Article at link.
i'm an engineer in the building construction industry. finding labor has been extremely difficult these past few years, even for very high pay. finding competent labor has been nearly impossible. you would think with a recession at hand we could fill a position in less than six months? you would be wrong. it's also not like we're being stingy with wages or demanding only people with 15 years of experience either. we offer high wages and are actively recruiting new graduates.
what happens when people opt out? you get a slowly failing complex system. it will breakdown gradually and then suddenly.
2020 screwed my industry hard. construction was considered an essential service. there was no general shutdown for covid. however, my industry has been burdened by a combination of materials shortages and labor shortages just the same. the clot-shot mandates were a major issue as some companies mandated their sub-contractors take the shots and this adversely affected labor availability. additionally, when hotels and restaurants aren't as available as they need to be, the support services we and our contractors rely upon simply weren't there and induced additional stresses on the workforce.
2020-present has been a lesson in labor loss. oldsters retired to avoid the bs. youngsters dropped out of college to avoid the bs. new labor simply isn't present to replace the old labor. people in the workforce carry a larger burden, burn out quicker, work through the burn out and eventually drop out of the work force entirely due to simply being miserably unhappy. then there are the handouts extended to everyone who wasn't considered essential from 2020 through 2021. two years of handouts to the lazy while the industrious watch their labor be devalued through inflation is a major demotivator.
please share your thoughts. is atlas shrugging? i certainly think so. i think that's part of the economic breakdown we are experiencing.
Article at link.
i'm an engineer in the building construction industry. finding labor has been extremely difficult these past few years, even for very high pay. finding competent labor has been nearly impossible. you would think with a recession at hand we could fill a position in less than six months? you would be wrong. it's also not like we're being stingy with wages or demanding only people with 15 years of experience either. we offer high wages and are actively recruiting new graduates.
what happens when people opt out? you get a slowly failing complex system. it will breakdown gradually and then suddenly.
2020 screwed my industry hard. construction was considered an essential service. there was no general shutdown for covid. however, my industry has been burdened by a combination of materials shortages and labor shortages just the same. the clot-shot mandates were a major issue as some companies mandated their sub-contractors take the shots and this adversely affected labor availability. additionally, when hotels and restaurants aren't as available as they need to be, the support services we and our contractors rely upon simply weren't there and induced additional stresses on the workforce.
2020-present has been a lesson in labor loss. oldsters retired to avoid the bs. youngsters dropped out of college to avoid the bs. new labor simply isn't present to replace the old labor. people in the workforce carry a larger burden, burn out quicker, work through the burn out and eventually drop out of the work force entirely due to simply being miserably unhappy. then there are the handouts extended to everyone who wasn't considered essential from 2020 through 2021. two years of handouts to the lazy while the industrious watch their labor be devalued through inflation is a major demotivator.
please share your thoughts. is atlas shrugging? i certainly think so. i think that's part of the economic breakdown we are experiencing.
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