I’ve been screaming this for years: THERE IS NO NURSING SHORTAGE! There is a shortage of nurses willing to deal with the shitty conditions they push on us! It’s not healthy for us or the patients!!!
To be pedantic, there are a shortage of nurses in hospitals, due to manufactured conditions.
Shortages because these jobs pay shit money to put up with a lot of bs.
Yes, because wages are being suppressed by CEOs. Statistically if you are in the USA you’ve got a roughly 30% chance to earn a million dollars in your lifetime. You cannot physically earn a billion dollars. At the dollar’s current rate. You don’t have enough lifetimes. You’re more likely to win the powerball 4 times in a row than have a trillion dollars.
If all the pilots, teachers, and nurses disappeared overnight there would be mayhem. If all the CEOs disappeared overnight literally nothing would change. How about we replace the actual pointless jobs with AI like the CEOs that pretty much do nothing by comparison.
We don’t make these decisions. It’s unsurprising that the people who do make them have given themselves all of the money.
I’ve been saying this since day one… Make the AI’s replace these fucking useless pieces of shit. Replace MOST managers, in fact, as well.
And now the insurance industry has a shortage of money, to pay out on insurance claims. Even though everyone paid all of their money. Every month. Every month for their health insurance. And every month for their home owners insurance. And then when it comes time to pay 🤷 🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷 where is the money? Better start increasing everyone else’s monthly rates.
I know someone that has all the hours, proper credentials to be a pilot, he has credentials to fly 737s and A320s, and he has never failed a test. He applied to over 70 airlines (major, regional, corporate, anything in the US) he had people in the industry review his resume. He can’t get hired. He is a flight instructor and operates tourist flights but wants to fly larger planes. If there is a pilot shortage, why is no one willing to hire him?
because the media is owned by the same rich assholes that won’t hire your friend. these same assholes are setting the narrative to get us fired up to attack each other so we don’t look at what they’re doing.
what they’re doing is accelerating us on a path of self-destruction so they can come back with their resources and take over completely.
That would be because they’re lying. Not the guy in the meme. Companies are constantly saying they’re short of workers without actually hiring more. There’s several reasons for it, but mostly it’s to influence regulation on training and safety standards. In teachers it’s a political preference for private schools at the expense of the normal school system.
We produce enough nurses, pilots, and teachers. But the shortage myth justifies running skeleton crews, treating them badly, and hand waives high turnover.
I would love to be a teacher. I have a teaching license in 2 languages and IT and I can’t teach because I have bills to pay. :(
That’s so sad. My sister-in-law is a high school teacher and she still bartends at least two nights a week to make enough money to live.
On a nicer note, maybe some of your co-workers would be interested in learning a second language? Maybe you could just make it part of the work day sometimes?
If everyone knew just how little CEOs actually do day-to-day for their millions of dollars, you’d be storming the capital.
if everyone knew just how little senators actually do day-to-day…
I wanted to be a pilot very badly. I was told that the good paying pilot jobs would die with the previous generation of pilots. I was told that airlines don’t need to pay good money for pilots anymore. So, it’s no surprise that there’s a shortage of people who were willing and able to sacrifice the incredible amount of money and time required to become a commercial pilot. The airline executives very much made their own mess.
I’ve been told there would be a pilot shortage since I was in high school. I started flight school in 2005 and was teaching flight school by 2010. I’ve still never seen anything I would describe as an “opportunity” in the aviation industry.
If you fire every CEO at a company. Business will continue as usual.
If you fire every insert basically any other role here, you will more than likely have a problem.
That should tell anyone all they need to know about the “value” CEOs bring.
Disclaimer, I’m talking about large corporations.
I think the delusion is far enough that the owners no longer grasp how the labor exploitation system works. If you don’t give them enough crubs it stops everything.
The only shortage is a wage shortage.
Just look at what happened during COVID.
All the jobs marked as “essential” back then would probably be a solid proportion of the grease of society. People would riot if they suddenly stopped existing.
Not yet we don’t 🔫
There is a fix for this and it just takes us rallying together a little bit in a video game character fashion.
I’m a school bus driver. Apparently, there is a big shortage of school bus drivers nationwide. But (and it’s a big butt): in many of the school districts in my area, this driver shortage has been used as a rationale for privatizing bus services. Somehow, schools can’t find people with CDLs willing to work for $30+ an hour with benefits like health insurance, dental and vision plans, retirement contributions and even a pension, plus vacations and PTO - yet private bus service companies have no trouble finding plenty of drivers willing to work for $22 an hour with no benefits at all.
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