Glad to see someone who isn't just repeating what they read online. There's a shortage of workers out there period. Doesn't mean every one is sitting on their butt at home. Means a lot are already employed. As much as employers cry about being short handed. Ask them if they offer flexible hours for part time and students. The answer is no an awful lot. That tells me they're not that hard up for workers.
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So, out of every 100 working age adults, only less then 5 need or want a job. I underline want because I’d venture to say only 2 out of those 100 want a job. The rest are fine with assistance from tax payers and are only counted in the unemployment because they are showing proof of looking for work.
Now, in industries that are tough to hire for anyway, finding a quality employee without poaching them from another company is near nonexistent. Poaching has proved even more difficult then ever through covid. People are hesitant to change what’s currently working for them in such uncertain times. Overall result, positions go unfilled and companies lower their expectations for the quality of new workers. In this case, crap mechanics. Crap drivers. Crap companies.God prefers Diesels, bzinger, Last Call and 3 others Thank this. -
"Now, in industries that are tough to hire for anyway, finding a quality employee without poaching them from another company is near nonexistent"
That line I like, and that furthers the narrative of a worker shortage. Workers have more leverage and mobility than ever, and if a job isn't making the pay and benefits package worth it, they will have a NOW HIRING sign visible til the end of time. -
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That 63 per cent number doesn't specify why people aren't working. There's always going to be people abusing the system. In Canada the government has upped the "baby bonus" to make it easier for stay at home mother's/dad's. Are they too lazy to work too? Obviously there is welfare mom's/dad's that abuse the system. But they abused it before covid. Most of the people l see that are using covid as an excuse not to work were abusing the system and not working before. Not saying it's right and l would love to see workfair to force the abusers off the system too. To just make blanket statements saying it's all from covid relief policies is just as wrong.
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Regardless, the comment I made about people not wanting to work was really just an offhanded opinion and ultimately doesn’t have any bearing on the subject of this thread. So no need to debate it here. The main point I was getting at is that repair shops, and many other businesses, are lacking competent workers, and that could be why the OP had so many problems getting his truck fixed right the first time. We can all agree on that, yes?
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That's my interpretation of this situation. They want to starve me out of that escrow. As for DAC report, I wonder if there is a way for me to check if this company does report to them. I went to the DAC site, got my own report, but is there an option to get this company's report too? I checked the FMCSA website, and all I could find was their safety rating, which they had 45 of 170 trucks put out of service in the past two years. They actually didn't have that many trucks two years ago, so I cannot rely much on that number to determine on paper if they have a history of this, but I can determine from former co workers that they do in anecdotal experience.austinmike and bryan21384 Thank this.
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