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You mean the economy that is facing a worker shortage has caused them to lose their job?

by SargeDebian 4y ago

rapind 4y ago
Is it a worker shortage or a wage shortage though?
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  Exactly, if I put out an add like this it will be counted into worker shortage: 'Hiring decelipers with experience of devops, security, and 15 years of Rust experience. Proven controbutions to linux Kernel. $30k' We can all see how laughable this is. It is equally laughable to hire workers on shit wages, just because they are blue caller jobs doesnt mean there is no minimum bar at all The market swings both ways, but media seems to have inherent bias favour how employer's would like it to be
the_lonely_road 4y ago
A 55 year old losing their 100k job and facing only minimum wage offers that replaces 30% of their income is a sad reality for a lot of Americans right now. There is not a worker shortage in every area of the economy just in the economy as a whole.
- astrange 4y ago
  Wages for the bottom 25th percentile of Americans are significantly up in the last 2 years, even counting inflation. I promise the economy is actually doing well. (For instance, if everyone was losing wages there wouldn't be inflation.)
  - thwayunion 4y ago
    Didn't real wages decrease in the latest print?
    - astrange 4y ago
      Yes, real wages decreased on average for everyone, but the bottom quartile increased so much from 2019 that they're still ahead. Of course, it always depends which point you start measuring from. Gas prices (which drives a lot of how people feel everything is doing) have also been up and down but are solidly down recently.
      - astrange 4y ago
        https://twitter.com/arindube/status/1595606927303925760 https://twitter.com/arindube/status/1595606927303925760
SQueeeeeL 4y ago
I love the idea of forcing a fired 59 year old mid level executive to suddenly serve coffee at a Dunkin Donuts, and shouting at them asking "Why aren't you happy with this job!?!" Realistically, the reason we have a worker shortage is because all the jobs are non-unionized shit jobs that treat you like a meat puppet and actively abuse you
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You mean the economy that is facing a worker shortage has caused them to lose their job?

rapind 4y ago

Is it a worker shortage or a wage shortage though?

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
Exactly, if I put out an add like this it will be counted into worker shortage: 'Hiring decelipers with experience of devops, security, and 15 years of Rust experience. Proven controbutions to linux Kernel. $30k' We can all see how laughable this is. It is equally laughable to hire workers on shit wages, just because they are blue caller jobs doesnt mean there is no minimum bar at all The market swings both ways, but media seems to have inherent bias favour how employer's would like it to be

the_lonely_road 4y ago

A 55 year old losing their 100k job and facing only minimum wage offers that replaces 30% of their income is a sad reality for a lot of Americans right now. There is not a worker shortage in every area of the economy just in the economy as a whole.

astrange 4y ago
Wages for the bottom 25th percentile of Americans are significantly up in the last 2 years, even counting inflation. I promise the economy is actually doing well. (For instance, if everyone was losing wages there wouldn't be inflation.)
- thwayunion 4y ago
  Didn't real wages decrease in the latest print?
  - astrange 4y ago
    Yes, real wages decreased on average for everyone, but the bottom quartile increased so much from 2019 that they're still ahead. Of course, it always depends which point you start measuring from. Gas prices (which drives a lot of how people feel everything is doing) have also been up and down but are solidly down recently.
    - astrange 4y ago
      https://twitter.com/arindube/status/1595606927303925760 https://twitter.com/arindube/status/1595606927303925760

SQueeeeeL 4y ago

I love the idea of forcing a fired 59 year old mid level executive to suddenly serve coffee at a Dunkin Donuts, and shouting at them asking "Why aren't you happy with this job!?!" Realistically, the reason we have a worker shortage is because all the jobs are non-unionized shit jobs that treat you like a meat puppet and actively abuse you

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