A dude comes in my store every day to get gas and beer. On the weekends he pulls up in his giant RV. If I don’t see him for a week (pretty regular thing), when he does come back he’s been on vacation in that RV. His happy, healthy kids come in and get their drinks.
Recently he asked me if I knew anyone who could drive a medical taxi. He has a company which takes people to doctors visits. Insurance pays for it.
“I can’t find anyone to work. No one wants to work anymore. I have 10 vehicles parked right now.”
“What’s the pay? Do you do drug tests?”
MINIMUM FUCKING WAGE. DRUG TESTS.
I just told him, “dude, McDonald’s is paying $14.50 right now, starting wage. Paying people the bare damn minimum, you’ll either get them fresh out of prison or jacked up on meth. Like, holy shit man. Minimum wage? For a job that requires drug testing? You aren’t suffering. I see you taking your RV on vacation constantly. Fucking pay your employees bro. Those parked cars could be bringing in free money but rather than look at the problem, you think people don’t want to work. Pay 50 cents more than McDonalds and I’ll come work tomorrow.”
Nope. Stubborn, greedy bastard would rather have 10 cars parked.
Fuck that whole class of people.
I run warehouse/fulfillment ops for an ecomm business and frequently hire temps (task rabbit, instawork, etc)
People literally won't show up for less than $20/hr even for basic shit like kitting, we have to start at $25 just to get people in the door. My boss sees the bill and asks why we don't find some younger workers for $15 but they just don't exist in our area. People want to work, just not for shit wages.
As someone job hunting right now, it's so true. I'll see the same posting up for weeks and weeks.
I don't really care what work I do, as long as I can find some interest in it, so I've had a variety of jobs. There are definitely postings I look at that sound good, but the pay is lower than I had at easier jobs sometimes a decade or 2 ago. They immediately go off my list of things to apply to.
Even if 2 jobs are equal, who would want the one for less money? Sorry to say boss, sometimes it's not the people that aren't viable, it's the business.
What's exactly like this except that everybody is in their own little box which they can't see out of, and never choose to go around the side to look out of. And then low-washer boss says "nobody wants to work anymore" and "we need to make the poors suffer so our profits go up."
And that guy's only hiring a few of them, so the rest are forced into the lower and lower offers until another high one appears
laughs in Pennsylvania
