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Originally Posted by alphamale
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That's the FUNNIEST post I've ever seen!
I have to agree. For the statement "employer expectations are unreasonable, and are much to blame for the high unemployment rate" to be true, the employers would have to all be running short handed without filling any vacant positions. The fact is that for every opening someone is getting hired. There is almost always someone that meets their expectations, or comes very close. They just don't have to settle for less and are enjoying a time when they can be more picky about who they hire. During the 90s it was the opposite, with employers having to overpay to attract people, but those days are gone and may not ever return.
If people without experience start getting these jobs, the people with experience will start complaining that they can't get hired. When there are only so many jobs available, employers go with the experienced because they don't have to spend as much time training, the new person can be productive right away, or at least sooner. That's just good business, and I suspect that anyone of the people complaining would do the same thing if they owned a business.
Those insurance jobs are a bad example. I remember being recruited by one a few years ago when I was looking, and it was basically minimum wage plus commission. Some even charged for the training. Unless you are a great salesperson with poor ethics, you sell to all your relatives and friends and then they fire you when you stop bringing in new policies.
Well I'm not speaking of insurance but where I am (Texas) The amount of places looking for minimum wage help is astounding. Plus apparently the DHS started really looking the E-verify records and many restaurants around me anyways have had service issues ever since. My beef was that you'd think they'd be wanting to take someone who is LEGAL, who can communicate well in English and what,,they might need a week of training to do prep work? And there were other jobs he applied to as well.
I can say I'm proficient in Spanish but it probably took me 7-8 years before I could read fast enough to pass a "standardized" test.
As a 16 year owner/operator of a restaurant who trained many waitstaff and bartenders I can assure you that there is infinitely more involved in waiting tables/bussing than the ability pick up dishes and wipe down tables - and some can't even do that apparently simple task properly.
INFINITELY MORE? I'm sorry, but I've worked in enough restaurants in my 60 years on this planet to know that's just baloney. It's just plain hype, and an attempt to justify demanding INFINITELY more of people than you pay them for.
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