Someone circulated a rumor online that ICE was going to raid poultry plants in Gainesville, GA. The next day the news reported that hundreds of workers were a no show for work that day.

I'm talking deliberately hiring illegals, in violation of Federal law, figuring nothing will happen to them personally, and that the company will just pass the fines onto their customers.

That's capitalism bro!

I recently onboarded onto a commercial contractor for a brief period of time before jobhopping to a different job, and...

Physical Exam $200
Drug Test $50
PPE (Hard Hat): $12-15
PPE (Safety Glasses): $12-15
PPE (Safety Vest): $12-15

Total raw cost of a basic new hire: $286.

Then you need to factor in about an hour's time for the admin secretary etc to verify status and get everything (health / insurance / next of kin etc) typed in for that person, double checked.

Figure about $20/hr for the secretary, so total cost to the company for the secretary is about maybe $65/hr when you factor in health benefits, etc.

Final Cost of New Hire: About $350

That doesn't really seem like a lot; but if you have a constant revolving door of new hires failing out within the first two weeks on the job -- it does add up -- A hundred failed applicants a year costs the company about $35K just for those basic costs; then there's the cost of OT for the people who have to make up for the missing staff, and lowered company productivity since you can't make as many widgets.

Coming in a bus from the border?

In Columbus, I tried to hire some cops for a special duty gig.  No takers.

I asked an officer I saw pulling a special duty gig what the deal was.  He said that the contract rate for special duty doesn't compare to what they can make doing overtime, and with the level staffing they have, they can get all of the overtime they can stand.  So you have to offer more than the overtime rate if want to hire a special duty officer.

Pretty much every large metro area police department in the country is understaffed.  The political response to the Saint George Floyd riots saw to that.

Neither party wants that.

If you look at the actual productivity metrics, they probably aren't understaffed. I worked for a suburban 600 deputy sheriff's office and 90% of the patrol units were working traffic or sitting in a parking lot at any given time.

The public is tired of the road pirate behavior. I drove around Europe for 7 days straight and saw exactly two traffic stops the entire time. What we have going on here in the USA isn't normal.

I honestly think you are on to something.  It seems like we have too many police already if they have time to drive by my house to look for city code violations, check to see if my trailer tags are up to date, run the vin on a flat bed to see if it might be stolen.  Seems like there’s always a cop available for that stuff but crickets when it comes to shutting down a dope house.

That reminds me, it's been like 30 years ago but I remember seeing an episode of that show Cops where they stopped this kid and told him they saw him leaving a "known dope house" and they knew what he was doing there.  

Yes I admit I was awful naive but when I saw that I thought, "Why is there a known dope house?"

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I was referring more to White Collar jobs that use recruiters that bill a company upwards to $50k on placement for a $100k salaried position that could turn over again in 12 months.

That doesn't even factor in any relocation package or other corporate perks like sign on bonus, that get tossed around. HR is blind to how little employee retention costs relative to the above.

There is a shortage because people look at these jobs, with schedules which typically suck... and then see youtubers making a gang more money, and seem to have endless time for travel and fun.

People don't want to work these jobs to barely keep their head above water.

2014"


August 2018:


They are still in business:
https://loadtrail.com/

The owners should be in prison and the business assets seized and sold at auction.

It is profitable to hire illegal workers in this country. Politicians want low wages. They want to fuck working people and that goes for both parties. Hell this is in Texas a supposed "conservative" state. Don't pay attention to what the political class says pay attention to what they do. Texas allows companies to hire illegal labor and hold down wages for their residents. They know damn well that the money those workers are making is sent out of the country.

"Yep nobody qualified applied, give us our H1B allotment."

I recently spoke with an acquaintance who has been in corporate tech recruiting (Google, Amazon, etc) for a while.

H1B’s came up and…..well, unsurprisingly it didn’t match the narrative that I have been reading for years on arfcom.

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They are difficult jobs that routinely under pay and people in them tend to get treated like shit by society because of unrealistic expectations.  Whereas in the past they were careers worth seeking, no one in their right mind would do them now.

Oh the horrors.  I hope you showed them by leaving a measly tip and a pithy note on the receipt about their poor service.