I see signs all over "Now Hiring!" at restaurants and stores. Yet would I better prefer to see signs that proclaimed "Now Firing!" -- for being fired is opportunity calling, and being hired can be into a salt mine.
Gettin harder and harder to find somebody who don’t hable none of that engles and will work for 6 bux an hour.
Where I live is the same now hiring all over restaurants and stores. They are growing increasingly desperate too, even before the illegal alien amnesty issue failed. Running advertisements on the radio, even some on local tv channels. Giving 500$ signing bonuses.. and giving employees 500$ bonuses if they can get a friend to sign up and stay at least a certain length of time.
But they haven’t yet budged on the wages which are still rock bottom. I think its a psychological issue, just like the levitation act houses are pulling in some areas. Manages and business owners haven’t had to give low end workers a raise for 30 years, or an entire generation. Their entire careers. Even as inflation has made the same dollars worth about a fifth.
But at some point the dam will break. My family’s accounting practice we all along were extra generous and even moreso now, we never have problems finding people. But some other firms are getting desperate, yet again not willing to raise the wages big time.
Anyway I’m going to be interested to see once the dam eventually breaks, when companies have to outbid each other. You can see the impetus too, with government workers retiring, and young people getting into the good government jobs. Same thing is happening or going to happen with a lot of contractors. That makes less supply at the retail and restaurant level.