Yeah, everyone now who is going back to work has. I was thinking more of around January of this year when the UE numbers were still high.
Companies that need people now are ones that are late to the game and trying to compete for the few people left, or ones that have never had enough people to work for them. There's also the usual suspects that simply like to whine they don't have enough people, but they'll never find anyone because they want to whine.
This company a friend works for hires seasonal in October and they get laid Christmas Day. It’s usually for people looking for extra money for Christmas and they’ll work around your main job, a few don’t have main jobs and hope to impress and get called when it picks back up.
If you’re a good worker they bring you back as soon as it picks up.
They’ve been short staffed since the first few weeks of the pandemic, they’ve increased starting wages it’s really way above any other company and even bonuses.
They did their seasonal hiring this year there was nobody with s main job just looking for extra money like usual, nobody has a job. They told everyone that they wouldn’t be let go Christmas Day and they’d be permanent employees if they chose, with full benefits after 6 months a raise after their 90 days etc.
Out of roughly 70 people they’ve managed to keep one employee and believe it or not he’s black, not mixed or African but American black and he’s been busting his ass the entire time.
If he keeps it up he’ll get promoted rapidly for diversity reasons. Hopefully not though, the few blacks that do end up getting promotion always end up stealing or sleeping with their subordinates and get fired.
Similar here if I understand you - lot of places looking for seasonal help but their traditional help has real jobs now and do not want to work for a season.
Amazingly, there are still high-skill jobs trying to hire people for less than these warehouse places are paying. I had a call today from a major Japanese corporation looking for people to service it's POS equipment. The pay rate was just what you could make at a no-skill light industry to just slightly above the top rates at those places. There's no one in their right mind that would leave a regular hours/location job for a company where you're on call dealing with the public all day for that kind of wage.
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