Maybe I am just too nice?

It has always been a crapshoot finding good employees, but since the libtard covid payouts it's near impossible to find good workers.

Then on top of that, most of the good new employees want $30-40 to start per hour.

 
Good luck. The quality labor pool keeps shrinking every year at least in construction. 

 
And you wonder why Jo biddy turns a blind eye to the immigration crisis. It's a two fer.

Cheap labor and a dnc vote. Dems some smart ass lying mofo chit. 

 
I've had no luck with the new kids on the working block. Takes me a couple years to train these guys in my business. They don't have the drive / knowledge to understand this Labor Intense world of ours. The ones I want are young, married with kids, a house, a new truck. I need them in debt! That gets 'em out of bed. I ask for two things......Be ON TIME, and come with a GOOD ATTITUDE. I'll teach you the rest. Peace

 
SandTrap said:
Its actually weird reading this but NOT surprising. For me Being  my age it has been Impossible to change jobs. When My current job cut all OT and etc it was a Huge cut in pay. I have applied sending resumes and etc for almost two years and only a handful of returns on that. Up until my accident in Nov at Glamis I hadnt called out sick in two years and all my Vacation time and sick time was maxed out. Never left early Never written up and was the TOP driver in the state but being 52 years old NOBODY wants you. I instilled the same work ethic in both my sons 28-22 and they work hard as well but I do see in some of their friends what Y'all are talking about.
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I need good electricians in Lake Havasu!!  Just saying!

 
"Victim" mindset of todays youth....scary for the future.

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BaBaBouy said:
Are there still tweakers running around BB?
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If you are referring to a few years back where there were 500+ living up in the forests for the summer & walking down 18 to live in Lucerne for the winter then no. Of course there are tweakers everywhere nowadays, but nothing like that debacle.  My shop used to be right off a road that lead to the tweaker camps up in the hills behind me, they'd stumble down, walk into my shop and babble, scare customers, use our bathroom to shower in LoL. Glad that's over. 

 
SPODE said:
If you are referring to a few years back where there were 500+ living up in the forests for the summer & walking down 18 to live in Lucerne for the winter then no. Of course there are tweakers everywhere nowadays, but nothing like that debacle.  My shop used to be right off a road that lead to the tweaker camps up in the hills behind me, they'd stumble down, walk into my shop and babble, scare customers, use our bathroom to shower in LoL. Glad that's over. 
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Huh.  We camp on the North side of the lake a lot.  We'd see some minivans that obviously had people living in them here and there, but didn't realize it was 500+ of them up in there.

 
**Phoenix, Az.**No doubt about it, employee retention these days is rough.  Want to say it's the higher pay that we're having to start new employees at.  Don't need the money, don't have to work as much because they usually don't have a pot to piss in. 

But there still maybe some hope.  One of my skilled fabricators is setting to retire mid-way through this year.  I know I'm not going to find the perfect replacement, so I'm going to have to grow someone into the position.  The last three years of running help wanted adds through Indeed and Craigslist has been nothing short of depressing and frustrating. 

Had some time on getting someone in so wrote up the add, shot of whiskey, and hit the send button.  To my surprise resumes came flowing in at a pretty good clip, even a lot from out of state.  And for a change, a better percentage of people that had some experience.  Was receiving new resumes for 5 straight days.  Ended up landing someone that lived ten minutes away, had his own car, and for less than we were advertising because of his lack of experience.  Hopefully it's a sign of things to come.        

 
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