CERB Killed the Labour Force

[fishfood]

2k multiplied by 3 or 4 is a nice cheque, I can tell when the payment comes out by how wasted and irritating my neighbors become.

Some locals living the dream lol.

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[fishfood]

I was just at the Mc Donald's in Beaverton I think the dinning in area is closed because they can't find the staff to work.

It's to bad what's happening .

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[Birdbuff]

Ok but seriously if all we’re losing is some fast food chains because of the labour shortage, is that a bad thing? Firstly that crap isn’t good for you, secondly aren’t you all tired of seeing a timmies on every corner and sometimes having roads blocked by their overflowing drive through lines. This is a good wake up call for better health.

[73hunter]

Ok but seriously if all we’re losing is some fast food chains because of the labour shortage, is that a bad thing? Firstly that crap isn’t good for you, secondly aren’t you all tired of seeing a timmies on every corner and sometimes having roads blocked by their overflowing drive through lines. This is a good wake up call for better health.

It’s also a generation accustomed to handouts and another huge step toward socialism.

[MikePal]

It’s also a generation accustomed to handouts and another huge step toward socialism.

I think that is more the case than people eating at Tim's , which really has quite a nutritional menu by the way

Mom and Dad leaving a $20 on the counter in the morning so Junior can buy his lunch has spoiled a whole generation. They don't see the need anymore to work after school for pocket money, just tap into the Bank of Mom and Dad.

[Birdbuff]

I don’t think it’s that simple of a generation of lazy kids. Like I mentioned in another thread, I think the cost of products has risen at a higher pace than wages have. It’s tough to motivate a generation that is always playing catch up but never able to get ahead. This doesn’t just mean kids working minimum wage jobs, this could also include young adults looking to get into their first home. Real estate has gone crazy. Pricing in general for materials is getting to be nuts. It’s definitely putting the squeeze on some households and widening class divisions.

Maybe technology, innovation and automation is hurting the labour force too.

[MikePal]

I don’t think it’s that simple of a generation of lazy kids.

Not 'lazy' per see; ...but definitely, they have a greater sense of entitlement.

If young people were really 'hungry (financially) like most of us were (60-70s) , taking ANY job was a right of passage. Few stayed in their parent's home after 20. A lot were married by the time they were 25 and living on their own. I read something like 45% of 28 yr olds still live at home now.

Using the excuse that it's too expensive is a bit of a cop-out. Minimum wage in 1970 was $1.25, and we managed to buy an old beater and share a flat with a buddy. ....Yes everything is more expensive but the minimum wage is also $15.

"This type of arrangement peaked around 1960, when 62 per cent of the nation's 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one in five were living with their parents," said Richard Fry, lead author of the report and a senior economist at Pew.

And Canadian numbers show a similar trend. While the two countries track slightly different age cohorts, according to the most recent Statistics Canada census, 42.3 per cent of people in their twenties lived at home in 2011. That's well up from previous generations, including 32.1 per cent in 1991 and 26.9 per cent in 1981.

Marriage is often a major influence in when people move out, and the numbers show that ritual is also being delayed. The typical U.S. woman now marries at 27.1 years old, the typical man at 29.2, according to census data. That's up from record lows of 20.1 for women and 22.5 for men in 1956.

[Gilroy]

I don’t think it’s that simple of a generation of lazy kids. Like I mentioned in another thread, I think the cost of products has risen at a higher pace than wages have. It’s tough to motivate a generation that is always playing catch up but never able to get ahead. This doesn’t just mean kids working minimum wage jobs, this could also include young adults looking to get into their first home. Real estate has gone crazy. Pricing in general for materials is getting to be nuts. It’s definitely putting the squeeze on some households and widening class divisions.

Maybe technology, innovation and automation is hurting the labour force too.

I agree the kids today basically give up hope of catching up on what we could afford when we were younger and our money seemed to go further.

My generation has done well and if you worked hard, were thrifty most all of us should be able to help our kids out and help then get into their own homes and so forth. There are a lot of baby boomers who did well, inherited well, but because of their own life styles, maybe a divorce or two, have nothing to pass down to their kids. Schools were a major fail with regard to teaching kids financial literacy and are only now catching up.

[Tigboy 304]

I agree the kids today basically give up hope of catching up on what we could afford when we were younger and our money seemed to go further.

My generation has done well and if you worked hard, were thrifty most all of us should be able to help our kids out and help then get into their own homes and so forth. There are a lot of baby boomers who did well, inherited well, but because of their own life styles, maybe a divorce or two, have nothing to pass down to their kids. Schools were a major fail with regard to teaching kids financial literacy and are only now catching up.

Your last sentence sums it up rather nicely gilly. I agree wholeheartedly one has to look no further than our current baboon of a PM. He believes that budgets balance themselves as we all have heard him say that on record. If that's not a failure on financial literacy I don't know what is! Cheers.

[Deer Hunter]

Well no one helped us buy our first home.
Me and the wife both worked and bought a mobile home with a small down payment. We fixed it up and paid it off in 3 years then used that money for a down for our home.
Many years later, our daughter had moved out and was complaining she would never be able to afford a home. I made a deal with her and told her to move back home and pay us the same rent and utilities she was paying. We would take care of the rest. I opened a saving account in her name and deposited every single rent money she gave me. Within three years she had enough for a nice down payment to buy herself a home that she still lives in. She buys her own vehicles and just bought herself a nice camper she parks on our property.
There’s helping then there’s teaching them how to make things happen.