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When you pay people not to work, they turn into niggers.

[–] 3 pts

One word. "Welfare"

[–] 1 pt

Most people seriously over rate their own qualifications and their potential usefulness as an employee. Therefore they don't want to take a job that they feel is "beneath" them.

[–] [deleted] 2 pts

A couple of decades of being taught to look down their noses at any job in the trades, or anything manual labor for that matter, has greatly contributed to this.

[–] 0 pt

That, and the companies with trades jobs having this insane desire to minimize staff. Working 12 hour days on a 223 schedule is a young mans game. All to go from 3 shifts with weekend to two shifts fits all.

Had a conversation with a guy on LinkedIn about this thing. He couldn’t understand why no one would apply for his 70k a year maintenance tech jobs. Kids are going to college and 30 year olds have other obligations and can’t work shit like that schedule.

Told him I’d apply if it was a 40 hour a week traditional shift, but those long hours would break any person over 40.

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True. I had a interview at this print shop had a “flip shift” so you work 12 hour days starting in the am, one day off, then you come back and start in the pm. I asked them how that’s even possible (as a human) and they said “you just do it”. Obviously I didn’t take the job. Also had a tour of the production floor. Everyone looked like they had one foot in the grave.

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Same reason as always. Lots of shit jobs and lots of jobs that employers never intend on filling.

[–] 2 pts

This too. The fake job ads so they can import. See this a LOT in IT work. An impossible set of qualifications, just so they can say, "see, Americans can't do this, we need overseas labor.

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It’s in electrical tech as well. It’s why stuff breaks.

[–] 3 pts

Why I did my own elec on my boat. Nothing but books, youtube, and effort, working perfectly well.

According to business owners in my town "Nobody wants to work".

[–] 0 pt

Wages too low, people gig working or going back to school.