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don't tell me you're hiring, because you're not!
Assuming that you came into this thread having heard about the "labor shortage" that corporate America claims is going on. How it's constantly being pushed as a labor shortage instead of an income and benefits shortage.
All these places that I see hiring that aren't offering a living wage or benefits. I've recently seen one place hiring that has age tier starting pay. We're more used to seeing that in terms of shift tiers (for example, companies paying more to do third shift). Doing that by age is really bold since you're not supposed to discriminate against people based on age.
I also read an article about someone in Florida who recently applied for 60 jobs to take a poll on what would happen. This person was not a genuine job seeker, fortunately. Out of 60 jobs that claimed that they were hiring only one called him back for an interview. I would suggest looking up the article to read it for yourself and also see his posts about it on twitter.
Companies are using the great resignation to justify their claim of a labor shortage when we have plenty of evidence to show that it is more about them not paying living wage or giving benefits and less about people not wanting to work. That Floridian applying for all those jobs just to see the results it's pretty much the icing on the cake. I would also like to know of anyone else who did anything similar.
Aside from that, what is your take on all this? Were you a part of the Great resignation 2021? How has your experience as a job seeker been recently? You can also talk about whatever is related to this.