Ha. Not even. 3 jobs wont get you a house, car, health benefits, retirement benefits and the ability to afford children. Our grandparents had it insurmountably easier. Its crazy. End capitalism. End the nightmare
@@Phoenixguy357 100% agreed. I can't afford to work a second job if you don't count mowing the neighboring gentlemen's club as parttime income. I need all the OT I can get and there are weeks when it's still not enough. Prices go up; Corporate profits go up; we take in in the backside and yet, 'we' keep electing these corporate hacks.
@@Gmcmil720science Broke it; rewrote it so they get all the good stuff; used the wages and benefits they should have given their workers to buy off Washington and every chance and level. Yeah, there's been a lot of stolen elections in America if you ask me. Stolen with our collective consent.
@@historyre-visited4597 thats the thing. We're not electing anything. "Lobbyist" which is the american word for bribing - decide who is elected, who stays in office, which laws get passed and enforced and how our country operates. We live in a Plutocracy. Not a democracy. We need a revolution. Im not exagerating one bit. And im not crazy.
Last week I was riding the country bus and the driver was complaining about the national bus driver shortage. He kept complaining that _"People don't want to work! They get money not to so we need to stop that!"_ I asked him how the pay was and he said it was okay but the health insurance was so horrible that he wouldn't even work there if he wasn't on his wife's insurance. I ask why new drivers would want the job with such bad benefits and his brain stuttered to a halt.
@@vrASMR180 Do you know that the phrase 'pick oneself by their own bootstraps' back in the day, was a term to portray something that was impossible to do? I mean, have you literally ever seen anyone pull themselves up by their own bootstraps?! Im not sure why capitalists use this phrase to mean 'try harder', when it actually refers to attempting (and failing every time) because of attempting the impossible.
Crash! Crash! Recession! Inflation! It’s getting depressing. I have about $100k in emergency fund and I have been seeing good news about the stock market and would like to gain from that since I can’t let my savings be corroded by inflation. What stocks should I into as a newbie to safely grow my money.
Let's face it... buying more stocks & index funds during stock market corrections and bear markets is scary. Which makes it really hard to do for most people like me. I have 260k I want to transfer into an s&p but its hard to bite the bullet and do it.
You need a Financial Advisor my friend so you don't get ripped off in the market. They provide personalized advice to individuals based on their risk appetite, placing them among the best of the best. There are bad ones, but some with good track records can be very good.
There's a "pharmacist shortage" at Walgreens, CVS, etc. There's no shortage of pharmacists, there's a shortage of suckers willing to work in intentionally understaffed pharmacies for decreasing pay while these companies post record profits.
Don't forget that many (say) will pay well but you need very special skills that hardly anyone in the planet have, and they will sometimes require years of proven experience... good luck with getting all of that.
Employer: I want someone with a masters degree and 10 years of experience. Worker: OK - I have those qualifications. Employer: Great. How does $40,000 a year sound? Worker: I'm going to have to pass on that offer. Kids in high school make more than that working part time at McDonald's. Employer: No one wants to work anymore!
Seriously? Kids working in fast food are making $40K in your area? Out here the average wage of a fast food worker is $13-$14/hr and the so-called “professional” positions aren’t doing much better - for example, paralegals with 3-5 years of experience are averaging between $36-$38K! Something has gone horribly awry!
Employer: "We're looking for a hard working person to learn the job and work their way up the ladder the old fashioned way." College graduate: "I don't want to pay my dues - I deserve a managerial position because I was born in America." As a small employer this is closer to my actual experience. Look at workforce participation. Teens, especially, just don't work anymore. Lots of loser boys staying home... Failure to launch.
I am a senior citizen who applied ALL OVER at places with those "now hiring" signs. What a bitter joke. After 70, I am now unemployable anywhere. After my rent went up by $200, I just had to get used to losing everything. None of those businesses with the fake hiring signs were seriously looking for help. And their whining is sickening. Let them fall.
@@nathano148 I agree and thinking similarly. If he's physically fit, he can do delivery and they'll appreciate him. Customers want good service and timely orders. Older people are more reliable and know what customer service means.
Find a lawyer, get friendly, and start suing those places for age discrimination. Split the profits with that lawyer. Could be a great income revenue stream for both of you.
Shareholders do not want to work. They want to be paid handsome dividends for doing no work, exploiting those who actually do the work. That aggression must not be allowed to stand, man.
It's a banking Wall Street world. If the shares don't grow enough, the investors go elsewhere to "maximize" their profit which the only way you can maximize is to reduce labor costs. This is everybody's retirement which depends on Wall St and stocks to grow so everyone who wants to retire is part of this system. Neat, huh?
Bitchspot Blog@........Most people I know would be happy to go to university or a trade school.......if they could afford it without taking on thousands in debt. Most companies are not incentivized to provide specialization training or further education because they keep more money by not having to pay middle-income salaries. Most employees would take the opportunity to specialize to further their value to a company if they could.
Those that are paying for labor don't want to be charged 10X what the labor is worth! I employ home health care aides, I can't afford to pay their companies $50/hr so that they can make $25!
@@repelsteeltje90 Which is a good thing. There seems to be a definite divide between what people think they're worth and what potential employers think they're worth. The employers always win that fight.
I've been hearing no one wants to work anymore for 63 years. In that time I've worked for screaming jerks and people that treated their workers like family. What I've always dreaded is a insecure middle manager on a power trip. Someone given a dollar an hour raise and double the responsibility. I think having that pressure just isn't worth it. I still work for a jerk, but I am enjoying being self-employed.
Just remember you work to support yourself and your family, not out of company loyalty. If you get a better opportunity, take it. Just keep in mind it's what you keep, not what you earn that matters and do your best to pay off any debts and reduce expenses.
Exactly. I've heard my bosses say over the years, "You see us more than your own family." but it finally hit me how dystopian that statement always has been. Or seeing people actually rebel against the idea of fathers getting leave when their child is born. Or the idea, "If you can go three weeks+ without being at work THEN THEY DON'T NEED YOU!" Which is really stupid because at my job, being gone for so long just means a detail opens up and someone else can get experience at that job to see if they want to do it or get a temporary wage increase or something to put on their resume. It's gaslighting and fear-mongering fathers into being absentee fathers.
Now hiring 20.00 an hour Must have CDL No moving violations Must complete paperwork on all work Must maintain and operate heavy equipment Must have own tools Must have ten years experience Must clean warehouse Must scrub toilets Must pass background check Must pass drug test Must be able to supervise crew members Must keep track of everyone's time daily Must maintain logs Must be responsible self starter Must be "energetic" Must have reliable transportation to and from multiple job sites Must be willing and able to travel Must work in all weather conditions Must be a f'ing idiot to worry about all that for 650 a week after taxes. I made more than that in 1990.
You are not lieing also got places saying starting wage 20.00 to 25.00 a hour then when you get the interview they say we start at 16.00 a hour happen twice to me
The Republicans HAVE Become the ENEMY of America & ANYTHING of DECENCY to MOVE Our Nation Forward! They have NOT ONE POLICY that ACTUALLY HELPS IMPROVE the LIVES of Average Americans in ANY WAY whatsoever..NONE, ZERO! All they have is FEAR CRUELTY HATE & BIGOTRY! RID your LIves of ALL Republicans.... they are NOTZ Wannabees.... Anti-Women, Banning Books, Anti-Birth Control, Anti-Trans & Anti-Science, Anti-Climate Change, and lots of GAY HATE etc MeriKKKa is the SCHITHOLE COUNTRY you've heard sooo much about, with SPECIAL THANKS to republicans for the EXTRA SCHITHOLINESS ! MeriKKKa where we ALLOW 60,000+ Americans to DIE Every Year for LACK of healthcare and Medications they CANT Afford and No one cares..... ...MeriKKKa where we have over 40+MILLION with NO HEALTHCARE at all and No One cares.......... MeriKKKa where we have MILLIONS of HOMELESS Nationwide and No One cares... MeriKKKa, where ALL Repubs and the Corporate Dems ( NOT Progressives ) passed an $800+BILLION One YR Military Budget... yet we Average citizens getting Begged calls from VET GRPS ask for DONATIONS to HELP with VET CARE??? ...........WTF is ALL that Gdammed MOney going??? NO ONE Ever asks....Riiiight MSM???!!!!! .....and Again to Top it off , No Money for Child Day Care for working Mothers, No Dental, Eyecare, or Hearing aids for Seniors..... Merikkkka IS the Certified SCHITHOLE .. .with thanks also, to about 40% of Our Nation of Garbage People, Uninformed Morons , Racist, haters, Bigots....who constantly Vote against their own interests.... so glad I dont have kids and more years behind than ahead
It's a wealthy nation where a minority hold the majority of the wealth. Unions need to return, wages need to rise, the wealthy need to be taxed, and the nation's wealth would not be so extremely concentrated. The economy would be healthier overall, and there would be more competition, with new businesses starting up more often.
I want to work, but I don't want to be taken advantage of. I don't want to be rich, I just want to pay my bills conservatively, improve my community, take an annual vacation, maybe 3 annual weekend getaways, have good health, healthcare, and be able to help my family in times of need. You're right, we don't want to be exploited.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031Low skill jobs are often made up for in higher quantity of tasks. Try doing something easy for hours with limited breaks and/or exhausting work environments, and suddenly it’s not so easy.
@@fritzforsthoefel8031low wage jobs are where most of the labour shortages are. 35% of Americans work full time at jobs that make less than $15 and hour. The wages of manufacturing and construction jobs are nearly the same that they were in 1980, now with less or no benefits and 3,000% inflation on the dollar. How can all these people get better jobs than what they have? It’s statistically impossible. Why should the average citizen not expect the things that were promised to previous generations? Especially when the richest companies and people are making more money than they ever have since and the income gap widens.
Working 40-50 hours a week and still not being able to afford to live by yourself...its just ridiculous. No wonder why there is so many homeless people.
I've worked hard enough for people that love to say I'm replaceable but when I leave all I hear is how everything turned into a shit show and their wanted list has my position open for damn near a year. The disrespect, the tone deaf requests, the ignored suggestions on improvements that get used months later with credit stolen... it's not really a surprise we all collectively snapped.
No ONe wAnTs tO wOrK. As a senior, I applied all over, to fill those empty positions. Never got an interview, just age discrimination, and their idiotic window signs and ads never even came down. May they FAIL.
Xujen Voxith Capitalism though they could break our Spirits and Submit to their Narcissistic Greedy Selfish Abusive Wills over our Lives. We do not break under their Pressures and Abuses. We are able to Survive and Thrive without them we discover. Freedom to be more loving , compassionate , and empathic. Freedom to Reap the rewards of our Own Choices of how to Live in Peace and Happiness. We don't Need Abusive Employers , or Abusiveness toward us as Consumers of their products.
All of the unemployed people I know are submitting between 20-90 applications a month and either not hearing back at all, receiving "thanks but no thanks" emails, or getting interviews that lead to no offers. It seems that most employers are looking for the same 3 people in their area, and the rest of the available workers are S.O.L. We *want* and *need* to work. To pay bills, to feel like we're contributing to something bigger than ourselves, to remain engaged meaningfully in broader society, and to maintain dignity and self-reliance. But the messaging is that we're lazy and entitled. I work extremely hard, every day, and to tell me I'm lazy and entitled because I'm unemployed right now is so utterly disheartening and insulting. And WRONG. Thank you Robert and team for producing this - it's what we're feeling and experiencing, but we're being used as a political pawn for the GOP.
That has been my experience also. Employers want the best person for the job but at wages lower than what is realistic. Two of my previous employers approached me late last year to take up the post I had with them before...... at a lower salary than I had when I left them. I knew that was coming though, I turned them down without negotiating. I am lucky that I can do that. A lot of folk can't. However, that leads to the next issue - employee turnover in skilled jobs. This week, at my Monday pub -quiz group, two of the team handed in their notice at work. Lass said that she would be on 17 percent more than the firm she is leaving.
If that is the case then it is likely that they are looking for someone who can do two different jobs that they used to have two different people doing. The applicant may have all the necessary skills and experience for the one job but not for the other so the employer is satisfied to wait until the one guy comes along who can do both the jobs.
Yeah nobody wants to waste time on being jerked around. I tried that from 2008-10 and I kept fishing and got fed up, I went to junior college so at the very least I was not wasting more time and make the best of it but to this day I don't believe in the whole "now hiring" sign. It's just a facade.
If there's such a labor shortage why are tech jobs requiring seven interviews over a 4-month period? Why does the application to work at Target or Walmart involve 3 hours of cheesy multiple choice questions about stealing things from the workplace? Why can't I apply at home Depot without uploading a resume, typing out my resume, and then uploading a 2-minute video explaining my resume?
Yes! I have to submit a resume, cover letter, references, answer a lengthy questionnaire, enter the same info that is on my resume, do a preliminary phone interview, and then at the Zoom or in-person interview, I find out that the interviewer has not read a damn thing that I was required to submit. WTF?!
@@PatriciaKanavy the glory of just feeding all that stuff into some algorithm that spits out a yes or no for an interview... and in quite a few cases those algorithms have some nasty biases
What employers don’t understand is you want people to do the job of three people and pay them the bare minimum. When I worked at Target and Walgreens they each wanted their employees to work the job of three people and pay them minimum wage. I brought that up and said “If you want me to do the job of three people, you’d have to pay me money re than $17.75 an hour. I would need $35 an hour.” You want me to do the job of three people, pay me what I’m worth.
I think employers know very well that they are being ridiculous. They just don't care. They know that slavery is just around the corner and they won't have to pay anything for labor any more. Just taxes for plenty of cops and prisons.
@@scifirealism5943 I'm telling my age, but I read Functions of Poverty when it was still relatively new. I read it in college in 1978. He was ahead of his time. In time I learned to love economics and hate the 1%.
My husband had this happen to him last year after his department was laid off. He has 15 years experience in a very specialized field and applied at 80 places at least. He only got a handful of interviews, and other places brushed him off saying he doesn't have the skill YET these companies are tiny, and work for larger companies he has direct experience working with!! One place interviewed him FIVE times just to tell him he didn't have the 'skill' even though he has done exactly the type of project they are doing!! He has been turned down on interviews by people with LESS experience and much worse final products than him. These places want someone with all the skill, but all the desperation too. Some were looking for someone to do 2-3 jobs at a time for less pay than he was getting before! They would advertise a senior role and were looking for a lead (without the title). He finally landed something good, but it was through a contact. I feel terrible for everyone looking for work right now.
Same thing happened to my wife. Luckily I went in there & explained to these said bosses that my wife is very skilled & has 10 years experience. She's very happy now managing a high pay corporate fiance job.
The greed of corporations, landlords, and employers is the real problem. But heaven forbid the establishment media frames it like that. Thank you for spelling it out so clearly.
Exhibit A of the deliberate income gap: 44 Million in the US who don't get paid enough to feed their families who are on Food Stamps. 22 Million Millionaires in the US who got there on the backs of Group A. Literally 1 millionaire for ever 2 hungry families working to keep them rolling in their Millions.
@@gerardflynn7382 Yeah. It's become a system that allows greed to grow to an uncontrollable extent. It's a system that lets the greed of the few exploit the mass.
Making the poor suffer for being poor is the Victorian Workhouse model. Minimum wage has morphed into the least amount of money I can legally get away with paying instead of being the minimum wage necessary to support a family. I recently saw a meme that asked, "If fast-food wages are because its a job for kids, why are they open during school hours?".
More than the rich elite, it is the average worker who doesn't want minimum wage to increase. Because imagine you earned 16 dollars. The minimum wage earner makes only 7.50 dollars. That means you make more than twice minimum wage and you feel good about yourself. But when the minimum wage were to increase to 15 dollars, you suddenly just make 1 dollar above minimum wage, so you feel like a minimum wage worker now, even though nothing changed for you. Then there is the scaremongering that a burger will become more expensive for you when the burger flipper suddenly gots payed as good as you. People are indeed that selfish and feel better about themselves knowing that others have it worse. In reality the minimum wage doesn't affect prices as much as the selfish bastards want to convince each other. What affects prices the most is the wealth gap. The fact that there are people who earn significantly more and have more wealth is the reason why things like housing is getting more and more unaffordable. The minimum wage workers income got no influence on that. The greedy landlords adjust prices according to high earners as if everybody was a DHINK (double high income no kids). Some people then say that when minimum wage workers increase wages than middle income and high income people should get an equal increase in wages. However, it's exactly that which shouldn't happen. What we need is that the wage gap gets closed and not kept or further increased. If everybody increased wages at a similar rate, then there wouldn't be any point in increasing wages. Prices would just increase so that no difference would be seen. What we need is indeed an increase of the minimum wage. Not more money for those who already get enough.
@@brianmelendy1194just by looking at your comment history I can tell you are a boomer who only worked one job back in the day. And that's all it took. Go take your meds old man
I know of several families that tightened their belts and went single income, and haven’t gone back. Generally one person left a low income service job.
I have 5 years of specialized IT experience , a killer resume, a degree, I am gainfully employed, have modern certificates, and have applied to over 200 jobs. I know that the issue is not with me. The politicians/stat agencies and industry leaders are lying.
I'm in the same boat . You're not alone and it's not your fault. This is something much larger than personal choices that can't be chalked up to bad decisions in life. It's happening to millions of ppl.
I was making more money straight out of highschool FIFTY YEARS AGO than the minimum wage is today. How could anyone possibly live on $14.50 an hour! This is madness.
All you people from red states, need to vote out the politicians that keep minimum wage, so drastically low. And, this includes you ass kissing RepubliCON supporters, who side with them even though you're getting screwed over, by them too!!!! Time to WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!
It should be "people don't want to be slaves anymore! " Instead of "people don't want to work anymore" Many people, particularly the younger generation, use a range of unconventional methods of earning a living these days. I worked in the retail for over 10 years, so l'm quite happy that this is taking place. For too long, retail bullied me and a lot of my employees/colleagues saying things like "if you don't like it,go; another like you is waiting to get into your position " since the COVID, I found a job that helps me grow, pays me more and Values Me, Social media cleared the way for a rapidly expanding market, and it taught us a lot. 2020 was my turning point, and investment helped alot!
yh. The 2020 pandemic gave everyone a big rethink! I tried a lot of things; I realised I shouldn't just let my savings sit around in the bank, tried side hustles. It paid off! Right now I’ve got less work time, time for my family and stick making the 6 figures
@Mandison There's various profitable ways to invest. Starting out you need to work with experienced hands to walk you through. As a rookie I dabbled in and made mistakes till I got a mentor to put me on the right track. You can search one too, read books and do your own research
I work in an IT department that is horribly understaffed. Every team has multiple jobs posted, and we are getting plenty of qualified applicants. Of course, some of them aren't willing to work for the crappy wages offered, but even when they are, the HR department takes literal months to reply to applicants, and then more months after the initial interview. Leadership keeps talking about everything they're doing to hire people, but it sure seems from my perspective that they are intentionally keeping us short-staffed.
It's also a way to get the foriegn workers in on visa's and then pay them about 1/3 of what they would pay the American workers. I had a relative that worked in the hiring departments of one of the major US computer companies. They would claim they couldn't get American workers and then would bring in the foriegn workers.
I'm a retail worker here in the UK. I have heard the "No one wants to work" anymore arguments, and they're kind of half right! People are fed up with being exploited, being paid a shitty wage, crappy work conditions, no sick pay, and if they do happen to phone in sick, it results in a written warning! I have seen new staff threatened by managers over work performance on a daily basis! Workers are treated like shit! This is not the way to inspire people to work hard and aspire to bigger things! The company I once worked for gave staff a pay rise of £0.54p in eight years, whilst they raked in millions! The CEO of the company had an average take-home of seven million pounds a year! I could barely afford to put petrol in my car, working my ass off and that Dude sat behind a desk, creaming off the top! Plus, having to work holidays such as Easter Monday and Tuesday, Boxing day and May-day! Boxing day, especially since the run up to Christmas, people spend like crazy and stores decide to open the day after Christmas day and people barely get any time with their families! It's pure greed, and yet, there's little or no reward for anyone who isn't higher up in the corporate hierarchy! If my own experience is one example, the millions of people who work in these jobs have many more examples that are worse! So, yeah, there's a reason why people don't want to work anymore and if employers want staff to work in their establishments, pay them better and offer them better benefits and conditions and not treat them like a conveyer belt of expendable meat! I've often told younger staff that once upon a time, these jobs were once jobs for life. Not anymore. Companies don't give a flying fuck about you, all they see is the bottom line and that sweet, sweet bonus they get for towing the line! It has to stop, enough is enough!!
@scifirealism5943 I worked with a guy who's only 23, and he was off sick with Chickenpox for two weeks! They phoned him on week one and told him when he was due back in, which was later that same week! He was informed by his doctor to NOT to return to work so soon! He was off for two weeks and was given a written warning within a few days of coming back!! Its absolutely fucking ridiculous as to how staff are treated!! Its utter bullshit! People are knocking their bollocks in at a job that they hate, yet have to put food on the table! I know a woman who has worked every Saturday and Sunday for the last five years and hasn't had any family time with her husband and kids! She asked for a change of hours, and she was flat out denied! The company in question has a high turnover of staff! This is because it's poorly run, and they treat staff like shit! People say "Fuck this!" And go! However, management can't figure out why so many staff leave within weeks!! Thanks for your comment!❤️❤️❤️ I saw there were two replies here, but yours was the only one visible! I'm guessing the other wasn't very nice!! And always remember, working in retail is a lot like trying to fuck a Hedgehog!....... its one Prick against hundreds!!😮😮😮😮😬😬😬😬😬
Thank you for correcting those idiotic corporate media! No one wants to work for a job that isn't enough to cover your rent and cost of living. There is no labor shortage. There is however a housing shortage. You are a hero!
there is no housung shortage, there's an availability shortage. small number of people bought all of them. there are double the house per person in america. on earth, it 6 to 1. 6 houses per person. HOUSES.
Totally agree. This man hit it right on the head. Doing a job that doesn't get you out of poverty yet makes fortunes for higher up's, that depend on you, is an insult. Exploitation at its finest.
The owner class lies to the worker class, tale as old as time. They convince everyone that their neighbor is the problem instead of runaway corporate profits and greed. These rich people wouldn't understand "work" as the working class knows it. They have never worked 10 hours to come home and fix dinner for the kids before helping them with their homework. They can work their own jobs if they are so desirable, at the pay they offer others.
I LIVE THAT LIFE!!!! After my husband got locked up over 3 years ago (don’t ask, it’s none of your business), I had to go back to work after years of being a stay-at-home mom (the after-school and daycare in our town is either prohibitively expensive, run by conservative Christian churches-a HUGE no for us non-Christians, or both), and even with a college degree the BEST I can get is minimum wage work. Because one kid is still at home (the other is in college) and I also have aging parents to help provide care for, and all the housework and yard work is on me, I had to stick with part-time work. Worse, I’m dealing with all of this ALONE because there’s no support group for families of incarcerated people in our county! My dad helps me out financially, and between that and my paycheck the bills get paid, but there’s no money for extras like social activities for me (I’m a Democrat and a non-Christian in a small “red” town-where would I go anyway?). After three years of being a prison wife on top of the pandemic isolation, I’m used to it by now, and until my husband gets home and goes back to work, my life is on hold. But it’s hard-I’m getting a bad back from all the physical work I’m doing (standing on your feet at work in a retail job all day does horrible things to your lumbar spine), and having to keep people at arm’s length due to fear of being shunned due to my prison-wife status makes me an anonymous drone. The only other options where I live are warehouse work (*cough*AMAZON*cough*), nursing home work, corrections work, or truck driving, none of which are an option when you’re a single parent who values your human rights! (Moving is OUT.) Long story short, the powers that be should spend a YEAR in my shoes and see what it’s like before thinking minimum wage is enough to live on!
Thanks for setting the record straight, Robert. I remember when I first began hearing "No one wants to work anymore". I saw an executive from a medium-sized company on TV make that exact statement. I wanted to shout back at my TV screen, "Maybe no one wants to work _for you!"_
LOL Yes majority of people like to be productive, but they also need to afford food and shelter. Being trapped working for nothing takes time away from trying to take care of a family.
Some woman I used to work with always complained that no one wanted to work anymore then in the same sentence would say all the illegals are taking jobs. What jobs, the jobs you didn’t want? A lot of people don’t want to work anymore because they’re fed up with low pay, almost no hours, no benefits unless you’re full time, poor management and verbal abuse from customers. Who would want to put up with it? I quit working in retail almost a year ago because I was fed up with feeling like I was going nowhere with my life. I work at a high school now as a custodian. I work 40 hours a week, sometimes have overtime, I have benefits, a 401k. This job got me out of my parents house and into my own place. The best part is I don’t have to deal with customer abuse at all. Usually after school dismisses there’s hardly anyone still in the building.
I worked at Macy's for three years and the customer abuse is very real. That's why I can't stand that "customer is always right". Management was beyond awful also. I ended up quitting on the spot one day because I got so fed up with it all. Best decision I ever made.
@Dave Bach if you have seen the dating market, if you're not making$200k or more 6ft tall with washboard abs you're not getting it. And if the proposed law in Scotland takes effect everywhere else in the world which appears to be happening. The fact that you just mentioned this in a public forum means you're looking at a 7 year prison sentence. Time to bail out of society if your a man
I'm so glad this man is on the planet - he makes more sense to me than anyone else. Last Christmas myself and my wife went with another couple to buy Christmas trees. The husband of his other couple started talking with the man at the farm who was having trouble getting people to work for him on his farm - where he was paying people a princely ten-dollars an hour. Our friend was sympathetic and immediately pronounced, "Yeah, people just don't wanna work anymore!". I wanted to barf - what in the hell is ten bucks an hour in 2022, or, 2023? And, even weirder is this guy retired from a good job on the railroad where he made great money, had great benefits, now gets a great retirement package and where he was a union rep!!! Now he watches FoxNews all day, is suddenly anti-union, and seems completely oblivious to the real situation on the ground for American workers. He's got his, and, now people are suddenly just lazy. This shit sends me to the moon.
@@mrderp1292 How far did you do to school? Two blocks? The guy was talking about people working on his farm, not kids tying trees to cars. Your reading comprehension stinks, man.
@@guymerritt4860 I was in a family partnership that owned a Christmas Tree farm in Highlands, North Carolina for over 25 years and grew Frasier Firs. It was basically a "side hustle" that paid the annual taxes for the other operations in the family LLC which included cattle and 8 double decker egg layer houses. The tree farm required almost zero work all year - the trees just sit there and grow. You spend 2 whole days out of the year trimming with a razor sharp machete and another two days spraying pesticides and fungicides. The majority of the work takes place in about a 30 day stretch starting in mid-November and ending around mid-December and includes cutting, baling, and transporting the trees to the points of sale. We ran a crew of 4 people - two who rode in the baling truck and two that rode in the semi. If you think people deserve a year-long "living wage" to do what basically amounts to a month and four days worth of seasonal work per year I don't know what to tell you. I do appreciate your input on the intricacies of operating a Christmas tree farm though I file that away in my DGAF drawer with the rest of the information this literal gremlin in the video spouts off about.
I’m 56 and worked since I was 14. My last few jobs had so much overtime and working weekends. I feel like I wasted so much of my life making big companies rich. I applaud the younger generation for standing up and not giving in to long hours and low wages. You’re missing so much life chasing a dollar.
China our biggest competitor and threat now has the worlds largest economy we must produce more or china will overtake us democrat policy wants less work meaning less production for more pay meaning higher consumption we cannot our compete our biggest threat which is china with Democrat policies Democrats party of handouts vote out handout Democrats before it's to late our childrens future depend on it
For a year and a half I worked 12 hour rotating shifts in a candle factory. No student loan debt, no car payments (apart from insurance), no credit cards, not married, no kids, and no expensive vices (gambling, drugs, smoking, lottery addiction, etc.). Even with all this I was still barely gaining any ground, somehow. Wake up at 4am, get to the work floor at 6am, get home at 6:30pm, pop melatonin at 7pm, go to sleep at 8pm, rinse and repeat. Did mandatory OT as required, often with last minute notice. Lived like that for a year and a half up until the sudden mass layoff. No severance... just a free candle and a thank you. 👍😵💫 Combine with my shitty 3 year experience with retail before that in a different company, is it any real wonder I'm apprehensive about rejoining the workforce right now? "No one wants to work anymore" indeed... anyone who believes that are either disconnected with reality, are blinded by dollar bills, or both.
I too, once upon a time, thought that 12-hour rotating shifts would be baller. Unfortunately I found out the hard way that companies that do that have a remarkable sense of entitlement to your labor for far lower a cost than its worth. I quit on them. The job agency that had found me the job wasn't happy, and tried to guilt-trip me. I played it cold. I found out that place got shut down a few months later. Felt like karma. You want me to work 12 hours? I need longer breaks and more of them, and most of them paid breaks. And it wouldn't kill ya to treat your workers better on-the-job either.
That's not living, that's surviving. And I totally understand why folk are fed up with hard work and long hours just to survive. We're a rich country. People willing to work hard should be capable of more than mere survival.
Our economy grows at little more than two percent our debt under Biden at seven our prosperity is an illusion backed up soley by debt we are not a rich nation vote out handout Democrats before it's to late
@@maxxomega6599 Lol I gotcha. I ended up walking straight out of there and didn't even bother with the candle. Sure I was half relieved that the 12 hour shifts were finally over, but I didn't want to be fobbed off with some candle. Especially after all the hours and effort I put in.
'm a 37 year old white male. For fun, I went on craigslist last month and clicked on the first job posting. It was landscaping 17/hr. Hard labor, exhausting work. No medical, no dental, no 401k, no upward mobility. Pay for your own gas to get to job site. I live in the most expensive state in the country, California. Do you wonder why I am checked out???
And yet, on the flip side, corporations have NO PROBLEM spending millions on hiring the BEST CEO, THE BEST COO, THE BEST..whatever. Never a thought about THE BEST WORKFORCE ,who are the ones that make the money for the corporation in the first place.
They also have no problem hiring headhunters, who do nothing but send emails to people who already have a job at a different company. Or they pay a fortune to consultant companies, because clearly the managers and CEOs don't know what they are doing.
I've also noticed at my last 3 jobs (all since COVID began) that every job I started, conditions and pay were great, but both deteriorated the longer you worked there. Shifts would get canceled, promised pay raises and bonuses evaporated, you became de-facto on call, etc. It was like they always wanted fresh blood and once you settled in you were encouraged to job hop.
That's why you have to job hop, dont stagnate at one job for 3 yeara typically I switch to a new job every year or couple of months to give myself a new raise
Around here there is not a labor shortage. There is a shortage of good full time jobs that pay a living wage. I know of several local companies looking for workers. Some don't offer enough hours because they don't want full time employees that ask for benefits and they ask their part timers to be able to work anywhere from 7 AM to 12 PM with no set weekly schedule. So you may close on a four hour shift one night and open a four hour shift the next morning then be off for three days. Others require full time employees to be flexible enough to travel to any of their other stores within 50 miles of their hiring store at a moments notice.
I have heard about part time employees expected to go to other company stores when they are needed to fill in. This from Corporate Giants like Walmart, Home Depot and ShopRite. Who’s going to work part time with no benefits ridiculous wages and expected to go place to place in their own car. There’s no Labor Shortage there’s a wage and benefits shortage!
I have had some rough schedules, but I don't mind because the pay has been good. - - The warped thing is that with so many jobs being sent to China, it is easier to earn a decent living here in China than in America. I know I live here in China and used to live in America. I wouldn't go back. Wages are not that low anymore, but food/rent/clothing/gas/basics are much cheaper outside of the biggest cities. A generation ago China was the poorest country in the world, but not anymore.
That is precisely why we don't have robust welfare programs or universal basic income. Because workers with enough power would never work in fast food or retail, for minimum wage, with 0 benefits or chance for advancement.
And the reason for that is because they like to advertise that they provide benefits, then in small print state that only full-time employees get them, so, of course, only one person in the company is full-time.
In 13 last years I had promotions, bonuses, name at the top of the leader board, worked over time months on end... And it's never once prevented my job/team/location from being disbanded/out sourced/ or laid off. I got messed up in a pile up car accident and my employer wouldn't accommodate, while gas lighting me out the door. I don't have a house or any way of living even close to what my parents or grandparents had and by the time I can retire the retirement age will be an age I don't want to live to see. They are right, I do not want to work anymore.
My hubby was daignosed with cancer. Terminal. His employer said, "Oh, too bad. Now meet quota or get out." Ummm..... What? He's been one of their top people for over 20 years!
I sold my business at 38 for 102 Million. I sold my house, bought a farm in PA, raise sheep and do not go to a job anymore. Working absolutely fucking sucks. Stop working asap.
Also, there are a lot job openings that are just a front for companies to be able to say "but we are *trying* to hire people!". There are so many "job openings" that people sign up and get a response like "we decided to go with another candidate" just for the same opening to be posted a few days later, meanwhile they hadn't found anyone, they just weren't actually looking for anyone.
oh, no don't you worry, they really ARE looking. The say they found someone but are still looking. They are looking for a major sucker! Someone who will work crazy hours, no over time, prolly doesn't have a visa, is overqualified and desperate. These companies are straight up predators. we need arrests and regulations!
EXACTLY. I doscovered that while putting my resume with lots of businesses. One told me they were collecting names to keep on file, even thoigh there was a desperate sign on their door, begging for new employees. Several others saw an old person march through their door-- and suddenly they didn't need anyone.
Or they're "pipelining", where they post a job they have no intention to fill in the hopes of pooling applications. That way in the next perceived labor shortage, they can just pull candidates out of their back pocket without needing to waste time searching. It's inefficient in practice, but it is a thing. Had a recruiter tell me about it once.
Last year, I worked at this retail store, and most of the workers were college students. They started leaving one by one because they were being overworked, and we became understaffed. For the last 3 months I was there, the manager didn't bother to fill those positions up and left us pick up the extra work, I gave a one week notice and didn't even show up for my last day. I would often get asked by other young people if we were hiring all the time but no one got hired or even interviewed.
"Why you peasants no come work on my Plantation? This Ferrari ain't gonna pay for itself, and I'm too classy to pick my own cotton." - Well-Manicured 'Job Creators'
@@youtubesucks1499 People get a degree to do the job they WANT to do, not to get paid more. Nobody ever said "Man, I hate engineering, but being a Rocket Scientist is where the bucks are" Please justify why you think you should get paid _more_ for working 40 hours in the prestigious job you wanted vs getting paid less for working 40 hours in the the job you hate that is slowly killing you. 40 hours of hunter-gatherer time is 40 hours. Also, FYI: I retired at 43 after selling both of my businesses. How's your life going?
@@youtubesucks1499 "do you know how people become wealthy"? Not through hard work in the USA, that's for sure. "According to a Los Angeles Times investigation, Elon Musk's companies had received an estimated $4.9 billion in government support by 2015, and they've gotten more since." (Business Insider) Bill Gates got his billions from US patent laws, not from working harder or smarter than IBM or Xerox. Repeat ad nauseam.
@@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing So, you confess to extracting pretty much all the value that the workers in your businesses created for you (and the freebies the state gave you such as infrastructure) and living high on the hog off it. Not a pretty picture, Jack B. Perhaps you might read Adam Smith and Karl Marx on the labour theory of value, then repent and become a socialist.
Thank you! I hear that all the time from my generation (I'm 56) and it's so intellectually lazy. They think people are living comfortable lives on government aid such as unemployment benefits. Ridiculous. Even if millions of people could actually live off of government aid and weren't motivated to work or pursue a career, that wouldn't be a failure of "socialist" government, it would be a failure of capitalism! I don't blame younger people if they are reluctant to take a job in a soulless corporate environment or a minimum wage job which is still nowhere near enough pay to live on.
The pandemic revealed something terrible about politics: the American economy runs on poverty. If no poverty existed in usa, workers could reject dead-end job offers. Noone would ever work in fast food or retail, for minimum wage, with zero benefits or chance for advancement.
The truth of our political values lies in the risks we refuse to accept, and it is rising worker power, not continued poverty, that our political and corporate leaders find unacceptable.
similarly, there is no nursing shortage. hospitals employ too few nurses as "proof", but really they want to overwork their nurses and make profits by giving substandard care. also, if they can show a nurse shortage, the government lets them bring in underpaid nurses from other countries.
Totally agree. I retired 5 years ago because the stress was getting worse and 4 of us got mold poisoning from the building we were working in. One of us almost died. Covid put many of my colleagues in retirement. The hospital is finding it hard to find MH therapists to hire in the clinic I worked at. The union has fought for years to get the psychiatry department to meet the state requirements for timely appts for patients. Meanwhile, the professionals still there are burning out at a high rate and leaving. When is America going to wake up and realize how screwed they are.
@@wdcain1 quite true. In fact, the hospital I worked at sent Docs and nurses from other areas to help take of other patients while the ER personnel were taking care of Covid patients and to give them a well deserved break. It amazes me that the same people who dispute the science behind viruses, want science to save them if they get it. The same people who don’t want universal health care will forego getting help because of the fear of medical bills they can’t pay. No other, I repeat, no other developed country in the world will tolerate this because they have a communal sense that he common welfare of people comes first before selfishness. We used to have that in this country but now profits are more important than people. We have the most expensive health care in the world and are 39th out of 40 countries in outcomes. We want to believe we have the best health care in the world but Singapore, Germany, Japan surpass us in technology . I know docs who left private practice because it cost too much to deal with insurance companies and went to work for groups like Kaiser and other self contained groups so they can practice medicine, not deal with insane paperwork.
No one wants to waste away doing a job where all the fruits of the labor are siphoned away and the worker only gets an unlivable wage. This is why greedy corporations are trying to open the floodgates of child labor. They aren't willing to pay us a livable wage, so they'll just try to put the whole family (from as early as possible) into the factory to work for the pittance they're allowed to pay us.
@@Sharpshooter649 There are some low wage jobs where undocumented minors have been. The feds recently have been addressing this, so child labor exploitation is happening already.
I also think the problem is employers wanting an education way beyond the skills that is necessary to do the job. I have seen some office assistant positions require a bachelor's degree. I can't type for everyone but for me the ability to answer phones, send emails with attachments, and make excel sheets are things I could have done in 8th grade. My intelligence is probably below average so don't get the idea that I was some prodigy either. Why do employers insist on forcing us to obtain bachelor's degree to do tasks that you could literally get a middle schooler to do?
Because they can and the market is oversaturated, everyone with a pulse should get a bachelor degree. Not matter how much in debt it will leave you and you are expected to pay off the debt that can't be forgiven on meager wages. If you can't well then you're lazy and entitled of course.
Try being a nurse with 35 years experience, and new jobs stating BSN requirements where the BSN has to be within the last 4-5 years. A BSN earned back in 1985 isn't good enough?? Along with many years nursing experience?? Don't tell me I don't wanna work. Nursing sucks anyway, so no loss there.
You left out the executive pay raises and stock options. Is it any wonder there's no money to actually hire workers that make those record profits possible!
@@Sharpshooter649 Unemployment benefits actually make it a free market. A characteristic of a free market is freedom of choice, which you can’t have if workers are forced into taking a job due to a lack of a safety net.
I’ve applied for dozens of jobs in the past couple of weeks. Even with advanced degrees, I don’t seem to have the kind of luck I need to navigate AI interviews and algorithm résumé analysis. Unfortunately, the people close to me believe it’s my fault. But the job sites I use indicate each job I’ve applied for has literally hundreds of applicants, sometimes thousands.
You are not wrong - This is absolutely happening. My friends and I who are looking for jobs in different areas of the country are experiencing the same thing. AI-based resume portals screen good people out at rates that are stunning. We also have advanced degrees, are highly qualified for the jobs we're applying for, and are still not even getting a callback!!!
Back when I was working companies were looking for the least expensive employee, not the most experienced. Chin up. You can look at yourself in the mirror and know you are doing your best in an unfair situation. People are brainwashed into believing that anyone who doesn't have the right kind of job isn't trying. You now know that isn't true. Consider yourself to have received a great big hug! 🤗
This has been my experience for 20 years. Somehow I got put on an AI " naughty list" I presume...so ever since I have been " underemployed " with precarious contract work( despite advanced degrees and by the way, nothing on my record to account for not being hired to FT benefited employment). This during my prime working years I must emphasize, therefore negatively affecting my ability to save for retirement let alone enjoy a reasonable stress- free lifestyle. Now, as a young boomer or old Gen Xer, I'm looking at working into old age to protect myself from penury and terrified if the Republicans get their way, I won't even have social security to call back on in my twilight years. There are a lot of untold stories of struggle underneath the employment figures. 😐
Absolutely agree with you Robert. Good wages = good jobs = more people working = more money to the tax base = funds for the betterment of society and the infrastructure. I'm seventy years old, comfortably retired because of the era of good paying jobs. Many of these jobs back then were UNION. I don't see that any longer and that's a shame. What kind of future does the young generation have? All I see is corporate greed with high, absolutely absurd sky high salaries for the CEO, COO and other C executives who do what? Plus their golden parachutes. Low wages for the employees in the trenches. That's not the way things used to be and that's the problem. Rich at the top because of greed and struggling workers. A dam shame.
It should be "people don't want to be slaves anymore! " Instead of "people don't want to work anymore" Many people, especially the younger generation, are engaging in a variety of unorthodox activities to make a living. Side hustles and hobbies, Content-creating online. Social media is a fast growing market rn I applaud them. 2020 was my turning point and investing put me on track.
I also think the problem is employers wanting an education way beyond the skills that is necessary to do the job. I really applaud anyone beating the system to make a living. I'm currently working 2 jobs and still living on each paycheck with no freedom.
@@theresamish1746 the 2020 pandemic gave me a mental and life reset. I tried out a lot of stuff, side hustle and investing. I realised having savings just sitting in the bank is useless. I take lesser work hours now, do my side hustle grow passive income from my investments and have time for my family.
You are punished if you want to return to work once you're in Any type of govt assistance. I have 2 college degrees (A.S. & B.S.N.), worked 34yrs, 24yrs in one of the 5 major social service occupations. Due to the intense physical demands of my occupation and unfortunate genetic predisposition, I developed polyarthritis which caused BLE neuropathy and other neuromuscular complications. I became disabled, underwent multiple, extensive surgeries and after 7yrs desired to try to return to the workforce, albeit in a significantly diminished capacity. I was informed 50% of my earned (gross) income would be (-) from my SSDI and I'd lose half (part B) of my Medicare. I'd resume paying income taxes and lose qualifications for any/all additional state & federal assistance, including rent assistance. I calculated that my income would decrease by 59% and my COL would increase by 79.84%. People wonder why those whom find themselves dependant in part or whole upon government assistance do not get off it ASAP, well, now I and you both know. Asinine, dysfunctional and totally illogical; that's the US gov't for you.😤
Yes. As I got older the exploitation was becoming unbearable and I dropped out of the labor force. But the late 70's early eighties were a time when you could go to college , get out without much debt and get a job that still paid well compared to your debt burden and at least had at least a little chance to build a modest nest egg . But that got harder and harder starting in the early 80's . As a result, today most people have no chance to say "I won't work because I'm tired of being exploited". I wish they could. Greed and the associated corruption has greatly diminished the quality of life for the average American in favor of Corporate America and the wealthy. Everyone deserves better than what America has become.
And there's repercussions that no one is talking about. Our suicide rate has almost increased by 30% in less than 20yrs which equally decreased life expectancy. This has really hit white America the worst, 80% of those suicides are whites. More white people are dying than being born. That isn't just normal and came out of nowhere?
There are more competition globally today, than 50 years ago, Competition always drove the price down. if the goverment are forcing companies to raise wages, then those companies would just hire Thousands of people from Asia, where they're willing to be paid $1 a day, and deliver an extraordinary result, better than worker in the US ever could produce. it's, not as simple as "pay them more"
@@jensenraylight8011 Its certainly more complicated because it is so profitable and easy to to seek out the cheap labor and be rewarded with maximized profits and low taxes. And with those profits you can buy back stocks (which used to be illegal) and buy our so called representatives (which was never as easy as it is now) so that there's no chance of legislation being passed to disincentivize the greed that is behind all of this.
@@jensenraylight8011 maybe for low end production jobs and callcenters, which believe it or not are already shipped abroad. How would increasing the wages of nurses and fast food workers cause them to be moved to Asia?
@@wim2445 That job is the exception. when we heard about companies laid off millions of people, of course most of it is an Office job. Most high tech companies have divisions filled with abroad workers as well, they're working online. if you only raise wages of the retail, nurse & doctor, and fast food worker, there will be a Protest from workers from another industries. they won't let you have a higher wages, therefore the solution is, nobody should have a higher wages. if you want to blame someone, blame your envious workers from another industry, because they took a great length in sabotaging your wages
I think a lot of the problem is that most companies use recruitment software that eliminates most applicants from the beginning. Then, the applicants who knew how to "game" the software end up being hired when they actually weren't good candidates at all.
@@victoriasapp2209 Fake the software out, and be the perfect candidate for any job you're not qualified for. Other people's applications will never be seen by human eyes.
Creating wealth entails establishing positive routines, such as consistently setting aside funds at regular intervals for sound investments. Financial management is a vital subject that many avoid, often leading to future regrets.
I always consult a financial advisor before investing. During the pandemic, I used their tactics to minimize risks and maximize profits, generating around $3 million in three years with my advisor, Stacey Lee Decker.
You are correct however if your salary doesn't cover basic needs plus something extra one is unable to put anything away as savings. I am a teacher and am just barely able to put away approximately 2% of my pay. At this rate I will literally have to work beyond my life expectancy to afford to retire.
My last min wage job was just like 4 years back. It was a second job because I needed to pull a lot of cash fast. Out of the 8 of us grunts, two of us had accommodations, the other one's husband made decent money. Three of them were currently living in their car circulating Walmart parking lots or on a friend's property in a old camper. Two were still living with their parents and one was very accustomed to couch surfing. Half a decade later, min wage has moved by $1. My fellow grunts couldn't afford to work there today, can't sleep in a car if you can't even afford that.
No one in their right mind wanted to work in the first place. In the modern world (if you're not a maniac) most people only do it for the money they need. But since the early 70s, the work has increased as the money has stayed at best the same. I'm just surprised it took this long...
There's also a problem with employers thinking they're going to get applicants with degrees and tons of experience for entry level jobs that don't need a degree. And there's tons of applicants who WANT THOSE JOBS, but their resumes are screened out.
Yeah this is a big problem I've noticed. Far too often I see these experience requirements for entry level jobs when the experience can easily be acquired on the job.
Yeah office jobs are absurd. I shouldn't need a bachelor's degree to answer phones, send out emails, and make excel spread sheets. I can't type for everyone but I personally could have dropped out of school as early as 8th grade just to do that.
the places that want degrees and years of experience reject me for being "overqualified". But I had the bad luck to be born too late to have the 10x years of experience middle tier jobs want, so I am just screwed.
You know why those employers require you to have college degree even though it's not actually necessary? Here's the brutal truth that a lot of you will deny. It's because 99% of college degree holders are seriously deep in student loan debt. So once you start working for an employer you can't say "no" to their crappy working conditions and you have to put up with all their bs. Because you have to hold your job to pay off those debt and that gives them the power to treat you like a modern day slave.
Exactly, Another fantastic video that will no doubt trigger the usual corporate bootlickers that troll here like Zach. Be aware of him and the other trolls with Reich derangement syndrome.
The labor shortage is caused by a lack of full time employment opportunities, low pay rates for labor provided, excessive work hours, lack of decent benefits, excessive and unpredictable work schedules, unrealistic experience and education requirements, the opportunity for self employment and above all corporate greed with excessive profits!
Exactly, Another fantastic video that will no doubt trigger the usual corporate bootlickers that troll here like Zach. Be aware of him and the other trolls with Reich derangement syndrome.
Same thing in Oregon. Landlords and tenants have something in common: When you find a dollar in your pocket, you think "Sweet, I have another dollar." So does your landlord.
I wonder if the era of living by ones-self is coming to an end due to rent (and of course buying a house is out of reach for most everyone now in a desirable state. Mississippi needs people though!) My niece makes a ton but lives with 2 other roommates in NYC. Simply unaffordable to live alone. But when i hear $15/hr is a non-living wage, i need to point out that where I live (Mexico), minimum wage is still like $2/hr. And food is not that much cheaper here. What *is* vastly cheaper are services and rent. The US situation is a never-ending 'arms race' - prices for services and rents go up, so other people need to be paid more, so prices in general keep climbing ever higher. But I dont think Reich's solution of higher wages fixes much, it just adds fuel to the fire.
Here in Tennessee, it is not possible to rent a place if one is working a minimum wage job. Prices are obscenely high...and we are seeing more and more complaints about landlords ignoring requested fixes and such.
@@jamesrav No it doesn't. I've figured a way to do it, but have been ignored by every politician, even Mr. Riech, with no response. Our country isn't much further ahead of Mexico at this rate. We're slipping faster than a mud slide.
Another aspect not covered here is that most companies are using automated systems to filter applications and depending upon how those employers set that up it can filter out most if not all of applicants for failure to match due to not using the same key words. Companies have stopped looking at applications as a person...
Larger companies, yes. And those bots have generally become sexist and racist. Basically, if you're named Jared and you played lacrosse in college, you're most likely to be hired.
That's true---and the process is run by HR, which doesn't know anything. A friend of mine is a manager at a large corporation. He found several candidates on his own, and HR tried to tell him that none of them were qualified to work in HIS department (after he already told HR that they were).
@@eatmorenachos I feel like he should write HR up as failing to do their job and see if the company can turn them out for better HR. Isn't that what you do when other departments don't do their job?
Denmark has about the same minimum wage. The outcry from the people against raising the minimum wage is that prices go up. The Big Mac is cheaper in Denmark then it is in the US. PLUS the Danish worker has access to health care, sick days and vacation time. Being a European living in the US: The US is expensive to live in. Food, not even adjusted for income, is expensive! My mother, who lives in Norway, pays the same prices or less, for produce, compared to the US. Yet her income is twice that of an American counterpart. She pays minimal property taxes, around $500/year. I pay $500/mo for my 1200 sq ft house. And she doesn't have to pay beyond her $30 annual co-pay for health insurance. Granted, she paid 3% of her income her working life, but that's really worth it. One of my kids broke their leg, even with the $100/mo health insurance plan, we ended up paying $1500 in medical bills.
@@NoorAnomaly How do you even have a health care plan in the US that is only $100/mo? I'm paying like $500 for my family and that's on top of what my employer covers ( which is virtually all of it for just me ).
@@NoorAnomaly Gemany isn't much better than the US in regards to minimum wage. In fact we didn't even have a minimum wage until 2015, so many people used to work below 6€ per hour. The outcry against the planned minimum wage was insane here. Even though the minimum was proposed to be just 8€, which it ended up becoming. People acted like the minimum wage would be the end of the German economy. Finally they introduced it, but with many exceptions, for example you could still pay less than minimum wage to students. And did the economy collapse? On the contrary, there was a boom and they are still talking about labor shortage (which is as much bullshit as in the US). In October 22 they finally increased the minimum wage to 12€, but that was after a long long political farce. And let me tell you, 12€ in Germany is a bullshit wage. Housing prices have soarded like crazy here. In my fucking small village, houses are sold at 600k €, cities are more expensive as you can imagine, to get a perspective. The wealth gap in Germany is high. There are many low income people here, but there are also those who make their 40+ € per hour. Among the nations with the most billionaires, Germany ranks 4th. We can be happy that universal healthcare was introduced here after the world war, which was only done to take away votes from leftwing parties. Because nowadays, I don't see a chance we could pass it. But our healthcare system also has many flaws, but at least we got one.
@@inaperfectworld8087 many Americans are full time workers and homeless. A lot of them can't even use shelters because the curfew that homeless shelters have prohibit graveyard shift work, so those workers do the van-life thing.
@@bluejava9397 You still need technicians to maintain the machines and robots. I am in Electrical Engineering right now and I can tell you this for certain. No machine/ robot runs 24/7 without maintenance. Not for any length of time anyways. Another thing they do not mention is it takes a long long time to see a profit from switching to automation due to the extremely high cost of all this tech. It is still much cheaper to hire a person. Whether they admit this or not.
People want to work - but are tired of being underpaid with lousy or no benefits while those clowns in D.C. are getting paid hundreds of thousand of dollars, a complete pension pick-up, zero deductibles on healthcare, both cost-of-living raises and regular yearly raises, expense accounts to pay their daily expenses while the rest of us workers pay our expenses out of our salaries ... and can't even elect a Speaker for the House of Representatives.
I have thought about this more and more lately. A corporation hires you for 30 an hour and you're lucky to get a pay raise over the next few years. So one day you wake up and realize you're making way less after years of service when you count inflation. When I took the position I thought it was good money, 3 years later I got meager 1-2% annual raises that got left in the dust by 7-8% inflammation. My question is who is affording all the price hikes? How did I get a good job and still slip right out of the middle class?
The middle class was always a lie. There are owners and servants in our economy. That’s it. Debt held up the propagandist illusion of the middle class for awhile but of course debt just led to more people appearing to “fall” out of the middle class once the line of credit dried up.
@@soapa4279 I'd argue the word "inflammation" works just as well in this context. Seeing my weekly grocery bill increase 25% over last year is proof of this.
@@nispelsm lol yeah, also not even just groceries, but even fast food is getting more expensive. I sure do miss that Carls Jr. "Six Dollar Burger" right now, cause it's damn near $10 for one.
Fed gov is the same way. Several years of pay freezes then 1-2 percent dating back to the beginning bof the Obama administration. Now inflation is sky high. Millions of workers with degrading pay. But guess who gets the full cpi? Social security ban federal retirees. They matched inflation! Pays to be retired. Meanwhile they suck all the money and want to push retirement bayes higher for young people. Generational offloading.
What? The USA doesn't have universal healthcare, publicly funded and free at the point of delivery like we've had here in the UK since 1948? What kind of a s***hole country is the USA?
@@ronpetersen2317 Thanks for your input but nowhere do I suggest that insurance companies do not play a part but that part doesn't add or detract from the feudal nature of health insurance being tied to employment. When feudal lords sent their serfs to work on church land it' didn't emancipate them.
@@sheilbwright7649 When I worked at Office Depot I was never once sent to work on a church. We are not remotely in anything that resembles a feudal system. We can quit change jobs, create our own business and jobs. My house or apartment is never tied to the manager or anyone at office depot when I worked there. Your comparison is completely nuts and way outside of reality in every way.
@@ronpetersen2317 It would really help if you read comments carefully and had regard to nuance. Having a feudal feature does not equal a feudal system. Having an ultimate appealate court is a feature of a country that is subject to the rule of law if the appointments are the work of dark money and the judges consistently rule in the interests of dark money then it only has a feature it is not a country subject to the rule of law.
The last job I worked I noticed how much needless BS the shift leads and store mgr were willing to put up with. Yet, when I would come to them with genuine issues and solutions I was ignored. Until something happened that forced them to do what I had suggested a while ago. By that time I had already given my notice. What I noticed/learned is companies, especially management don't want GOOD or GREAT employees. Nowadays people of all ages are willing to stand up for themselves and negotiate for what they believe is right. That's what they really don't want. And that's why there are so many struggling to find work. Businesses what people they can control and manipulate. Supervisors and managers don't want to work with people that make them look bad or worse, unnecessary. In reality, most places don't need middle management anymore that's why quiet hiring is a thing. If employees are properly trained they don't need anyone looking over them making $2-3 more an hour.
I think managers misunderstand what management is. Management is not doing the lower employees' jobs. It's not scrutinizing employees' performance to find things to nitpick. Management is checking in with employees to see what THE COMPANY needs to do the help them work better. It's arranging shift coverage (in companies that have time-sensitive staff needs, like retail), and covering for employees when the company fails to have enough scheduled. It's making sure there are enough employees to do their job (because the employees' job is not the manager's job). It's handling problems and responsibilities that are above the employees' pay grade. A lot of managers act like they're in some sort of competition with their subordinates, and it's ridiculous, because they're doing a completely different, not better, just different, job.
@@AlexandarHullRichter, I can see and agree with your point to an extent for some managers. I still don't think they're necessary in too many companies. I believe the employees themselves could be trained to do their work collectively and be paid accordingly. In general companies just don't want to put in the effort to train their employees properly that's why so many industries have such a high turnover rate. Also, most of the time the people who should be in management or leadership roles see how much bs is involved and don't want to deal with. Far too often I've seen subordinates more educated, skilled, and well versed in the job they have than their superiors, they just don't want the extra "responsibility". The job I was referring to in my original comment I was asked to be a manager when I was hired and told I could move up the ladder and go anywhere I wanted to within the company. I told the person who hired me point blank, "I have children at home." I personally don't want to be in management in any shape or form even though I could do the job because basically I'd be a babysitter to other adults. I don't want the headache.
I agree because there were some jobs I was pretty stoked about as I'm trying to find different types of work. My resume is way over above and beyond what I'm trying to apply for. I'm working my way down the ladder as I'm 50 year old mom sick of kicking her own ass for corporate greed. Looking for cushy job still labor. Massive ass pay cut and I was scrounging before making good ass money. I never worried about being broke when I started HVAC but boy since 9/11 s*** has been just downhill
I have a Bachelor's degree and a whole resume of decades experience and for three months I still cannot get work even after spamming my resume across all of Indeed and Monster. Corporations make people use stupid long web applications and algorithms prevent natural selective picking despite being locally right there for the taking in my area and they had a HELP WANTED sign in all the store fronts in my neighborhood. I used to just head down to the manager, say you want a worker, here I am big guy, sign me up, here's all my references, when do I start? Now even for shitty minimum wage jobs I have to jump thru such silly hoops such as endless personality quizzes and qualification tests despite the main job task being running a cash register and taking care of stock.
I worked for a carpet shop as an installer for over a decade. I was one of the top three installers. Customers asked for me by name. I even moved my residency closer to the shop to make my commute more convenient. The owner was great to work for. Easy to get along with. Without any warning whatsoever, a new owner took over the business and cut corners. The old owner sold the business. I was informed just minutes before I was to leave the shop to go install carpet in someone's residence. I was already loaded up and ready to go to work. I just needed some supplies (tack strips and seam tape) which were always provided by the old owner. There is a room full of supplies. The new owner told me I have to buy my own supplies from now on. I thought he was joking. That costs roughly forty dollars a day. That is a LOT of money for me. He condescended me and said he's basically changing the standard operating procedure for his benefit and to the detriment of the workforce. I threw the paperwork in his face and called him a bunch of slurs that would get me shadow-banned in this comment section. I QUIT right before I was supposed to do the job. I pulled the carpet off my van and threw it on the floor of the loading dock. I said to find someone else to do it. I was evicted from my apartment and moved in with my mother. I've quit smoking weed, quit ingesting processed sugar and have been working out every day since I lost the job. I want to be in top form when I confront him again so I can knock that guy out. He's bald, fat, has carpal tunnel, has a bad spine and he's the same exact age as me. I'm much more physically capable than him. Thank the Lord I don't have that guy's body. Everyone shows him respect because he was a Marine. He doesn't deserve any respect at all. I don't care what military he served in. I'm a black belt in Taekwondo. So what?! NONE of that matters. He ruined my Christmas. Ruined my daughter's Christmas. Ruined my life. He's going to pay one way or the other. I bombarded the business with fifteen fake bad reviews on Google, but Google deleted them all. Ironically, half of the good reviews on there are from my customers for doing a good job on their carpet.
When I graduated in 2008, we had a terrible economy. People my age had to take any job they could grab, and the companies were loving it because they knew we all needed the money. I was fortunate enough not to have loans to pay back, but I still needed money to live. And the saddest thing is the strategy backfired on them, because they hired so many people who are desperate for work that they ignored the older workers who actually knew their own value and could negotiate salaries. So these companies saw their products suffer, because they had a lot of inexperienced workers, and as the economy got better, a lot of them chose to leave. Now I wish more of them had.
I hear you. I also was fortunate to not have loans and graduated a year after you with a technical degree. And I saw basically the same thing you did with firing all of the most experienced and knowledgeable workers since the fresh recruits or offshore were so much cheaper. It was so bad that some of the newly made architects and managers were still in their 20's or barely 30 since they wanted to get by with paying the least amount possible regardless of knowledge. The products suffered massively and many clients were lost. The company tried to get some of these people back, but most of them either retired or didn't want to go back.
Where I live they ignored the young, inexperienced workers in favor of the desperate older workers who'd just been laid off. They suffered because when the older workers invariably retired, it left them with no experienced workers to replace them. Unfortunately they're still not willing to train people. Instead, they're just poaching from each other. Even the entry level jobs all require 5 years experience in the field.
i came across a couple "nobody wants to work anymore" parrots in a Cracker Barrel a couple days ago. they were bitching and throwing a fit that, on a saturday evening in the middle of dinner rush hours in which (apparently) two people called out, it took them 10 minutes to get their food that literally takes 7 minutes to cook (just to cook, not counting the time it takes the server to deliver the ticket to the kitchen, expo, and plating and running the food once it is done). they left the table before the server could bring them their ticket and proceeded to the cashier to bitch about how long it took. When the server asked if they would like to speak to a manager, they said "no, we already talked to two of 'em, and they ain't worth a $h!t." regardless, a manager still had to stop what he was doing and come to the register with a reprinted ticket, after which the man said "well he has an attitude" (he didn't, he simply didn't stop and make nice smalltalk to the people that had just bitched out two other managers and were making everyone's lives a little bit shittier ). finally, as they were checking out, the server finds them and brings them their ticket. The lady rudely says "I ain't payin' for it twahst" (that's redneck for "twice"), and threw the receipt on the ground and turned her back on him as he bent down to pick it up. then the man had teh nerve to turn around and start talking to me about how long it took them to get their fish, like i am supposed to care, especially after the little show they just put on. i wanted to say/should have said "if you can't wait 10 minutes to get your food at a sit-down restaurant on a weekend during dinner rush, you need to take your old entitled ass to Captain D's," but i am an introvert and super-nonconfrontational, so i just ignored him and kept looking at my phone like i didn't hear him. it's crazy how it's the same people saying "nobody wants to work anymore" that treat people like trash when they don't get everything exactly how they want it with no regard to anyone else in the world, the same people that are a BIG part of why people quit jobs in service industries. Nobody wants to be DEMEANED anymore. Nobody wants to be treated like trash for less money than they can make at McDonalds. That has nothing to do with work ethic, rather a sense of self-worth.
If I remember right, there's a picture that went around Reddit and stuff that goes back over 100 years, where newspapers keep saying, "No one wants to work anymore." So they've clearly been lying for over 100 years. Also, I think if minimum wage actually kept up with cost of living, it should be like $26/hour? Which is over double what it is in my state, and around triple the federal minimum. Ridiculous. Like yeah, nobody wants to work for 1/3 the cost of living. Go freaking figure.
It is 15$/h here in Nova Scotia and you are absolutely right it would have to be 25$/h for minimum wage. If you have a family you need at least 50$/h. If we weren't taxed 50% then you could actually get away with making less.
I make 28 here in denver but its not even close to being enough to survive on your own. Not when avg rent for a dump apartment is like 1500. If you want something decent your looking around 1900 just for rent. Add in all the other bills and youll be living on pennys
That phrase always bugged me "wants to work". Who the hell "wants" to work? Maybe a few people who work for themselves or are in a job they're really passionate about. Most of us are willing to work because that's what we need to do in order to have money and buy things we need/want. Why would you expect most people would "want" to work vs sleep in and have fun all day?
I do not want to work, because it's a pointless soul destroying endeavor that does not allow you to actually live. I have watched my father spend every waking moment of his life working just to keep us in a decent home and it has reduced him to a mindless drone, I do not want to be like that and I'd rather die than be exploited
There's a small restaurant that has had a sign posted in their pick-up window since 2020 saying "Help Wanted *up to* $16.00 per hour" I've always wondered what the starting wage was and how long it took to reach top pay. On the national scene? Last time I looked, Amazon had a 150% employee turnover rate. Something isn't adding up....
I have applied at these "up to $X" places. What they mean is after 5 years working minimum wage, you may get up to that amount once minimum wage gets that high -_-
Thank you as always Robert. I will add to this that unless we make higher education virtually free, we will continue to be unable to fill the high-level jobs necessary to keep our economy humming. And of course, you know that. Be well dear educator.
Yes I agree I would love to learn and to gain skills but the cost and risk associated with that cost is what holds me back. Also If workers do not want to be exploited then the people in our education system should not want to be either. If workers are less exploited maybe then will we see people's businesses more appealing as consumers because we are tired of shopping at places that exploit workers as consumers, just like workers are tired of exploitive business practices. Workers first need a better life and then consumers need better businesses. There was this video recently about child labour laws being abused for child migrants by major brands and children being hurt and dying while being forced to work illegally in America; and that news to me means that corporations are way over the threshold of exploitation and for the most part they are just paving on the same way.
I love higher education, but... The idea that people should undergo ever more specific training/qualifications for a job they are guessing will be available in several years, and pay for it on their own dime (and time)... Kind of insane. How about companies hire folks, actually invest some in training them, and then actually retain them over their career? Stop treating workers as widgets... looking for the perfect fit pre-made for the job slot and then throwing them away when that very particular slot doesn't need filling anymore. BTW: Using universities as glorified job training centers is also destroying what universities are supposed to be for (at least traditionally).
Yes ! Another fantastic video that will no doubt trigger the usual corporate bootlickers that troll here like Zach. Be aware of him and the other trolls with Reich derangement syndrome.
I'd also add that higher education gets a disproportionate amount of ink compared to the horribly inadequate and inconsistent K-12 school system in the USA. College isn't for everyone. Reading and writing IS.
@@jergervasi3331 Amen. Though I'd be OK with 2 years post highschool being normal (and free). If you're not planning on dedicating your life to academia or one of a handful of professions, you really shouldn't need more than that... Certainly not a post-grad degree.
R.R., always so spot on. In my 50’s, in good health with years of experience. So many employers have wanted to insult me with starting wages that I’d earned my 20’s. Not bad then, almost useless now.
@@semajsivraj wages have been a crying shame for I don’t know how long. I’m actually 64, what I meant was that when I was in my 50’s. In ‘74 I was making .30 cents more an hour than minimum wage. $2.33 was minimum then and it’s $7.25(?) now? And inflation has risen by how much? Sure would like to see Biden work on that.
@@rawbhonn7715 the first job I got myself started at $7.00 an hour and bumped me up to $7.50 when I could work full time after graduating highschool over 35 years ago . Federal minimum wage is currently $7.25...that's crazy.
Yeah I'm tired of hearing it too. I want to work, but I want to be paid a decent wage for the work I am doing. I'm tired of working so many hours and then having almost nothing to show for it.
About a decade ago an Engineering society constructed "ideal" candidates to apply for technical positions being advertised. They got a total of 2 interview requests, and sent in experts to interview - they weren't offered jobs. Their conclusion: Many of the job postings exist strictly for political reasons. The CEOs want to be able to claim that they can't find local people and need to offshore or bring in people to the USA. Of course, those people will essentially be "indentured workers" who won't complain and will not ask for better wages, better managers, or better working conditions.
I am reminded of Sebastian Ramirez, a developer who tweeted that he was unqualified for a job that required 4 years of experience in a framework he only created 2 years ago.
@@leeg5678 As I recall they did a follow up with letters and outreach to government agencies and representatives - and got nothing but a couple of form letters back. Sure seemed like government was knowingly complicit. That was the last I ever heard about it. Do you remember anything more being done? (I was reading an Engineering journal that I didn't normally read, so I would have missed any further follow up.)
Sir, I am in Cleveland the 2nd poorest large city in America. The jobs out here maybe 10 to $12 an hour, you might find a 13-15 an hour somewhere. 20-30 hours per week. These companies have their proverbial foot on our throats! That is the problem! Take if from an honorably discharged veteran Army Captain Afghanistan 2011-2013.
Three people in my family have been trying to get jobs for the last year. Even fast food places are not hiring though their windows scream for help!🤷♀️
My daughter had a really hard time finding work last year, the funny bit is all the places she applied had "please excuse the wait, no one wants to work anymore" signs on the door. I think they have just discovered that they can do their job crappier and make us wait and save money by exploiting the few employees they have, these businesses have no desire to hire when they can get away with not.
@@Zach-ju5vi Exactly! Where I work we can’t keep anyone for a month!! No one wants to work anymore. They think they can just come in and do nothing get paid for it!!
@@Zach-ju5vi The top ten employers in the U.S all had record breaking profits last year. I highly doubt being forced to pay a decent wage is going to cut too deeply into their pockets. Its plain and simple greed, Biden didn't cause inflation, Trump didn't either. The greedy corporations realized we will pay more for less and they are milking that for all its worth. I don't know you, but, unless your a billionaire CEO, don't be fooled into going against your own self interest. This is not a red against blue issue, this is a 99% against the 1% issue.
Capt Picard said it best. "The most important thing in a man's life is to feel useful." A man will always want to work. Always. We literally suffer mentally and physically when we don't. Oligarchs have figured this out and use it against us. And what's more, ANY job that a person goes around telling people they enjoy and makes them feel fulfilled in life, the first thing that happens is his pay is cut + made to work longer hours until the man suffers for no other reason than "Why am I paying you to enjoy yourself. Because I'm wealthy, only I get to do that."
