Using subs as field techs is just shit across the entire IT services/telco/utility industry, generally speaking. It was a necessary evil at my old company as we were a global company with a global customer-base, but only had in-house techs for the East coast, Texas and California, but working with subs (especially relying on subs on the weekend to actually pick up their phones to support 24/7 contracts) was frequently just awful.
You’ll probably appreciate this picture I took last year of this dump truck leaving a job site and forgot to lower his bed. Took them five hours to get it undone without any explosions or electricutions.
I knew a guy who rinsed out as an engineer and kept failing downward. Last I saw of him, he was doing tech support for a small ISP as a subcontractor. Any time I see a 40 something WMA doing entry level work, I think of him and shake my head because I know what the process and outcome will be like. I LMAO envisioning seeing him sitting in a call center office and screaming red faced into the telephone at customers because that's all he did to his coworkers the brief time I dealt with him. The fun part was when they redid the engineering department and took down all the cubicles. His desk was right on the hallway and I'd unplug his mouse as I walked by. I'm surprised I never got shot.
That's actually quite a decent price for that computer assuming the PSU isn't some timebomb shit.
Liquor distribution is starting to breakdown in South Florida right now, because companies can't find people to hire and they are losing people. Supposedly Amazon just poached a ton of warehouse people from liquor distributors. Combine that with drivers having been hard to hire for a long time, and they are getting away from this type of stuff en masse. Deliveries are starting to be days late consistently, which is a problem when you are normally getting deliveries twice a week. It's only going to get worse too, as people start trying to order more product in advance because they aren't getting what they order in a timely manner.3 months of your pay is nothing to most companies. Actual worker compensation is such a small percent of revenue for most companies. There are much more significant costs to having to rehire people, especially if the economy heats up and new people are hard to find. Add to this the fact that most new hires are fucking useless for their first 6 months in most jobs that require any type of skill at all.
You have many large companies that literally pay people to voluntarily quit in large numbers:
Verizon buyout offer: 10,000 workers to leave company with up to 60 weeks pay
Nearly a quarter of employees offered paid package to leave the telecom giant are voluntarily heading for the exitwww.cbsnews.com
I'm sure that if Chrysler thought that the slowdown would be longer than 3 months they would be doing this.
No, it's market forces. The American worker has been dramatically underpaid for a long time. Places that are having trouble finding workers should try paying more money.
It’s in a lot of industries now. We can’t find anyone, when we do get someone they’re fairly useless or under qualified and we have to take them anyways. My neighbor has 40 spots open he can’t fill. Five staffing agencies are looking for him and nothing. A coworker is friends with a guy who owns multiple staffing agencies, has 500 open slots he can’t fill. People are just milking unemployment and stimmies and they’re happy to tell you so.
LOL, maybe the problem is that ever since 1980s its been drilled down out throats to COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY, why would you want to be a truck driver or plumber? So the age of the snowflake comes. And here we are masses of people who think they are too good to do honest necessary jobs because they have a degree in african science or aborigines hut making.
Comparing truck driving and plumbing in the same sentence is ridiculous. Becoming a licensed plumber/electrician/etc requires an apprenticeship/journeyman/etc, and in most states, the steps to get onto that career path are intentionally obscured in order to create scarcity in those professions. There should be some national effort to make the steps to enter these occupations more accessible, like making these programs available and financial-aid-eligible at all publicly funded community colleges.
I'm talking drivers that are making 60k+ with potential depending on route to be making 100k+ a year. And they can't fill them. I'm not overly surprised on the warehouse guys though, I can't imagine they are making enough money.
