I never once heard this myth. I heard people say it's because nobody wants to work because unemployment benefits + COVID relief is the same or even more than they're earning, and they don't have to pay student loans or rent. I NEVER heard it described as young people. I think the author is a butthurt millenial.
Some of my boomer supervisors have blended the two. It's become a weird combo of "unemployment benefits were out of control" and "young folks just don't want to work hard". They're not that creative so I'm sure they're just repeating both those ideas from whatever talk shows they prefer.
I know first hand that most people under 25 in my area don't want to work at all. My buddy runs a warehouse and is offering $50 just to show up to an interview and still less than 10% manage to even show up. They're paying $20 an hour and have to spend over a month scheduling about 50 interviews before they can even get someone. 9 times out of ten the new hire doesn't want to follow directions. They just randomly start choosing their own work and when the boss says, "you were assigned to clear out the bays in the corner, not sweep the break room," they act like that's the most totalitarian dictator-level shit they've ever heard. They do the weirdest shit, like claim they can't work more than 4 hours because it's too exhausting. And don't even get me started on that 9 out of 10 don't know the most basic thing about basic tools. You ask them to change the cover plate on an outlet and they're lost. It's crazy.
Where I work we cycle through 10-15 students or recent graduates a year as seasonal employees. The attrition rate is very high and usually only 1 or 2 can actually last the field season. In private-sector forestry I'm having to compete with all the agencies who offer comparable wages and socialized benefits while also having virtually no metrics or accountability for production or quality of work. It sucks.
Yeah that’s what happens when you are trying to find a employee In a area where $20 hr doesn't pay for rent in said area.
That stuff is over now all across the US isn't it? Extra gibs ended awhile ago yet the msm is still acting like it's going on.
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