I'll believe there's a "labor shortage" when everyone I know stops getting ghosted and/or rejected by the places they're applying to work
@joepie91 and fired, laid off, or made redundant! Or "we're sorry but the budget this year did not extend to renew your contract "
@joepie91 Can't even get to a phone interview at most places with a decade of experience on your resume but sure, "nobody wants to work". Right.
@joepie91 also: regular rounds of layoffs
@joepie91
Well, you gotta try walking in their shoes 🤡 There IS a shortage in labor willing to work below livable wages.
@joepie91 back in 2019 Lowe’s made the snap decision to dismantle its in house FSA (maintenance) and Assembly teams, I woke up on my 30th birthday to about 100 text messages from my coworkers asking if I knew and if I was okay. I was off work so I called in to ask and was told to come in when I could so they could go over it with me. That morning in their morning managers meeting corporate had told the management team that we were to be let go effective immediately. They had to leave
@joepie91 that meeting and tell about 7 employees that they are no longer and had two options. To leave with two weeks pay and the opportunity to reapply after 12 months or to reapply to any open positions in the store immediately (with no guarantee of being approved for the job btw) and not take the money. I took the money. My direct supervisor reapplied, a man who’d been working with Lowe’s for over 10 years, and he wasn’t hired bc none of the positions listed on the website
@joepie91 were actually open. So he lost his job of 10 years and was out that extra paycheck. When I was working at Walmart I applied for a couple of position that were outside of my department only to be told that they also were not actually open. This is not new and it’s not a secret so how anyone can say “no one wants to work these days” when they’re the ones not actually hiring is insane to me.
(For the same reason, places that offer to pay for your education with a job guarantee, are exempt from this criticism. There aren't many, but it's more than zero)