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A have a friend in Indiana who owns a landscape company. About 45 minutes outside of Ft Wayne, so not a big town. Offering $18/hour start, no experience. He needs two crews and only has one guy. Cannot get help
I am in Columbia, SC and my wife works for a HME company. They have over 20 positions open, can't fill them. Ranging from $18 to $25 hour for almost all of them. Can't fill them
Yep full service at 29 cents per gallon
Countless examples of this with the extra unemployment. $37k+ a year plus OT is nothing to dismiss when it's no skill or experience required and in a low cost of living area.
I do recall gas wars where the price dropped to $.17 per gallon. Fill 'er up and give some change back from 2 dollars. Crazy. And I still had to check the oil and clean the windshield - even for .17 per gallon.
Was traveling through Texas back in the late Sixties and saw plenty of gas wars 12 cents per gallon was the lowest
If someone can’t find a job, they are not looking.
Cool
There are over 83k available jobs in SC. Many are $15+ per hour. I only skimmed that article you posted so I certainly may have missed but I see their claim that the open jobs are low wage/minimum wage but I missed where they cited the starting pay
If the extra unemployment benefits, $300 or $600 week, went away and if we went back to people having to be actively searching for employment to collect unemployment what would the unemployment rate be?
What's the unemployment rate in Florida vs NY and Texas?
Why were we hitting and exceeding job targets up until the last few months? Wasn't last month the worst result vs expectation in 20+ years?
Why would anyone work 40 hours for an extra few hundred vs staying home and not working?
Again, your bubble and my bubble are different.
And just because it says it on the internet doesn't mean it's true...
U.S. job openings soar to record 8.1 million, but businesses can’t find enough workers
Job openings in the U.S. topped 8 million in March for the first time ever, the Labor Department said Tuesday. There were 7.5 million open jobs in February.
The number of job openings is now well above prepandemic levels and easily exceeds the all-time peak of 7.57 million set in November 2018
A record 44% of small businesses, for instance, said they could not fill open jobs in April
Job openings rose the most in March at restaurants and hotels, two of the industries hurt the most by the pandemic. Job openings in the sector increased by 185,000 to 993,000 — the second highest level ever.
Separations — layoffs, firings, retirements and so forth —fell to the lowest level in six months. And layoffs were at an all-time low
The so-called quits rate, meanwhile, rose one tick to 2.7% among private-sector employees and matched a 20-year high. More people quit when the economy is doing well.
Some companies are raising pay and benefits to draw job applicants and more are expected to do so. For example, Chipotle said it’s increasing wages for employees as it seeks to hire 20,000 more people.
“Demand for workers is literally off the charts, and these data, even though they are for March, underscore the point that … the shortfall in payrolls says more about the lack of supply of workers than economic weakness,” said chief economist Stephen Stanley of Amherst Pierpont Securities.
Record job openings
7 out of 8 are not restaurant/hotel business
nearly 1/2 of small businesses are unable to fill open positions
Companies are raising wages to entice employees
Biggest miss in employment projection in decades
Yup, all because of those $7.25/jobs
Lot of irony in this
Guys let’s keep it on the topic of gas and dumb people hoarding it
@donmedeiros That's funny. Willie MAC.
You always have a few stories to tell when you worked in a filling station. The Clark station I worked at... Gas was around .40 per gallon and cigs were around 35-45 cents per pack. No 24 hours, but we had a huge outdoor cigarette rack that must have held nearly 200 cartons of cigarettes.
And the Amoco station I worked at... We changed or repaired truck tires. And including a tire inflation cage for safety. Well, my friend Jeff who was new was asked by a truck driver to change a front tire while he went to lunch at the Fred Harvey's. Only, some trucks and cars have left handed threads.
So Jeff goes about trying to remove the lug nuts. Only they won't break loose. And trust me, this pneumatic impact wrench had almost limitless power. So he continues to increase the power to get the job done. It had a low and high along with 10 different power settings. Finally, he over-torqued one of the lug nuts until it just spun. Man, was that driver mad when he got back.