Cali asking Retirees and Stay at home parents to work

A California city is asking retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to work 20 hours a week at struggling businesses to help ease a labor crunch, a report says

A California city is asking retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to fill empty jobs for 6 months, according to a report.

This is a temporary solution to help ease the labor shortage.
Businesses across the US are struggling to find workers.
A city in northern California is calling on local retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to go to work and help ease the labor crunch, CBS Sacramento reported.

I guess these officials don’t understand what RETIRED means, or STAY at home! This just rubs me the wrong way. For so many people the working years are sooooo long and the retired years are soooo short, and they want to take that away too. Many people who are stay at home do it for two reasons, they have no option with childcare, or childcare would wipe out any pay they make.

Also everyone PLeaSe when the government says the word TEMPORARY that really means INFINITY, keep that in mind. What we think of as temporary and what they do are opposite.
Toll Roads - called temporary
Covid mandates - temporary
Taxes - temporary………..need I go on?

As far as students, I used to agree that students should work part time. The problem is that now with even one extracurricular or sport there is absolutely no time for a student to work. Many don’t realize that some students do not get home until 10pm if they are doing sports. Then there is homework. When exactly should they be working? Customers are far too violent these days too. There are certain jobs I would not want my child working. I’ve know teens that have worked typical teen jobs - grocery - fast food etc. The customers are out of line big time to the point where it is scary.

There are only three options here for these businesses
-places must raise wages until they get workers
-they must invest in automation
-they close because they can’t keep up with changing times

a reply to: JAGStorm

How long will it be before they raise the retirement age and force people to go to work?
I mean they want to tray and get everyone to take a vaccine why not try and force everyone to work for the better good.

Will this requirement also be made for all the illegal immigrants coming into the state? It's almost like the city wants everyone to leave.

There are only three options here for these businesses
-places must raise wages until they get workers
-they must invest in automation
-they close because they can’t keep up with changing times

There is a fourth option and one I think we have used far too long, using illegal aliens, or people on work visas.
I’ve thought for years we’ve basically treated them similar to slaves and it’s wrong. We need to get away from this as a country. Does that mean our burger meal will go up, yes. Does that mean that restaurant owners need to accept a little less profit, yes. There is a middle ground.

What about the unemployed welfare leaches?

originally posted by: jjkenobi
What about the unemployed welfare leaches?

You understood the assignment!!!!!!!!!

www.ocregister.com...#:~:text=The%20state%20had%201.1%20million,the%20Bureau%20 of%20Labor%20Statistics.

The state had 1.1 million job openings in August, the largest count in the nation, according to the first monthly state-by-state Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Oct 23, 2021

calmatters.org...

Officially, California has 1.4 million unemployed residents, but a new study that takes into account people who can’t find jobs that pay above poverty level says the number of “functionally unemployed” is three times higher at 4.8 million.

I know you can make statistics say what you want, but even if we are rounding and excluding, there are enough unemployed working aged adults that get benefits!

a reply to: JAGStorm

Do they really expect people to believe it's just about the labor crunch, they could give a rats ass about the labor crunch.
It's about the tax dollars that they lost.

socialism

the government decides you must stop work for the social welfare to help business (the healthcare system)
and then
the government decides you must go back to work for the social welfare to help struggling business (hurt by lock down)

your welfare is not relevant.

in the spring there will be a pea farm in Mississippi that needs peas picked and you will have to go pick peas.

a reply to: JAGStorm

I'm going back to 911 Dispatch...at 69. Begging me for fill in, wknds...anytime I can...and it's only because I'm needed so bad.

And the more of us are staying at home ..our ER calls tripled.

Been sick, gearing up for March 1st.

If I was needed so much ...I sure as hell wouldn't stay retired....but didn't expect this.

But..here I go....peace JS!

Saw yesterday, $3,200 @ week to drive a Semi-Truck in CA. No experience needed.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Okay then can they give out free childcare if they are wanting people to fill in those gaps. All i have to say is, if you want me to work, then bring you ass here and watch my 3 year old twins. If not then too bad, so sad!

a reply to: JAGStorm

I can not wait to see the mandates to force people to go back to work, after all socialism needs to be implemented fast

originally posted by: liliththedestroyer
a reply to: JAGStorm

Okay then can they give out free childcare if they are wanting people to fill in those gaps. All i have to say is, if you want me to work, then bring you ass here and watch my 3 year old twins. If not then too bad, so sad!

I think there are going to have to be some childcare reforms.
I was both a stay at home mom and a career mom. Both were incredibly hard.
Quality daycare cost more than some college. That’s crazy.

a reply to: JAGStorm

Seems like government wants to control the means of production. . . .

a reply to: JAGStorm

The types of jobs that these folks are being asked to do are low skill low pay jobs. Until they change fundamentally to low skill higher pay or high skill higher pay, no one is going to want to fill them. As you said in the next post, raise wages, introduce automation, or close up shop.

Now this was all induced by the government in the form lockdowns and stimulus payments as well as increased unemployment benefits. If you don't shut the economy down it continues as it has for decades, shutting it down and paying people a "bonus" on top of their regular unemployment and you expect people to go to work at low skill low pay jobs? No way that's happening. The group represented has now gotten a taste of what actual pay can look like, unfortunately most corporations refuse to play ball. I think we'll end up with more automation, at least I hope so.

originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: JAGStorm

I'm going back to 911 Dispatch...at 69. Begging me for fill in, wknds...anytime I can...and it's only because I'm needed so bad.

And the more of us are staying at home ..our ER calls tripled.

Been sick, gearing up for March 1st.

If I was needed so much ...I sure as hell wouldn't stay retired....but didn't expect this.

But..here I go....peace JS!

I had actually considered doing that exact job some years ago. They are absolutely desperate for people here too. What really kept me from taking it… I had to be honest with myself. I don’t think I could handle children getting hurt, being hurt, being scared. I mean I know I could handle it during the job, but not after, it would be too much. I also could not tolerate the people calling because they “need” beer or stupid stuff like that.

My props to you for being willing to do a job of that nature!

a reply to: Hypntick

No worries the illegals that have entered the country due to open borders will be able to handle those jobs once the learn the darn English or some of it.

a reply to: JAGStorm

I am going to tell you my story last weekend when my husband and I decided that on Saturday we wanted to have some morning breakfast.

We went to our usual places, to our disbelieve all places were on waiting for up to two hours, soo after going around in circles and getting close for lunch we decided to go lunch instead, again the waiting was up to two hours.

And the places were not even full.

Soo I made some investigation, all the places were having the same problem, a shortage of workers, from cooks to waitresses, people are just no wanting to work, I guess everybody is waiting for the promise of the 15 dollars an hour pay that the Democrat has been promised but no many business can afford

i just read an article about this a bit ago. it has to be one of the most ridiculous things i have ever read. calling for socially minded people, to work jobs that no one is wanting to do, because of far too low pay, and so much crap involved in the job, such as dealing with a going out of control public.

basically they are trying to use peer pressure to con people who may not need the money, to take these underpaying jobs, out of social obligations. just where does it say that companies and businesses have a RIGHT, to have low paid staff? if they want workers, then they just need to do what is needed to get those workers they need.

if anything the only message the government should be sending is, "if you want workers and can't get them, then raise the pay, give decent benefits and scheduling, and fix any other issues keeping people from doing those jobs, until people take those jobs".

this is actually getting to the point of insanity. due to vaccine mandates the public transit system my father worked for is begging retirees to come back to work. think about that for a minute. is it really wise to try to bring back OLD PEOPLE to drive buses on busy city streets? seriously how about my father who suffered a stroke and has some movement impairment, wouldn't you just love to get on a bus he is driving? quite frankly anyone old enough to retire from such a job, should probably not be doing that job.

a reply to: JAGStorm



First they fire anyone who refuses the jab. Including nurses, police officers and fireman etc etc. Now they cry for help from retired people and people who are at home taking care of their children destroying the last years of the retired peoples lives and destroying even more stability in children's upbringing. After destroying all of our social stability.

Give commiefornia the middle finger.
Enough is enough.

a reply to: generik

this is actually getting to the point of insanity. due to vaccine mandates the public transit system my father worked for is begging retirees to come back to work. think about that for a minute. is it really wise to try to bring back OLD PEOPLE to drive buses on busy city streets?

This is exactly what I thought of. I’ll give it to the elderly, many of them have unbelievable work ethic, but medically many can’t do the job anymore even if they wanted to.