That’s probably the best explanation.
Plus I guess a lot of the people out of work are hoping to get called back to their regular job (after all, we’re “turning the corner”). Plus they may be able to work a gig job with more flexibility and maybe it pays almost as good as you’re offering. If you take a gig job for Uber or delivering groceries or fast food, ghosting is easy, you just sign out of the app. It used to be you took a job and looked at it as a 1 or 2 year commitment, or it would look bad on your resume. Now in the gig economy, it’s a 5 minute commitment. There’s also probably some depression going around. Lots of 20 year olds see a dystopian future they blame on older generations and may be curled up in a fetal position thinking what’s the use. Of course, you could always try paying more. That won’t work if they really just don’t want to do the job. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Matt Hoppes Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 6:24 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT new hires It’s the ghosting era. Show up. Get hired. Find better gig. Don’t talk. Just don’t show. On Oct 21, 2020, at 6:50 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) <li...@packetflux.com <mailto:li...@packetflux.com> > wrote: I've had a position open here for quite some time. Two interviews set up, no shows. I don't doubt the unemployment statistics are correct, (i.e. that's the percentage collecting unemployment), but a more useful statistic would be the number of people actually interested in getting and holding an actual job. I have to assume that number is very close to zero right now, at least in the local area. I've had occasion to use several contractors recently related to insulating the remaining unheated space in our manufacturing facility and it's amazing how many of them qualify their quotes/info with some "I can't find good employees and I'm doing the best we can" hedge. On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:49 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote: Is this a generational thing: New hire, worked 2 days then no show? Will not return calls, texts or emails. Has happened repeatedly to us. We also have guys go through the whole process of getting hired then not ever showing up. No shows to scheduled interviews is very common. On a positive note, I am wiring up my new (to me) water jet cutter... Be making my own HDD drill bits and micro trenching blades soon! -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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