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Showing Original Post only (View all)Nobody wants to work anymore? Some job seekers getting fed up with applying and not hearing anything [View all]
For the past year, Tim Glaza has been managing inventory as a contract worker for Stellantis, helping the automaker navigate unprecedented supply-chain challenges.
If the headlines are to be believed record job openings and an urgent need for supply-chain experts Glaza should have his pick of prospective employers.
Glaza is one of dozens of job seekers who told Insider they had been ghosted by employers during the past year as business leaders across the US rang the alarm over a growing labor crisis.
"It's just throwing résumés into the void and not hearing anything back," he said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/job-seekers-frustrated-sending-hundreds-applications-resumes-no-response-shortage-2021-9
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Nobody wants to work anymore? Some job seekers getting fed up with applying and not hearing anything [View all]
ck4829
Oct 2021
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I think the "nobody wants to work anymore" trope is about low wage employees
SmittyWerben
Oct 2021
#1
I share your opinion here. Employers do not want to pay their employees a decent wage.
LonePirate
Oct 2021
#2
If a soul has to arrange and pay for childcare and transportation to and from a job
Midnight Writer
Oct 2021
#7
There's a tweet going around on Facebook that reads something to the effect of--
CrispyQ
Oct 2021
#8
It's not new, but it's always worth seeing in this day and age of "Nobody wants to work anymore"
ck4829
Oct 2021
#6