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Make that a shortage of managers in general. The people that do the actual work well, are in short supply for all jobs. You can get any monkey to do a managerial job.
what we really have is a shortage of mario brothers
It is also amazing that when the wages for these jobs rise the shortage disappears.
Would you flip burgers for $350k/year?
You would? Damn sounds like people are ok with working, it’s the money that’s the problem.
They have denigrated people who follow jobs that are passions and necessary for a well functioning society and keeping them low paying at the same time.
Now they are bringing in foreign tech workers after they told everyone to just do tech because that’s where the jobs will be… but guess that just for cheap indentured servant labor.
We have a failed society and we know the people who are at fault.
Just wait until Trump get’s his chubby fingers into his deportations. We are so screwed.
You know what we don’t have a shortage of? Reddit trolls
Workers nowhere: “Please please! We desperately need someone to walk around and look over everybody’s shoulder, go for three hour lunches every day, and force everybody to stay late for all-staff meetings and then say a bunch of dumb shit that we already saw in an email from his EA for 5 minutes and then leave! How ever will the company succeed??”
This is what happens when you tell an entire generation that manual labor is beneath them in order to sell student loans.
Now they’ve all got degrees and won’t settle for anything less than white collar management positions. That sunken cost fallacy sets in and the idea of getting certified in a trade seems beneath them, even if they’d have a six figure salary within two years. Fuck, linemen make $250k a year or more once they journey.
But I thought these immigrants were “taking all our jobs!” tho….🙄
There isn’t really a teacher shortage, just a shortage of cities who don’t want to pay them.
And Influencers, remember that people give away money to influencers and OF but no, hell no to Teachers and Nurses
Preach it!
for a moment there was one ‘shortage’ and it was beautiful
These shortages are manufactured because tech companies are pushing AI like EVs pushed self driving cars 10 years ago. Just like the owners of these cars bought in, CEOs are now doing the same
There’s actually a good sum of nurses out there because it, along with the military, are the only 2 fields that guarantee an actual middle-class life. Even then, once the boomers die off, funding for the medical field will plummet.
Why would I do that? Work 12-hour shifts as a nurse, on my feet all day, only to face burnout and understaffing? Be a teacher, constantly battling disrespect from school boards and parents who undermine my work? Take on $100,000 in debt to become a pilot, only to end up at a low-paying job with the “stepping stone” airlines, rarely seeing home?
I’d rather get a $10,000 computer science degree and apply for software engineering positions that pay $70,000 to $150,000 starting. Even if it takes 5 years to land my first job.
I think the reason for these jobs being unfilled isn’t directly because of CEOs. (Not saying CEOs aren’t part of a bigger problem)
This feels like an oversimplification of the reasons involved with the shortages. The reasons why we have a pilot shortage versus a teacher shortage are vastly different. Teachers are undervalued, underpaid and therefore underappreciated. The pilot shortage is nothing of this sort. And let’s be honest, we don’t have a pilot shortage – we have an airline pilot shortage that is impacting us more than anything else. We saw the combination of boomers reaching forced retirement age combined with increased pilot workplace regulations following the Colgan Air crash (both pilots are required to be ATP rated pilots, minimum experience increased to 1500 hours, and other safety standards were integrated). Then we have COVID wherein more pilots took the early retirement option than expected. We also have significant training backlogs at flight training facilities.
All that to say – I don’t disagree with the sentiment as a whole, I just think pilots are a different conversation than “pink jobs” such as teaching and nursing.
Needs more rampaging plumbers
a Class War will clear this up
Well said.
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Similar is taking place in various industrialized countries, and partly due to population ageing.
not really. Canada is pretty horrific
Nobody that seriously believes that would still be using Twitter