The REAL Reason Americans Aren't Returning To The Workplace
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The REAL Reason Americans Aren't Returning To The Workplace
Make your dream job a REALITY! Subscribe today: www.youtube.co...
Get Clear on What You Were Born to Do
Take our assessment: bit.ly/3MSlBpT
Order my new book "From Paycheck to Purpose" : bit.ly/3DsvV2M
Free Guides & Resources:
www.ramseysolu...
Listen or Watch The Full Show: bit.ly/2GVm6iX
Free Guides & Resources: bit.ly/2UsQg57
Grab my book, The Proximity Principle: bit.ly/2VvBlVc
If you have questions about your career, passions or talents, call the show at 844-747-2577 or email ask@kencoleman.com.
Do you feel stuck in your job? Do you dread going to work on Monday mornings? Do you want to do work that matters? The Ken Coleman Show is for you! Join the conversation with #1 bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host, Ken Coleman as he delivers practical advice to help you discover the role you were born to play-and map out a plan to get there. You have what it takes to make your dream job a reality!
Website: bit.ly/2RD3Gv6
Instagram: bit.ly/2vV00uX
Facebook: bit.ly/2CtJKRh
Twitter: bit.ly/2Cu4RCQ
Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy
www.ramseysolu...
People don’t want to return to work because of broken, corrupt, and toxic AF workplaces and shitty, abusive bosses.
👏🏾
They are lazy, and our moronic government pays them to be lazy worthless democrat voters.
Honestly this more then pay even. High paying jobs hate it the same as low paying jobs. They just got nicer place to chill after working and many higher laying job require more hours
Amen to that. I used to work in the grocery industry for many years. Finally I had enough, left it and became a Millionaire.
Yeah I was in a toxic workplace and was pregnant and I’m like this stress is not worth it I’d rather just stay home with my babies…
Ken, this is the narrative our news and politicians push about a labor shortage. They never specify that it primarily affects minimum wage jobs like retail and food service. I have consistently looked for work after being laid off from a financial recruitment firm 5 months ago to no avail. I have a masters degree, and over 20 yrs experience. The truth is many company’s don’t want anyone over 40 yrs old despite credentials, work ethic, and professionalism.
😮wow this was a fascinating comment to read. Though not the first time I’ve heard something of this nature.
So basically, companies want people that they can use and pay like dirt. Not people like yourself who would need an actual good contract?
The US Department of Labor has a website that estimates the "career" fields that have the most openings. Right now the top 10 'career' fields are fast food, home health, cashier, general retail, janitorial, general laborers, and the like. About 9 million openings right there. All relatively low paying. Careers 11-20 have about 2 million openings, and that is where the higher paying and higher ed requirements start. Even so, it includes cooks and housecleaners. The next 10 careers with openings, 21-30, are mixed, and amount to maybe 3 million openings, with lower paying "careers" like construction laborers, security guards, landscaping, etc. being predominant. So, right off the bat -- according to a department of the US government -- the majority of the roughly 14 million open positions in the hottest 30 "career" fields right now are low paying.
Your experience isn't unique. There was talk about discrimination against "overqualified" and older workers during the 2008 recession, and it wouldn't surprise me if the business sector continues in that direction. I met people in your position in 2008. It's tough. And like you mention, many companies simply don't give a rat's about credentials, work ethic, professionalism, or your education, if you're over 40.
Age discrimination is the predominant discrimination. It is not qualifications or skin color, etc. No one is bold enough to state this truth. We do not aspire to be greeters at Walmart.
@@mztokyo7630 As a former executive in the forever revolving door of the NYC financial sector, I can attest to seeing internal job specs for some high level positions stating “No more than 12 years experience!” That would make a $250k and up executive only 33 yrs old.
Recruitment isn’t a real job. Outside of bubbles you will always be fired. Get a real skill lol.
Everyone will sell you a skill up, but finding someone who will pay for your skills is another story.
You left off the biggest issue as to why people aren’t working. Let’s use Walmart as example since they’re largest employer. I can work at 90% efficiency, a teenager can produce 40% and come in late daily, another employee can be morbidly obese and take countless breaks while being 20-30% efficient. We all get same pay. We have gotten to a time where people don’t get paid for efforts and potential. People get paid across the board pay. This applies to everywhere, not just Walmart. People with strong work ethic are sick of seeing lazy people get same pay for less effort. Employers don’t want to pay based on individual efforts because they fear lawsuits of inequality
Interesting take!
THIS 💯... and because you're efficient more gets added on to your workload. No more standing out, lol.
Age discrimination is rampant and a disincentive!!
Work efficiency at Wal-Mart really isnt the driver toward promotions or raises. It has more to do with your relationship with members of management. My last job after military retirement.
@@johnsyler8580 at my local Walmart there’s no such thing as an individual raise, all employees in each department get paid exactly the same. No matter how much experience, no matter how many years, or how productive you are, everyone in that department gets same pay
The issue is no one in high school tells you "try to make money doing what you love" the story is always "go to college to get a job"
Right!!! From the Generations That MiSSED the Point & MESSED Up the Messaging of MEANING ( they got it wrong & $OLd it as Right to their own descendants)-- the NEXT generations.
Don’t $ELL me faux pas FOLLY …..
I want Instead, wisdom
That's all I heard throughout high school and it turned out to be the biggest fluff of them all.
Yep, they've been selling that for decades to kids out of the government being lobbied by big banks and corporations. It's a big scam!!!
yeah it's a lie. Get a job, keep the job, do it. It's just for money. It's a LIE ! There's no meaning to work. It's about MONEY!
Or maybe normalizing a high schooler to take a year or two before they decide on that next major move. How often does an 18 year old know what they love and want to do for the next forty years? Not often. What if they got to spend a year or two to really hammer they down and experience things before making that major choice? Interesting to ponder at least.
I watch a lot of videos about why Americans aren't working. Nobody mentions the fact that many of those jobs are low wage jobs that nobody can live on.
Why can't they learn a skill? I changed to IT after 20 years and found work. Just study for something and do shit. Why are people such pessimists.
@@xaviergough9359 One problem is that education is so expensive.
@@xaviergough9359 I've had for careers in 4 different fields. Just how many times am I supposed to retrain and how many more times should I expect to retrain when companies just move over seas or whatever?
Nearly every company I have worked for is now out of business and now companies are embracing ESG which means they don't hire white men.
@@xaviergough9359 According to the Department of Labor, the top 10 'career' fields with the greatest growth potential right now are fast food, home health, cashier, general retail, janitorial, general laborers, and the like. About 9 million openings right there. All relatively low paying, with minimal education requirements. The next 40 career fields with high growth potential are roughly the same, with a few exceptions. The point being that even if you have a skill, it doesn't necessarily follow that it will be marketable. When NAFTA allowed companies to ship factories to Mexico wholesale, a lot of skilled people lost their jobs. Retraining is a mixed bag, with mixed results. People should seek skills, but the system seems to be loaded against skilled and unskilled workers. A lot of skilled tech workers have been laid off over the past several months. There is no easy answer.
@@xaviergough935970% of the jobs in the country pay less than 35k... Do you not see that there aren't enough good paying jobs?? Blind I swear.
Wonder how many people at Ramsey don't have college degrees.
Corporate dysfunction has drastically changed the landscape. We are the CEO of our own careers regardless of where we work and for how long.
I work four part time jobs. Nonprofit Consultant, nonprofit executive director, and adjunct professor. All of my jobs are purposeful (leadership and community facing). I make my own schedule and it’s flexible. I can bring my child with me to work. Most of the time I work from home. Raising my child and being available for family and myself is more important. So no I can’t see myself going into a traditional role unless I have to.
How do you get benefits ( health ins) with part time jobs?
@@janiewerner You can always buy your own insurance and invest in your own benefits.
First thing you need to understand about all these job listings. They MUST list the job and "try" to hire before they can hire a foreign worker. A lot of these listings are just to fullfill that requirement. They had no intention of ever hiring.
Good point.
Yeah nice blackpill, but I think it's some people are just better hires than you? I have had it happen to me, and I have also been the "hire" that got chosen over someone else.
@xaviergough9359 Who said anything about hiring me? I'm self-employed. Are you illiterate?
Correct. Many government hires are the same. They have to post the opening and then waste all the non predetermined applicants time and destroy our hopes and dreams in the process.
I don’t want to go back to traditional office that doesn’t let me work from home at least 2 times a week. Flexibility now is key! I rather loose a percent of pay in lieu of this. What are these companies doing?? Making everyone come back to the office daily to babysit them. Hell no! I rather work for myself for less money
I love working from home. Less wear and tear on your car, less gas used, more time in your day. It's extremely easy for me to focus on work when I'm at home.
But that ruins Dave's portfolio of commercial space and that's why for the last year Ken has been on the soap box telling you to go back to the office
@@1978dakdogding ding ding.
I didn’t hear you mention the fact that jobs are paying less and less while prices on the most basic human necessities (housing, food, utilities, transportation) have risen astronomically to where even if you make the median income, you’re going to be working poor. Meaning you’ll be working paycheck to paycheck. The overwhelming majority of jobs pay less than the national median income, even for jobs requiring a degree.
This is not a fault of the workers, it’s a result of unconscionable greed by employers. People want to work, they just don’t want to work to remain in poverty.
Ramsey is entirely about personal responsibility. How dare you accuse the corps of wrongdoing /s
40+ years in the making:
1. Watched you parent(s) stress for 12 hours a day just to get by. Your mindset toward work wont be positive.
2. Buying a house and possibly retiring (2 long term goals) are no longer seen as possible, so why try?
3. Its obvious the systems have failed. The government and corporations dont even hide that you are just a number in the machine
Buying a house and retiring are no longer possible??? Are people really that "doom and gloom" these days? I don't see this in my circles...
@@bradstonesifer3398 Many people can't retire. That's not doom and gloom, it's facts. I work with people in their 60s that would love to retire but even at their ages, they still don't see retirement in their future. And they would if they could cause they hate what they do. That's why at the age of 50, I am busting my butt cause I still have a chance to recover from my stupid 20s and 30s when I didn't handle money well. If you handle your money really well when you are young, then you can see retirement. But if not, then retirement is something that may never happen for you. Your circle of people probably handled their money well and have a basic knowledge of how to stay ahead. Most don't have that.
@@vickieclark5931 we are all a product of our choices, and it seems many on the Internet do stupid things with money in their 20s and 30s trying to be “normal” - without realizing that normal means “broke”. I don’t feel bad for people that can’t retire due to their poor decisions, and I also don’t think it’s the government or taxpayers’ responsibility to bail them out. Just my two cents…
@@bradstonesifer3398 "Buying a house and retiring are no longer SEEN as possible"
I believe young people do not see this as a possibility.
So, yes, i think there is a massive doom and gloom mindset.
im not saying that my personal belief
@@jimmylegs06 only the weak minded think this way. Both buying a home and retiring are not only possible, but easily done with the right work ethic and decision making. Anyone who thinks otherwise is trapped by their own self.
What companies don’t understand is time wasted on getting dressed up, shopping for clothes ( casual clothes are even expensive, haircuts, driving to get gas, sitting at stop lights everyday, etc. It’s just way too much time involved in getting to work and getting home. No thanks! People make fun of people in their pajamas sitting in front of a computer but I say that’s a productive person!
My dad worked in the copper mines. He got sick from cancer and had to retire early. My dad became a cancer survivor and asked the copper mine for his job back. He was 70 years old, and the mine said they are honored to have him back. Jobs are not like that anymore. We get older, jobs become harder to keep. The best thing to do is start a 401k or IRA with every job you get because age will take over and companies won't hire older people anymore. I feel from my experience, this is the new retirement.
People lose hope because of all the ultra high expectations of employers and experience you have to get a job in the first place. Recruiters are ruining job opportunities for people looking to get ahead but aren't because they aren't given the chance if they don't have an exceptional amount of experience. Recruiters are only looking for a certain type and not looking to go beyond that. It's sad because there are so many people in the world with different backgrounds that have good work ethics willing to work. And on top of everything I just mentioned nothing pays enough to keep up with the cost of living. The real solution is to go to trade school and try to get a career because regular job suck.
Get skilled and be a direct hire. I don't know what people do with their spare time, but you can surely pick up new employable skills.
Skill mismatch is probably one reason people aren't working; "I am trained as an X, there are only jobs doing Y that require 5 years experience that I don't have". As an example, software companies don't want to hire an out of work developer that is an expert in some unrelated language, they would rather just poach from another company. Low pay is another. I can spend 40 hours a week making $12/hour. I would be better served to try and find a way to make money on my own contracting or doing gigs because if I have kids I have to have flexibility or high pay. The answer is to stop training people to work a job and and start training people to start a business. But to have this workable for the average person we have to get government out of the way. It is hard and expensive to start a business, it shouldn't be.
👏🏾
For software specifically, there is a certain willingness to train within a discipline. If you do front end work with language A it is generally understood you can do the same with language B so long as the environment is similar. Now going from front end to say embedded... There is a lot less willingness, and for good reason.
It's all about making your resume tell a story that matches the employers wishes.
Man, this is such an asinine attempt to convince people to return to the office, when people can get results and be just as productive wherever they could be.
Can't wait to get out of the corporate world, just a few years left. Not like it was years ago, just worse now.
Is it possible people’s lifestyle and life situation doesn’t match what’s available in the workforce? As a stay at home mom, there aren’t a lot of “traditional jobs” worth my time to pursue.
These discussions are always so foreign to me. I worked all through Covid, in person. How were people making it without working, and then having the luxury to decide whether or not to go back work? How are they paying the bills?
Alot of people charged up their credit cards while receiving pandemic money. That's why credit cards are as high as they are right now. Think about it, everyone has credit cards these days- and you can use it everywhere lickity split
I worked and went to college, I think most people are just leeching
Same here. Worked the whole time and still working.
By downgrading, investing, starting side hustles and being smart. Not that hard.
Hi Ken,
I think it’s more simpler than that. People now view their time more valuable than working a job that doesn’t pay enough.
The cost of living has skyrocketed in all facets of life .
Wages simply do not allow savings to occur to get ahead. Treading water tio simply exhist in a job is a stupid waste of anyone’s energy.
College has gotten so expensive and the lack of jobs is a waste of time
I think a remedy could be convincing people to form their own work companies where they can pool their resources together to achieve wealth. By Realestate or Working the land, a brewery, et c.
I gotta say I don’t think the Ramsey crew understands that in real 🇺🇸. We have a epidemic of bad management & lack of benefits & decent pay.
Working in the public is worse than ever. Dont blame people for wanting to stay home. Too many crazy people out there that can snap out of nowhere
Yep. Customers are getting ruder and ruder. There is no desire to even leave the house anymore. I'd stay at home at all times if I could cause the world has gotten so much crazier.
@@vickieclark5931 my wife has been working home since COVID started so over 3 years and she said if her job ever makes her come back to the office she will leave and look for another work from home job
Or your boss has unpredictable anger rage.
Customers are entitled “ Karen’s “ now. I was standing behind the register complaining to my boss and a customer turned me in for complaining! She was buying a five dollar shirt, too. The gaul of these idiots!
Child care at $12-15 per hr before you leave home. Also, the gray market no one talks about.
Maybe some people can't afford children/marriage and don't take the extra step to realize this.
whats the gray market? im not familiar with that term
@@PersistentPatriot You work under the table with no benefits and no SSN# used. Just an envelope of cash. You don't exist as an employee.
The shadow economy is the best. Get a skill and only work for cash. All those gig jobs will count you as self employed after earning only $600 a year. Then you will lose all your income paying a tax preparation service. BTW, tax preparation folks make up the bulk of the shadow economy. I recommend landscaping snow removal, pool cleaning, car wash. only cash.
Totally agree with you there, Ken. Meaning needs to be tied to what we do for a living. Appreciating the contribution you’re making to the world is critical for us. 🌎 ❤🎉
The meaning has always been providing for yourself and your family. That isn’t enough anymore well guess what? Most jobs aren’t going to provide meaning they are going to provide a paycheck lol. Chasing meaning is why no one can pay student loan debt.
I'm holding out for a job where I sit behind a desk and talk into a microphone
I would also like to add that it would be really helpful if company stopped laying people off at the drop of a stock price. Just saying stuff like that does not really instill confidence in people with not only getting a job but being able to keep a job even if they're really good at it.
Lay-off are part of working. Work harder and better you don’t have to worry about it. Getting rid of dead weight is good not bad. Next time you team of ten has 2 layoff offer to take a 20% pay it if it bothers you so much becasue that is what is needed. Assuming the employee even does anything lol.
@@joesmith3590 Working harder and better does not mean you don't have to worry about layoffs. Ask any of the millions who have been laid off from productive companies over the past 20 years. What you called "dead weight" is people. Those "dead weight" people are now giving the corporate system the finger.
@@chriscampbell9191 not at all true. I have literally never once been worried about a layoff. I am sorry you are not high value or skill if that is the way you think. Yes at your low level of skill and work ethic you are easily laid off. That is the point lol.
@@joesmith3590 Oh, it's true, if you actually read the news. Just recently, for example, the big tech companies have laid off tens of thousands of highly qualified workers. Your own personal experience is statistically irrelevant to the conversation here.
@@joesmith3590I was a top producing financial recruiter laid off because a major client did cut backs in hiring. You’re delusion to think that all layoffs are underachievers. And while I have an open door to return once demand picks up, I cannot wait that long bc the bills keep coming!
The AI algorithms now being used on all major hiring platforms automatically excludes (for a number of reasons - format, keywords, etc.) many qualified persons applying - 100-300 applicants in a week for the same job (remote or not) posted nationally is not unusual. And people using software to mass apply to dozens of jobs they're not qualified for doesn't speed the process along either.
Yep, and HR (which was a monstrosity to begin with) has turned into AI, with no actual humans to contact if the AI hiring or application review bot gets something wrong. It's a treadmill of 'do not reply' emails and robo texts. And they wonder why no one is enthusiastic at working at such companies.
The idea of meaning and self worth being tied to work is a noble idea, but unworkable in an era where AI bots do the hiring (and increasingly, the firing in some companies) and your job's duration only lasts until the next layoff notice, some of which are done now by text. The impersonal nature of today's workplace is anything but conducive to "meaning" or "self worth". For increasing numbers of Americans, a 'job' is just another temp position, basically.
As a recruiter in an economy sensitive industry, you are completely correct. Despite hard work, showing up in person, and being open to OT, you are only one step away from the next lay-off. Sales jobs are notorious for layoffs, as some Fortune 500’s only give you three months to meet high production metrics.
I was a direct hire and dealt with humans. You mean the ATS system?
@@xaviergough9359 I'm referring to at least 3 prominent and nationally operating companies that use AI for applications, where the AI bot determines who gets hired, and provides the job offers, the AI program that sends the robotexts and robo-emails, where a human being does not determine who gets hired -- it's the AI hiring app the company uses. And if the AI gets something wrong, there is no number to call or text, and no email address to email, because all emails are do-not-reply. I've seen this three times. There have been news articles on this sort of thing, where people got hired and fired by AI bot. Obviously, not all companies use this process. But when the biggest companies in their field use it, it indicates that the use of AI in HR is only going to increase, not decrease.
Dude lives in a world of his own 😂
LOL. IKR? Ken is living in a delusional world. Even people that get into an industry that they enjoy lose that momentum over time. Once you do it cause you have to, it's not a passion anymore, it's a job. Even people that say they like their jobs. If you tell them they won't get paid anymore, then they are out of there. Who wants to work without getting paid. There is no point to it.
Quiet Quitting:
Imagine you are a plumber called to repair a broken pipe. Then you are asked to clear a clogged floor drain, but not expected to charge for the extra time and other resources you apply. I mean, you're here anyway, right?
Same concept applies for the "associate." The people I work with, mostly younger and some older like me, give a solid day's work. But why surpass quota or otherwise give more than we are assigned to and paid for, except in words - maybe? I'm talking about our resources like muscular effort and integrity of our backbones and feet, and suffering recovery through the weekend. I do extra, assist someone or correct issues, without being asked because it's my nature, but don't logically expect others, especially leadership, to do the same.
It could also be that the job they previously had is very toxic and they rather stay at home or work at home. Being in a toxic environment, underpay, lack of safety and security, heavily micro-manage, non-respected, and is expendable are the reason why most would rather stay home or work at home. If they had children that are adults already they rather retired and enjoy their time with them then be at the mercy of corporate control.
A lot of the job postings are very outlandish. Majority of them requires 10+ years of experience a Bachelors, and thats entry-level 🧐
I have two degrees and can’t get a gig, i regret them both
The "real" reason people aren't returning to work is because they are hopeless and don't want to "contribute"? That may be the case for some, but it's not the rule. Boomers are retiring in droves and there aren't enough younger folks to pick up the slack. Some people retire early or just plain quit because they're sick and tired of being treated like crap- that's why we have a massive teacher shortage and there's massive burnout in so many other professions. More moms/dads are staying home because childcare is hard to come by and very expensive. There are a lot of moving parts to this conundrum.
There are lots of jobs out there I agree, but I can’t land a job. I applied to so many companies and have gone thru two in person interviews and no hire. Idk what is going on. I’ve been thinking is my age idk. It has been so hard and with my husband’s income we can’t make ends meet. We might be evicted no place to go with a child who is autistic it’s been very hard. I’m sorry I had to rant I don’t know what else to do.
I am sorry to hear about your predicament but I don't think you're alone in your experience, and age discrimination is probably more prevalent than people think. During the 2008 recession there were articles in prominent papers like the NY Times about ageism in the hiring process, and how it was harming older workers. So it's not a rare thing. I hope you are able to make ends meet in some way.
Sounds like we are in the same boat. My unemployment ends next month and we cannot survive on my husband’s income alone. Throw in the challenge of finding reliable childcare for my autistic 8 yr old, and it feels hopeless. I turn 50 next month and contribute my struggle to ageism. I have a masters degree and plenty of experience, so I’m not complaining, but we still need two incomes to survive. Sending you prayers that something comes through. Don’t give up.
Keep going, I know the feeling and frustration but someone will eventually hire you. Get some good references.
@@sugarsugar475 Get some good references, do NOT list your age on your resume, put your skills list at the very top of the resume body---above the education section. Sometimes the ATS system will flag you as unqualified or some other technicality.
@@chriscampbell9191 Older workers with experience in a certain industry actually have a bigger advantage. I've hired many of them as leads/supervisors. Delusional youngsters can't compete for those positions.
Another factor as to why we aren't "working" is that all of the mom and pop store's have closed or are closing down making it extremely difficult to find an unskilled job opportunity and all of this car centric development makes it a nightmare to go anywhere where affordabley without a car because nowadays a car is expensive and not worth getting due to depreciation ( news flash car centric development negates all of the positives of owning a car in the first place and don't get me started on how expensive houses are because it's illegal to build anything that can house a family of more than 2 two people comfortably, then there is all of this debt that keeps on growing faster than we can repay it and it will all lead to the collapse)
Well, at least 2 million retired early.
It is not that the mountain is not climbable, it is that it is not worth climbing.
Most people trade time for money, that's it. Difficult to get the job that you really care about.
Who wants to go back to an unskilled and underpaid job - a lot of people found ways to increase their skills and value.
I think another reason is the pay of executives to the boots on the ground level worker is sick and tired of the grind and reading about the 20 million dollar bonuses handed out in a business they see as inefficient and failing so why bother
A big reason is most these jobs pay so little that a person cannot survive with those wages.
I know people in several different industries who say that they will hire people, train them, and then they just walk off the job after a few weeks or months. I don't know why this is.
I only care about performing great at my job so i can get paid as much as possible. I dont care about meaning at a job. I find meaning outside of work persuing my own side business or extracurricular activities.
The truth is is everyone that I work with only stays because of the paycheck and/or medical insurance. None of us like our jobs. We all daydream about retiring. Most people's idea of passion is being free and enjoying their families over being a slave to a time clock. There is no benefit to my job except having kick ass medical insurance. That's the #1 reason that people stay at my work place. Dealing with horrible corporate, lousy and rude customers, and abusive bosses is not my idea of a great job. Even people that find something they like, eventually they don't like it anymore because when you HAVE to work, then it's work not passion.
i think it could also boil down to the fact that people need to associate money with purpose and meaning much more nowadays in society.
There is a numerical, mathematical demographic labor shortage, that will last for at least 10 to 12 years, and I have grown weary of the politics of the corporate world. I am old enough that I am just waiting to retire. If I could retire now, I would and drop kick all the stupid and politics from my world. In the mean time, I think that the companies are now going to have to sweeten the pot for people to stay with employed with them using higher wages and benefits and more appreciation.
On degrees, if you have a 2 yr degree in Business Administration you can't find a managing job in even a restaurant or auto shop. 20-30 years ago you'd be good, today do you need a Bachelors or Masters for blue collar work place? So you invest 25k to still be a cashier, or run your own. That's about it. It becomes chasing a game. So when companies whine they can't find people a lot has to do with expecting way over the needed skills. If they would benefit from the higher level it's up to them to invest. On EAS from the USMC in the 90's I worked as a auto tech, if they wanted you to do say front end work they invested in your training. Now the same would expect you to already have invested in training and pay you a comparison to the yesterday untrained level. Employers be realistic on what your paying and what is really needed to start, and you'll find people.
Many of those jobs don't exist. They are jobs on paper only.
Look, you guys don't see the whole picture, oversimplify the issue. The government doesn't hand out enough to survive on. People have to work, but the job has to pay enough or it's not worth taking and interferes with getting the one or two that will. Everyone does not live in a city like Nashville, where jobs are many and public transportation is reliable, and in those cities the cost of living is forbidding, especially if you are trying to start or restart. Most of the best, manufacturing businesses in smaller communities have immigrated to other countries or more supportive locations, and local towns and counties are not interested in upgrading infrastructure to attract new businesses. Let the people go elsewhere and get their money, and bring it back home to support our local businesses.
In the town where I live the top pay is $16 and most of the positions are part-time and mostly taken. The two biggest, 3M and Bullard, hire only temporary, part-time at $12. Try living on that!
Here, you have to go to Georgetown, Lexington, Frankfort or even Cincinnati for a decent full-time job, and that requires an absolutely reliable in any weather personal mode of transportation. You need wheels by any means you can get them.
I drive 32 miles one way to Lexington for my job. Fortunately, my car is reliable, efficient and all mine, otherwise I would at some point get run over walking the 4 miles to town and back, uphill both ways because it's over several hills. Roads without shoulders are not pedestrian friendly. I'd have to find my way back to Phoenix, where I'd feel physically safer and more financially hopeful than in Nashville or any of those listed above.
Granted, some people don't want to work and have family members happy to support and protect their grown babies. Also, single parents, especially mothers, fear being left alone. But someone who has no means to get started, and their families have no means to help them get started. To them, trying does seem pointless and scary.
But watch some Nick Johnson videos and you will get a sense of how many people absent from the workforce all over the country have nothing but despair. The government doesn't even register those numbers. To do so is politically unwise.
Investment bankers, who actually control all the biggest corporations, have sent far too many jobs overseas and all but killed labor unions, in the name of more profits, are to blame for the growing cancer named POVERTY.
Isolated within the relatively safe confines of Pods Moving and Storage Studios you may be as disconnected from reality as Congress. Except, you folks are much more ethical and interested in what is really going on. Just need to step outside to see it.
I believe we are actually in the midst of Great Depression II. But this time we have no FDR in office recognizing the emergency and trying to pull us all together.
Why does the government need to hand out anything?
@@xaviergough9359 Mostly so children don't starve to death and live in the streets, and aren't left alone when a single parent goes to work. Then there's the truly disabled.
Most people I know in need don't want a handout, just a firm hand getting back up. Unfortunately, many dishonorable take advantage and politicians are too generous with elections on the horizon.
The thing about going from one career to the other, like you pointed out as a positive is you never become an expert in the field.
Would be better if this was a discussion over why people 'aren't returning' to traditional work with differing views and if they were to include statistics..
I have only ever worked for companies that saw me as a resource to be used up and spit out. Now I work for myself.
Low pay, low morale, micromanagement.... Need I go on?
"The Working Man Is A Sucker" - A Bronx Tale (1993)
I don't have a dream job. I don't dream of labor. I've always known what I want to do. I've just never found anyone who will pay me a living wage to do it.
Ken, this is a brilliant analysis. The comments here just further illustrate your point regarding rampant negativity and a lack of hope. We need a national thought process upgrade to be able to dream again. All of this relates to an idea I have for your next book. Where do I submit the idea?
He can be good at times but also misses the mark a lot. I mean he claims to be “of the people by the people for the people” yet he’s anti union and pro company more often than not. He targets rising pay as the problem instead of greed caused inflation and can at times seem VERY out of touch. His terminology bothers me as well like with how he refers to all managers as “leaders” I think many could say a boss and a “leader” are two different things. He’s not perfect, and obviously opinions will differ based on what sector of the work force you are in.
How about people that planned for retirement and do not need the money. I saved paid off my house and got a pension. There is no reason to work anymore.
The Labor Dept needs a re-work. No one can live on part time, low wage, no benefit jobs. Retail/restaurant/hospitality service jobs are available all over the place. No one is applying for the reasons above. Millennials and GenZ hop from job to job because they want the same job security that the Boomers and GenX had......things like accrued hours for paid time off and/or paid sick time off. Incentives help alot with "retention". Paid holidays, lets go back to shutting down business on federal holidays to allow the workforce to "breathe". It was so much easier back in the day when the only thing open on Sundays were gas stations and convenience stores.....again, allowing the workforce to breathe. IMHO, the ACA healthcare aka Obamacare ruined it for working people as service industry sucked hours out of employees who at 32 hours a week were not doing too bad, i.e. women looking for work during school hours, retirees, high school and college students. Employer sponsored healthcare is doable at 32 hours, for a-la-cart healthcare employees can afford. Retention is the problem employer have all over the country in the service industry......its easy to to job hop because there is so much of it. Work from home is difficult for employers as "seeing" the employee in the cubicle working eases their mind that they are getting the work out that is required. Technological advances can help the employer keep an eye on their work from home employee to ease their mind. Environmentalists love work from home, less people driving. Moms with little ones, like it too. And oddly enough.....Boomers know their way around a computer as we were on the ground floor all these years and adapted. Most everything can be delivered to ones home, so big box stores are screaming about their overhead. Go back to smaller stores, and turn derilect malls into senior housing....this country could definitely use it.
Don't forget you have all these people making money on the internet these days.
You mean passive income?
If the price of eggs inflated at the same rate as housing from the 1960's, you would be paying $60.00 for a dozen of eggs. The concept of hard work and owning a home is completely out of reach for so many young people. If you will never afford to move out of the house then why bother working. Just live comfortably in your parents basement.
It’s not far out of reach. I’m doing it right now, living on my own, and have a job that I like doing in an industry (commercial driving) where I can get a job yesterday if I lost my job tomorrow. It might be harder today than it was back then, I wouldn’t know since I wasn’t alive back then, but it’s definitely possible.
Housing is in much shorter supply than eggs.
I’m not buying it, how can millions of people just decide not to work, unless they want to be homeless or have lots of money and don’t have to work?
theres plenty of suckers locked into govt. contracts having someone pay their bills so theres no incentive for them to work.
The college kids and high school kids aren't working because someone told them they should get $15 an hour to flip burgers. So, they decided to live in their mom's basement instead and start a youtube channel having people watch them play Minecraft.
The available jobs often suck.
Contribute through work?
What For?
Men are quitting
It is true a degree is a waste of money I have 5 of them and I have to work in traditional job in a factory just to make money.
Please don’t go to college it’s a waste of time and money.
Also people can’t afford to get a degree.
I have a degree in education, and I work in education. I’m able to make a living from my job and I have benefits. A lot of the hardships that affected people during Covid didn’t reach me. Everyone struggled, but I didn’t get laid off or have my pay reduced. Degrees are not useless. Some maybe, but not all.
What industry are you applying for? Degrees aren't totally worthless as many are at least entry-level into certain professions, meaning don't even bother applying without one.
I have a BS, MS, and a PHD. That is Bull Shit, More Shit, Piled Higher & Deeper.
There’s really no mystery to any of this… If it’s not worth it, people don’t want to do it. I’m not one of those “living wage” idiots but what percentage of these jobs offer money worth working for??
We all need 1M dollars in assets that produce 4-6% a year just to "survive" yet u will be basically financially free. Just lower the damn standard of living .
Make it $500k at 4% you will be fine. Just bin the car that alone reduces ur FU amount. And even better live overseas.
@@befree9579 i understand but 500k is nowhere near to sustain life in USA in other countries for sure.
@@penguingobrrbrr353 500k for a single male i meant. If u have kids/wife then ye 1million.
A lot of jobs that are created are low wage jobs and people are waking up to the fact that they cannot afford to go work at those jobs and have a decent living wage because it will just be living paycheck to paycheck never able to save enough for their futures
No skills= low wage.
That includes the guy making this video. He isn't doing work just sitting and talking on a video.
It's just sh't work and low pay jobs. I mean, after travel expenses, work clothes, buying lunch, etc. you're lucky to have enough money left over to buy a frozen pizza -- on sale. As the Devil once said: "It's better to rule in Hell then serve in Heaven;" but on Earth it goes: "It's better to rule in Hell then to serve in Hell."
Guess Ramsey Solutions doesn’t want people to have the opportunity to spend more time with their families…
Lol, I’m sure the hillbillies that work there would try to convince people the Bible commands them to go back to the office🌽🌽🌽
Hoping the government will ‘take care of them’
Part of it is the lack of affordable childcare.
Find a job you love to do and you never have to work again.
This whole piece is the perfect reasoning why UBI is needed, to be paid for by taxing the business jokers heavily.
First up, he never even mentions the primary reason; the low, unlivable rates of pay. Instead going on about bs like business culture and contributing. More positive thinking garbage, its never the bad business decisions just the workers not wanting to work hard enough.
Also, never mentioned, the fact that there are no jobs. 80% of job postings are fake. But the self-styled job creators can't admit that. They have to keep the 'nobody wants to work' narrative going.
Finally, never mentioned, the trickey and manipulations of the job market. People eager to work are outright lied to about what the jobs are and what they pay. Then when they show up, earnest and eager to work; they're laughed at, told there arent any jobs like that available, but offered an much lower rated job(for much pay), and told they expect to much for expecting the pay rate they were told to expect.
The business filth need to be made to pay.
Yeah, a lot of these companies really take people for fools or idiots. I wanted to apply for a job at a store. I had been told by a guy working there that they needed to fill a particular position, they needed workers. Then when I contacted their customer desk to inquire about getting an application, I was told to go online. So I went online. The website said there were no positions open at that store, and no similar positions open in nearby stores, either. The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. But instead of fixing problems like that we get the "lazy people don't want to work" BS.
Lisen Ken! I dont know what country you live in but definetly not in the United States. Most if not all of the jobs available are for a low wage, $10, $11 an hour which is impossible to live on during these very expensive times. People are tired of being underpaid or getting paid to do 4 different jobs for one salary. When you find a meaninful job, guess what?? They dont pay well. Stop the Bs and cute little speech and speak the truth.
A bunch of people left America because the quality of life was really poor.
I contribute but I'm going nooo where. All the kids that are getting hired are getting more opportunities because of their education. I won't go back to college because of the cost and I have read the fine lines for those loans. No thanks! Maybe I'll go back if the taxpayers are gonna have to pay for it 😂😢 jkjk
Theres alot of people out there that are totally scared of actually working for a living
😇🙏
You and Dave need to get out of the past and into the present!
Greed
Boring.
If you refuse to work, in any aspect, dont complain about your money situation or how hard you have it. Lets be real, these days, most people think they are worth more than they produce. You want a 6 figure salary for your liberal arts degree that is worthless in the real world. But have fun complaining on Twitter while the rest of us take control of our own lives.
Ok boomer. Most people who went to college are worth $100k. Quit using the liberal arts degree to make yourself feel better about supporting billionaires
Corporate greed is mostly to blame!
Dave, would $150,000,000 really make a difference in your life??
I lost my $85,000 job of 29 years because I would not take the covid shot or wear a mask so I don't see the point in making the sacrifice or working as hard anymore. I make way less now so I just do what I needed to do
has Ramsey cum up with that $150,000,000 yet?