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I often see skilled labor such as carpenters or tile installer jobs for $9-$10 per hour AND you have to provide your own tools!
I also like the apartment maintenance jobs that require you to not only live on site and be on call 24/7 but you don't even get a free apartment out of it. Sometimes you get reduced rent but most of these also require you provide your own tools too.
I remember it wasn't that long ago that having a skilled trade was a job that paid pretty good and these days they want that same skill to be available for min wage.
The whole concept of contracting out caused this beginning with RR and M. Thatcher in the 80's.
You don't need an MBA to rip people off like this. I got OUT of an industry 20 years ago when my
competitors dropped their per hour to 10. and I was paying 14. plus travel time.
I'll go do something else before I become a pimp like them.
I had a recruiter contact me wanting to know how I felt about an entry level engineering position. Great I say, meets all of what I'm hoping to land. Then he asks me how I felt about $20-$22/hr. I seriously couldn't hold back the laughter. He ensures me that that is great pay, because it is entry level. I tell him not to contact me again and hang up.
Perhaps with so many being unemployed, employers are taking advantage of it and offering low wages. Guess they figure anyone desperate enough will accept.
Yep. And employees that are selfish and/or stupid enough to accept a job at an unreasonably low pay add fire to the flames. Regardless of how desperate someone is, working for this low undercuts the market and in the long run drives down the going wage for everyone.
I had a recruiter contact me wanting to know how I felt about an entry level engineering position. Great I say, meets all of what I'm hoping to land. Then he asks me how I felt about $20-$22/hr. I seriously couldn't hold back the laughter. He ensures me that that is great pay, because it is entry level. I tell him not to contact me again and hang up.
Yep the contract agencies want to pay engineers $40-50k (no benefits)
and the scientists $25-$35k
I am looking for a young and energetic woman to handle all of my clerical office work (answering phones, faxing, filing, typing letters, etc). This position is definitely not for everyone. I am a busy professional who does not have the time to date since I am always working, so I am looking for someone not only to work for me but to provide companionship. This is not a scam, and Im trying to be as open and blunt about it upfront as I possibly can be so I dont waste anyones time who is not interested.
And that's the problem. Employers are saying todays workers are "lazy" or the phrase I love... "Bad attitude." How original Any time someone isn't willing to basically work slave labor free is labeled with an attitude problem. I guess it's easier to label them than to admit to the real problem.
And they wonder why people milk unemployment for as long as they can.
I'm not "milking" it but I make more than that on UIB. I also don't have to accept employment that is outside my skill set. With that being said, I'm going to have to do something because my benefits end in 6 weeks, I'm tired of being at home every day and I can't afford to not have something coming in.
It's no joke. Wages are stagnant, or even declining in some cases. Someone out there will take the job. What the employer apparently doesn't realize is that price of labor doesn't equal value.
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Any time someone isn't willing to basically work slave labor free is labeled with an attitude problem. I guess it's easier to label them than to admit to the real problem.
