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"I've applied to over 2,000 jobs in the last year

I find that strange, sounds like a copy/paste shotgun approach. I'm well out of job market but it seems odd to not apply to specialized positions in your direct career field.

Just saying....

Last time I was fired, (corporate cost cutting), I had full time employment in about twenty minutes. Granted, it was a job I hated, but it paid the bills while I looked for something else.

In just 3 weeks, I'll have been unemployed for 11 years. Yep, and I'm not looking for work of any kind. Just sitting on my ass, watching the river roll by. Well that and tormenting my wife of 51 years. She wants to go out to eat, so I say "fine", where. Well, that's not how she wants to play the game. She wants me to suggest and then she can say no. I'm not hungry, so I don't care. I can hold out longer than she can.

And I'm on the government tit. This is Kentucky and we don't have "teats" here. Just good ole tits. Yep, Uncle Sugar dumps $1700+ in my checking every single month. I'm good with that because my now starving wife gets a similar amount, plus her hospital pension. The company I labored for all those years also kicks in some. And if anything my "savings" just keeps growing. So does hers.

But then the house is paid off, as its been for years now. Cars too. We have no tatoo's, don't dress in fashionable clothes. You name it, we don't do it. And I don't want a damn job. I prefer to sleep in. Can't even think of a job I'd take. But I'd take some government money if they'd offer it up. And if they ended what I get now, I'd cry like a baby. Maybe we need a good war to kill off some of the complainers.

This picture says it all:




WC can't get burger flippers, look at the pay. I say work or starve, your choice. This is a mile from my office. Several of my employees who I gave raises in March just got another raise, I'm not losing great workers and starting from scratch over $1/hr. They also get part of my monthly bonus. Sounds like Capitalism to me.

Of the many things I noticed on my trip from Florida to Michigan, everyone is hiring. $14 an hour at Arby’s. Big billboard on I-75 near Knoxville looking for Production Operations Managers in the chemical industry. Those were two that I remember.

I think the parts runner position at work is $20 an hr and we haven't had one for months.
Pretty gravy job, just pull parts and take them out to the techs on the floor or put them on the parts shelf.
Seen one sign in town for a dishwasher, $25 an hr with a sign on bonus with no takers.

$25 per hr for unskilled labor washing dishes?

Do people think they are so far above washing dishes for a living that they have to bribe them with that pay rate...holy crap!

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Originally posted by powermad:
I think the parts runner position at work is $20 an hr and we haven't had one for months.
Pretty gravy job, just pull parts and take them out to the techs on the floor or put them on the parts shelf.
Seen one sign in town for a dishwasher, $25 an hr with a sign on bonus with no takers.

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Do people think they are so far above washing dishes for a living that they have to bribe them with that pay rate...holy crap!

I once did the math for one of my girlfriend's restaurants and figured that hiring a dishwasher at $20-$25 an hour would actually save the company money.

Much lower turnover, people motivated to show up on time and work their scheduled hours, less supervision, no managers doing it when the dishwashers didn't show up or walked out, etc.

I see that WC pay offer @ $13.50/hr.

For comparison, my inflation program lists that as being equal to 1965 $1.58. I couldn't afford to work my old tire shop job at that rate THEN.

Stopped by Walmart just a bit ago to pick up an exercise ball for my recovery PT. On the way out, passed a young man waving at people leaving the lot, holding a sign that read something about "lost job" and "travelling," looking for handouts. Looked like he had his wife (?) and kids there with him.

I didn't even acknowledge him.

There are a bunch of businesses in that immediate area, incl. the Walmart and Home Depot in that very lot. I know they're all looking for people.

I'm not going to give one red cent to somebody who's able-bodied enough to stand outside holding a sign and waving at people while there are employers literally begging for help.

The instant these extended graft payments are up, these positions can get back to minimum wage where they belong. Dumbasses will wish they had taken the job offered earlier.

We are 65 officers short with 3 more quitting at the end of the month .
Worn out by the mandated overtime of 16hr shifts 2-3 times a week every week for months.
We’re now officially at a higher overtime rate than during Covid when the National Guard & Highway Patrol were called in to fill low security or non- contact posts.

Any 24hr facility in our area is bleeding for bodies. Many of the factories have dropped the drug testing requirements. If you apply. You’re hired, we’re taking everything & everyone and still we’re losing them faster than we can replace them. I get it that a prison isn’t the first place most folks look while job searching but every job isn’t security & even though a pension & all the overtime money you want is here, no one is coming our way.
Most officers are $10k over their normal income at this point and the years only 1/2 over.



Glad to see it come to an end. I retire in 13 months, sucks to go out with things being as they are but watching folks with 20yrs quit & walk away from not being able to deal with it is worse.
The States & Federal Government created the Perfect Storm….. and we the people are the ones that have to deal with it.

This might get some of the video gamers/bloggers out of Mom and Dad's basement

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Originally posted by bettysnephew:
This might get some of the video gamers/bloggers out of Mom and Dad's basement

Don't bet on it. The old saying was "never leave free rent". Those living in the basement have it made, and both mom and dad making excuses for them. Free food, free rent, no utilities, a little spending change now and again. A crummy president that sends out stimulus payments. What could be better? Sleep in every day if you want?

Now explain to me why you'd want to leave all that and take a shit job washing dirty dishes? Oh, you like crummy hours? Getting yelled at by some jerk manager?

Here's the deal...you've got to make a lot better offer to get the lazy off their asses. I know, I'm lazy and sitting on my ass, and I don't think I want a job at $25 an hour.

I had two pretty cool dishwashing jobs the summer after my freshman yr at college around 1990. When closing, I got all the free beer I wanted (I was 19). I got free meals anytime, lots of snacking in between, laughter that added years to my life and one of those places even pooled tips and gave me a cut. I wouldn't want to do it at my current stage in life, but I'd rather do it for free than sit at home and collect welfare.

Local radio aired an ad for Aldi's. Local warehouse start wages 19 dollars an hour

Local moving company is offering $100k per year for truck drivers.