> This isn't advanced age mental decline, this is just the consequence of a garbage-in-garbage-out information diet.
I’m not goong to excuse crappy behaviour, but given that they both lost their job I think we can assume the economy is also a contributing factor (not claiming it’s the sole factor though).
I love the idea of forcing a fired 59 year old mid level executive to suddenly serve coffee at a Dunkin Donuts, and shouting at them asking "Why aren't you happy with this job!?!"
Realistically, the reason we have a worker shortage is because all the jobs are non-unionized shit jobs that treat you like a meat puppet and actively abuse you
A 55 year old losing their 100k job and facing only minimum wage offers that replaces 30% of their income is a sad reality for a lot of Americans right now. There is not a worker shortage in every area of the economy just in the economy as a whole.
Wages for the bottom 25th percentile of Americans are significantly up in the last 2 years, even counting inflation. I promise the economy is actually doing well.
(For instance, if everyone was losing wages there wouldn't be inflation.)
Yes, real wages decreased on average for everyone, but the bottom quartile increased so much from 2019 that they're still ahead. Of course, it always depends which point you start measuring from.
Gas prices (which drives a lot of how people feel everything is doing) have also been up and down but are solidly down recently.
Exactly, if I put out an add like this it will be counted into worker shortage:
'Hiring decelipers with experience of devops, security, and 15 years of Rust experience. Proven controbutions to linux Kernel. $30k'
We can all see how laughable this is. It is equally laughable to hire workers on shit wages, just because they are blue caller jobs doesnt mean there is no minimum bar at all
The market swings both ways, but media seems to have inherent bias favour how employer's would like it to be
They lost their jobs in 2021, because they, among other things, thought that someone who has taken the COVID vaccine 'emits particles that damage the female body'. (They would not allow their son into their house for months after he was vaccinated.)
The economy was not the problem last year, unassailable certainty in ignorant beliefs was. They have new jobs now, which are harder, and much worse paying.
I’m not goong to excuse crappy behaviour, but given that they both lost their job I think we can assume the economy is also a contributing factor (not claiming it’s the sole factor though).