It’s probably not the reason, but if I peruse the job listings for WISP/FISP field techs / installers, the pay offered is often crap.
I’m impressed that many of them accurately state the job requirements (many job ads have vague nonsense for a job description), but then they offer something like $12/hour and want people to work 8-6 and half a day Saturday or something. Some have benefits and the possibility of pay increases and rising within the company, but employees today probably don’t think about a career with the company and rising through the ranks. Plus you can get all that at Walmart and just work a cash register or stock shelves. Another thing perhaps is that many young people today don’t seem to have a biological clock conducive to a work day that starts at 8:00. Most construction jobs actually start at 7:00 on site (because noise ordinances don’t let you start any earlier), good luck getting a 20 year old to show up at 7:00 ready to work. Used to be you had to do that, nobody cared if you weren’t a morning person. But then you got all the gig jobs where you just sign into the app whenever you wanted to work. And the retail and food service jobs that abused young workers by giving them different schedules every day and every week and not giving them a full 40 hours, and the kids got used to it and maybe actually started to like it. The idea that you work 9-5 because the man says so, is kind of obsolete in 2020. Employment probably looks less like a career and more like a la carte or day labor. I think I’ll work today. Or maybe not. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Steve Jones Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 10:30 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT new hires I dont understand this shit. I cant say much, I worked a full shift at a hardee's once as a second job and never showed back up, I regret it to this day. I think the prospect of the extra 2400 bucks a month unemployment is what's driving it. Theres gonna be a back pay rider on the "stimulus" package. I've considered asking the boss to "fire" me and cash may me half my salary in the mean time. While I work a second cash job at a bar. I'd pay off my debt in no time On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 2:49 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
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