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Sorry closed due to no staff 😆😳🤪 (Original Post) underpants May 2021 OP
And now you know WHY no one wants to work anymore jmowreader May 2021 #1
Lol TheRealNorth May 2021 #13
+1000! nt Imallin4Joe May 2021 #15
D) the Niche software is bogus, useless for the tasks it is applied to, buggy as hell, Ford_Prefect May 2021 #18
For some reason A and B are ... reACTIONary May 2021 #34
As Chris Rock said, Mr.Bill May 2021 #19
very true mshasta May 2021 #22
OMG, you are SO right! ShazzieB May 2021 #33
+1, uponit7771 May 2021 #38
Except illegal immigrants of course. DENVERPOPS May 2021 #30
The term is "undocumented" dickthegrouch May 2021 #52
Fine DENVERPOPS May 2021 #58
This message was self-deleted by its author hamsterjill May 2021 #68
Pontificating is demeaning and prejudicial. jaxexpat May 2021 #60
Of course saying nothing DENVERPOPS May 2021 #70
To employers bdamomma May 2021 #47
"No One Wants To Pay Their Workers A Living Wage Anymore". Aristus May 2021 #2
Have they ever wanted to pay a living wage? Rebl2 May 2021 #9
I've had an employer tell my TO MY FACE kirkuchiyo May 2021 #25
At least he was honest about it. ShazzieB May 2021 #36
Yup. kimmylavin May 2021 #45
Perfection! ruet May 2021 #3
No. Saw it on the Facebook underpants May 2021 #6
Truth in advertising intrepidity May 2021 #4
Everybody is hiring if you work for food.... Beachnutt May 2021 #5
gosh, who could resist? 2naSalit May 2021 #7
Nailed it! marble falls May 2021 #8
That's if they even acknowledge your application... GoCubsGo May 2021 #10
Various revealing signs have signalled me not to return. And this is one of them. Hortensis May 2021 #11
"Conservatives tend to have a darker view of human nature" calimary May 2021 #62
I guess if you think it's how normal people are... Hortensis May 2021 #64
"And we will hire three people for each job." lpbk2713 May 2021 #12
People want to work. Employers don't want to pay. Big difference. Initech May 2021 #14
........ bdamomma May 2021 #48
I'm retired now. Mr.Bill May 2021 #16
While Accurate... ProfessorGAC May 2021 #29
Yes my career was also in offset printing FakeNoose May 2021 #39
Except as an afterthought lunatica May 2021 #43
A lot of the labor shortage is coming from boomers retiring and in some cases retiring earlier than Yavin4 May 2021 #17
Yep. That's what my wife just said. underpants May 2021 #20
Nothing like a Trump presidency coupled with a once in a 100 years pandemic to put life Yavin4 May 2021 #26
I Know, Personally... ProfessorGAC May 2021 #31
I think there are plenty of people between 62 and 65 TexasBushwhacker May 2021 #51
That's exactly what I did. I hit 62 at the end of 2020 and Luz May 2021 #66
I wonder what they'll say when... stillcool May 2021 #21
Yes , true, we do that at the company where I work mshasta May 2021 #23
used to see one like this in the newspaper here ,, AllaN01Bear May 2021 #24
I live near a locks May 2021 #27
All Kidding Aside modrepub May 2021 #28
In some cases, it IS "the Government's responsibility to force people back into the workforce" DBoon May 2021 #55
This about covers it and is great satire mcar May 2021 #32
Funny how companies don't like Capitalism when its on the other side... ace3csusm May 2021 #35
It's Nurses' Week GB_RN May 2021 #37
Cheers, friend. I don't know about you but our employer doesn't even observe nurses week. Maru Kitteh May 2021 #44
Exactly! GB_RN May 2021 #59
The sarcasm in this Notice makes me think it's a joke FakeNoose May 2021 #40
Got to love the honesty in that notice! Aussie105 May 2021 #41
It's a different world. I'm grateful that I was able to retire captain queeg May 2021 #42
+1000 smirkymonkey May 2021 #46
They are just lazy. They don't care if it takes more of your time if it saves them a minute or two captain queeg May 2021 #50
This has been an issue for at least the last 30 or 40 years! smirkymonkey May 2021 #53
I've seen some sites that do that -- you upload your resume, and the program eppur_se_muova May 2021 #57
Companies are finally changing belpejic May 2021 #71
I agree, especially in the initial stages, when you don't even know if you are going to get called smirkymonkey May 2021 #72
Kick dalton99a May 2021 #49
that about covers it Skittles May 2021 #54
Love it. gldstwmn May 2021 #56
Turns out DownriverDem May 2021 #61
Yep mountain grammy May 2021 #63
I was all set to be hating on that notice after reading the first two sentences. BobTheSubgenius May 2021 #65
Same here, Bob. calimary May 2021 #67
As someone who has applied to 222 jobs since October... Pacifist Patriot May 2021 #69

TheRealNorth

(9,478 posts)
13. Lol
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:22 PM
May 2021

I can understand being understaffed, but if no one wants to come back to work for you, it means:
A) You pay too little
B) You're an asshole
C) Both A and B

Ford_Prefect

(7,895 posts)
18. D) the Niche software is bogus, useless for the tasks it is applied to, buggy as hell,
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:52 PM
May 2021

and is a modified, un-licensed beta copy of something which actually does work in the released 2.0 version.

E) Our project managers can't code, or organize work loads, or even tell if the results are within spec. without asking one of the peons who actually perform tasks and have professional knowledge of the work. (Dilbert is right on target here).

F) The guy who wrote that "niche" mess got bought out and is living in Tahiti, so no one presently working here has any idea about how it is supposed to work in the first place. (Yes, he took the instruction set with him because providing it wasn't stated in his buy-out agreement.)

Mr.Bill

(24,284 posts)
19. As Chris Rock said,
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:53 PM
May 2021

whenever someone is being paid minimum wage, it's like the boss telling the employee "I'd like to pay you less, but I can't because it's against the law."

DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
30. Except illegal immigrants of course.
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:48 PM
May 2021

It is illegal to hire an illegal immigrant. So the employer just sends a phony social security number.
Anyone hear of ANY employer being charged for hiring illegals? They simply tell the feds that that is the number the Illegal Immigrant gave them. Evidently, they don't catch it for three months, so the employer fires them and hires a whole new group and does this over and over. The best thing is they don't have to pay the Illegal Immigrants their last pay check, so get a week or two of free labor as a bonus.

For as long as I have been working, fifty five years, I have heard the same exact thing:

"We can't find anyone who wants to work" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The employers never finish their sentence:

"We can find anyone who wants to work, for what we want to pay" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone ever seen ICE conducting a Green Card raid on massive construction sites??????????

Not only that, with an Illegal, the employers is able to avoid paying workers comp, unemployment, etc etc etc.....
Of course they WITHOLD it from the employee's paycheck, but never send it in......

dickthegrouch

(3,173 posts)
52. The term is "undocumented"
Tue May 11, 2021, 09:26 PM
May 2021

Illegal is demeaning and prejudicial. Doesn’t belong on a progressive board.

DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
58. Fine
Wed May 12, 2021, 12:34 AM
May 2021

I am getting old and the "terminology" is constantly changing.......I would list all the "politically correct" names I have experienced for the people coming from Mexico in the last seventy plus years, but some would get me in trouble.
I guess they are called "Latinos" at the current time????????

I will remember your terminology in the future, thank you for pointing it out...........

Response to DENVERPOPS (Reply #58)

DENVERPOPS

(8,817 posts)
70. Of course saying nothing
Wed May 12, 2021, 06:08 PM
May 2021

about the point of my post.

I just remembered that years ago the FBI raided one of Trump's Resort/golf courses here in the U.S. and they found blank Social Security Cards, and a printing press to print the info on the cards to give out to all the
"Undocumented" workers he was employing through out his grounds keepers and housekeeping employees.....

I never heard anything about it after that................And he is the President of the United States !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aristus

(66,328 posts)
2. "No One Wants To Pay Their Workers A Living Wage Anymore".
Tue May 11, 2021, 05:44 PM
May 2021

Flip your own burgers, asshole...


Employers are dicks during the best of times. When they get passive-aggressive, things really turn to shit...

Rebl2

(13,498 posts)
9. Have they ever wanted to pay a living wage?
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:07 PM
May 2021

Employer’s-if it wasn’t for those🤬🤬🤬 employees, we could make so much more $$$🙄🙄🙄

kirkuchiyo

(402 posts)
25. I've had an employer tell my TO MY FACE
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:22 PM
May 2021

That I was no different to him than the hand tools used to make the stuff we made. I no longer work for that asshole. Neither do any of the other good employees we had for a while. And now they can't find good people and actually had the balls to call me asking if I'd be interested in coming back. To which I laughed at them.

ShazzieB

(16,389 posts)
36. At least he was honest about it.
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:02 PM
May 2021

Many, many other employrs who obviously share those sentiments (as you can tell by their low pay, poor working conditions, and overall shitty treatment of workers) will never, ever actually admit it. I'm kind of grudgingly impressed that this one did.

kimmylavin

(2,284 posts)
45. Yup.
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:58 PM
May 2021

Had a boss tell a whole group of us that we were just numbers on a page.
Then they put us all "on call," didn't hire us for a year, and sent layoff notices at the end of the year.

Makes me all warm & fuzzy.

GoCubsGo

(32,080 posts)
10. That's if they even acknowledge your application...
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:13 PM
May 2021

Sadly, that sign is spot-on, even though it's a spoof. Reminiscent of my job hunting nightmare. Some of the openings I saw required a Master's degree for a $12/hr job. Not kidding. Then there were the prying questions during interviews. "What are you doing with your time since being laid off?" I'm sitting around eating fucking bon-bons during the few minutes I'm not spending looking for and applying to jobs.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. Various revealing signs have signalled me not to return. And this is one of them.
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:14 PM
May 2021

Lol, long before Covid I remember a store on a tourist street by a lake with an outside sign declaring that because we (tourists) were stealing so much, unfortunately... Unbelievable! I don't remember the rest, and of course not the inside of the shop.

Btw, of course owners notably suspicious of, and even hostile toward, their customers are almost always conservative, and strongly so. Like people who always badmouth tourists. Conservatives tend to have a darker view of human nature, so that's almost a given, though individuals can surprise us.

Reminds me of an antique shop owner who accepted a check for $180 from me without ID (I'd misplaced it and it was my first time in there) even though it was while she was giving a police report for a far more expensive chest purchased with a kited check. She apparently believed by her customers were basically honest and hadn't forgotten it, or that she wanted me back. She didn't care to live her life otherwise. On my part, I didn't ask her if she at least leaned socially liberal, just knew it. I still have the little Martha Washington sewing chest to remember her by.

calimary

(81,238 posts)
62. "Conservatives tend to have a darker view of human nature"
Wed May 12, 2021, 11:28 AM
May 2021

because that’s who they ARE. That’s what is inside THEM.

What’s that old saying? When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
64. I guess if you think it's how normal people are...
Wed May 12, 2021, 11:56 AM
May 2021

One thing I read that really surprised me is that conservatives can genuinely LIKE all the people they distrust as a normal thing, the way I like people I assume will mostly tend to behave okay. Now me, if I don't trust one of them not to cheat and betray I'm not going to like him so much, but I don't see that as normal in everyone.

And when an intensely authoritarian business owner I temporarily once worked for kept the supply room locked, from what I've since read she likely underneath was not just guarding her pencils from the potential thieves she was surrounded with, but also may have been, in a kindly, even generous way that she didn't need to think about, protecting her employees from the temptation to steal.

The very byzantine systems that couple felt necessary to protect their business from its employees, btw, were what finally drove me to read about conservative psychology. They certainly weren't the first who had me wondering, though.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
12. "And we will hire three people for each job."
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:22 PM
May 2021


"And let the two "unqualified" ones go after the first week."

Mr.Bill

(24,284 posts)
16. I'm retired now.
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:44 PM
May 2021

I spent most of my working life working at printing companies that were family owned with the owner on the premises with 15 or so employees and everybody on a first name basis. Some were better than others, but the really good ones had one thing in common. On payday the owner came around and handed out the paychecks. When he handed you your check, he said "Thank You".

That's whats missing in much of today's working world. It wasn't even that common decades ago.

ProfessorGAC

(65,010 posts)
29. While Accurate...
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:46 PM
May 2021

...a huge % of people don't get paychecks handed out anymore.
For decades, we got checks in the intracompany mail. Then, they went direct deposit.
We just got the pay receipt in the company mail. Then, they went full online.
Now, we only saw the receipt if we went online.
What your boss did was cool, but as a manager for 35 years, I never even had the opportunity to do that.
But, thanking people regularly for their efforts goes a long way.
We got it where I worked, paycheck pass out or no.
Maybe that's why the turnover rate was typically only under 5% yearly, with 1.5-2% being retirements.
Looks like we agree on the importance of this!

FakeNoose

(32,634 posts)
39. Yes my career was also in offset printing
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:21 PM
May 2021

I'm retired now but I worked in printing almost 40 years for many different employers large and small. It used to be that offset printing companies were single proprietors or family-owned and managed. But nowadays there are so few families, because the 2nd (or 3rd) generation had no interest in keeping it going. The younger ones went to college and became doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.

Your point about the personal thanks and appreciation of the boss/owners - it was very true for many years but it's all gone now.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
43. Except as an afterthought
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:50 PM
May 2021

My last manager always heaped praised on my head and always gave me the hardest work. I worked reimbursing professors for their travel expenses so she invariably gave me the ones who traveled to multiple countries and were demanding. But she would always thank me for being “the best!”!

Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
17. A lot of the labor shortage is coming from boomers retiring and in some cases retiring earlier than
Tue May 11, 2021, 06:51 PM
May 2021

planned.

I think that the pandemic woke a lot of people up to the fact that they should either get busy living or get busy dying. So, a lot of them retired and left the workforce which created openings for younger workers who have left behind the shittier jobs.

Everyone moved up a rung on the ladder sort of speak.

underpants

(182,788 posts)
20. Yep. That's what my wife just said.
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:05 PM
May 2021

About people moving up and now positions have opened up for adults who were working way below their ability.

Yeah I think a lot of boomers just said screw it - 3 more years to hit the next retirement plateau isn’t worth it.

Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
26. Nothing like a Trump presidency coupled with a once in a 100 years pandemic to put life
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:22 PM
May 2021

into its proper perspective. Good things can be taken away from you in an instant. So, why spend more of your precious time on work?

ProfessorGAC

(65,010 posts)
31. I Know, Personally...
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:50 PM
May 2021

...7 teachers that just retired early. Given my subbing, I know a lot of teachers but most are way too young to pack it in.
But, all 7 were at least 55. And, none were fear of COVID. It was the hassle of COVID.
Online teaching, masks, disinfecting, changing lesson plans to keep everything equal between in-person & online...
They just didn't want to deal with it, after 32-40 years of teaching their way.
There's an example of your "screw it".

TexasBushwhacker

(20,185 posts)
51. I think there are plenty of people between 62 and 65
Tue May 11, 2021, 09:25 PM
May 2021

that have gone ahead and taken Social Security early.

Luz

(772 posts)
66. That's exactly what I did. I hit 62 at the end of 2020 and
Wed May 12, 2021, 01:18 PM
May 2021

took a lower retirement. I will probably go back to work part time this summer.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
21. I wonder what they'll say when...
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:07 PM
May 2021

the infrastructure bill is passed, and the new jobs created are filled lickety-split.

mshasta

(2,108 posts)
23. Yes , true, we do that at the company where I work
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:19 PM
May 2021

they never call the people who have apply, we have a pile of applications just there, HR too busy managing finance , and payroll, Manager wont bother to call for people for interviews and they are running on skeleton crew complaining "No body wants to work" lazy people etc. ..etc..

AllaN01Bear

(18,191 posts)
24. used to see one like this in the newspaper here ,,
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:19 PM
May 2021

lousy hours , lousy pay(hint , cheep skate ). grumpy boss. ( hint , grumpy boss)
dispaching company for pagers , common carrier radios and so fourth. yep who wants to work for slave wages .

locks

(2,012 posts)
27. I live near a
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:38 PM
May 2021

Burger King next to a King Sooper, has been there a long time, always busy with customers who can afford a decent price. Last Saturday I went to the drive-up window and nobody came. At the window was a small sign "Park and go to inside dining room due to staff problems." Door was locked and a small sign said "Go to drive-up due to staff problems."

modrepub

(3,495 posts)
28. All Kidding Aside
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:39 PM
May 2021

since when is it the Government's responsibility to force people back into the workforce?!? It's like the only point in living is to work and if you don't want to participate in the corporate rat race the Government needs to sh-t on you, ridicule you and starve you to death.

I watch a fair amount of reality TV following folks who literally live on the edge of society (last Alaskans for example). "Working" to them is just earning enough to pay for food and rudimentary shelter. They prefer to have their freedom; choosing when to wake up, where to go and how to spend their waking hours. In some respects I envy the folks who've turned their back on "civilization" and live their lives on their own terms (and are willing to sacrifice to live their life style and suffer the consequences).

Funny how the "freedom from Government" types are willing to utilize it to force others to conform to some dystopian vision they think is heaven (and never see the irony in their position).

DBoon

(22,363 posts)
55. In some cases, it IS "the Government's responsibility to force people back into the workforce"
Tue May 11, 2021, 09:40 PM
May 2021

Those cases are called "forced labor" or sometimes "slavery"

A lot of wars were fought to get rid of those systems.

mcar

(42,307 posts)
32. This about covers it and is great satire
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:51 PM
May 2021

Work for us for next to nothing and if you have any, I mean any, scheduling conflicts (like kids or something), forget about it. We'll just continue to whine that no one wants to work.

ace3csusm

(969 posts)
35. Funny how companies don't like Capitalism when its on the other side...
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:00 PM
May 2021

Just like companies people now want to maximize their earning and wont take lower earning jobs ... how selfish of workers that they dont want to worker lower wages for the benefit of others, are companies now saying socialism is good for them but not you....

GB_RN

(2,350 posts)
37. It's Nurses' Week
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:05 PM
May 2021

I saw a meme about it the other day. It said if you have to have a week (or day) celebrating your importance, you’re not paid enough.

Now, I didn’t get into nursing for the money - NO ONE goes into nursing to get rich - but for damned sure here in the South, where it’s “right to work (your ass off for no pay because unions are bad)”, nurses don’t get SHIT.

No nurse I know really cares about Nurses’ Week. We just want decent pay. Same for teachers, etc.

Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)
44. Cheers, friend. I don't know about you but our employer doesn't even observe nurses week.
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:51 PM
May 2021

Our new incoming medical director was very kind last year and baked us homemade (yes, he made them himself because I queried him on the ingredients and process) chocolate-chip cookies. DELICIOUS.

I don't want to be ungrateful, but he made them during nurses week . . for all the staff including CNA's, housekeeping, therapists, dietary, etc.

I spent tens of thousands of dollars, years of dedication, effort and pain becoming a registered nurse. Everybody who isn't a doctor does not equal nurse, okay?

After the year we've had - . . . you know, I thought I would be one of those nurses that works till she becomes a resident somewhere - but now speaking even as someone with a deep love of nursing, I wish retirement were closer. Just. Enough already.

Happy nurses' week. I appreciate you. All of you.






GB_RN

(2,350 posts)
59. Exactly!
Wed May 12, 2021, 01:46 AM
May 2021

Nurses Week now gets celebrated out to all the staff. OK, all well and good, but they don’t do that for all the other “weeks”, though. At least not at the hospitals I’ve worked in.

And yeah, I know what you mean about wanting to be closer to retirement after this last year. COVID has been hell, regardless of which floor, ICU or department you work in. And the lip service for all is frontline people has been just that. I certainly never saw an extra dime in hazard pay or the like - like everyone talked about, including Congress, last year.

🥃 to you for all your hard work! From one nurse to another, you know you’re appreciated!

FakeNoose

(32,634 posts)
40. The sarcasm in this Notice makes me think it's a joke
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:28 PM
May 2021

Seriously, this is just too tongue-in-cheek to be a real Notice.

Nobody would post this in public if they were actually looking for employees, would they? It looks to me like some disgruntled person was "getting even" on a day when the boss wouldn't see it. I'll bet this sign came down by the end of the day.

Aussie105

(5,387 posts)
41. Got to love the honesty in that notice!
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:33 PM
May 2021

Same situation here in Australia - people looking for workers and not finding any.

Apparently there is a shortage of backpackers and overseas students who will work for the 'experience' and little pay.
(It's the pandemic lockdown, stupid!)

Some employers/exploiters seem to think there is an endless supply of non-working casual workers out there they can tap into to hire and fire at short notice.

Slow business? You are fired! Business picks up? Come back, all is forgiven!

Seems it just isn't so.

captain queeg

(10,185 posts)
42. It's a different world. I'm grateful that I was able to retire
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:45 PM
May 2021

Not living it up, but I can get by. I have a son in college and he’s working on being self employed. I agree with him that a college education isn’t the spring board to success it once was. I think a college education is great if you can pull it off, but don’t expect it to pay off financially. There are some exceptions of course, but I tell my kid I can’t really give him career advice because everything has changed. Few people nowadays work for the same company for years like they used to. Few companies even last that long.

I remember the old days getting a check on Friday. That stopped for me probably 25 years ago. All direct deposit nowadays. It’s actually better but I kind of missed the whole Pay Day experience.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
46. +1000
Tue May 11, 2021, 09:07 PM
May 2021

The one thing that has always infuriated me was having to fill out a job application and list the EXACT information that was on my resume. I have been with the same company for the past 16 years, but even they want us to go into their new system and do the same thing instead of just uploading our resume.

Am I missing something, or is this completely idiotic and a waste of time? I am thinking it is a test to see just how much bullshit you will put up with.

captain queeg

(10,185 posts)
50. They are just lazy. They don't care if it takes more of your time if it saves them a minute or two
Tue May 11, 2021, 09:19 PM
May 2021

It’s an ongoing problem with data that’s entered in a specific system and not easily transferred to a different system. I suppose in a couple decades it will be resolved but it seems like those who buy a new program or have one developed don’t make interchangeability a requirement. The ones who do the buying aren’t the end users so it’s no skin off their backs.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
53. This has been an issue for at least the last 30 or 40 years!
Tue May 11, 2021, 09:36 PM
May 2021

You would think someone could spot the hole in the market and develop some software that could download a person's resume into a corporate database. FFS, how hard can it be? It is so annoying!

eppur_se_muova

(36,261 posts)
57. I've seen some sites that do that -- you upload your resume, and the program
Tue May 11, 2021, 10:48 PM
May 2021

searches, finds what it "thinks" is the relevant info, fills in the blanks, and sends it to you to whip into final shape. The results leave a lot to be desired, even in academia, where *everyone* should know by now what to put in a c.v.

belpejic

(720 posts)
71. Companies are finally changing
Wed May 12, 2021, 08:17 PM
May 2021

I think that a large percentage of applicants bail out of the process before completing an application when the hiring company makes them jump through all sorts of hoops to apply. I'm seeing more and more companies, especially ones that can invest in having decent HR departments, moving towards asking applicants simply submit a resume and maybe a cover letter, or perhaps a few customized answers to questions. For a first round of evaluations there really shouldn't be a need for anything else.

I totally bail on excessively and pointlessly long online applications. A company that makes it a pain in the ass for me to apply to it is probably not one for whom I want to work.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
72. I agree, especially in the initial stages, when you don't even know if you are going to get called
Wed May 12, 2021, 08:30 PM
May 2021

in for an interview. It's just too much effort for too little reward. Once you are a serious contender, I can see them asking you to do a little more work, but in the beginning, it's just too tedious.

Fortunately, I haven't had to go through the process in a while, but my company keeps updating it's HR/Review/Work History system so we are constantly having to go in to update our data. It is a huge PITA.

DownriverDem

(6,228 posts)
61. Turns out
Wed May 12, 2021, 11:07 AM
May 2021

employers need to pay more instead of attacking folks who don't want to work for low wages. The average age of minimum wage worker is 27. They aren't teenagers. They need a living wage.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
65. I was all set to be hating on that notice after reading the first two sentences.
Wed May 12, 2021, 01:09 PM
May 2021

Saw the humour quite quickly after that.

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