President Trump offered no compassion, only contempt.
And water is wet.
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But the department of labor says everything is awesome now.
Dude. I and a couple of friends have been job hunting and actively applying for tons of positions for months and none of us have been able to land jack squat. This job market is a rolling disaster
What kind of jobs are you applying for?
There's still no shortage of blue collar work.
So I'm currently working as an independent contractor for a previous employer, and I'm around mid-career in IT so right now I can be picky. I've been applying to everything that's around my current skill and experience level and not an MSP so there's about 5-10 listings per week for me to apply to, but I'm also competing with 100+ applicants on every application
I have one friend who's around entry-mid level IT career and another who's just trying to land some kind of entry level office role having several years of retail experience and some office experience. None of us have the skills or experience to make blue collar work even make sense to persue (and my experience trying to repair some plumbing at home suggests I should never do plumbing. Heck the shelf I put up 6 months ago is already falling down so any kind of power tool work is clearly not my forte)
so right now I can be picky.
What the heck? You were just saying you couldn't find a job, and now you're saying you can be picky?
Also, go figure. You want a cushy desk job. It's not that there aren't jobs, it's just the ones available "aren't good enough for you."
None of us have the skills or experience to make blue collar work
There are plenty of blue collar jobs where they train you on site.
I've been hearing this for over 2 yearS where i live. It's ROUGH. I'm trying to hold onto my job as long as i can, the only places hiring around here are retail for cashiers and fast food places for $13 an hour at most.
Good?
That means people can do something else useful to society and we can have lower prices due to less personnel.
All of those high paying service industry jobs (/s) can now be fought over for by skilled workers. Competition for jobs will make low pay even lower.
Good? That means lower prices for us.
It's almost like white-collar workers are being forced to live like blue-collar ones. Oh no, the horror.
Yah, that is great for the economy, skilled people being wasted. And blue collar ones can live like the homeless. Oh no, the horror.
Seriously, that is one of the dumbest comments I've read on Lemmy.
And blue collar ones can live like the homeless.
Where are you getting this from?
As a resident of the west coast I was confused for a good 2 seconds about what my state had to do with this data.
Dude so I live in Wisconsin which has a capital building that looks identical to the one in DC save for having 2 more wings than DC's. There's been news articles that say "such and such happened at the capital" never specify which capital, and have an ambiguous photo that could be either DC or Madison, and I just have to shrug and go "I guess I'll learn later if that's local news or national"
The struggle is real! However, if you look closely, the U.S. capitol has a row of oval windows inset in its dome that the Wisconsin capitol does not have.
This totally makes sense. Trump thinks that his tariffs are a weapon to get foreign companies to invest in manufacturing in the US. But, all they really do is make procurement in the US a nightmare. Then, add a hostile environment regarding obtaining visas for employees into the mix, and foreign companies end up severely curtailing their investment in the US. Less investment means fewer jobs.
I think history will look to that immigration raid on the Hyundai plant as a turning point. Before that raid, many companies might have taken Trump seriously when he said that he was encouraging investment in the US. But that raid proved that foreigners will always be seen as "others" by this government, never as a full partner.
Yup. No one is going to invest many many millions into building production capability, especially for bottom tier commodities like furniture or raw steel, based on the whims of one extremist administration.
Investors hate a unpredictable market. Trump's constant changes and insane policies make the US very uncomfortable for any business.
Exactly. This is why countries with unstable governments just keep struggling since no one trusts them with their investment $.
No reasonable company would send their citizens to work in the USA when there is every possibility that they could be indefinitely detained or "deported" to some third world gulag at the whim of the Trump administration.
I'd go, but you would have to pay me for the risk, insure me over the ears and have a lawyer on standby.
German and Swiss multinationals are very reluctant to send employees to the US for meetings or conferences already, and that’s just the beginning.
A newly revealed memo from the Office of Management and Budget claims that federal workers forced into furlough during the ongoing shutdown may not receive back pay once the ordeal ends. In open defiance of the law, the administration argues that the 2019 Government Employee Fair Treatment Act does not automatically guarantee wages to workers sent home or ordered to labor without compensation. The government that once promised fairness has now declared that those who serve it may be discarded. This is not confusion. It is control.
Eventually people are gonna decide that working for free sucks and they just won't come in.
Sadly, that is the point. Part of project 2025 is to remove as many workers as they can and when a position needs to be filled, make sure it's a loyalist. This is just the means to an end for the fascist.
when a position needs to be filled, make sure it’s a loyalist
Mostly inept, incompetent, stupid loyalists.
It's like the Dead Sea Effect with steps on the end.
We can let the seats be empty and stop them from filling it with anyone if the government stays shutdown and we also get the benefit of the armed forces and ice not being paid so they will stop kidnapping people
Are you kidding? That's their fucking dream job. They'd even pay just for the privilege. Fucking pigs
Should be minute 1. Unpaid work is slavery
No it's not. It's wage theft, plain and simple
It's wage theft except the part where they're forcing them to work.
They could just quit. For some positions, you can't strike, which is bullshit enough, but you can just say fuck you I quit
No one will put you in chains and lock you to your desk, it's not legal to retaliate
Yeah sure, everybody CAN just quit.
"It's not legal to retaliate"? Motherfucker when has this administration cared about what's legal, they're talking about making people work and then not giving them back pay.
Even before the trump administration's it's not as if the labour market was fair lol.
Why are you going to bat for people trying to enslave workers exactly?
Because, motherfucker, I want them to quit. They are not slaves to the state, and when things break because of their absence that's great politically
And we have a name for this already - wage theft. I hope every employee, furloughed or still working, puts forward a lawsuit
I'm not about to pressure people to quit because the job market is hell right now, but I'm sure as hell going to remind them it's an option
gee I wonder why air traffic controllers are getting sick.
I think the worst part is that Trump openly flirted with paying only the people he likes - his MAGA folks, and only the parts of government he likes. You work on wind turbine safety? No pay for you.
All of this is just part of their plan to drastically shrink the government to a size where you can drown it in the bathtub.
Can we throw a toaster in there too?
i'll get an extension cord