Millions of men in their prime working age are leaving the labor force, creating a hole in the ma…
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Around seven million men in their prime working age neither have jobs nor are looking for one, creating a huge hole in the labor market and costing businesses in male-dominated fields like manufacturing millions of dollars. Tony Dokoupil talks to "Dirty Jobs" host Mike Rowe and the CEO of a manufacturing company about the reasons behind this phenomenon.
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They made a whole segment about the wave of men leaving the workforce and they couldn't even find a single one to interview. Top notch reporting right there.
They're paid to suppress the truth of the situation. Shills for the status quo and the establishment so as to not jeopardize their precious station in life. That's why the owner class never sides with the workers.
I've seen so many of these types of segments and NOT ONE has taken the time to listen to those they so blindly stereotype and dehumanize.
Exactly
They've afraid to actually talk to anyone with a different perspective.
@@FaithfulFumoFan23 It would shatter their fragile sensibilities if they have to come to terms with the fact that the fault doesn't lie within the individual, but the system at large.
The reason why they can't find a single one to interview is because they are all dead or disabled due to something forced upon them in 2020 to 2022. Compare excess deaths and disabilities to the numbers missing from the job market. You then have the answer.
Gotta love how they interview everyone for this piece except men between 25 and 54 who are not working. 😂
They'd have to find a Mother's basement. Men need to go to work!
Funny cause all of the men in this demographic I know actually are working. These employers are asking men to work 10hr days 6 days a week for b.s pay , reduce PTO to the absolute minimum if any and work under sub par work conditions. All to help the company grow their bottom line another 2% every year and if done successfully the hard working employee is rewarded a 50cent raise and a pizza party......this is the real reason make no mistake.
@@edgarcastro4421 That's why people need to always be on the look out for better opportunities. As they say "stagnant wages are for stagnant people".
@@Andrew-3445 yes, then they would find the truth that they wouldn't want to air. those idols of yours still kneeling for the flag?
@@ns7353 My idols are people who work and create. Way too many comments on these videos are anti work. Those people will never have anything though. They will be penniless until they take responsibility. I have no sympathy for them. Dave Ramsey called them "a bunch of wussies".
My husband is in his prime working years and has applied to hundreds of jobs without any offers. He's qualified, he's skilled, he has experience but at 50+ he seems to be ignored. It's infuriating and quite frankly depressing. Most of the corporations are lying. They don't really want to hire. They make it look like they want to hire but prefer to make one employee do the work of three for the pay of one.
Age discrimination is real.
50+is not a prime working age
The ones pushing older people to retire at 70, are the same ones who won't hire workers who are 50 years or older
Happening to a lot of men there is a study saying a lot of middle aged men have dropped out of the work force but it's not that it because there not getting called back for jobs the computer algorithms are picking the people they think are best but who are those people because there not middle aged men
Yes Mamm
Men who worked hard used to be rewarded with a home, wife and a family. Now we get none of those things. Why would I work for a society who’s robbed me of the American dream.
Exactly correct.
Rewarded by who?
@@OO9O9 by the society they built and maintained
@@enceladus2263 did know soctiety reward these things? Where can I apply?
This nation wouldn’t been built by law abiding citizens who are mostly middle class. Now that the middle class is dead, this nation is starting to decline.
This is such bull, I spent my entire 20s trying to get an apprenticeship in the labor industry, hundreds of applications and never even got call backs, when I finally got into a contracting job(which was the only thing I could get into) they lowballed us and paid us basically minimum wage until the company went under, after that I got a job working from home that paid more than double what I was making as a contractor. These companies abused their workers and underpaid them for decades and now they're all in shock that no one wants to work for them, hah
I know what your saying. Here in my area these types of jobs seem to be very competitive and no one has been willing to hire me. Back around 2007 - 2009 when I was looking for a job it was the same thing. I'm now 37 with 15 years in the logging industry, both running equipment and plenty of labor experience in the woods, but no real experience to speak of outside the logging industry. I don't know if they think I'm too old or I don't have enough experience, but these types of employers shown in this video pass me up time after time.
I'm desperately trying to find something close to home because logging involves long commutes, and after years of that I can barely deal with it anymore, I have no time to do anything except work, commute and go to bed. My personal situation is complicated and makes my commutes even longer than normal.
They still want skilled labor for minimum wage. Let's HV a national labor strike
@@darrellrichards2265 Yeah I think the people everywhere ought to get together and support something like that for sure! I couldn't believe the 2020 protests, I was thinking if all these people wanna protest about something, why not protest about something more important? And like REALLY press the issue? The rioting and looting was completely unacceptable.
Exactly. I would say that a change in location may be a better option that's what I found.
True I work for a trucking company started the driver off making 23% of gross, no rise in percentage just want you to run harder to make more money ..work force ran by some greedy people
This is MISINFORMATION. They didn't ask: "What is your hourly pay rate? Do you offer Health Insurance? What are the RENTS in the area? What's the CRIME rate in this area?" I lived in the Philly area for 30 years. The wages are TERRIBLE...and the rents are HIGH. Many are struggling to survive on $15 per hour - or LESS.
But the CBS journalist, who makes a GREAT salary, somehow neglected to ask the MAIN questions! We're being abused, economically, then LIED TO by the Media - then told that men are LAZY! Unbelievable! Additionally, older people, who apply for work, are discriminated against. Why? Their HEALTH CARE costs more. So employers higher YOUNGER people - even if they are less qualified. NO ONE EVER addresses that...but it's true.
Absolutely
This is all planned by the Democrats as to get the illegals in these jobs
And they love to throughout "on average $30/Hr" as if that means anything if you are not comparing the rate to the cost of living. I do not know how some are making ends meet. You cannot raise a family on 30/HR in big cities. I honestly believe 30/HR is the bare minimum you need as a single person if you want to get ahead.
@@rosebud0391 I guess so... But to someone like me making $70 a day, $30 an hour seems Jaw dropping. Before my current job, I was making $8 an hour. I know it depends on where you live, but even getting benefits right now sounds nice.
So true! They didn’t even interview these supposed lazy people. This is low quality journalism.
Talk to the workers, not the employers. They will tell you the truth. Just make sure you blur their face
Hello ❤
Agree. Real investigative reporters would have talked to line workers anonymously. Not just a fluff piece with suppositions.
It’s a propaganda piece for capitalist. Who own the media.
They won't talk to the workers because this is actually a propaganda piece to get people okay with the illegal immigration invasion
For real. This video looks like a propaganda piece paid for by CEOs.
Guess what CEOs, the laws of supply and demand apply to labor too, no matter how much you don't want them too. Have empty positions? Offer more money and they problem will go away. People don't have the *exact* skill set you were looking for? Train them. There was a position for a welder open and one of the comments under it was "I made that much 25 years ago with 5 years LESS experience than the posting wants. No wonder it's an open job."
I can tell you as a college graduate in "Prime working age" corporations aren't hiring like they say they are.
exactly.
Yea, took my parents a while to finally understand once they monitored my applications and resume (after having doubt). But 5 months later I still can't get a job. Sure would like to know where this shortage is
I have autism which prevents me from working in a high noise or customer service environment (not just assuming- I worked in both and ended up performing poorly regardless of the fact I was working quite literally 60 hours a week and on call 24/7 every other week on top of that in second job I had) and I have a motor coordination deficit due to an under developed part of my brain. HOWEVER- I am not intellectually disabled. I have a four year degree from a state university's business school. I am actually quite gifted in that area.
Literally nobody wants to hire me. I have applied to over 2000 jobs for working in an office as an office clerk or administrator or even something similar in addition to a ton more with equal opportunity and public sector employers. I have worked with my state's workforce commission and still nothing. I have applied to temp jobs and still nothing. I have had a professional coach, my parents with graduate degrees, and the local workforce commission look at my resume and it's not a problem with the format.
I am stuck volunteering as an office clerk for a local charity until the economy improves. It really stinks because they're insulting people on government subsidy or living with loved ones when I am not actively wanting to live with loved ones- while at the same time I would be on welfare if it wasn't for them.
@@someone-ji2zb same here. Not a women, minority or gay so not hirable in corporate America.
The employers created this problem, the workers didn’t. No one’s buying it.
From age 16-21, I struggled to find employment, and so did my peers. That was a major factor in my decision to join the military. Years later, honorable discharge in hand along with certifications… I dealt with worse employment opportunities than I did before I left!! It was infuriating and confusing.
You want workers? Train them.
You want to keep workers? Give them benefits and treat them right. But step one is opening the door
Cheap corporations that layoff employees for a profit and no pensions. No reason to work .
Bro these companies are lying through their teeth. Pay me $35 dollars and I'll work wtf? I never even get responses back
@M L thank you, I have fought through the struggle and am now succeeding as a city firefighter. As I look back, I regret not applying for a nearby Burger King before they shut down. Underemployment is better than absolutely nothing, and pride can interfere with that understanding
Exactly!
Let me Add something here, the reason there is such huge unemployment rate among men is because… trying to Qualify, Interviewed, Selected and Getting hired into a job is a Long process in US. Which wasn’t used to be quite the case back in the days! Also if one looks at growing economies like China or Dubai… you would find out that getting trained, selected and hired takes the shortest amount of time. In other words, getting hired, on the job training and get going is the shortest and easiest path men on those economies takes… so very low down time, less frustration, less stringent laws, regulations and requirements! Very very good monetary compensation, great work ethic and less politics in workplace where boss doesn’t haunt you 24/7.
I retired early because I was being paid for one job, but doing two other jobs that were higher paid positions. They use you and then spit you out. Stand your ground workers!
Hello
Yep. Some people are just getting tired of being overly utilized. The most work falls in the hands of the hardest working people. That wouldn’t be a big problem if the hardest workers were paid as such.
Quit for the same reason. Cant retire tho, but taking a break from working for a while. Once i get back i will save for early retirement. Dont need much. Just a small cottage. Ive got my dog.
Been a contractor for thirty years, manual labor, own my business, never had employees, it's very hard work. I regret giving up some of my prime years just to participate in this economic structure. Men are getting tired of all work and no play, I know I am.
well said
I retired at 62 after spending the majority of my working life working manually outside in all weather conditions. I'm not sure if young people want to work hard in harsh conditions (hot and humid, cold and icy or rain). There are very few days in a year that are perfect.
I empathize.
You're tired of being exploited, and that is perfectly understandable.
Exactly
This makes me so sick. It's like they're blaming people for not wanting to work for slavery wages
Read my coment to enceladus2263,it's simple.
Exactly
The problem isn't so much not wanting to work for low wages. It's that you cannot internally move up the ladder at blue collar/warehouse jobs anymore. They hire most candidates externally for higher paying and more skilled positions.
Gotta love people working in television and management explaining why people don’t want to work harder in harder less glamorous jobs than they do.
Exactly.
U cooking bro
I like the way he gave all those things the right would say but only one thing the left would say about why men aren't working. 😏
The bias is real...
They want you to work to hard. Then go home and collapse rest. Spend too much because you have no time, fast food and convenience. The money you make is wasted even if it is good money. I would rather live by the river drinking a beer in a tent. Or a shelter. Never can buy a home. Cars now cost too much. Why try?
@@burtflak9409 don't forget the men in this generation are transforming into women now 🙄
There is no labor shortage, only a pay shortage. I am retired marine engineer (means I can fix anything), I have an undergraduate degree in math, and two masters in science. Employers should be knocking down my door, they are not.
most employers dont care if ur a veteran. some thinks its worse cause they gotta deal with our ptsd and medical appointments. the concept that veterans will get treated better in work force is delusional
You can fix anything? Thats so cool man :) :)
@@wakeyourazzup He said marine, not “the Marines”.
@@wakeyourazzup single mothers get that and more my friend i am just one man that believes in God and Jesus i will never forget you even though i dont know you i speak each week each year all the time to myself i shout often out loud angry that our veterans are being done this way i know people find me crazy but God does not
Yep, they won’t tell you the 200 applications they ignored because the person was either too young or too old, too inexperienced or had too much experience. You can’t be inexperienced but you also can’t be too experienced. They want a 30 year old man with 20 years of experience that has started 5 businesses. It’s insane.
People aren’t lazy, but they definitely aren’t dumb.
Who wants to over work themselves for low pay. If these jobs were so great the would provide enough pay for a family of 4 to live comfortably off of one income. If more companies started investing in their employees and paying them well, had good benefits they would have people fighting to work there.
The problem is not lazy men. It’s companies not appreciating good workers and creating a strong workforce.
The problem is GREED 👏
Corporate companies treat employees like trash , not reliable for work and cut jobs for a profit. No pensions either. Better off working for the state . Corrections sits around watching old prisoners for 20 years then retires at 50 with great pension and heath care all supported by the tax payers.
Yes greed and getting worse every year.
Agreed.
We aint lazy, but definitely aint dumb either!
True
Let me Add something here, the reason there is such huge unemployment rate among men is because… trying to Qualify, Interviewed, Selected and Getting hired into a job is a Long process in US. Also if one looks at growing economies like China or Dubai… you would find out that getting trained, selected and hired takes the shortest amount of time. In other words, getting hired, on the job training and get going is the shortest and easiest path men on those economies takes… so very low down time, low stress, less stringent laws and requirements. Good work ethic and less politics in workplace where boss doesn’t haunt you everyday.
Men are checking out of work, relationships, and society in general.... is it really that surprising that when you degrade someone long enough, they finally check out
You wise up.
Incel
It's not degrading of them. It's the lack of reward. Pay hasn't raised for single men since 1970's. You can't raise a family on $30/hour, much less buy a house/car, etc.
@@klaumbazswampdorf1764The male bashing on the media nowadays is so appalling.
@@vervetech9395Male bashing? There’s FAR more women bashing from incels online today. Every relationship coach, podcast bro, culture/gaming channel seems to bash women non stop and blame us for everything.
Maybe these corporations should start paying these workers a wage commensurate with the revenue they generate, rather than exploiting the essential workers so that the upper management and shareholders can live like gods. The biggest difference between America now and America when it was "great" is the level of income inequality.
When i worked in retail as a supervisor i got paid the exact same(and sometimes less) than the people i supervised. I also had to sometimes do the stockers job, do customer service desk when they went for breaks, manage a safe and get cashiers money for drops, scan out defective goods which was the managers job. When i asked for a 3% raise, which was only 25 cents and owed to me, they just laughed in my face. Glad I learned early that there is no point working hard if you dont have connections to leverage.
Go find another fing job!
Tbh, many manufacturing & skilled trades jobs are union-represented, at least if you're in a union-friendly State. Certainly at a higher rate than in tech or admin jobs. They also offer paid apprenticeships, and/or on-the-job training, again in contrast to tech, where you have to pay for school or self-training (or bootcamps, most of which are scams).
Amen
100% Spot On.
I have four college degrees, I am employed, barely making endsmeat. Some free advice for you companies, if you want the work force, pay them. If you can't find them, train them. If you want better people, promote them. It's not the work force it's you.
This is where the illegals come in at
Facts and the only prize for working hard and being devoted is to be cut first when jobs go or more work and same pay
wow four? i stopped halfway while getting my masters and switch to the tech industry. no point in paying thousands of dollars for a piece of paper. nothing you cant learn on your own unless you're in a specialized field.
What degrees do u have that still have u at such a disadvantage? If you don't mind me asking
4 degrees? Are any of them in a skilled domain? You could actually set up your own independent firm and be an employer of labour rather than an employee.
As a former laborer of many industries from welding and mechanics to hvac, to construction and even tree trimming from power lines, I realized that one employer was charging other corporations $200 per hour for my labor and skill while I was barely making a living wage. Over the years I paid the ultimate price as now I have physical and health issues from asthma to chronic arthritis in my back with zero cartilage remaining between my vertebrae. I live with constant daily pain that requires a daily steroid just to minimize inflammation. I can no longer keep up with my children or live a fulfilling life and I am only in my early 40's....all to make someone else more rich while we are taken advantage of and left struggling to provide generational wealth for our families. I feel many men are realizing this and are fed up. Don't get it wrong though....... I am not sitting around watching tv or playing games living off of the system......in 2021, I enrolled myself back into college to get retrained for a more suitable skill for my physical issues and I am looking forward to getting back to work again, but I am done with making less than desirable wages or wages that just meet the cost of living requirements that keep me trapped in the revolving door of the middle class. In the field of Cybersecurity, I pray that I will not have that issue for a long time.
Same story except I am 35 and went back to school for software engineering. Graduated top of my class this week. Was a heavy equipment mechanic for over a decade.
Damn man..... thanks for sharing, that was really a good read and uplifting. I had a construction job work me until I started developing an alignment in my hands, then fired me after I refused to keep doing that particular work that was negatively impacting my health. That was many years ago and now I've been in IT for some time. Definitely a better choice and easier physically, I wish you the best of luck on your journey friend
Lol as a woman, I sympathize with you. My man want me to stay at home but we legit cannot afford it. I worked at the post office for 5 years because it was good money but man the stress it puts on my body. I’m currently enrolled in my masters do engineering! I don’t see how man can work hard labor jobs for decades (Ik you all are built differently) but still
Marijuana work better than steroids, fasting, yoga, and meditation, really works, brings you peace, and more.
Time to change paradigms.
Working at a computer is tougher on the back than people think. Mostly because being sedentary exacerbates health problems through loss of fitness. The body is designed to move a lot and most jobs people spend all day at requires people to not move much. And when our body stops moving it starts developing diseases and dying. The jobs that require movement often require it in way of unnatural repetitive movements such as constantly bending over which leads imbalances. The reality is civilized society is bad for the human body and its questionable whether its even good for our minds. Humans are supposed to running around chasing animals, fighting, struggling to survive just like every other animal. By becoming advanced with our brain capabilities all we have really done is make things more and more foreign to our nature.
I'm in this demographic and I'm calling BS on this "nobody wants to work" crap. It should be noted that these are mostly manufacturing and skilled labor jobs - exactly the kinds of jobs they steered us away from since the 60s in an effort to force us to transition to the college educated, digital future. Men in labor jobs were constantly being told these kinds of jobs would be obsolete because they would soon be replaced by computers or robots. "Better to have a solid college degree and move to "safe" corporate America" they said. They closed down most of all the trade schools and offered few options except corporate related , higher education options. You couldn't get a good job or a promotion without a college education. Consequently, generations of men, especially younger men, have moved on from labor related, manufacturing and trade fields. How many plumbers, electricians or brick layers or factory men have you met lately that are working in those "dirty jobs"?
These companies are busy complaining when they should be advertising and offering training. What kind of investments have they made in making sure they even attract employees? Do they offer any incentives to grow and build with the company? They want to capture all the worker bees and then want to claim all the honey for themselves.
To postulate that 7 million men are lazy and sitting on their butts is utter bulls--- and wholly misinformed. (There ain't that much welfare or "rich uncles" available to support such a situation.) Young men used to be forced to take labor jobs because that's what was mostly available. There are so many more off-the-radar and non-traditional opportunities available now, especially online (which is how I work, in my own business), so now there is heavy competition for workers. Younger people are creating their own new jobs and job categories and are not chasing money and lifestyle as a sign of success or the traditional "American Dream". Companies like these are so used to "fishing in a barrel' for workers and now that the barrel is dried up, they are complaining. In reality, they are reaping what they sowed: nothing. It's like my Grandpa used to say, "They should get off their butts and get out there and hustle for a change!"
Its so obvious when he says @ 0:14 that unemployment is at a 3% near record low, but then goes into how men in their prime are not working and being lazy ......WHAT?!! if that was the case wouldnt the unemployment rate be so much higher?
@@yvettemontalvo7991 Exactly! And not one "journalist" to bring that up!
The unemployment number is people who are looking for work (not retired, students etc. for example).
BINGO! I fell for this kind of scam..Today, BLS has the occupation I was interested in at a -5 % growth.
@@soniaalvarado5372 I’d like to add disabled. Physical jobs can take quite a toll on the human body. I’m in my mid-40s and already have chronic (sometimes excruciating) back pain from several jobs that involved lifting and moving heavy objects.
I can attest that too many companies skirt OSHA (and state work safety agency) guidelines/standards/regulations. In orientation they pay lip service to workplace safety but in practice it’s about pushing productivity past healthy limits so that supervisors/managers can make bonuses while workers routinely get injured on the job. Witnessed this and experienced it firsthand.
Wages are the issue. People aren't lazy, theyd just rather go broke not working than go broke working 40 hours a week and STILL not cover basic needs
Broke doing stuff you enjoy is infinitely better than broke doing something you hate.
Sometimes also they pay a lot but they work you like a dog so nobody wants it
At university I had a class in Industrial Psychology, one of the principles of industrial psychology is that incentives are very important for production, the clearer and more direct the relationship between work and reward, the greater the productivity, the problem of many jobs is that there is no relationship between work and reward.
On one occasion they did an experiment, a group of port dockers were hired to transport sacks from one warehouse to another, they had to carry the sacks and walk almost a mile to get to the other warehouse, they were paid by the hour, days later The experience was repeated, but this time they were told that they would be paid per bag transported, as if by magic the estivators got wheelbarrows or carts to transport several bags at the same time, they had not done it the first time because if they had done it they would have finished in less time, which meant less money.
@Tracchofyre This system has been used in many companies throughout history, for example, the premiums paid to coal miners according to the amount of coal they extract, was widely used during World War II in the United States, most of it of the military material contractors established profit sharing systems to increase productivity and it worked amazingly, it was abandoned after the end of the war because then the economic situation changed, the government no longer demanded a rapid production of war material and contractors began to compete with each other to produce goods for civil society.
Another thing to consider is the damage that these jobs do to your body. You're giving up much more than 40 hours a week. You may start as an able-bodied man, but you rarely end up that way. You can be let go at any point for any reason and then be forced to limp into job interviews at 40 or 50 while competing with 20 year olds.
Yes! And these jobs rarely pay good benefits. They don't set you up for retirement, either. So when your body is broken, you'll be living in a ditch somewhere.
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lol , I feel like I am at the Fertilizer Plant Stage of life , in Uptin Sinclairs "The Jungle"
Ain't that the truth.
@@TimErwin yup they got rid of pensions for the ponzi scheme that is 401ks and if they even offer decent Healthcare it takes half your pay and they hardly cover anything and fight everything.
It's not a man problem.
It's a corporate greed problem
Bingo
Working what they call it a "normal" job here on Florida pays $15/$16/h. Rent for a one bedroom apartment is close to $2000 a month. The numbers just don't add up, and that's probably the reason many people gave up on the idea of working and building something. It's just impossible nowadays.
It's better to rent rooms much cheaper
@Dina Tv yes, but people don't want to be sharing space. The minimum someone who's working full-time deserves is a roof of their head.
Exactly. I literally lose money when I work. 😂
I’ll just stay with mom forever I guess. Gotta love late stage capitalism.
@@angelgjr1999 Wow, you all haven't read much history have you? A lot of whining going on.
@@jfrankerickson8993 You believe the lies those books tell you.
I don't blame people for sitting out. I have 2 college degrees, work +40hrs a week and can't afford to move out my parents house. Lord knows my employer gets more out of me than I do out of them. So sick of these rich media figures blaming people for not working terrible jobs that would only let you live paycheck to paycheck with roommates.
Yes!
I don’t have a college degree, but have a good paying job. My wife complains that I earn too much money given my education level, while she earns less with an expensive college degree. I tell her that intelligence cannot be guaranteed by a damn piece of paper.
But what's the alternative? Not having any income at all? I mean, it's obvious that people are opting for more leisure time -- this is a natural effect of economic growth -- but how else are they surviving? Is it government handouts? Independent ventures?
@@starventure You think a person's salary denotes their intelligence? Just trying to find where intelligence comes into play here.
@@starventure tell her, that if she earned more, she'd not even look in your way
I noticed that the female employer in this story said that her lack of 15 employees was costing her company an additional $5 million in lost revenue. That comes out to $333,333 per employee. What proportion of that third of a million per employee is the company paying to the workers? The crickets are deafening.
Duuuuuuuuddee omg youre so right!!!! Lol This proves that companies can pay a living competitive wage but they don't fckn do it!!!!!!!
@@sid2131 Right. They are willing to lose an additional third of a million dollars a year per employee simply because they refuse to pay their workers a living wage. Screwing employees is like a religion in America. I know a guy who owned a profitable machine shop that had more business than he could handle and he went out of business because he said: "I'll be damned if I was going to pay them the kind of wages they wanted." How crazy is that?
A true journalist would've asked that question.
Yes, if you run the numbers she could increase the pay of the existing 30 employees, increase the offer to new employees, and still make a large profit. IF there really is $5 million being left on the table. She sounds like a terrible businesswomen.
Bu don't forget, it costs FAR more to employ a person than their wage.
@@borisjankovici662 That's true. Even if you double the wage costs to account for all benefits and extra expenses that $333,333 of extra income covers a LOT of wages and benefits with HUGE profits left over. Many U.S. employers are addicted to paying low wages and refuse to change.
its a mystery why men in their prime dont want to work??? how about the fact that it costs so much more to have a family yet the jobs pay you so little. You have to put in 90 hours a week just to get by and then have to beg for a raise. We are sick of it. You dont want to pay us? Fine. Do the job yourself.
I am a 47 year old lifelong aluminum factory laborer and am tired of Mike Rowe and his babble. An older gentleman on a youtube comment summed it up best. He said: " Back in 1979 I had a buddy who laid track for Union Pacific and he made 12 Dollars an hour! You could buy a new car back then for 3 thousand. Fast forward 43 years later , that job pays 18 or 19 an hour while a new car is around 30 thousand. Figure it out." Nail on the head!
Exactly. $3,000 in 1979 is about $13k today. The prices went through the roof and wage inflation hasn't kept up at all. Not even close.
@@roccoz2231 100 % on the money.
Yup!!! Nicely put!!!
They wanted to pay less, cut vacation and sick leave, demand more productivity for the same wage "to be competitive". I worked as a Union teacher, our fine contract stipulated that we must have a desk and a chair! Mine was 60 years old I had to repair it myself. My sister saw my wobbly old desk chair and bought me a real office chair. Be careful what you wish for you just might get it.
Now society tells men there losers for working labor jobs make it make sense..women will literally not even look your way or give you a chance and shame you
I worked in a plastics factory in South Carolina.They were fast pace, high stress jobs .We were often forced to work 12 hours a day and 7 days a week or get fired.Also, people got fired for the slightest reason, such as being late or out sick too much or dozens of other minor infractions.The stress drove many to quit.The reporters sitting in their comfy chairs and pretty clothes missed this side of the story. Also ,the pay was good but benefits such as health care ,etc. were constantly being cut. The company owned you.
What is weird to me is how Mike Rowe stumbles around this and doesn't present these issues after being in the middle of it. Not that he would ever work the conditions you described, but it's like he thinks 40k to 70k is a good paying job. I'm mean, it's not bad, but people want to aim for at least 80k I think.
@@Flux_Nomad Mike won’t take about labor rights issues or unions.
@@Flux_Nomad Mike is a hardcore grifter.
Forced to work 12 hours a day / 7 days a week is utterly illegal. And no one took this to State or Federal labor regulators? I call BS.
and after 20 years the plastic gives you cancer
This is the equalivanet of saying "millions of cows are leaving the plantation". We really are livestock to rich people. No wonder why they make it illegal to sleep in your car
Bingo. Rich people always trying to make it harder for the working class. If they actually had laws that made sense, we might actually thrive, and they can't have thriving workers. Only workers who stick to company policy. With modern car alarms, a person should be able to have more fair warning for someone intruding on their sleep, than most homes.
Like what if you could actually make your car livable for those who don't have a lot of money. Like have a smoke detector, CO2 detector, and any other small cost things to make a car a healthy sleeping arrangement. The rich would flip if we allowed something like that.
The rich would love it, less competition buying up houses
For me I can only say it doesn’t seem like a good idea to put my time & energy into a company that at any time could let me go. I watched too many people I love give their all to an org that just left them in the dust the moment they got sick or there was a change in management. These guys missed the mark on this report. There’s more going on here than the “lazy man” narrative they’re pushing.
Thats ANY job. Go back to work!
These people are being pushed out for the illegal aliens to move in
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@@jasonscott4366 No, that's how jobs are NOW. There used to be rewards for loyalty. Now, you're exploited for it.
Good on these young men for being smart enough to avoid these horrible companies.
That’s why people job hop. There’s no rewards for being loyal. The best way to get a pay raise is to move around.
How much does the job pay? What kind of health insurance is provided? Do these corporations provide training? Is there any kind of matching 401k? The devil is in the details. Oh, but if you don't take our low paying dangerous job with crappy benefits, you're lazy!
I wonder if any of this has to do with the fact that in the boomer generation you could walk into a place with 0 training and get a high paying job that would train you on the site, now to do literally anything you need some kind of BS degree that won't even slightly relate.
@@samtam666Yep, let the population borrow money (go into debt) to bet on a skillset that might never get used, pouring money into the lucrative "education" market.
The business leaders today went to schools which values shareholder value above all else. Training cost money, so cut it out. People cost money so fire as many as possible.
The ideal job candidate is the immigrant who's happy not to be in a poor country. They will work for the least amount of money. Hire them. Increase immigration to benefit from cheap labor. What about the natives? Natives should look at leaving the US.
As a dem we want the illegals to have the jobs
Nailed it
Exactly.
Most people are sick of killing themselves for scraps while companies make millions in profits
EXACTLY. Why be slaves making money to line the CEO's pocket! The CEO is the single biggest dead weight, seriously!
jed is getting a write-up for insubordination
So instead of killing themselves for scraps, they quit and make....zero scraps? I'm not following. Where's the money coming from to pay all of their bills if they're not working for these alleged "scraps" anymore? Something is off.
@@mlh5434 downsizing life, getting a housing voucher, food stamps, relying on the government, using the internet to make money instead.
@@SozINh I agree that that's it. I was being a little sarcastic. But what we need to hear more from politicians is what are they going to start doing to cut these benefits? One can listen to Biden's entire state of the union address this past week and there's zero mention of the drastic cuts we ought to make to welfare so that the incentive to work is restored.
At 40 with a degree in chemistry and physics I couldn’t even get an interview with hundreds of resumes sent out so I eventually had to become self-employed until I retired so much for the labor shortage
What do you do for a living?
The labor shortage is a lie.
@@richardwildlife88-wj6klLabour shortage only for minimum wage work
I was very offended by all this. This is exactly how the rich and growing up privileged look at the poor and not privileged.
Yeah ending the whole segment with "if you don't have a job you won't be having sex"
@@Sannspoof guys in your generation aren’t having any sex anyway.. you’re either living in your parent’s basement afraid of an actual commitment and sexual relationship or your trans.
100% Agree!!!!
This is not news! This is corporate propaganda. Wake up everyone! I'd say more, but UA-cam might not allow it. Turn off this shill.
@@Cwgrlup men aren’t afraid you dipsh!t we just aren’t dealing with womens bullsh!t anymore. Or the fact that they all think they deserve a 6’4 millionaire that saves orphans on the weekends and rubs her feet every night while she doesn’t nothing. Gtfoh
People are finally starting to catch on to the fact that this whole "labor shortage" is manufactured. I've applied to tons of jobs after moving recently, and getting a response is one in twenty, it feels like, let alone an actual interview. These companies have realized that they can still operate under staffed and pay one person to do the jobs of 2 or 3.
I do not believe that America has a labor shortage. I believe that America is facing a much greater crisis. about 4 to 5 months ago I was medically discharged from the army I was in for just under 6 months and within that period of time the job market has taken an absolute nosedive. before I joined it was easy to get a job were they high paying no but work was work and fake listings were far and in between but now that I'm out I cant find work not even part time in fast food. Also, after just 6 months the job market has been filled to the brim with fake jobs from places that are not actually hiring making it extremely difficult to find places that are. Here is an example yesterday I walked into a taco bell to check up on my application. i had checked in on this same location on 2 different occasions prior to this one. i asked for the hiring manager she came to me and asked what I wanted. I asked if my application had been reviewed yet and she looked me in the eye and said she wasn't hiring. thing is tho directly outside this taco bell was 5 to 6 big signs with the words NOW HIRING on them. then to top it all off they are only one of the many other companies doing the exact same thing!
So is America going thru a labor shortage? Short answer no. What is happening in America is much more sinister and way scarier then a few people getting fed with their jobs. The truth is America is being manipulated by those in power.
exactly. There is a whole industry based around fake job leads and listings as well. I believe most jobs go overseas or to immigrants they can treat as slaves.
A lot of job postings are fake.. they use them to gather data on the job market, research purposes, keep a list of people IF a job opens... it's deceitful and wastes a lot of people's time but apparently legal to falsely advertise a job opening.
The "skeleton crew" phenomenon is definitely happening, it's widespread, and it's fueled by nothing but **greed**.
Yep this is all manufactured by the powers at be for nefarious purpose.
Sucks to work 60hrs a week and still have to stress about bills
Then having your wife all of a sudden wants a divorce ( courts take all you have) and tosses you like a piece of trash to die in the gutter.
For real the people living full time on welfare be doing better than some of us working full time.
You have to apply yourself.
"You equip yourself with the set of skills that people are willing to pay for." - Thomas Sowell
@@mb32174 We are living through the end of that reality. You have a skill? So does some mexican who will accept $11/hr. You want a living wage? Well a living wage in india is about 1/5 the cost of a living wage in America, so companies just start hiring over their instead. Wake up
@@mb32174 Working 60 hrs a week isn't applying yourself? I love it when well-to-do people make empty blanket statements like this to crap on the blue collar working class.
Biggest problem is poor management. I've worked for companies with high turnovers due to a terrible manager that never gets fired.
Corporate companies don’t care about employees, no pensions.
I've been in my last job for 20 years but had to quit because of a new manager who wouldn't let me take vacation even one day. It's like pulling teeth & you have to justify it. They say you get benefit of earned vacation but wouldn't let you use it!
Biggest problem is rampant capitalism.
How dare they say that men in their prime are choosing not to work. It is the employers who pay low wages, have you work more than one position, cut corners in trainings and safety measures and don't provide quality benefits. Treatment is poor and morale is low.
Yea, my brother and father work for a small business that my uncle runs, and the morale even in a family setting (which was fine for 15~ years) has hit such a low that things are starting to fall apart. Even small business managers and financial managers are acting as if they are in a corporate setting, because all trainings available now teach you the corporate style; that along side the growing financial concerns of the modern era compound to destroying employee morale.
I’m a 49 year old man. I’ve been working since I was 14. A lot of us are just exhausted & need a break.
Same here. Been working all my life. Every year employers get more and more greedy. You end up having to do the job of 3 people with no extra pay. Nobody in their right mind wants to be treated that way.
Yup. I knew when I left the work force, i knew one of yall will give in or work a two or three man job for a very, very long time or for the remainder of your life and I wasn't about to be that guy. So I just up and left.
u earned it bro. Thanks for the roads built with your taxes!
@@sharonneth4231 I am entitled to the life I want. I don’t have any children. Sounds like you & your husband need a “BREAK!”
I'm reading the comments people fail to realize that Generation Z and so on have no have no interest in doing anything that requires any type of physical type labor even if it were a job to pay 30 plus dollars an hour which translates to $60,000 a year or more... when I separated from the Air Force a few years ago I talked to a recruiter that told me none of today's generation so-to-speak wanted anything to do with any type of Hands-On type labor / occupations she said all they wanted to do was be in a type of job where they would be indoors all day at a computer terminal drinking red bulls and chilling out
What they won’t tell you is that they only want “prime age” working men with 5+ years of experience. I can guarantee you there’s probably dozens of applications from young men looking to enter the workforce or those who want to begin a new field that completely got glossed over. I can’t blame these men, after hundreds and hundreds of rejections it takes a hit at your confidence and begins to feel pointless.
I do not believe that America has a labor shortage. I believe that America is facing a much greater crisis. about 4 to 5 months ago I was medically discharged from the army I was in for just under 6 months and within that period of time the job market has taken an absolute nosedive. before I joined it was easy to get a job were they high paying no but work was work and fake listings were far and in between but now that I'm out I cant find work not even part time in fast food. Also, after just 6 months the job market has been filled to the brim with fake jobs from places that are not actually hiring making it extremely difficult to find places that are. Here is an example yesterday I walked into a taco bell to check up on my application. i had checked in on this same location on 2 different occasions prior to this one. i asked for the hiring manager she came to me and asked what I wanted. I asked if my application had been reviewed yet and she looked me in the eye and said she wasn't hiring. thing is tho directly outside this taco bell was 5 to 6 big signs with the words NOW HIRING on them. then to top it all off they are only one of the many other companies doing the exact same thing!
So is America going thru a labor shortage? Short answer no. What is happening in America is much more sinister and way scarier then a few people getting fed with their jobs. The truth is America is being manipulated by those in power.
They don’t want anybody. I’m in my 50s and they don’t want me either. They want desperate, experienced people who can take low pay.
@@thegodhoward8037 You hit the nail on the head. Its all fake listings. I'm experiencing the same thing, and there seems to be a whole fraudulent industry based around providing fake job listings and sending out spam. The real jobs are going overseas or to immigrants they can treat as slaves. They don't even look at anybody else. I did not vote for Trump but I sure can understand why people did. The problem and the lies are real.
I don't know where I'm gonna be in two years because of this
@@thegodhoward8037sorry but you have to be a certain ethnicity to work at taco
A lot of people want to be their own boss these days. They don’t want to get pennies while making their bosses millionaires
Bam! Spot on!
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Yeah. But if you're failing at being your own boss, maybe it ain't for you.🙄
Millionaires? Try Billionaires.
If you fail at first, you try something else. Most self-employed people have failed before getting the hang of it.
Working hard used to mean getting ahead. We also worked hard for the good women in our lives. Both are gone now so why work yourself to death if it's for nothing 🤷
Facts
I don’t understand how this is related to women. You should work first for survival then independence then to have a comfortable life. Where are women in the equations?
More men are in some kind of financial debt more than ever before. Can't even get a job that pays off the debt. LOL
Since you asked, I'll give an opinion. Most women are only interested in their financial equivalent or higher, not the guy with the hammer and shovel, working outdoors or in a machine. Since more and more women have reached white collar financial success, that leaves more and more "regular Joe" males unable to compete with the doctors, lawyers, brokers, and accountants for attractive females. @@aminandiaye8959
@diaye8959 Women are the main driving factor for men to get ahead in life. Especially when these men are in their prime years. Why do you think young guys want a car when the are old enough to drive ? It's to improve their chances of picking up girls.
Women nowadays all want guys that can afford a house and provide a luxury lifestyle for them which is something that's not possible with your average factory job. Chances are that the female boss in this video would never date a guy that makes equal money to the people that work beneath her.
I was able bodied. I was college educated. I was highly skilled. I was fired. I said to myself, never again will I put myself in the position to have a company have complete control over whether my family has a roof over their head and food in their stomach. It’s the most humiliating and embarrassing feeling not being able to provide for your family. Now, Im an independent insurance agent. On a bad day, I make around $1,200. On a good day, I make around $3,500. All while working under 40 hours a week. It’s not that we’re not in the workforce, it’s that we’re not in the traditional workforce.
"It's not that we're not in the workforce, it's that we're not in the traditional workforce."
BINGO! Give this man the mic, please!
Agree! Young men know they can get the same or more money online doing easier/less work. Whether that's from winning online poker or other video games, getting sponsors as an 'influencer', selling artwork, etc., or selling online courses. There's also the gig economy: Uber, Grubhub, etc. There's also the FIRE movement which has tech bros are retiring at 40 or earlier. Guys leave the military with a pension and can freelance at around age 40. There are LOTS of legal ways to make a living nowadays.
@BMase Being an independent insurance agent sounds great! How do you find most of your clients? Online marketing or word of mouth?
You don't count in these numbers. I assume you pay taxes? Then you count as employed.
You nailed it on the head. The day I was fired and had my 3rd baby on the way ,was one of the lowest points in my life. I had never felt that overwhelming feeling before. I said never again will someone have the power to strip me from feeding my family like that again
A lot of corporate America has treated workers so badly for so long, that I think a lot of people are burned out.
Also corporate America has mainly forgot how to treat people well.
My dad was a forklift driver and when my mom went in to labor, dad's work was called, they did not tell him till his shift was over, and my brother was already born.
100%
What's the pay? What are the job requirements? How many of these examples are requiring a bachelor's degree for starting level positions paying less than $15 per hour? We don't know because they didn't ask. It's almost like this is actually propaganda.
I also believe this is a big part of the reason.
You think corporate murica ever knew how to treat workers well?
@@abeedhal6519, if you look at the 1950s and 1960s then yes. The 50s started out with a labor shortage like now, those that didn't learn didn't survive. Over 33 percent of jobs were union. Companies like what my dad worked for that were non-union paid better than union wages and offered better benefits to not be union. The 1970s and 1980s brought about the beginning of the end to this. The labor shortage is back and unfortunately the 1960s was over 50 years ago. The lessons will have to be learned again.
That's why your number for them to call should be your cell. I'd wanna quit on the spot if they did that to me and I missed my son's birth. They'd certainly get some words from me at minimum.
What Mike Rowe doesn't talk about is how for the past 50+ years, the US has exported manufacturing jobs and provided ZERO incentive for young Americans to go into the trades. Factory after factory was shut down. Construction workers were getting laid-off en masse whenever their was a recession. This caused a culture where families do not encourage their kids to go into the trades - and for damn good reason - for the past 50 years, trade jobs have been an insecure career path. You have no right to blame "screens" and laziness of young people.
No, not even close. I’m a master electrician. I can’t get apprentices to start at 25 an hour. The younger people want to sit in offices, they want to be boss man, and they damn sure don’t want to sweat.
I don’t complain too much. I don’t get out of bed for under a 100 an hour anymore. I’m the “young” guy still and 8m nearing 40. In about ten years, the glut of electricians that are 55, 60 years old will be gone. And you’ll all be paying astronomic costs for power and wait days for the linemen to come.
Somebody has to turn the wrench, no matter how good the wrench is, someone has to turn it.
That happened in my country Venezuela, in the 70s President Rafael Caldera closed the technical schools that had been very successful in reforming the educational system, his reforms were terrible and disastrous, 20 or 30 years later there was a shortage of electricians, turners, mechanics and qualified personnel, before the reforms, those who graduated from high school in one of these schools could do all kinds of electrical work, use a horizontal lathe, weld metal parts and repair a car.
@@zarach9459 Correct. Trade work is t just learning a certain trade, but how to work in general.
@@TheSpicyLeg Being an electrician sounds boring. And 25 an hour isn’t much at all. That would be considered minimum wage if it kept up with inflation.
He also seems to think poorly of helping individuals but heaven forbid we take away those corporate subsidies and bailouts!! You’re allowed to fail, but if they fail you pay for it.
Yeah because we don't wanna work 7 damn days a week for the government to take half our check and send it to Ukraine
FACTS
So the lady mentioned $5 million lost because of 15 employees. The problem is that those 15 employees would only get a very tiny fraction of that $5 million. If they’re lucky. CEOs keep making millions and workers still aren’t making what they should. 30 bucks an hour is not enough in 2023. 🤷♂️
Exactly and people know robotics are going to replace many of these jobs anyway. And not once did he interview any of these men in this demographic he speaks of.
I’m the lady that said $5m. Clarifying point, I’ve turned down $5m because I’m at capacity. 15 people would bump my top line revenue up, but I have to pay for them, materials, building, electricity, taxes. I don’t pocket $5m. The net gets reinvested into the company. We are an American manufacturer that pays a livable wage with benefits. Other companies send their work overseas to get done for pennies on the dollar.
@@KarlaTrotman A livable wage with benefits sounds good to me!
The illegals will work for pennies on the dollar
It's this sense of entitlement from Americans who've withdrawn from the labor force, that rankles employers, like that one in Philadelphia. American men, especially, often times barely possess any of the needed job skills, if at all, for the job, yet complain the most that they're not paid like Kanye up front. I have met a lot of immigrants from China, Vietnam, and India just to name a few, who have overcome worse obstacles than American-borns-- the language barrier, for one, and being impoverished, for another. Immigrants have this strong work ethic, and don't have time to smoke marijuana all day like their American counterparts. Immigrants sacrifice by taking crappy jobs initially, but over time, upgrade their skills on their own, proving their worth to employers, and reap the rewards down the road.
It took me 6 months to find a good paying job. And of the 3 years I lived in Portland, this was my first in-state job within my career. I don’t know where they’re getting their info from. But I would’ve gladly worked a $35/hr job that gave me 40 hours per week. Sadly, I only found jobs paying half that needed help with part-time hours. And after income tax? I’m barely earning enough for food, health insurance and gas for the month. And that’s why there’s a shortage of workers. Agree with everyone’s comments here.
As a dem we want illegals to get these jobs
That's a Portland problem. Highest taxes in the country, low wages and high cost of living
Corporations want slaves. Most businesses pay enough for employees to get to and from work. That's it.
Exactly and thank you.
You forgot to mention that most only hire Temps. They want to get the highest skill out of you to the point where you could be taking up the slack from the engineers responsibility and pay the minimum. Also since 911 manufacturing has had a lot of lack of jobs and because of this you have the current generation with no skills in this.
not an employee shortage... a shortage of well-paying and GOOD jobs
Yes. A shortage of good employers!
@@jopainting1668 employers want male wage slaves. That's it.
No, it's a surplus of people in other countries happy to work for less (plus illegals here working for less, which drives down wages too.)
I quit my job as a IT due to stress. I moved to St Maarten as a bartender and loved it. I was free and happy. 2 years later, companies are calling me back to work due to high labor shortage. I guess I'm not the only guy quitting the 9 to 5.
When I graduated high school in 1999, all the manufacturing jobs in Maine were gone or going away. The wood mills were moved to Canada, the shoe factories and others to China and Mexico. Yeah the jobs are coming back due to deglobalization and baby boomers retiring and the need for new supply chains but the last two decades manufacturing wasn't there. When America deindustrialized in the 80s nobody cared about the shattered communities and the legacy costs of the New poverty, but now there is a lack of workers for business they now care. 😕 grrr
facts
GREAT POINT
So true!♥️
Ever heard of Jack Welch? He was the CEO of General Electric in the 1980s and 90s. He was the one who told corporations they should move their factories to China and other communist countries. Besides dirt cheap labor, those countries have no unions, no pollution laws, no safety laws, and probably no child labor laws. What more could a wall streeter or CEO want?
@dfirth224 I remember my dad worked at biw, he was always trying to squeeze the unions.
Okay thanks Bob the builder for lecturing us on why we need to work ourselves to death for no change in upward mobility.
He is a right-wing tool. Fix News robot.
Hope it's not Bob the builder that worked for BEAZER! COULDN'T BUILD S____!
Supply and Demand applies to employees too.
If potential customers weren’t buying your product, what would you do? Make the product better.
You can always make a job better - pay more, improve working conditions, etc etc. Entrepreneurs must take responsibility for every aspect of their business
You would think this would be common sense.
Including the prospect that their business may not even have the right to operate because the business idea is incapable of a sustainable and flourishing revenue
@@betawolfhd you can have a strong demand with a weak supply. What you're suggesting is that the customers don't deserve the product either?
@Jon Jeskie you can also have a weak business idea. Just cause you had a thought don't mean everyone else is beneath you. No one deserves the product I'd the product can't sustain he business. Typically. You short sited toad the employees outside management make minimum wage because the business is ran with such little care. These businesses would pay less if it wasn't a law. So, therefore, just because business exists doesn't mean it has the right to do so.
Indeed. That's the other side of the "entitlement" coin. Businesses feel entitled to a glut in the labor market that will drive down labor costs, and they expect government policy to provide it. It's interesting that when the woman at the circuit board factory gives her answer to why people aren't pounding on her door asking for the jobs she has available, he never follows up with, "Are you willing to provide those things?" To her credit, her company is later mentioned as providing training for new employees, though it's in the context of an observation that such training is not generally available despite "skills mismatch" being a leading cause of the issue being discussed.
This is hard to believe. I’ve applied to over 125 jobs since January. I have a BA and am halfway through an MS in tech. No criminal record, decent work history, and despite fielding over a dozen interviews I haven’t received a single offer. Every job I apply to already has dozens if not hundreds of applicants.
Yup. I apply for jobs all the time. It seems like you need a referral or to know someone personally to at least get an interview
@@RonCecchetti Yea, been looking for work since July, and still unemployed. About ready to blow my brains out at this point. Savings gone and state benefits ending... I don't get how things can keep going like this for long
What a puff piece for corporate America.
Shame on CBS for this superficial excuse for “journalism.” I’m a woman who has worked grueling, hellish, low-pay jobs and this is an extremely superficial take on the changing labor market by people who probably make at least six figures. No mention of the locations of these jobs, whether training is adequate, whether sites like these truly observe safety regs, etc.
Out-of-touch broadcast media personalities just explicitly or implicitly bash American workers who’ve been treated as worthless & expendable for decades while they enjoy handsome salaries and benefits the likes of which many won’t see in their lifetimes.
And the other thing is: Does CBS condone the widespread discrimination against women in these occupations?
All depends what State you're in, and who you work for. There are manufacturing & trades jobs all over, to varying concentrations, and most do offer training (paid apprenticeships & on-the-job). Where the difference lies is in the local politics - so-called "right-to-work" States often have anti-union, anti-regulatory policies that lend themselves to a Wild West for business. Low pay, no benefits, lousy safety observance, etc.
Gotta add, plenty of women (white, Black, Latino, Asian, Native, etc) are in fact being actively recruited for these jobs, both by employers and by orgs/unions/States. The pitch is usually that they'll pay you to learn, you get regular hours, and great benefits. Friend of mine (Asian F) works as a welder for the local utility company, and have seen segments like this with women plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc.
My brother's a carpenter, and he says most guys he meets (20s-30s) either don't want to do manual work, or don't want a steady job, preferring gig jobs that they can take or leave whenever. Drugs are also a factor - a lot of these jobs need you to be sober, at least on days you're working.
It's all about replacing America's for illegals. It's a shame CBS, PBS, NBC etc all support this
6 figures is an understatement. They're all millionaires on that show!
Oh please. The discrimination in the workforce is against men and it has been for decades. Women get handed every type of job regardless of weather they can even do it. They literally have quotas forcing companies to hire certain amounts of women and minoritys. Women are first pick for all the scholarships, grants, apprenticeships etc
Part of the problem is that Companies DO NOT TRAIN their employees anymore. They expect employees to KNOW EVERYTHING from jump and do not develop anyone anymore, beyond meaningless PowerPoint presentations or on-line training. Also, most companies have no qualm shipping jobs abroad and leaving their employees on the sidelines…
This is so true it has to do with that corporation crap like CrapDonalds and Taco Bell all of them are quite similar in their stupid structures yet people continue to support those stupid companies.
this sounds like my current boss im quitting on this week he hires the wrong people and promotes them while starving me to the point i made up a lie just to have one day to figure my life out its a lot to ask of one man who aged out of foster care
@@TodayJunior-p8b I'm sorry your upbringing was rough and felt unsupported, but you'll be stuck in a downward spiral if you don't move past your victim mentality.
If they go overseas thrn make sure we bohcott them, and make them pay us or as the saying goes, you reap what you sow! You get what hou pay for!
It boils down to pay and how you treat people/ employees
yes true. i agree
What do you mean by treated?
@@dasse1588 would you let someone disrespect you because they’re paying you?
They treat us like cattle.
@@SR20tony Daily because I have people depending on me, but I see your point.
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what can I do? I have been disabled since 2009 and I am 58 years old at the verge of retirement. My portfolio of $750k is down to $492k, How can I profit from the present market" , I mean I've heard of people making up to $250k in couple weeks during this crash and I'd like to know how.
The market is volatile at this time, hence i will suggest you get yourself a financial-advisor that can provide you with entry and exit points on the shares/ETF you focus on.
I agree, before the pandemic got real serious, I used to handle all my investment and I was pretty good at it, fast forward to post-pandemic and my-portfolio is steady in the red with profit rate down to the lowest, that's when I touched-base with a coach I saw featured on business week, who restructured my portfolio and over the last couple years, I've made over $850k from initially $210K
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I dipped out when I learned I could work for 50 hrs a week and still not afford a house and live while the boss makes record profits..
U right it's a waist of time the only way people move up if they have connections or have rich parents
People are fed up with decades of abuse from these greedy corrupt corporations and are just leaving the traditional workforce altogether because we have no choice. If you want any chance at retirement you have to leave the traditional workforce
This is what a lot of people are starting to realize. Most jobs have horrible (or no) benefits and pay you so little that you're always going to live paycheck-to-paycheck. Who is going to work for a company just to be poor all their life?
The problem is they want people to work with years of experience instead of taking the time to hire and train. So I call BS I see it everyday! Let’s not forget child care in this country
Exactly! It's not PERCEPTION, but the ability to train people to learn new skills.
The illegals will get the childcare jobs
@@Chad-nf6xq Florida already trying to recruit teachers from South America. But can’t train our people!
Exactly I went to a trade school & could never find a job cause they wanted someone with working experience. I could never get my foot in the door & it went to waste.
@@shaymalchione809 keep trying. Don't give up. Don't get down. You gottta be relentless. Nobody said it was easy. Just get it in your head that you won't fail. And you won't.
I refused to give up any more of my valuable time than absolutely necessary earning a living. To that end, I lived modestly and took 10 years off when I was 35 and then retired when I was 54. I spent most of my time off bicycle touring, backpacking, kayaking, and sailing (including a singlehanded circumnavigation). No regrets.
So from 35 to 45 you were off, went back into the workforce for about another 9 years and then retired? Very interesting. Mind elaborating on how you were able to save up enough for retirement in your last 9 years of working?
Lazy bum
What is your industry that would allow all of that and still be able to retire early?
Sh*t don't sound right,lol
Soundn like a dating app bio
As a dem we want illegals to move into the jobs. The Americans can go elsewhere in the world and find a job
They never talk about the real problem. People are tired of working for narcissists and working for other people's products for less. Unless we start creating equal incentive and accountability at work, then this WILL NOT GET BETTER. There are a few corporations controlling everything and none of us want to live in that economy
I laughed at this story almost as much as I did at the "journalism" about "quiet quitting" 😂
My company no longer begs employees to come back to the office, and also acted like they don't care about the quiet quitters and their endless BS ... - but suddenly LAYOFFS all of them, and employ people who really wants to "work"!
The facts are if you not making 30dollars an hour or more in 2023 you are poor not middle class but poor that's what inflation has done to Americans people making 18dollars an hour are buying ebt from people just to afford food
@@yannip2083 a lawfirm sued a former employee for quiet quiting already this year. They're probably doing it in hopes of getting caseload in their favor. We'll see what happens.
@@Skatingnow don't forget the higher they raise those state minimums the higher the cost of living and taxes. The media is surprised that higher wages hasn't cured workers discontent with the working class economy earning less than 40k.
@@conlawmeateater8792 Interesting! Which law firm?
So, you thought getting a celebrity to come on national tv and call 7 million men lazy and entitled was a good way to boost your company's workforce? Let me know when all those new job applications start rolling in. SMH
Yeah all they succeeded in doing was made me cease to respect the guy. Rich uncle? This sounds so similar to welfare queen rhetoric in the 80s. They’re not working YOUR job because you’re paying nothing and not accounting for no rise in wages. I have FOUR jobs right now. I’m tired and don’t need a smug reporter and television host telling me I’m lazy and don’t want poverty wages. They’re all that is available
Let’s add the nuisance of older men ( not in the trades but with years of experience in their field) not fitting the “ preferred demographic” of the hiring manager or company culture. There is a sub group of men that can not get hired. It’s a fact not laziness or living off the government. Let’s talk about ageism.
Preach
Very good point and so true!
No it's laziness
Great point!! And older workers show up on time and do the job that is asked
💯 preach
Pay $70,000 a year and watch them go back to work. It’s not worth going to work for $23 an hour …
Just wow. This could have been on Fox News. How many billionaires paid for this corporate puff piece? People want fulfilling lives, and even if a job is no longer dangerous monotony can be a killer. Business need to meet the demand of the workforce or fall behind.
Right now, illegals come first. Americans can go elsewhere in the world to find jobs
The problem is the pay. Motivation comes from excitement. You have to make prospective employees excited enough to want to come to work.
The illegals don't need much pay. They just need a job
This is true. Bonuses / share in profits make me excited to o come to work.
@@mollygiovanna1095 This is so true. No company wants to invest in grooming new employees. I remember 30 years ago when I started in the construction industry, no one wanted to hire anybody with out experience. What I know is not that employer taught me but what I have learned from reading books and doing jobs for people. It's been trial and error. If I messed up something, I would fix at my own expense to save the relationship. I've also learned alot from working on my rental properties and You Tube. The knowledge is out there but don't expect an employer to want to spend too much time on your behalf.
Dam that was missing piece if the puzzle
It’s not their burden to make life exciting for lazy putz guys
Has it not occurred to anyone that, for many Americans, work sucks?
Excessive hours, excessive stress, soul-destroying workplace culture.
“Soul destroying” that it is.
Excessive firings and lay offs.
Also working in menial and meaningless job positions doing the same crap over and over again.
Plus the possibility of being Divorced Raped if you are male with the court system we have in America. And now many young males are seeing that illegal immigrants can come into this country through our open borders and can collect free medical and housing so they are saying....I don't want to work and support them. So many young men are going MIGTOW AND Never having a wife or children. and living within thier means and being frugal.
If your employees aren't showing up, then you're not paying a marketable wage, lady. Geeze. What a clever twist this is. Blame the worker? No. Blame the Pilfering owner class.
This is Total BS. It’s called Oligarchy. That’s the problem. When Corporate Greed trumps everything else, this is the end result. People need a legitimate livable income, health care and benefits package if you expect them to work. If you’re not paying enough to even rent a studio apartment much less actually purchase a home, that’s a major problem. The American Dream is being destroyed by Oligarchy and this is a prime example.
"Manufacturing jobs pay an average of $31 an hour, the problem is not lack of pay."
"How much money is there in lost business in being not able to hire 15 people?"
"Around $5 Million"
So if these workers are making the average pay, and we also count payroll taxes, benefits, etc, let's say each worker costs $100,000/yr to employ. They're paying workers less than 1/3rd of their value and producing at a ~70% gross margin.
Sounds like they're causng their own problem
thats right😂
Even if you increased that cost per employee to $125,000 (to incentivize employment) and then increased the wages of the existing 30 employees by 25,000 to match, it would only cost 2.7 million per year. And those are ridiculously generous numbers.
Doesn't seem like much of a businesswoman if she's leaving $2.3 million on the table every year. She's either lying or this is a propaganda piece so businesses can lobby for more visas and immigrants to undercut those pesky expensive Americans.
If there are $31/hour jobs left open we should have 0% unemployment. Cut them off.
Please explain the difference between revenue & profit. She said 5 million in revenue not profit. A 10% profit on revenue is a healthy margin for most businesses.
I do not believe that America has a labor shortage. I believe that America is facing a much greater crisis. about 4 to 5 months ago I was medically discharged from the army I was in for just under 6 months and within that period of time the job market has taken an absolute nosedive. before I joined it was easy to get a job were they high paying no but work was work and fake listings were far and in between but now that I'm out I cant find work not even part time in fast food. Also, after just 6 months the job market has been filled to the brim with fake jobs from places that are not actually hiring making it extremely difficult to find places that are. Here is an example yesterday I walked into a taco bell to check up on my application. i had checked in on this same location on 2 different occasions prior to this one. i asked for the hiring manager she came to me and asked what I wanted. I asked if my application had been reviewed yet and she looked me in the eye and said she wasn't hiring. thing is tho directly outside this taco bell was 5 to 6 big signs with the words NOW HIRING on them. then to top it all off they are only one of the many other companies doing the exact same thing!
So is America going thru a labor shortage? Short answer no. What is happening in America is much more sinister and way scarier then a few people getting fed with their jobs. The truth is America is being manipulated by those in power.
im 22 years old
Bro, the bigger picture is most corporations are not really hiring. They only pretend to. Things are going to get worse. Even the so called work from home jobs are all a facade. They don't fkn exist.
You told an entire generation not to take these jobs because they'll eventually get automated. You steered us away from vocational and technical schools and encouraged us to go to 4-year colleges. But no, let's all pretend we don't know how this happened 😑
Nailed it
And now the high tech jobs are being taken over by AI
Worse, I taught construction technology at CC, as a trial course, but our Youth have been steered away from the trades for so long, they have no skills other than turning their cell on and swiping. _Hey, you have to hold the phone just right to swipe!_ What is a 2x4? So they finished class with only slightly more knowledge, and then the CC cancelled the topic. Now I work on an automated factory floor, and ask the technicians how they got their trade. It turns out they were only trained to setup the jigs. For service and re-programming, they call the robot manufacturer service company, who sends out a team of South Korean techs. : )
@@fundinghomesThe universities have become expensive amusement parks with occasional study, they spend most of their budget on things that have nothing to do with the education of the students and are full of useless subjects and chairs dedicated to crazy ideologies, there are small universities truly dedicated to education and accessible but young people do not want a university that is not famous and does not have a football stadium, swimming pool and starbucks.
Those 7million men aren’t utilizing their college degrees in corporate/professional offices - they’re sitting at their Mama’s house.
The woman says the guys not working is “unattractive.” She seemed to miss the part about women not even considering to swipe right on guys with certain jobs. Plenty of guys aren’t going to get even first dates if they had those jobs, or better jobs. There are plenty of segments and research of men not dating either because it’s too much hassle and women flock to very few men, including married ones. Guys would rather just not date and not put up with all the bs. If a guy works and isn’t 6’2, many women would ignore him, among other superficial criteria. Seems better to stay at home. Besides, you can’t meet women at work and if you do, it’s sexual harassment. And the grand prize of meeting the love of your life is divorce in a few years and she gets half your stuff, or more. No thanks.
There is no point in working hard for a family when we can't start one ourselves. Better to work and earn what you need
If you cheat or abuse her- then yeah.
Was looking for this reply
Many mens motivation to work comes from their desire to start a family, own homes, provide for children
While I’m not flipping this on modern women, men aren’t incentivized to date & marry these women with dating and society set up as it is now
Thank feminism, social media, and dating apps.. unrealistic expectations.. 50% divorce rate… the juice just doesn’t seem like it’s worth the squeeze
If I can work just enough to support myself I’m good with that. I’m a very attractive man- never thought dating and pursuing the “American dream” would be ripped from me for all the reasons listed above
Great comment- thanks
“It’s not attractive”… yes thank you for expressing female nature. Women gain respect for men that can provide and protect. But men have found the mating market 90% impossible to achieve, the costs and risks at every step of the way from meeting a girl to the divorce. its gotten to the point that the only thing to do is walk way from the whole game.
This is what happens when women were excluded from the economy for decade, centuries, etc., and men were turned into objects of labor. This is why women must all work and why we must ensure that everyone makes roughly the same amount of money over their lifetimes for the same amount of work and that all professions employ all sorts of people.
Like we care if she doesn't think it's attractive - it is what it is, and they have to deal with it
You got it. All the ladies want money.
Who gives a f what women want, lol. Not this guy.
*_“It’s not attractive”_* ... yes, thank you, just like a woman who doesn't cook!!
Ask those companies how many applications are they sitting on and not hiring from because they're waiting for some magical perfect employee that doesn't exist to come to them looking for a job...
Exactly. Every job gets dozens of applicants first day
They are waiting for the illegals from the government to process
that would have been a great question. I imagine there is some bare minimum qualifications they need and then explore why some candidates were rejected. But even then, there is no excuse for 7 million people to stay at home on XBox for 6 hours a day. At least do fast food or something productive for yourself and society while you search for that dream job.
@@mikehutchings4488 I highly doubt 7 Million people are, how would they know unless the polled people and 7 Million said they're doing that? It's preposterous.
@@dominoep I thought they did just that. How else do they come up with the stat that those 7 million, spend on average, 6 1/2 hours a day watching TV or playing video games. Most likely polled about a thousand of them randomly which would give you about 85% accuracy on that stat.
My step-son became an electrician through training at the local union hall. He has plenty of work is first 2-3 years because the pay was low. Later until he had his electrician training completed his pay increased and was assigned few jobs. Eventually after 8 years he was a master electrician and received plenty of work. His problem was finding work sites that were union worksites. He had to leave the state and his kids with us to find work. He's good now with a well paying job, but he paid his dues , he made it because he had family behind him.
congrats 2 him...ma'am where were the kids mom
Yeah there's a lot of us on our own. We can't stop to do anything else, like the trades that makes really low wages the first couple years and you can't survive on your own especially as the dollar loses value and costs just to exist go up exponentially.
In my home we have 2 paycheck and it’s still not enough to pay our bills 😢. I could do well with the overtime at my job. They don’t offer any. I work from home to eliminate the expense of gas. One pay week I was able to breathe a little easier because they offered overtime. I was able to pay my bills and buy groceries. Most pay week after I pay bills, I can’t buy groceries. I cried the next week when my supervisor said no overtime. My next paycheck I am $100 short what I need to cover my bills and I still did not include food yet. It is hard for most people. This is not a realistic TV review. If there company has jobs available, why are they having a hard time hiring anyone? Simply answer is, they don’t want to pay a proper salary in order to survive. 🥹🥹🥹
@@sandyweir6375 can u do food delivery or rideshare
@@cooltkll I was doing Lyft, but now my car is broken. My husband does work, and hopefully starting a part time job soon. My point is in my home we have 2 paychecks and we are still struggling. We need a third paycheck to keep our heads afloat. We are not vacationing or eating out, or nothing fancy. Just basic necessities. Just surviving. I am hopeful things will be better once my husband starts the part-time job. With how the economy is right now and what these jobs are paying, each household needs 3 paychecks to make ends meet. That’s our reality and most people reality. Thanks for the suggestion 😀🌹
Female hypergamy is a huge contributing issue as well. Women now make as much as men but won't date a man in a manufacturing job who makes less than they do. Until women accept men with lower paying jobs, women will overwork themselves while caring for their 40year old sons who will grow up to become the types of men they won't date.
89% of school teachers are women. 90% of gender scholarships are reserved for women. Vast majority of divorces still unfairly award custody and payment in favor of women... We've created a world where women now have the advantage from birth, yet they won't date a disadvantaged man.
Why is this relevant? Men without families or women, have no purpose. Nothing is more dangerous than a society of men without purpose.
Absolutely I agree. Also, I'm an older Millenial born in the '80s. Lot's of Gen X and Millenials grew up in single mother households. It touches on what you said about women divorcing. They initiate 80% of divorces. There's millions & millions of generations raised with a single mother and no father.
Most women don’t stay if they are cheated on or abused. Men will cheat/ abuse but they won’t file for divorce. They expect women just to stay in bad situations.
@@33nlgthat is not the cause of this what so ever
perfectly said!!!!
@@33nlg different topic than the man bashing women worshiping society that we now find ourselves in.
I quit in 2020. Lost 60 pounds ever since. I couldn’t be happier.
My son filled out applications for two years. He had 15 years of office experience and a college degree. He never heard back from any company he applied for. Age discrimination! He took classes at State unemployment center and did apprentice program he didn’t get hired. He took classes which he paid for and paid for his own supples for a Real Estate company still could not make it. He worked part time jobs while looking. Now he does GIG work for himself he is happy and can take time off when he wants. He loves being his own boss. These are the men in the 21-57 age group. Why should they be victimized and blamed for corporate business practices?
Exactly also that doesn't get mentioned that most of those men that are considered unemployed technically work a gig jobs but gig jobs are not considered in the bureau of Labor statistics so these men are working per se
AGEISM is VERY real. Only one of my friends is currently employed with a salary and benefits. Others had to start their own gig (ie walking dogs, etc)
@@mtmg3648 but then they ask for five or even ten years experience. It boggles the mind
@@colechapman3382 It is all bad and so easily fixable. It seems intentional at this point.
I have 43 years of experience and all sorts of certifications and diplomas and can’t get hired !!!!
Biggest problem about getting old is they don't want to hire someone that knows all the employer dirty tricks already. And the young managers only come up with the same old scams.
This is what happens when you are not allowed to progress. This is what happens when you are treated like replaceable commodities.
I'm in my mid 30s with a bachelor's degree and can't get an interview to save my life. Like other commenters said, though, it would've added so much to this segment if men were actually interviewed for this segment,
Notice how they interviewed a celebrity and a diversity hire? Not a single interview of normal men, working or not.
Just start making up stuff and add the keywords. To get interview usually you just need to bypass the computer
Nope but instead it turned into the usual talking points of berating them all and saying their lazy. Meanwhile they all live exemplary lives and make stupid amounts of money in their salaries.
I went into the trades and was trained on the job. I didn't say that I had a bachelor's during the interview because it might have worked against me aka being "over qualified." I'm always looking to learn valuable skills
IMO The divorce rate and the destruction of the family de-incentivizes a lot of men from ‘working hard’ like they used to.
I do not believe that America has a labor shortage. I believe that America is facing a much greater crisis. about 4 to 5 months ago I was medically discharged from the army I was in for just under 6 months and within that period of time the job market has taken an absolute nosedive. before I joined it was easy to get a job were they high paying no but work was work and fake listings were far and in between but now that I'm out I cant find work not even part time in fast food. Also, after just 6 months the job market has been filled to the brim with fake jobs from places that are not actually hiring making it extremely difficult to find places that are. Here is an example yesterday I walked into a taco bell to check up on my application. i had checked in on this same location on 2 different occasions prior to this one. i asked for the hiring manager she came to me and asked what I wanted. I asked if my application had been reviewed yet and she looked me in the eye and said she wasn't hiring. thing is tho directly outside this taco bell was 5 to 6 big signs with the words NOW HIRING on them. then to top it all off they are only one of the many other companies doing the exact same thing!
So is America going thru a labor shortage? Short answer no. What is happening in America is much more sinister and way scarier then a few people getting fed with their jobs. The truth is America is being manipulated by those in power.
This! I was about to post the same thing.
That makes zero sense!
@@jacoby1303 not to you perhaps.
I know a local company that placed a worker over 60 in a job that would be difficult for a 25 year old. The supervisor said, "You're mine now." They clearly wanted to push him out bc of his age. And they did. The company displayed a callous attitude toward his experience, good work ethic, and honest questions about this unwanted placement. I hope such age-ism goes publicly and privately punished. Corporations do not deserve the same rights as living, breathing people, since they never will need to suffer the human condition. "Just go get another job," is a response that is ignorant, willfully blind, callous, cruel, and inhumane, just like the arrogance of the board of directors.
Good comment.
Employers are choosing to not hire men.
Issue I'm finding is employers have very high expectations for entry level jobs and are not willing to train.
I concur! The jobs are available but the requirements are ridiculous to meet. This is why the positions aren’t being filled. Companies are expecting entry level workers to have a masters degree 🤦🏾♀️ or 8 years experience. It’s nonsense. What happened to training folks. Companies don’t want to train or hire people without experience and this is the why they don’t have enough employees.
The boss will also tell everyone that if they won't work hard enough he has several people a day begging to be hired.
I'm reading the comments people fail to realize that Generation Z and so on have no have no interest in doing anything that requires any type of physical type labor even if it were a job to pay 30 plus dollars an hour which translates to $60,000 a year or more... when I separated from the Air Force a few years ago I talked to a recruiter that told me none of today's generation so-to-speak wanted anything to do with any type of Hands-On type labor / occupations she said all they wanted to do was be in a type of job where they would be indoors all day at a computer terminal drinking red bulls and chilling out
This is a perfect example of corporate media and how it "doesn't" get to the truth of the issue.
I do not believe that America has a labor shortage. I believe that America is facing a much greater crisis. about 4 to 5 months ago I was medically discharged from the army I was in for just under 6 months and within that period of time the job market has taken an absolute nosedive. before I joined it was easy to get a job were they high paying no but work was work and fake listings were far and in between but now that I'm out I cant find work not even part time in fast food. Also, after just 6 months the job market has been filled to the brim with fake jobs from places that are not actually hiring making it extremely difficult to find places that are. Here is an example yesterday I walked into a taco bell to check up on my application. i had checked in on this same location on 2 different occasions prior to this one. i asked for the hiring manager she came to me and asked what I wanted. I asked if my application had been reviewed yet and she looked me in the eye and said she wasn't hiring. thing is tho directly outside this taco bell was 5 to 6 big signs with the words NOW HIRING on them. then to top it all off they are only one of the many other companies doing the exact same thing!
So is America going thru a labor shortage? Short answer no. What is happening in America is much more sinister and way scarier then a few people getting fed with their jobs. The truth is America is being manipulated by those in power.
And yet they’ll be quick to ridicule us without knowing the reason why. They should try and step into our shoes to really find out what it’s like to struggle for a living. I bet my life they wouldn’t have the guts to really know what it’s like let alone interview the men that gets passed over a job or promotion. Let them try to work a 14 hour shift for a month then come talk to me about why some men are not working. I hate how they just leave out all the bad parts of the workforce labor jobs bunch of 🤡🤡🤡
This is undoubtedly a multivariate problem but some of the blame has to be put on employers who expect people to already have experience in the position they're applying for. Very few companies are willing to train novices.
I saw a meme on Facebook where there was a job listing for a coder with at least 10 years of experience in a certain programming language (I forget what it is). The CREATOR of the programming language applied for the job and was denied because he didn't have enough years of experience, even though he had only created the programming language 3 years prior.
Human Resources are a joke, and are extremely disconnected from the actual work force.
Just looked it up: the language is 'FastAPI' and was created by Sebastian Ramirez.
@@Hyrule409 that’s the perfect example! How can the person who literally created the program not be qualified to run it 😂
Thanks for the explanation
I recently worked a temp job at a factory printing food packaging. Half of the production lines were down because there weren't enough employees but all of the mid-level management supervisor safety coordinators and others were still there and had been there for years. There was literally one guy whose job it was to go around and take pictures of trash cans to see if people were throwing away gum wrappers or any other band materials but half of the prices were down so he was taking pictures of empty trash cans. There was also a floor manager that I saw watching me for hours who could have easily done what I was doing. If all of the supervisors were working the floor all of the presses would be operational right now for no extra cost.
That’s insane.. middle management types are thriving while the working man is treated as disposable.
😂😂😂
Strange times we’re living in
Maybe wages and benefits deficit while CEOs buy yachts, mansions, stocks?
Cuz the benefit from the illegals
This is about American workers realizing that they’ve been building the rich’s dreams for centuries, and they’ve had enough of that. It’s 2022 and people are making $15/hr or even LESS. Pay is a joke, and people are realizing that they don’t have to work themselves to death just to barely make ends meet.
That's where the government illegals come in at. Americans will wake up too late and the government knows this
I still see most jobs paying less than $20/hr. And then the employers have the nerve to complain about not finding decent people. Well, decent people need decent pay and want enough money to NOT be in poverty to work for you. There's no getting around this, no matter how many fake one-sided news reports these corporations try to make.
It's not pay that is a joke, it is costs that are a joke. Why are costs so high?
Well, greed of the elites is part of it (though that doesn't really include your average small business owner.)
The many costs of a far too big government is a larger part of it.
And, then we have energy costs (fundamental to any economy staying strong are low energy costs.) If we want to transition to green energy, we have to take a big hit to our standard of living. (But this is arranged to not hit gov't and society elites.)
That last is not to mention the enormous waste of human resources and energy by our devolvement into an inefficient, overly lawyer-bound society...
So why would they rather make $0 per hour instead of $15 per hour then? How are they getting the money to survive by refusing to work? "$15 per hour is too low!! I'd rather make an even lower wage, $0 per hour, than work for you evil people!" That....math doesn't add up. How is the number zero greater than 15?
@@mlh5434 Because someone without help will still end up homeless either way. I don't know if it makes sense, but I can't imagine being worked to death for 50+ hours a week just to clock out and live on the streets.
This is a societal problem now.
It’s hard to find a job if you don’t check all the boxes. I gave up looking for a job for years. I heard on the news that they were paying truck drivers big many and can’t find them. I went to a CDL school and the guy said he wouldn’t take my money because nobody will hire you because you have been out of work too long. I found a school that would take me and I found a company that would give me a chance. It feels so good to be back to work. The extra cash is kinda nice as well.
American companies need to give people a chance even if they don’t check ANY of the boxes. Stop eliminating every application because of arbitrary prerequisites that just are not relevant.
Forreal and then they require you to do so much for so little just to even get hired in the first place.
A lot, and I mean a LOT, of employers are going to have to lower their standards. Giving guys with criminal records a chance (as long as it's not related to the job or they're violent or a p3do). And not doing drug tests!
I'm reading the comments people fail to realize that Generation Z and so on have no have no interest in doing anything that requires any type of physical type labor even if it were a job to pay 30 plus dollars an hour which translates to $60,000 a year or more... when I separated from the Air Force a few years ago I talked to a recruiter that told me none of today's generation so-to-speak wanted anything to do with any type of Hands-On type labor / occupations she said all they wanted to do was be in a type of job where they would be indoors all day at a computer terminal drinking red bulls and chilling out
EXACTLY!! 👏🏾👏🏾
Also happy for you! ❤
their is no shortage of skilled workers people are just tired of hearing hard work pays off to live in poverty forever
“The average manufacturing worker makes 30 dollars an hour” not in my state - try 1/2 of that.
15 an hour is the new working wage across the board. So in other words, what it pays to flip burgers in California it also pays the same or less to demo a house in construction.
@@rickhammond2473 Already did that
@@rickhammond2473 I’m a college educated electro-mechanical field engineer. There is far more to this issue than what your oversimplified solution would remotely address.
@@jimk8520 Yeah bachelor degrees are the new highschool diploma
@@ryanvideooo yeah - that degree and 30 years experience is more likely to get you an interview to be the night shift manager at the local mc’d than it is to get you a proper job with proper pay in your field.
Yes, let's ask Mike Rowe about working people. He is rich, has been for awhile. You don't see him saying hey let me give up my cushy life and work one of these dirty jobs until I can't physically do it and then live off of social security if that even exists soon. Housing costs, child care costs, health insurance, training, pay. Such a hit job segment which isn't helpful at all.
Let's not pocket watch. Mike's an expert in dirty jobs, interacted with hundreds of workers and can be an advocate for them.
@@leonrobinson8180 Let's see Mike do the same job, every hour, almost every day, until 40 years past.
@@andybrown6981 He doesn't have to
@@leonrobinson8180 exactly, these folks are telling you to do these construction/trade jobs because society needs men to work these jobs to keep society running and moving. Yet these millionares in this video themselves don't want to do those jobs, yet expect other men to. Where not talking about everyday sit in the office or chair in heated/cooled room job, where talking physical labor/trades/construction for 25-35 years.
For social pyramid to work you need suckers and lower ranking people doing these jobs for trash pay. So the millionares in this videos can have a stable society to live in.
Once upon a time a man was able to buy a home and provide for his family on a single salary. Today they can’t even buy a home or provide with these jobs. Why would they want to work for them ???!!!!
when my dad was 16 he was making $600 every weekend just in tips, his rent was $600 a month. with that one job he had as a restaurant busboy. he was taking care of his family and his sister. that was in the 80s
a $16 an hour job at McDonald's, you can barely afford a room
@@MOBMJ exactly!!!
A lot of employees will post ghost positions just to see what the labor pool looks like incase they need to hire someone quickly or to determine what they want to pay.
Mhm. Bingo !