The REAL Reason Why People Don't Want To Work Anymore
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- The REAL Reason Why People Don't Want To Work Anymore. There's a certain group of people out there who think people are just lazy. But we know this is BS. The fact is that for most job seekers, the rewards just aren't there to invest in a career. At least not in the way we had been taught. So, in this video, I share what I feel the REAL reason is that people aren't passionate about work and what to do about it.
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I got your resume rocket fuel, completely redid my resume and LinkedIn profile
This is probably bound to fail.
*Inflation has reached a point where we can't eat. We have been living on pork for years now, since it was cheap (around $1-$2/pound), but yesterday it tripled to $5.50! That's a slice big enough for two people for one day.FIVE FIFTY??? We are being screwed at every turn. And it's clearly going to get a LOT worse.*
@@AnonymousSquirrel123 my wife grows vegetables in her garden. I catch my own salmon. I also hunt. During certain times I can reach into the Port Credit River and pull a 20 lb salmon right out of the water. Anyone paying $20 for Salmon is out of their minds. I get it for free. I acquire the meat. My wife acquires the vegetables. We get what little else we need at the grocery store.
Quit relying on corporations for food.
You know what's the reward for working hard and staying late at the office? You get to do it again tomorrow!
Assuming you boss won't lay you off tomorrow.
But but but we are a family and we buy you pizza once a year... 🤣
Or get laid off anyways.
And if you’re really good, they’ll give you even more work for the small possibility of raise in the next 3-5 years!
That's true! I use to do that back then when i got my first job. I was so used to college life on where when you get your work done early you get to chill and have extra time to do other stuff. Boy, i was wrong their expectation from me was so high because they saw me get things done early and whenever thing get delayed they put me on PIP. Never again!
Low wages, no benefits, no work/life balance, you're expected to do work of at least 3 to 4 people, you can get fired at any moment, yet some wonder why people don't want to go to work?
And i am sure getting the goverment financial help like the food stamp and other disability is a better pay than most job at this point. So, why go work if it's less advantagious?
@@amacot656the government help is basically nothing unless you have a ton of kids
@@amacot656yes as a single person you get very little help, most states figure a way to kick you off assistance as there are work requirements in many states that you have to have in order to get medical insurance and food assistance! The state where I reside has both! If don’t have a bunch of kids, you’ll get nothing but a food pantry beyond 3 months. The state is set up to where even fewer get healthcare or Medicaid! The government doesn’t want to assist you if you’re poor, it wants you dead!
@@zofiajaneczek184 that bleak but thank you for the information.
All of that is also why some companies are tying to incorporate more AI. Easier to get computers and robots to do the job. Most 9-5 jobs are meant for robots anyway.
The problem is that employees are regarded as an expense rather than an asset. They are not willing to invest in their people, but they expect you to invest in them. They expect you to be loyal to them, but they have no loyalty to you. They regard you as expendable and easily replaceable. They feel you should be grateful to even have a job.
Human resource. Just like water, wood, metal parts... A resource.
@@marikothecheetah9342 Human resources, I hate that phrase so much. Like we are worse than slaves.
@@anamirilovic9300 yup, a thing to use, when needed. :/ It has been proven, that language impacts how people see other people, the Hutu Tutsi conflict being one of those examples. :/
It was over when the defined benefit pension was abandoned.
Well said. I just quit my job of 15 years and you described why right here.
Bottom line: It's not that people "don't want to work anymore" - they don't want to be exploited and underpaid.
That’s it!
So true
Very well said people don't want to be exploited. Meaning giving your life to the company for not worthy compensation.
Mic Drop....................... the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I’m Gen X and have been grinding away at my career for longer than I care to admit. I put my health and sanity in jeopardy for too many years with 65+ hour weeks.
Last year a colleague died in their sleep. And you know what happened? Nothing. Literally, nothing. Barely a word was spoken about this person. I was shocked, as this was a kind and good person to work with. But it was as if they never existed.
This freaked me out. I could no longer deny that I am simply not important to any organization. Now I am working hard to break years of bad habits and to prioritize myself and my family first and foremost and keep my job in perspective.
You're not alone brother. No more.
It’s very scary how much time is devoted to a job only to be disregarded when you’re no longer here. I agree with keeping work in perspective
Two guys committed suicide after layoffs in 2008. Management never said a word. I use to work so hard, but now I do my 40 and bounce. I'm mad that I gave these people so much free labor, but we were socialized that way.
Two years ago a colleague had a cardiac arrest. A low level manager did CPR until paramedics could get there. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, at 34 years old. It BLEW my mind how quickly everyone moved on. The store was back to normal operations after he was taken away in the ambulance, as if nothing had happened. But his family was devastated. His father came into the store a few days after his son’s death, I could see the sadness in his eyes…And his father died almost exactly 2 months after his son. Since obituaries stay up for a while on a funeral home’s webpage, they were on the same obituary list.
I have never thought of “work” the same way again. I’m still pretty young too.🫤
Sad but important story. Thanks for sharing. Realised the same a few years ago in early 50s. You’re soon forgotten and the work you had proudly done isn’t long disregarded after you leave. I’m semi-retired Gen X, with very different priorities now. Time, family, health and interests are more important to me than work by miles. It was the other way around for far too long.
It's not that nobody wants to work anymore it's that employers don't want to pay people for the value of their work.
work itself doesn't have value it's your knowledge, skill and reliability as an individual that makes YOU valuable, and that's what companies have lost sight in the effort to offend no one (and make profit) they have decided that a good employee and a bad in employee is the same, Corporate doesn't care who is a good employee and who isn't, or they judge by some ridiculous standard.
people, even in low skill jobs, need to be prepared to tell these managers and bosses that they have choices, they work for money not loyalty and you get what you pay for.
don't let them gaslight into thinking that they have done you some big favor by hiring you.
I was forty years old, and I had closed down a business because while people wanted my repair services, they didn't want to pay to have them. So what did I do, sit there hand wringing and moping? No...I packed up my belongings and I travelled to where the work was...at a mine in the northern part of Canada. Twenty four years on I own two houses, one of them brand new...both paid for. I spoke to people I knew in the city I left behind about working up north, and people just turned up their noses because they couldn't leave the city life. Get into the basic industries, get out of retail sales, middle management and IT services.The day they stop mining precious and base metals, or stop producing fossil fuels is the day civilization ends.
I am in my early 60s and retired at 53. Lots of people gave me pushback because they had difficulty grasping the concept of not working if you don’t have to. I looked at my life as stages. I earned everything I have now through a lot of hard work, but I owe it to myself to “stop and smell the roses” in my final stage of life. In my case I left the country after I retired and live in Latin America. It allowed me to get away from all the negative things happening in America while appreciating my new environment. I have yet to meet anyone who regrets retirement.
Nice way to retire. For me, I believe retirees who struggle to meet their basic needs are the ones who could not accumulate enough money during their active years to meet their needs. Retirement choices determine a lot of things. My wife and I both spent same number of years in the civil service, she invested through a wealth manager and myself through the 401k. We both still earning after our retirement.
This is true. I'm in my mid 40's now. My wife and I were following this same trajectory. Last two years, I pulled out my money and invested with her wealth manager. Not catching up with her profits over the years, but at least I earn more. I'm making money even before retiring, and my retirement fund has grown way more than it would have with just the 401(k). Haha.
It's unfortunate most people don't have such information. I don't really blame people who panic. Lack of information can be a big hurdle. I've been making more than a million dollars by just investing through an advisor, and I don't have to do much work. Doesn't matter if the economy is misbehaving; great wealth managers will always make returns.
I think this is something I should do, but I've been stalling for a long time now. I don't really know which firm to work with; I feel they are all the same but it seems you’ve got it all worked out with the firm you work with so i surely wouldn’t mind a recommendation.
I definitely share your sentiment about these firms. Finding financial advisors like Marisa Breton Dollard who can assist you shape your portfolio would be a very creative option. There will be difficult times ahead, and prudent personal money management will be essential to navigating them.
My dad taught me to work hard, I mean really hard, 17 years later I've learned my own lessons:
1. Showing skills get punished with more responsobility at no pay increase
2. Working efficiently will reward you with more work at no pay increase
3. Staying late and coming early every day will cause boss to expect you will always do it pro bono and get called out if you refuse
4. Pointing out hazardous work enviroment gets you sacked
Whereas if satying lazy will mean:
1. Less responsibilities
2. Less workload
3. Shorter working hours
At the same pay, which won't be enough to buy into dignifying life anyway
@@grzesiekkozdroj5567 Spot on! My dad & grandpa always said work hard, but I have come to the same conclusions as you. Quite sad.
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Learned this the hard way from 16-18yrs old. Made me furious. These rules apply definitely in the corporate world. At 26, I managed to escape the corporate world, and went independent to discover it is not so with an independent employer. Been relatively happy for 28yrs since.
@@vileflyif you don’t mind, what is it that you do?
@@TempermentalTart Certified master mechanic.
Loyalty is definitely not rewarded as it used to be.
Yes - loyalty is dead. If an employer will not be loyal to the employee, it makes no sense for the employee to be loyal to the employer.
It has been replaced by politics and sucking up
In the modern working environment, loyalty doesn't exist anymore!
@@ianbrowning7437that has always been around
It was never rewarded.
I'm an older worker. I've been through so many downturns. But, this feels different. I'm actually worried for the 1st time. It's not just the layoffs, it's the cost of living, wars, the election, lack of civility, completely cut throat CEOs, and general chaos that is literally giving me heartburn everyday.
Trump ruined EVERYTHING.
I’m with you on the lack of civility. There was this understanding when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s that we are part of a society even if the adults at that time foolishly voted for trickle down economics we were still enjoying the hangover of the New Deal - deregulation hadn’t really had time to take root yet and times were good. As a kid I saw how my parents could take off when they wanted, work more on their terms and were paid not great but enough to have a house and a vacation every once in a while. My dad did get laid off but pivoted to a govt job and finished out there the back end of his entire career. People were just kinder to each other and this showed in every facet of society. Today people treat each other in person the way people treat each other on the internet. It is unsettling
@@genreartwithjb5095 Because everyone is under stress: no money, no house, no safety, crooked cops, everything is taxed. None of this existed in the 1930s-to-1980s. It all get bad Reagan and got worse with each Republican. MAGA is a whole new level of total destruction of the fabric of the USA.
@@genreartwithjb5095 you captured it perfectly.
It feels different because y we may lose everything if stupid Americans vote for the First American Democrat and this country goes to hell in a hand basket. No Social Security for YOU. I feel you. I'm fortunate, at least for today. It could all change on a dime tomorrow. I believe that's the unease you and I are feeling. Our foundation is crumbling under us and we're aware of it. Like an ocean is eroding our safety dunes, wave by wave.
Saying "people don't want to work anymore" in this economy is like me going into a Ferrari dealership, offering them $20 for a car, and then as I'm leaving empty-handed I say "people don't want to sell cars anymore"
😅😅😅
Lol pretty close
Great analogy!
There's also the gaul of going on TV to say that after unfortunately-you-were-not-selecteding hundreds of well-qualified applicants.
Well said
Being a hard worker doesn't get you to the top.
As a worker, I don't think anything gets you to the top. It's about getting to where you want to be. And that takes thinking about yourself first at all times, not the company.
What gets you to the next higher level is being the best brown-noser and not being a white male.
what I've seen is favoritism in every company iv worked for. It is never the hard workers. They are all clickey.
it only gets more work dumped on your desk, then told you're not meeting expectations
@@janem3575 correct. Or a mgr, employer finds ticky tacky nonsense to grip about. Or a mgr, supervisor gets removed & the owners/CEO wants to redo the schedules, posts.
Loyalty in the workplace only goes one way. The worker is expected to be loyal to the company, but the company is not loyal to you - you're just a resource.
People are fucking cruel and toxic. That’s why
Tell it like it is! 👊🏾
Amen
@@patrick-ip4yf Exhibit A
@rope435 Absolutely! The cruel scum come out of the woodwork to prove the point! 😂😂😂Their gaslighting will NEVER work anymore!
Come on kids. All you got to do is pull up your bootstraps, work 12 hour days 6 days a week, don't buy anything like clothes and food and you'll be rich in no time..
😂
"no body wants to work anymore"
Me constantly putting out applications that go unanswered: "..."
Me too….too many fake jobs and no real ones available
If your well qualified your NOT getting hired
It's your fault that they don't answer, cuz you don't wanna work.
You have no idea how much I relate to this...
For the first six months of 2022, I applied for 212 jobs, 108 locally, 106 online.
Four local employers answered, two of them turned out to be ran by sociopathic Boomer owners who were simply toying with me over the space of a few months, and the other two actually hired me...only to discover that the jobs I signed up for were actually bait-and-switch scams, and the moment I showed up, I was shown what I would really be doing.
The 106 online jobs I applied for? Most turned out to be ghost jobs that didn't exist, and one employer finally returned a message to me...five months later, telling me that I didn't get the job, gee, I kinda suspected that I didn't get it, but it took me about a day to remember who it was.
I ended up taking a crappy-paying job with my spouse, with the option to try to find something else along the way. Two years later...I'm still there, hundreds more applications unanswered as I suspect I'm being aged out of employment for much-younger workers who are too stupid to know any better, working for Boomer owners and managers who should know better.
I was a manager at a small grocery store. The store manager complained “no body wants to work”. They we’re paying cashiers barrel of the bottom at minimum wage. I told him other retailers are giving a little above minimum wage and reasonable benefits, until you’re willing to offer that you’re gonna have people go through your company like a revolving door. The advice still falls on def ears 😂
Boss: "Yeah, I don't wanna hear it!"
OK boss, I quit too.
Boss: "Now wait a minute! We've got a pizza party on Friday!!!"
@@Seattle-2017 🤣🤣
I'll never understand why cashiers can't so much as perch on chair.
You get the level of loyalty you pay for.
@@Seattle-2017 UGHHHH!!!! The pizza parties 😩
We can see the profit margins, we're not stupid. We see the earnings calls, the bonuses, the year end reports. We're not stupid, we just have less money - and many of us with decency aren't willing to do indecent, or dishonest things to get ahead. Add nepotism to this mix and there you have it.
& Cronyism
Those same things were happening when I got out of college and started working full time in the early 1980s. That was eye-opening and after the first few layoffs in the first few years I realized I was on my own. I took that attitude through the following 40 years, switched jobs/career fields as I saw the economy changing a few times, and was able to retire on my own terms just a few years ago. Consider yourself no more than a contractor who's selling your services to a company, watch the economic conditions in your field, geographic area, and the wider economy, and don't be afraid to jump if the situation is changing for the worst.
Learned the hard way. Dedication, hard working ethic and loyalty aren’t valued as perhaps it once was. You have the best advice to young people “Be a free agent”.
Corporate culture in many companies today mirrors the tactics of MLM scams. Managers sell employees the dream of success, promising promotions and wealth if they just "hustle harder." This toxic mindset pressures workers to put in 80-hour weeks, sacrificing their personal lives for the illusion of rapid advancement.
Shady practices abound: endless motivational speeches, vague promises of future rewards, and a culture that glorifies overwork while subtly shaming those who seek balance. Just like in MLMs, the reality is often that only a select few reap the benefits, while the majority grind away with little to show for it. The result is burnout, dissatisfaction, and high turnover rates. It's time for companies to prioritize genuine well-being over relentless ambition and recognize that sustainable success comes from a balanced, healthy workforce.
Maybe not gonna happen in 'Merica
Imagine if an accountant tally up the pay-hours spent by management on bullsh!ting.....
MLM scams, well said.
1 Almost no jobs pay enough to own a house
2 No advancement opportunities
3 Lazy people get rewarded
4 Workplace bullies
5 You can get fired at anytime
6 Retirement is a pipe dream
7 Rampant nepotism
8 Unrealistic demands
9 The harder you work, the more you get screwed over
10 Inflation out paces your raises
11 You will be doing the work of multiple people, without a pay increase
12 Those rewards they tell you about, never materialize
13 Every day blurs together
14 Work makes you feel alone, even when you are near other people
Very different from when my parents worked. Loyalty is gone because of corporate culture of greed.
I think I was still able to witness bosses actually caring about their employees. My father's boss went out of her way one morning to withdraw money from her personal account (I think there were not many ATMs then). After that, she gave the money to my father to help him buy me books because the school year was about to start.
My father didn't ask for the money. His boss just asked him how I was and told her that I was about to start school. My father didn't expect his boss to do that. By the way, the money was a loan but "payable when able" - if cannot pay, then don't. My father was already in his 20th year in the company then so I guess that speaks of how he was valued. When his boss retired less than five years after that, she asked for me to see her to personally say goodbye. I think I was just 10 then.
But when it was my turn to work, I saw and experienced a different world. In all of the companies I've worked for, the bosses are of the same age as my father but they were all about to retire. And they were grooming their children or whoever in the company was next in line to take over.
I hate being judgmental but seeing the attitude of the would-be replacements, I was able to say to myself "I think I will not survive the workplace anymore." Not generalizing though. Just sharing what I experienced first-hand.
Loyalty was available for some, not to others. The post-war era was really tough.
Its really very simple.
I refuse to cripple myself to make someone else rich
Are you going to be getting rich on your own then? Hope so!
@@Rebecca-bq4ez I’m going to be happy living a frugal life full of worth beyond money
It's more like you should work at your own pace for your own as well as other peopel's benefit.
@@PlaidHiker It will never be beyond money. Money is needed for many things but I see your point.
The reason you have a job is because that person is rich.
Loyalty DOESN'T pay off any longer. We are just mercenaries.
But the whole point of being a merc is to get paid.
@@judsongaiden9878That's why you quiet quit and do the bare bones work just to hang around.
I have been a merc since 2013. It grates on you after a while.
Work in tech. Early 30s. Been laid off 3 times since 2015. Job market hasn’t been worse since 2009 for white collar workers. Used to easily get interviews and advance to final rounds. It’s brutal out there.
I just got certified for Comp TIA and a bunch of coding boot camps.
Did 600 applications with zero response back... Then I did some research and found out people with 5 plus years of experience are getting the same results...
I don't know I don't see the point and continuing to study and get more certifications if it looks like it's very likely AI will replace at least a large percentage of the low end IT workers.
@@hotrodhunk7389 that's not going to get a job in IT even if the job market is strong. Who cares about Comp TIA? coding bootcamps are a scam to extract your wealth to a failed developer.
right now you are competing against people with 20-30 years for the mid/sr level positions. Ageism is a HUGE problem.
@@hotrodhunk7389I have a few CompTIA, Microsoft certs, and government certs and it is absolutely crickets from job applications. 🥲
It's affecting everyone in tech unfortunately
@@hotrodhunk7389 I work in IT and have for years. It's an industry that relies mainly on employment to larger organizations of which you're always at the mercy of. If I had to go back, I may have learned a trade instead. I might do that anyways to get out of tech.
I'm sorry, certifications with 0 experience in this economy will not get you a job, unfortunately.
Local small business owner "these people I hire require constant guidance, I have to tell them what to do all the time. They don't care about my business."
Umm,
1. You pay crap but drive nice new vehicles, own a beach house.
2. They are employees, you hire kids. Of course they need management.
3. Why would they care about your business. It's YOUR business, they don't own it.
The worst thing ever is a business owner who expects the same passion from an employee... You own the business nobody is going care as much as you do!
I started my career in the 90s. 30 years ago layoffs were already the norm and internal promotions were a last resort if they couldn’t find a good manager candidate on the outside. Yet people back then were acting shocked that “kids these days” had no loyalty and would quit a job to look for greener pastures.
What’s interesting about videos like this is not the behavior of 20 something professionals. What’s interesting is that after all these years there are still people out there who feign (or genuinely feel) shock over lack of employee loyalty.
The game changed a long time ago.
100%
True. The reason why these discussions are happening right now is because hiring became difficult after 2010 due to the zerp environment. Good employees were hard to get as companies were hoarding employees. The only people complaining were those who weren't very good so no one paid attention to them. Now that zerp is behind us, good employees are back on the market and complaining as well. That's catching attention
Glad I'm not the only one who feels like things have been screwed for decades. I started working in 1991
No Loyalty = No Workers
Pretty simple equation that anyone could understand, yet, most higher level executives in a Company doesn't understand.
It’s a perception bias. Same story different time 😂
Boomers want old school loyalty without the pay. That’s why.
They got the gold mine and we got the shaft.
A whole generation of pulling the ladder up.
They not only had a ladder they had a elevator up to the top floor.
I'm not blaming them I would do the same if I had the same options.
About what sucks is now they're not moving aside to let the next generation move up.
My last company every good position had people that have been there 40 to 50 years.
They all qualified for social security and their pension meaning they'd probably get 8 to $10,000 a month!
To just sit at home or go fishing or whatever they wanted to do.
But no!!! Instead they'd rather sit in their cushy position and keep collecting good money instead of letting another younger guy get a good job!
I asked one guy why he hasn't retired and he said he'd be bored at home.. so you're screwing over the next generation because you can't find a hobby?!
@@hotrodhunk7389I always say “they got the gold mine and we got the shaft.”
@@hotrodhunk7389 very true
Give me a break. The truth is in our microwaveable generations after the boomers, everyone wants to start out at the top. They don’t want to pay their dues. Work their way up. They want to come in and be big boss. They come in acting like they know everything without the experience to back their verb. They’re big talkers with not much substance.
Unfortunately, too many are getting undeserved promotions, proving just coasting pays off.
How do you think they made all that money? College fees have gone up 400% since the 1970s, even adjusting for inflation that's insane... not to mention the sky rocketing prices of housing. These things didn't just happen out of thin air, people created this disaster.
I was hired on at dominoes as a delivery driver. When i started the job they said”ok now we need to cross train you as a cook” i said “ does that pay more”? They said “no, everyone gets cross trained” i replied “ not me, im paid to be a driver”! We went back and forth for about a month before i told them one last time! I was hired as a delivery driver, not a cook. Then i walked out! Even the franchise owner was trying to get me to do other peoples jobs! “We need someone to do the dishes” so… hire a dishwasher!
No one is fine with exploitation anymore... save those benefitting from exploitation. The Pandemic created a situation where we couldn't really avoid this ugly conversation anymore.
That's the truth. It is quite telling who's defending what, it lets you know real quick who is benefitting from that exploitation.
Klaus Schwab: "Quit your yappin'! YOU VILL OWN NOTHING! And you will be happy! Now go eat ze bugz!"
Actually the real problem in California is the exploitation. It's become much worse over the last 10 years as costs have gone up companies push ever harder to get people to cover more positions.
The tradeoff of my party pushing regulations on corporations here is that they've responded by going through a massive efficiency boot-phase, much like we went through in the 1960s under the same pattern of new regulations, etc.
People are tired of being mistreated, taken advantaged of, overworked that often leads to burnout, physical & mental health problems. In the eyes of management, we are just a number and easily disposable. With such low morale, it makes sense that people don’t want to work anymore especially for employers who do not respect their workers. My workplace has high turnover because of bad management.
I used to work at Taco Bell and I learned that the turnover rate was 150%...
@@rustym.shackelford5546 wow that's very high. A red flag that indicates management issues.
A hiring officer with a large company told me in the 1980s that the job I applied for didn't actually require a Masters Degree. It was just an easy way to limit the number of applications they need to review. My father, who had only a high school diploma, received on the job training to be a manager, eventually becoming an auditor for a major company. It laid him off, like so many of his generation, when he was too young to collect Social Security but "too old' to get another job. Now, companies refuse to train, demanding that the taxpayer fund colleges and their children's college education instead for degrees that, unlike on-the-job training, don't guarantee a job will be available.
The problem with that approach is that companies have no control over the quality of education that they demand the taxpayer pay for. As everyone knows, the quality of education has declined considerably since the 1990's and many schools have become nothing more than indoctrination centers. The old saying, you get what you pay for, is very true in this situation.
20 years out of college and this is my exact experience right out of the gate. I’ve seen companies become less and less appreciative of the work ethic they demand from people. So sad.
Loyalty means NOTHING. I was conscientious in my previous job when I saw other people pulling sickies and making excuses all the time and they're still there and getting away with it.
I've seen people endanger hundreds of people and get promoted again and again at my last employer's! Public transport industry. Got hounded out for not being willing to sleep my way up.
Maybe they have already 'quiet quit'...
The company I worked at paid welders $8/hr starting and $12-15/hr after 5 years in 1980. If you scaled that to today, that would be $27.50/hr starting and $55/hr after 5 years. If you scaled that to cost of living (the actual inflation) it would be $65/hr starting and $130-150/hr after 5 years.
I can tell you my starting wage in 2017 was $19/hr and i had been welding for over 5 years. Today, they have a job posting for $20-22/hr starting at that same position.
And they’ll be waiting for quite a while for someone to fill that position.
That is serious dangerous work and should pay above 30 at least. Maybe 40 or 50/hr
Our company decided to import a bunch of untrained welders from El Salvador and Puerto Rico, and they started them out at more than the guys that were there welding for 20-30 years. And the experienced welders were also expected to train them. For nothing.
Hard work is rewarded with more hard work and ever increasing expectations of excellence, responsibility and longer hours for no additional compensation.
At my last job I strive to be the overachieving employee. Stayed late, came in whenever they needed me to, took leadership roles no one wanted, and was about 2x more productive in real tangible results than anyone else in my department. You know what it got me? A 3% raise and a workload that made me start drinking daily and started having chest pains due to extreme stress. also i was the third highest paid people at my level out of 4.... Learned my lesson real fast.
No good deed goes unpunished
Yea, that sounds a lot like my "adventure". I busted my ass only to find out all the older employees who were coasting got paid more.
@@eddarby469yep. It’s sad because I don’t mind working hard or taking initiative but not when everyone else around me is paid more for doing wayyyyyy less
Before I quit, I learned there were people on the floor getting paid the same as me that had only been there a year and hardly did anything but talk and eat all day. While I worked 4-5 people's jobs at all times and was there almost 7 years. Now they can deal with their bs, fixing all their problems and training them every 5 minutes.
Very few builders actually build “starter homes” these days; they build 2,000+ sq ft homes with at least 3 bedrooms and then the buyers want upgrades. Our youngest is wanting to buy a home and she complains everything is unaffordable but when he send her listings she could afford, she turns her nose up.
In my area they're tearing down all the "cottage" homes & putting up monster houses for over a mil. They sit empty for months....
@@thelastboomer9088 Bingo. I'm single and I don't need a big home. 1-2 bedrooms at most. I never see those getting built.
The workplace sucks!! I have watched as lies become truth. Those that tell the truth are fired!
@@keithkorthals6183 yeah the truth tellers are punished and the liars get rewarded it's terrible what they're doing.
I got fired for telling a manager who was ego tripping at me. I didn't want to talk to her in a calm voice. She told me to clock out I did. Then she wrote to hr saying I yelled at her and walked out etc. this was a minimum wage no benefit job. also as a 20 year old I was like damn wtf I just wanted to make money go home.🙁 I was working taking extra shifts etc just to be thrown under the bus.
@@3hree3threethirtysorry this happened ...also log a report to hr from you what happened. After several reports of the same, HR may take action...... lies are lies.
I always felt guilty of lying but also I see what he meant by confess nothing or deny it.
@@richardbrown8269 It correlates perfectly with the rise of women in the corporate hierarchy. Women value the sort of comforting lies Oprah tells over any kind of hard truth.
I’m having a real hard time believing any company is struggling to fill positions. Read on…
I’m a bachelor degree holding (communications/business) 50 yr old male. I can pass a drug test. I’ve been working for myself for over 20 yrs. I possess a class A CDL with a clean driving record. I receive the best rates from my commercial insurer. I’ve secured my own customer base (sales). Annual revenue is ~ $225k-$250k consistently. I think you get the point….
For fun (and seriousness) I’ve applied with many employers seemingly begging for help. Guess what….NOTHING!! I mean not even a return call telling me I’m over qualified. And these weren’t positions I’m clearly unqualified for. Furthermore no one is willing to sit face to face and have a discussion. Every business, company etc has problems, issues etc that need addressing. And I’d love to address them. Yet nothing. So tell me again about the labor shortage and people not willing to work….I’ll wait.
Time for the system to explode
If you get paid and all your money goes towards rent and food......it's not real money. No one deserves to be paid that little either. It has the same effect as a walmart that gives you a gift card you can only spend at the store. It's monopoly money. People are tired of getting paid with monopoly money and all the bs expectations and micromanagement that happens at work.
I know a lot of highly paid people who have significant debt because they spend more than they make on things they don't need and also using their credit card as "free money".
My housemate once hit me up for a loan to pay the household bills.
I was out of work. He was working for an insurance company and was well paid.
But he had spent all his money on fast food and infomercial purchases..
Some people are poor through circumstance, and some are poor by foolishness.
This is called being a wage slave, because you are literally earning just enough to survive. I’ve had enough of US Capitalism.
DIng! You hit the nail on the head!
I worked in a welding fabrication shop making $15 an hour with 15 years experience. I asked for 3$ an hour raise so i would at least make the low end of the national average. Gave 6 months notice. For the next six months all i heard from the boss was how expensive the lowering kit on his new mustang cost, the new wheels and tires for his new mustang cost, how much the custom exhaust on hos mustang cost. I couldn't afford to put new tires on my 20 year old pick up truck i used to get to his shit job.
I eventually did leave and went back to say hello to a couple of the people who worked there that i liked and the owner asked " why did you leave? We always congratulated you every time you did a good job.". It took them three people to replace me with all my skill sets i took with me when i left.
I think it all comes down to language. It's not that "nobody wants to work anymore." It's that nobody wants to labor anymore. Nobody wants to toil anymore. Nobody wants to suffer anymore. Employers don't respect people whatsoever. Think about what it's like to wake up and have to make a choice about whether you want to go into a stressful workplace where you aren't respected, or risk taking the path of self-respect and self-care and risk financial insecurity at best and outright homelessness at worst. This is, fundamentally, a class struggle. And it's one that's lasted since the inception of Capitalism, and it's one that will be integral to it until its bitter end.
After WWIII, things will be a lot better! Not RIGHT AFTER....
What makes me angry is the last five years, some companies want a bachelor's degree, for customer service, call center experience. that's just such silliness you get that by experience, that was one of my first jobs was call center I was right out of high school now they're asking for a bachelor's degree,
They seem to think that a the presence of a bachelors degree indicates some level of maturity on the part of the applicant, they may also not want to hire 18 year olds but age discrimination laws make it complicated to ask for applicants to be 21 or 25 or what have you. They’d do better to have a long probation period so they can fully see what you’re made off, few people can fake maturity for a full year!
@@autumnmoonfire3944 I've met 18 year olds act like they're 40 Years olds. & 40 Years olds that act like they're 15, it just depends on the person when you're going through the interview process if you're a good interviewer then you know how higher correctly
From my experience that's just a front, what it really means is "we only employ our family members and friends or women who are willing to provide certain services to get a job, and we only hold faux interviews to keep up appearances in case someone from the government asks questions".
@@biancagerade4229 of course you’re right, which is why expecting a bachelor for entry level customer service is so silly.
If you have a BA it shows you were already a cog in one machine, and will easily be a cog in theirs.
I'm making less (hourly wage) now than I did 10 years ago, yet everything costs way more.
cant even get a call back from a call center!!!
As a call center rep, I know they don't call back because we're short-handed, and we don't have time.
Classic
A I and Offshore hiring…
As a plumber who just got into a labor union. I really lucked out, I almost cried when I was told I’ll be making over six figures in 5 years and get a pension for retirement that adjust to inflation. Keep fighting out there guys
And you're worth every penny. 60% of people are typing on a keyboard and "consulting".
A big problem I’ve found when discussing this issue with the older generations is simply the numbers. They hear that someone is making $18/hr and they compare it to the $4/hr they used to make. They say that that is far too high and that they had to work hard to get paid as much. They don’t seem to believe inflation is real when it comes to paying people more, they only understand it when it comes to inflation causing increases in stock value.
In college I studied under a well-respected professor in our business department-- an elderly lady pushing eighty years old, had a doctorate in info systems and probably fifty years of work experience with tech giants. You'd think she had it made. Yet this little old lady would begin each class complaining just how expensive things were, how she'd been priced out of medical insurance and how it forced her to live underneath her son's roof.
If someone can spend their entire lives working for the man only to be screwed over, what's the point? I think people are beginning to wake up and realize that the traditional 9-5 is no longer an option. Hopefully, we'll see more individuals start employing themselves rather than placing their futures in the hands of an unjust market.
She's a secret millionaire. Don't get fooled. Some people just love moaning for the sake of it. Especially the elderly.
I've wondered if "9 to 5" is just the result of Dolly Parton's song--so many jobs I've had or seen have been 8-5. Maybe bankers and some other fields actually work 9-5.
I remember an economics professor (at one of the famous universities) telling our class (back in late 1971) that a professor is someone who goes through life wanting something that costs $63. Of course we can raise that figure substantially by now.
i started a new job 2 months ago. the job description, interview, everything that they said the job was going to be was false. i was tricked into the role. my manager even mentioned to others that he lied and tricked me into the role. needless to say, i’m looking.
My last employer misrepresented the role to get me in, and I quit after a week. You can't trust any of these slave-driver companies anymore.
This video is accurate and depressing.
I literally work harder and more efficiently than everyone I work with, and I was told I'm no good at my job in front of everyone...and they wonder why I started to not do what they ask and why the turnover rate is so high, lmao!
Sounds like at my job if you’re incompetent or lazy you get promoted or recognized so but they pick on me. There’s other people that don’t take lunch and I said well I just sent a letter and why is it that one person did and other people don’t get harassed about it. and now they want a warm body when you’re scheduled and they’re saying it’s for business needs. I have never seen them. Need anybody at the times they’re asking only in the morning. It’s just an excuse to try to get rid of me because I’m older and they just don’t want people there older people
Quiet quitting.
@@halsd5857sounds like they need a manager to step in for that brief period of time when you go on lunch or break.
I'm currently working as a cab driver, I make enough money to sustain myself, get some savings and investing by working 35 hours a week.
People shun me because I got a college degree in web development, yet I choose to be a cab driver. I'd make more money following my career.
They are right, but in my hunt for a job I was running low on money and I needed an income fast, so I became a cab driver.
With time I developed a strategy and a budget and it's working. I don't have a contract, I don't have a boss, I don't have a schedule, I got freedom and money.
Why would I guve that up? Because it's the nirm to follow a career and work for a company. I feel people tell me this because it's what everyone told them it's the right way.
@@welon17 I totally understand you. I have BA degree in Business Administration and after 18 years working in offices, in front of a PC, I am contemplating a delivery driver position. It is funny that in my country, delivery drivers are paid the same as white colored workers... Still, there is tremendous peer pressure against that move, as you can imagine. It is encouraging to read that a person has made such a major change in career and is happy with the decision.
My last boss threaten to sue me for 15k for quitting and complained why I was guarded.
WTH 😱
They won’t sue because they would need to pay an attorney for $100,000 to do that.
@@TheCoolOwen Look up TRAP Training Contracts there a real thing but it appears government and courts are cracking down on them.
I'm pretty sure you have a case against them and the company for that.
Hha your boss is a baby . 😂 yea people don't just quit for nothing but some how they think we do
Companies are being ruined by Wall Street. Which in turn ruins labor. These investment people borrow money to "buy" a company they have no interest in operating to extract as much "equity" out of it as possible causing the company to founder. I see it all the time. Just happened in my hometown. A company bought a 100+ year old business, stripped all the assets, sold the business to another company that was in financial trouble and it's now in the process of auctioning off the remaining property. Over 4,000 people are unemployed because of greed and 0 moral compass.
Well nobody plans to own the company for more than a few years either anyway. Fast equity, fast sells. Its the next persons problem to make it sustainable if they don't want to come in an pretend to be the hero of hope while doing the same thing.
I wonder if the expectations of returns were reduced to 1% so more money stays in the company and they can expand and pay better would help... Then you're investing in companies for a cause and less because you expect to get paid well. Naturally companies that do well grow and will eventually pay better, but that's the long game; But i see all the companies doing the short-term profits over long term suitability, and will slit their own bellies to make the current quarter's numbers look more enticing by slashing 90% of the price on some services or giving it away for 'free' to make investors think it's actually making money when it isn't.
My friend worked for a company where the CEO came to visit a very large office which was a few states away from the corporate office. He shook everyone’s hand and thanked them for their work. He popped into a training class and said some encouraging words about them being the future leaders of the company. The next day, almost everyone at that office was laid off. The few people who survived the layoffs were given double and triple their previous workload.
CEO: “ I love you all”
HR: ok time to fire everyone thanks for the GO boss
A sociopath
I agreed with everything you said right up to the ending when you stated that knowledge would help. It doesn't - they have the power and will simply fire you because they can.
In the modern working society, loyalty don't exist anymore!
I don't give credit to the lazy. But I give kudos to those who see the hypocrisy of hard work. Every generation before me and including me worked very hard. What do we have to show for it? Medical conditions, debt, slavery? While immigrants, other countries receive our taxes. Our manufacturing shifted to other countries. Degrees that need continuous updates and certificates.
Seeing incompetent individuals as our managers or bosses. We see elites making millions without accountability. At 50 years old , I served my country. Worked through 3 degrees, spent 15 years in a factory. And all of that wasn't worth what I have to show for it.
I can not tell my children to work hard, and it will pay off.
As a parent, all I can say is invest what you have into things others need. And collect outrageous fees. Take advantage of others so the money flow keeps coming in. Even if you don't or can't work.
Don't spend your money. Spend others money.
People do want to work. The labor market does not care about the family unit. Companies have flip flop days, hours. Not consistent daily or weekly job hours and days working. Parents struggle with childcare and school hours for pick up and dropoff. Companies require weekends. Use to be retailers add regularly scheduled employees during the day, evening crews for evening and regular staff on weekends. High school and college student use to be able to take evening hours and weekends. So they had some experience in the work force before graduating. Our society has placed people in tornado lifestyle.
It's all by design. Powers at be want it this way and if they truly get their way we're all going to die.
There are so many jobs I can't take because of the constantly changing, unpredictable schedules. I would have to cancel every other part of my life to give them 24-7 availability.
uk trucker here. i work 3 days. people are like "why" and i've told them "if you were able to have average uk income but work 3 days, would you do it?" they said "in a heartbeat" honestly if you cant live off of that you've got a spending problem not an income problem.
Driving lorries is hard on the body I'm sure.
Alas Trucking would drive me up the wall. Sides i'm past the point where trucking is an option, i have trouble sleeping and staying awake anymore.
I grew up seeing my Dad get layed off every few years then go through incredibly stressful and long job hunts. We had to be really careful with money and skipped dentist and eye care when my dad didn't have coverage. On graduating university i knew companies didn't care about their employees.
Like your dad I've been there a few times myself being out of work, collecting unemployment and feeding a family.
@@tonyherdina9142So be glad when you do have a job and a income.
Same. My mom and I had to live in a hotel a couple of times after getting evicted from our apartments. My mom just got full time a couple years ago after being contract for over a decade. I have a tech job too now and we are able to live more comfortably now. I'm fearful about the future though. I'm 25 and I feel (and look) like a 35 year old woman. The stress is bad and I have an incompetent coworker who makes life harder. I hate seeing these people my age getting so excited getting hired. We're cheap labor, guys. Once we get to be our parent's age, they'll start replacing us with interns.
Just got offer a job in boston, for Seaport....For 17/hr.
If you dont know what like working in boston:
The average parking spot is $50 for 8 hour
That's awful. Tell them you'll be glad to come in at $27 and see if they'll up their offer. Otherwise they're probably using illegal aliens.
3 hours at work just to pay your parking LOL
Lol....$17/h. And 8 hour parking $50?!
Boston there’s no where to park they’re just tow you
@@fleecejohnsonn”own nothing and be happy while rent is $3000 month”
My son works for a huge steel mill. He works hard, long hours but he is well rewarded. They really care about their workers. They are well paid and are given huge bonuses several times a year. By the way, it’s Nucor Steel.
People do want to work; they just want to be paid accordingly. Another problem is that the minimum wage gap to skilled workers gap is almost the same in certain places. I work at a job where I was getting paid $20 an hour (canadian Quebec) minimum wage was between 10-11 an hour. Then the big minimum wage increase happened, but my own pay did not increase. In the 10 years I have been at my job, I think I increased about a dollar. Now I am making 20.90 an hour, but the McDonalds is hiring people at $18.50 an hour.... So now I am thinking that my own job almost a minimum wage job. But in my job, I have to travel to a metro (subway) because there is only pay parking at work. So I estimate it costs me 20 bucks to go to work each day, where the McDonalds is 10 minutes away from me. But I don't want to work in a kitchen. I like my job and I am happy with it, but I wish skilled jobs could be bumped up to a respectable wage. I would not even complain about gettin $25 an hour.
Same here in uk 🇬🇧 as a utility worker I get £12.50 an hour min wage is now £ 11.44 ph so I get just £1.06 ph above min wage mcdonald's worker for all the danger and back breaking work !
It's hard to be motivated when every dollar you make is only worth a nickel.
It's a joke isn't it? And lately all the good vintage stuff (that lasts forever) is $100
I just had a wake up call from the company I work for. I’ve been working for this company for almost twelve years. Taking my vacation time around they calendar. Never missed work. They haven’t fired me yet, but they want to report to another office that’s 60 miles away from where I live. They know that I won’t be able to work only to pay the gas to go to work. Basically, they’re forcing me to quit after years of being loyal and going above and beyond.
protect yourself and document everything they do to you (and possibly anyone else in the same situation) because they'll try to find ways to weasel out of paying unemployment. Don't quit, let them fire you and explain the EDD why and how they did it
You get tax breaks on moving expenses to work in a remote location. Best to look into it.
Most people on their deathbed regret working so much. 1/3 of our life is dedicated to paying taxes. Most people died working their entire life poor.
If it's something you love to do that's one thing. But most people hate the job they have.
I don't ask for much. Give me a job i don't hate, pay me a rate that is decent (or good), and don't treat me like shit. Most places can't satisfy any of these it seems.
Why would people want to participate in a rigged game? For those of us who prepared for this, the inclination is to build skills and wait it out.
Skills? Like first aid/emergency medical treatment, survival in the wild, navigating without maps, stick construction, basic tool making, leather working and clothes-making, hunting, ... ? Those are good. Also self defense, de-escalation, negotiation, team-building and group cohesion skills.
How long can you wait)
Because we still need to earn a living. Waiting it out is not an option everyone can take.
And do what? You want my family to fucking starve to death bitch?
@@gregvanpaassenCorrect.
Now retired, I wish I had never worked in any corporation. I would advise any young person to avoid doing so. HR; recruiters; office politics; backstabbing; LinkedIn; emails; being patronised / humiliated (see HR); air-conditioning; bullying (see HR); ‘credentialisation’ (see HR), etc is incredibly damaging to the human psyche. Work on a farm or in the woods and you will stay sane and happy.
I belive this ❤
If I had known then what I know now, I’d have ignored all the pressure to “go corporate” and become a musician, a cartoonist or both. I’m retired too…and that’s where I’m headed.
In 1972 I was 15 years old. I worked Part time at a local bakery. The owner payed me in the one dollar bills from the bakery stores cash register and that was around 40 dollars. Today, I would have to take home around 300 dollars to equal the same value. That is mind-blowing amount of money for a kid to be making part-time no less! I felt rich still living at home. Was able to easily save money for a car and nice hifi equipment. I feel bad for kids today. Car and apartment prices are out of control! Everything for that matter is so expensive. I'm afraid that it will get much worse before it gets better.
What do you mean before it gets better and do you honestly think things are going to get better because I think its just going to get worse and its just the way life is going to become.
@Tony11806 I meant after the revolution, of course ! 🤔
@@mikeg9554 Western countries are in decline and mass immigration is playing a major part in this decline along with our corrupt politicians and our countries will be in a permanent state of decline.
@@mikeg9554 The revolution won't come in America until 3 out of 5 of us are starving in the streets, and maybe not even then.
I wonder if that’s why many less people are having kids now? I read 55% of men from 15-49 don’t have kids, you’d have to be a doctor or get a trade working 100 hours a week to afford even one child without living in piss poor poverty.
I work as a uber driver the pay sucks but I get by because I don’t have kids and never will, I’d go from being lower middle class to poverty, eating ramen overnight.
I am in my late 40s and my husband is in his early 50s. Before getting married, we discussed and decided not to have kids because we wanted to retire with sufficient savings by age 60 at the latest. We are on the right track for the goal only because we don’t have kids.
It's not normal for 15-20 year olds to have kids, this statistic is weird
@FC-hj9ub Welcome to the North of England, where some people have kids at those ages just to reap the benefits system.
I think most people with kids are single moms with zero financial support or anything else from the dad so imagine trying to take care of yourself and a child alone. It’s almost impossible
@@FC-hj9ub Age 20 probably isn't so abnormal. For several years I was working in a small town, and a local OB-GYN (whom I had met in med. school) told me a lot of the locals graduate high school, get married right afterward, and have a baby the following year.
I waited over a year for a raise I was promised and never got, before I quit after being there almost 7 years. Plus I was working 4-5 different people's jobs. I worked harder, longer days, boss got the praise, and I got no raise. That's why. No compensation, or even recognition or basic respect for working harder. Now I understand why so many employees just do the bare minimum and don't try to learn any more or take on more responsibility. You won't get anything for it. Only special family and friends get the raises and promotions, and they also generally do the least amount of work lol. So fuck em. The last 4 months off have been wonderful! And yes, I am just a millennial (34 yo) but I have been working for 24 years (started at 10), and I am a very hard worker, not lazy. Luckily I have a great man willing to let me stay home and pay the bills himself. So now I'm just taking care of the house, kid, dogs, yard, garden, fishing, mushroom hunting, cleaning wild game, chopping and stacking wood, home projects and maintenance...etc. What's funny is that I'm saving almost as much money as I was making when I was working. Will likely be going to homeschooling soon too, which will save even more and we won't have to worry about all the bs in public schools. Idk if I will even go back to work, it just doesn't seem worth it any more, with all the added stress and low pay. I know most people don't have the option to have 1 parent stay home, but if you can learn to budget and make do with what you have, it can be quite beneficial for the entire family to do so. What else I found really funny, is that when I quit and started going out to run errands during the day (shopping, school stuff, bank, post office, bills...etc.), I saw quite a few of the 'higher ups' out running errands at the same time they were supposed to be at work.
Pay property tax annually for the % value of your home even if you are not selling… for a home you paid for with taxed income and loaned money you’re paying interest on… and if you sell that home for equity, pay capital gains tax… who voted for this?
You all did,some by picking the politics,others by abstaining,yet all get screwed
That’s the same rule on property as in most developed countries. That’s not gonna change regardless of political strategies.
You don’t pay capital gains on a home sale if you occupied it at least 2 years before you sell it
Boomers
@@Yasco-de-Jp if you vote for it it will
We are living in a dystopian era defined by hate, indifference, greed, narcissism, and metastatic late-stage cRapitalism.
Yeah. It's a lifestyle choice.
No it's late stage corporatism not capitalism but still be than socialism.
@TheUnseenPath exactly. They want to blame capitalism, when this hasn't been a capitalist country since around 1913. Anything to line up with the bearded pervs they idolize. I'll take this over millions minecrafted because of "central planning". They never want to talk about the famine their ideology inevitably causes.
Capitalism is what allows you to quit and go to another job.
@@andrewj5998 it's greed; socialist leaders are extremely rich and their countries are very poor
I agree with much of this. I would rather focus on extreme inequality vs pitting generations against one another. This is like the old trick of pitting races against one another rather than realizing how much we have in common. Once we realize that we can work together for change.
That's the problem we don't have much in common. Other races don't have much in common and neither do generations they live in two completely different realities and deny the plight of one of them exists.
Absolutely correct
The idea behind all this divisiveness is 'divide and conquer'. That way, the wealthiest can keep control of the rest .
When I got married in 1980 my monthly mortgage repayments were equal to one weeks wages ! Our financial advisor said, "keep it like that and you will be okay.
I'm currently doing my PhD, and we've recently unionized. I was telling my dad, a tenured professor about it, and he was saying, "I'm surprised it's taken you that long". And thanks to the union's negotiations, we've guaranteed longer periods of research funding by administration, a 25% wage increase that was 6 years overdue since before I started, and improved benefits for all researchers, including insurance and time off. And you know what? People are working MORE! They're happy to perform well, show results, and produce good work, because they're compensated fairly for it. Acting your wage also means putting the effort forward for which you are compensated.
And after living in Germany for awhile, I really came to see how backwards American labor is. If any business cannot pay their workers not just a livable wage, but a thrivable wage, that business has no right to exist. If that means 80% of businesses go down, so be it. You can't expect to make millions if the bottom line is making pennies.
Exactly! I am glad our generations, Millennials and Gen Z, are fighting back against the corporate koolaid! We are living in a modern version of the gilded age! Those unions are bad tactics are not going to work anymore with the newer generations because we can see that the current system is failing us
Hope you’re doing a phd in something practical because I would hate to learn that my tax money is funding your phd in gender studies.
just wait til you discover where your union dues are going
@@AnonYmous-mw5lc Oh please. You have these same companies buying out our elected officials to do their bidding. Why don’t you call them out?
@@2kool4ukewlguy77listen I’m not a fan of forcing acceptance but gender studies like a lot of things we don’t understand many times leads to answers. This is the argument people used to put down studies about a random bug … where we end up learning that they may excrete or have something in thier genetics 🧬 that helps us with a problem. Like the hotshot crab and the invention of the glowing green fluid that’s gets injected to track issues in the human body
As someone who has worked for many consulting firms, what I have noticed is corporate accounting and financial consulting work has gone to other countries where wages are way lower than in the U.S. In the past, it appeared that the lower skilled work such as call center work were the more common outsourced work. However, if you look at top consulting firm job sites, you will find more corporate jobs in eastern Europe or India than you will find in the U.S.
American corporations are taking advantage of tax regulations that benefit them and sold to the public as trickle-down economics will allow the corporation to create new American jobs. However, the reality is that these corporations are taking advantage of the tax codes to increase their net income while they are intentionally also looking to transforming their business operations by exploiting AI and cheaper labor abroad. I know this because I have experienced this.
One way to correct it is through legislation that incentivizes corporations to use American labor for their operations such as tax related incentives, and if they do not meet the incentivized target, they get taxed for outsourcing the work abroad.
@@julianholmes8291 then they’ll say “No one in the US wants to work blah blah blah”. In the same way that employees are not right about everything and need to be overridden, the higher ups sometimes need to be overridden. They’ve had their way on everything for FAR too long. For this to actually occur I wouldn’t be surprised if “Weaponized Incompetence” was used to insist on the old way. The legislature would probably have to play chicken with them.
I was working at a factory. My manager said I was paid better than the first shift workers. So I increased my productivity by 10%. It turned out I was being paid a quarter more per hour and he wanted me to double my productivity compared to 1st shift.
Millennials, my generation, cannot buy homes unless you are stupid wealthy... I do know people in my generation who have done this, but I absolutely am too broke to ever do it.
It's August 2024, I live in a 468 square foot studio apartment and I pay slightly over $1,400 for it. This doesn't include, food, fuel, electricity and internet. I also work at (currently) the wealthiest company in the world (Apple) and am barely paid enough to stay afloat.
It's greed, that's why most people have just gotten so fed up with taking anything they can get.... Even with all of my skills for 20+ years, the best job I can get if I were to quit my current one BARELY pays $20 an hour, is usually depressing and soul destroying work, and since I live in AZ a lot of jobs post, "must be okay with working outside" which is a death sentence.
I have been in the workplace as an engineer for years. This current position has made me not want to work, after working 60 work weeks for over 2 years I got demoted. Put back into the field, 100% travel. I left a job I loved for a director position, now my tasks are what I did 15 years ago. Currently the job market is sad for all
Simple answer is not that folks don't want to work. Its that companies do not want to pay properly
1:20 not my kids (in their 20s) parents or grandparents. This generation knows what happened to so many of their dads and moms and will never show loyalty. And they're mostly right.
Another thing I noticed is that businesses start to avoid any people that could în any way oppose them. Priority is set on co-dependent, malleable and preferably senseless people over independent, defiant and clever ones. You can have an utterly incompetent man get the job instead of one that is doubly qualified for the position simply because they can manipulate the former
Yep, they prefer yes men/women. And they really don't like people coming up with their own ideas or solutions, it has to be 'their idea'.
After 35 years with the same large employer I would say the the reason for people not wanting to work is because people are realizing that there is no way we can get ahead any more because the companies will only pay enough to barley get by. That there are taxes and fees that keeps the government in your pocket taking all they can also. Everything involving money, what we make and what we spend our earnings on, has been maximized for the people that take from us. If you can never catch up to that carrot then you would have to be stupid to keep trying. But here i am, programmed by the education system, to go to work and try hard when the school bell rings.
You nailed very well Brian. No one today takes anymore that corporate culture about "the company cares about you", team building, employee loyalty ... and behind planning layoffs, hiring cheaper staff, replace employees with AI and on and on. The labor market has become quite discouraging, employees commitment doesn't pay off anymore.
If you wanna be successful, you most take responsibility for your emotions, not place the blame on others. In addition to make you feel more guilty about your faults, pointing the finger at others will only serve to increase your sense of personal accountability. There's always a risk in every investment, yet people still invest and succeed. You must look outward if you wanna be successful in life.
The first step to successful investing is figuring out your goals and risk tolerance either on your own or with the help of a financial professional but is very advisable you make use of a professional like I did. If you get the facts about saving and investing and follow through with an intelligent plan, you should be able to gain financial security over the years and enjoy the benefits of managing your money.
That’s why I make it a point to speak with a financial advisor before choosing any investments. I’ve been using one since the pandemic, using profits oriented tactics and minimizing risks as a buffer against inevitable downtrends. In addition they have access to insider knowledge and analysis, making failure virtually impossible for them. I’ve made about millions working with my advisor for over three years now.
@@mariaguerrero08Could you possibly recommend a CFA you've consulted with?
"Gertrude Margaret Quinto" is the licensed advisor I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment
Thanks for sharing. I curiously searched for her full name and her website popped up immediately. I looked through her credentials and did my due diligence before contacting her.
Great video. Thank you! I think a lot of people are just burnt out also.
I’m in my 50’s and have never been more satisfied with my choice to be a skilled tradesman rather than a degreed salary worker. Here we are, it’s 2024 and we are going thru the once-a-decade downturn, and my company is making big cuts again…. Except they are cutting salaried folks.
Regardless of how you are paid, you are valuable for what you know and not what you do. Most companies have only one or two skilled tradespeople for each trade, that makes it hard to lay them off-they are hard to replace and take their knowledge of the business with them when they go. Most salaried office people are interchangeable-a little training and they can change seats without a lot of impact on the business. You can’t do that with a skilled trade.
And yes, young people are going to be screwed. They always are, but the gap in reality vs. expectation is quite stark with these kids. It take us our entire adult life to figure out that we really don’t live in the country we grew up in.
The simple answer is that we want fair pay for our work and are willing to be more picky about it.
Oh you want a college degree, experience, and then pay me $20 an hour with no good benefits?
We know companies can pay more but don’t want to and as a generation we are moving towards making them pay fairly.
It’s just not a good feeling. We pay tons for food, rent, life. All these people who have had a great life through the benefits in years past are blaming us for us not wanting to do the work you did but for less. In my entire life the minimum wage has not increased. That’s just not fair.
Unfortunately, the degree only pays more if you're working in larger organizations where it's a policy to increase pay with credentials. Otherwise, they are paying you based on the value they're placing on the job duties. Companies are looking for the person who will accept the lowest pay who can do the job, not always the highest or most qualified.
fair pay is already a difficult concept.
What is fair pay at a job? Ask 100 different people you’ll get 100 different answers.
@@Corgiking521 To me fair pay is food, housing, transportation, healthcare, and an extra in the given area. Some places that can be expensive, some places that’s not as much. To me fair pay is the ability to live without worry, and be able to save money for emergency or other things.
@@Corgiking521bullshit, we have data proving you wrong you just ignore it to cry with fake profiles online
@@SurpriseMeJT Yes, we TALK about "merit", but I think in most cases the actual plan is to hire the worst person who can do the job (say) sixty or eighty per cent of the time.
After a recent layoff, the CEO at my firm gave a talk and said, "I don't get to do everything, I can't afford a Lambo!" This from a guy who drives three different cars to work - a Land Rover Defender SUV, a Lexus hybrid SUV, and a Toyota Supra sports car.
This is my first time hearing a life after lay off really exposing employers in a tone that sounds like he is fed up like we, non recruiters, are. Every time I listen to him, I always get the impression he was choosing his words or holding back out of fear of revealing too much of what really goes on the other side, (employer's side) that most of can not imagine. I like this video. I truly feel he is on our side. Hope to see more videos like .😊
Just a couple of generations really had the chance to enjoy retirement, our great great grandfathers were farmers, lumberjacks, sailors, whatever, they probably worked until exhaustion.
Boomers: We want loyalty and we don’t want to pay for it.
Also Boomers: People don’t want to work anymore!
Gen Y (me): We’re not working for you unless you give me an incentive.
Boomers: You lazy communist back in my day I made $3.50 an hour at my first job!
Me: That’s $25 an hour now and you could buy a house.
Working in the real world doesn’t mean getting gold stars plastered to your forehead just for showing up. I work with people in your generation and they feel like they can come and go as they please. If they want to cut out two hours early to go to happy hour and then wonder why people depending on them aren’t happy with their lack of production due to all this coming and going.
Companies are not loyal but neither are any of the employees. Old adage two wrongs makes not a right.
Nobody is obligated to work and no company is obligated to hire you.
@@bencharlie9509 Pet issues are now an excuse for being late to work. Ridiculous. People have always had pets, and they weren’t discussed at work and coworkers didn’t know anything about it.
@@bencharlie9509As usual you completely ignore the point being made to down someone else. The reality? Looks like that carrot you're dangling just isn't quite big enough to keep people interested. Sounds like the employer needs to do better if they want better employees. You talk just like a local boomer business owner. He's offering welders and machinists with 5+ years experience a top pay of 15$ hourly with horrible benefits and blames the lack of employees on "No one wants to work anymore!" People want to work, no one wants to be exploited.
@@bencharlie9509Two wrongs dont make a right. Is a saying concocted by the people starting the wrongs and not wanting to face the consequences.
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I lost my house because of this market. I was unable to find a replacement job that was sufficient enough to pay the mortgage payments. I’m done with corporate America.
Living in a sailboat or RV is actually quite appealing now.
If i may ask, what does it mean to lose your house? You cant pay so the bank takes it? You cant live there and be late on payments i suppose? Just curious to learn about that world
@@itech40foreclosure. You don’t pay or pay enough they take it.
They can bring down housing prices by barring corporations from buying residences.
That is the latest tirade. But many corporations are owned by individuals... in fact that is the point. So you're really eating out the middle class, who provides moderately priced housing (usually at a loss for the first 20 years). Don't do that!
@@jazzlover10000 Moderately priced housing doesn't exist, and a secondary driver of housing prices are the corporate subsidizing of houses for foreigners.
I actually live next to an Indian family in what was an upper middle neighborhood. We have roughly the same size house, and I've been in theirs: it's nice on the inside.
My house increased over 150k during the great inflation period, and the family moved in next door. I have a Master's degree and make well over 6 figures as does my wife...he packs boxes at Amazon, and his wife doesn't work.
This economy is not only broken, it's hostile to the natives, and corporate buyers are, far and away, to blame.
We're not talking about your family S corp; we're talking about actual corporations like Blackrock who can ring you local tax district and they will answer.
They bid up the house prices long enough to boost appraisals, and the extra 3k taxes are enough to drive many families from their homes which they then buy at bargain rates for a quick sale.
Yeah, and what shall that change?
I can brainstorm you on the spot, about a hundred different ways how to overcome this limit if it is imposed.
You might have a master's degree, but your thinking is short-term, linear and simplistic.
The rising prices are an outcome of a systme, a capitalist production system with specific principles governing it.
Changes or fixes in systems, require systems thinking and not reductionist thinking like yours.
At the minimum, one would need to develop a model of that system that leads to the negative outcome, to be able to simulate the impact of changes on it.
Else, you will only make it worse, for which our history can give plenty of examples.
@@nikolaizaicev9297 Brodini, it's called "moving the ball". We need an entire political-economic system overhaul.
There is no making it worse.
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Easier said than done.
I don't know from which field you are coming academically, but since Marx, no serious attempt was done to develop a complete alternative economic system.
If you check the research from Economics for the last 30-50 years, it dealt mostly with minor aspects in the framework of Capitalism.
So, while you are right on the need to chang the system, the problem is, there is no alternative available at the moment.
The Marx's version can be used as a basis, but it also needs serious changes/additions, but nobody works on this, so, it will take years if not decades to develop a new one.
I remember management who would not lay off people knowing they would be needed later. It didn't last for long.
Watching the masses undergo a very, very slow awareness raising process is painful when you're decades ahead of the curve.