shite and it rolls downhill.
If I knew then what I know now I would have run away from home after I graduated from high school.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 9:43 am to MRTigerFan
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I have a theory. Traditionally, a significant segment of the service industry was teenage, middle class children working their first job as a bus boy or cahier, etc. I know me and several friends did it in the 90's/early 00's. With the drastic increase in violence throughout the country, many parents are not allowing their children to go work a meaningless job while risking their lives for $10/hour or even $15/hour. I think it won't get better until wages increase across the board
I think you're partially right, in that kids aren't doing these jobs anymore. But... I see a ton of kids riding in expensive vehicles with wheels and tires that mommy and daddy are paying for. I have relatives that bought their 16 yo daughter a brand new vehicle.
They're not making them work, even to just make them learn about money, time management, etc.
My dad made 250k and wouldn't give me gas money
Then he made me do a book report for him on the book the richest man in Babylon.
This post was edited on 4/20/22 at 9:46 am
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