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post 1666675103 08-24-2022, 12:40 PM
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Is the balance of power about to shift ALLLL the way back to employers?

Srs. I worked in management during the last recession and all of the difficult employees got a major dose of reality.

With all the warnings of the economy about to tank, is the market about to self correct on all the employees who are using the "great resignation" as a way to demand more than they are due? I already see rumblings about layoffs and hiring freezes in major industries.
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post 1666675163 08-24-2022, 12:41 PM
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post 1666675373 08-24-2022, 12:46 PM
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I work in manufacturing and we obviously got smashed hard during the covid lockdowns. Hard AF to hire anyone worth a sh!t the last year or more. It's forced us to get more efficient at running a clean crew, dial in our processes so we can run more time unmanned. We're at the point now we don't really need to hire anyone, especially at inflated wages.
I think you'll see this more everywhere, companies were forced to run lean, saw where they could trim the fat & the deadwood and won't be trying to hire
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post 1666675383 08-24-2022, 12:46 PM
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I warned WFHcels over and over that they would eventually be getting fired
Should have listed to me, you cant sit at home in your underwear and expect to keep your jobs
post 1666675483 08-24-2022, 12:48 PM
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would love for them to suffer, but they will be continually bailed out until there is no dollar left
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post 1666675613 08-24-2022, 12:50 PM
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Yes, already seeing balance of power shifting. Employers will be getting their revenge and it will be a brutal couple of years.
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post 1666675713 08-24-2022, 12:52 PM
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post 1666678033 08-24-2022, 01:25 PM
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A. Employers have been ****ing over employees for time immemorial - the amounts workers are asking for are not unreasonable
B. What's wrong with WFH? I guarantee you any competent Software Engineer is getting WAY more done WFH than in an office. I would wager its the same for lots of professions.
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post 1666678113 08-24-2022, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted By Elias373⏩
I warned WFHcels over and over that they would eventually be getting fired
Should have listed to me, you cant sit at home in your underwear and expect to keep your jobs
Why not? Your post has absolutely no substance, just unsubstantiated "muh feelins"....
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post 1666678703 08-24-2022, 01:34 PM
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Originally Posted By Gronnie⏩
A. Employers have been ****ing over employees for time immemorial - the amounts workers are asking for are not unreasonable
B. What's wrong with WFH? I guarantee you any competent Software Engineer is getting WAY more done WFH than in an office. I would wager its the same for lots of professions.
WFH software engineer checking in. I can assure you several people on my team fuk around hardcore and it's getting ever more obvious.
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post 1666679253 08-24-2022, 01:44 PM
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I can't wait. As a manager of a construction company it's been hell. Tiptoeing around workers feelings and putting up with late, missing random days, etc...all to avoid them leaving cuz Wed have no one.

I can wait to write someone up, and mean it.
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post 1666679713 08-24-2022, 01:50 PM
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No. The peak of Baby Boomers being born was 1960. So right now they can collect early Social Security early at age 62, as many people have for decades, or they can keep working a few more years. Now and the next decade are the peak of Baby Boomer retirement, leaving a big labor demand gap. And the "gig economy" has lots of people working on the side, sometimes doing side gigs full time, leaving lots of traditional businesses desperate.
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post 1666680163 08-24-2022, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
It's funny how WFHcels are always like "I am more productive from home", then the next minute they are like "what's the best mouse jiggler to use?"

Just LOL @ WFHcels srs.
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It will have to, eventually. An employee friendly market (more jobs than workers) in high-inflation Biden's America will ultimately lead to a wage-price spiral, which will put inflation on turbo fuk-you mode.

The powers that be want inflation to pay their deficits, but they don't want it spiraling out of control Weimar Germany style. So they are already working to shut it down with a recession this winter.
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post 1666680773 08-24-2022, 02:06 PM
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Everything is cyclic but for a lot of industries the employment correction wont swing too significantly..

The issue today isnt that the economy is so good, that its creating opportunity and subsequently the employees are in control. Its that so many people have simply dropped out of the work force and are unwilling to work at any pay rate. We can expect a significant recession/depression but even with layoffs we are probably going to find zero and not a net negative that significantly swings things in favor to the employer.

I do expect the outrageous offers and benefits to go away as we seek baseline through this recession. I dont think we see the employers gaining the upper hand nearly as much as they have in recent cycles because there are just far fewer employees in the job pool. They only way it swings in the employers favor is if we hit a full on depression and that is possible....and then companies survival is is just as much in question as the employees jobs are in question.
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Officecel cope, you love to see it

WFH is here to stay, just lol if your company can't adapt.
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It depends on how fast employees and job seekers will give in. If folks keep turning down chit offers, they’ll eventually have to get better.

There’s no employee shortage for positions that pay well, it’s only chitty jobs that are hurting for people.
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Things are SLOW in the benefit space. I have all my hopes on 1 deal which will go next week.

My 22 year old just got laid off this morning. No skills, moving junk. Needs to find another tradie job ASAP.

Layoffs are coming....
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i think alot of people underestimate the number of high skilled boomers that left the work force and how ass millenials are
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Originally Posted By MrBourbon⏩
WFH software engineer checking in. I can assure you several people on my team fuk around hardcore and it's getting ever more obvious.
So you take it on a case by case basis and fire the **** offs or make them come in.

This whole "we have to treat everyone the same" stuff is bs and needs to stop.
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
It's funny how WFHcels are always like "I am more productive from home", then the next minute they are like "what's the best mouse jiggler to use?"

Just LOL @ WFHcels srs.
I got a mouse jiggler solely because our laptop settings are ass and when I come back from taking a piss everything is already ****ing locked.
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Originally Posted By Elias373⏩
I warned WFHcels over and over that they would eventually be getting fired
Should have listed to me, you cant sit at home in your underwear and expect to keep your jobs
And in the mean time they got to WFH.
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post 1666773353 08-26-2022, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted By Gronnie⏩
So you take it on a case by case basis and fire the **** offs or make them come in.

This whole "we have to treat everyone the same" stuff is bs and needs to stop.
This. My company pulled in the people who weren't performing up to par at home years ago. All of my reviews while working from home have been great and my team does not need to be in the office. The day or two a week I go in it makes no difference for anything that I do. My team members and I are the only ones who talk to each other. There is no collaboration going on in the office. When we're home we talk to each other throughout the day over IM when needed.

As for layoffs my company has never been hit hard by a recession that I know of. They've been around for over 100 years.
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Companies are easily laying off loads of workforce because they know there is endless supply of new employees eagerly ready and waiting to get hired once they are needed again. You are expendable, let's not make any mistake about it even up to C level.
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Ineffective managers are fuming because they have to actually assess people based on performance or outcomes rather than how many hours they put in

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Originally Posted By Hutrapper⏩
I can't wait. As a manager of a construction company it's been hell. Tiptoeing around workers feelings and putting up with late, missing random days, etc...all to avoid them leaving cuz Wed have no one.

I can wait to write someone up, and mean it.
Did you consider paying enough to get good employees
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Originally Posted By Hutrapper⏩
I can't wait. As a manager of a construction company it's been hell. Tiptoeing around workers feelings and putting up with late, missing random days, etc...all to avoid them leaving cuz Wed have no one.

I can wait to write someone up, and mean it.
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