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I don't buy it. For myself and other employers I know, we're just having an incredibly difficult time hiring low skilled employees. $15 an hour for menial work?
by nazgulnarsil 12y ago
I don't buy it. For myself and other employers I know, we're just having an incredibly difficult time hiring low skilled employees. $15 an hour for menial work? Maybe 4-5 responses from craigslist. Contrast this with a couple years ago when there would have been dozens of applicants. Labor seems tight.
- acadien 12y agoThat's just anecdotal evidence, what you're experiencing might just be local to your town or the type of work you're offering.
- totalrobe 12y agoWhere?
- jjoonathan 12y agoSpeculation: someplace where $15/hr isn't enough to live even a commuter lifestyle.
- ritchiea 12y agoI don't know what kind of menial positions you're hiring for but I have definitely seen companies with implicit hiring policies that would make it difficult to hire many of the people who are actually in need of menial work for employment. e.g. want menial work? Well you should still at least sort of remind me of the upper middle class/Ivy league types I am hiring for my salaried positions. Even in our current context of an industry dominated by affluent white males I think what I describe above is where race and class discrimination are worst for job seekers.
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- guessbest 12y agoHey, I'm an iOS developer desperately seeking work. I am also a vet, and I've had no luck finding work. Where can I go to get this work? I'll even do menial work.
- jaekwon 12y agoYour observation appears to be consistent with a declining rate of people who want a job but don't have one.