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   LionelValentineAborted (lionelvalentineaborted@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 01:22:13 JST LionelValentineAborted
   What is it with manufacturing jobs and mandatory overtime?
   
   You're not going to attract anyone except for death-row gamblers with that tacked on. And hiding it until the final interview does you no favors, either. So why have it?
   
   Is it really that hard to tell your (((handlers))) that they're going to have to wait a bit longer for their product so you can give your employees a humane work schedule? Or have they already threatened to outsource the work to the 3rd world, unless you treat the backbone of your industry like disposable machinery?
   
   Boomers are going to have a harder time than ever filling these positions, as more and more of the younger generations enter the workforce. We will not be putting up with this shit, like our predecessors.
   
   I will continue to take my shitty job where we are constantly understaffed in a 40 hour week, than to take up a job where I'm working 6 12 hour shifts a week.
   
   Go fuck yourself with that shit, and I hope you lose your hand when you have to go out on the floor to cover for the last guy who quits from burnout.
   
   I'd love to work blue collar. I like the people, and I like the honest labor. I have the skillsets for it, and the experience to boot. But I'm not a fucking slave, and I'm going to ensure that I am able to live a life with the next job I take.
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     darniil (darniil@chudbuds.lol)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 01:22:13 JST darniil

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     > Boomers are going to have a harder time than ever filling these positions, as more and more of the younger generations enter the workforce. We will not be putting up with this shit, like our predecessors.
     
     The first (and only) manufacturing job I ever worked did have a high turnover of temps. (People worked for a temp agency for a minimum of 90 days before the possibility of getting hired on as a real employee, or "full time" as we said. [Temps did work 40+ hour weeks, though, like everyone else, so "full time" was kind of a misnomer.])
     
     One of the big draws for the long-term full-timers was the health benefits. That company had a really good medical plan, and I couldn't help but feel from talking to coworkers and reading between the lines that they were effectively slaves to the health insurance provided by the company.
     
     I suspect that won't change over time, and that many of the younger people that left after a couple weeks would have a change of mind as they get older, and allow themselves to put up with more crap as long as it came with good health insurance.