dspracing
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I am damn tired of trying to hire new employees. We are 4 weeks behind in production and I have 4 of my guys out with covid, we are understaffed and can't get new people in the door.
These idiots take the time to apply for a job, come in for an interview, tour the shop for 30 minutes and quit their old job(if they had one). They come in on the first day of work and last anywhere between 31 minutes(our record) and 2 days on average.
This is like really basic, generally clean, mask-free, easy work in a shop environment producing a pretty cool product, nothing crazy. The guys that work here generally love it, our retention of any employee that sticks around more than 2 weeks is quite high.
I really just don't understand how people are looking for a job, I give them gravy work with good pay and they bounce. We've probably gone through 20+ guys in the last 5 months and 4 of them are still here.
I'm getting killed in these recruiting costs and they just keep on coming because 90% of people who apply either no-show their interview or don't respond to our calls. I got to the point where if you showed up for an interview, you were hired. I hired a guy yesterday just because he called in. Anything to get warm bodies on the shop floor so we can get this work out the door.
If you don't want to work, then don't, doesn't bother me one bit. But DO NOT reply to my ad, schedule an interview OR accept my job offer!
These idiots take the time to apply for a job, come in for an interview, tour the shop for 30 minutes and quit their old job(if they had one). They come in on the first day of work and last anywhere between 31 minutes(our record) and 2 days on average.
This is like really basic, generally clean, mask-free, easy work in a shop environment producing a pretty cool product, nothing crazy. The guys that work here generally love it, our retention of any employee that sticks around more than 2 weeks is quite high.
I really just don't understand how people are looking for a job, I give them gravy work with good pay and they bounce. We've probably gone through 20+ guys in the last 5 months and 4 of them are still here.
I'm getting killed in these recruiting costs and they just keep on coming because 90% of people who apply either no-show their interview or don't respond to our calls. I got to the point where if you showed up for an interview, you were hired. I hired a guy yesterday just because he called in. Anything to get warm bodies on the shop floor so we can get this work out the door.
If you don't want to work, then don't, doesn't bother me one bit. But DO NOT reply to my ad, schedule an interview OR accept my job offer!