Young people in NYC/NYS have high unemployment rate

[Saltwater60]

All we keep hearing is how great the economy is and how low unemployment is but they leave out the rate for young folks. 18% in NYC and it’s largely impacting young men. The rest of the state it is at 9%. I’m glad my son has a steady and recession proof job.

Young People in NYC Face Double-Digit Unemployment

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[Apeman]

The article says they're struggling to find work. I doubt that's the case. Most of them don't want to work.

Here's what we've been dealing with at work. They've been trying to fill openings for over a year. The majority of those we hire don't make it a month. They either quit or get fired. Most get fired because they can't bother to come to work(pretty sad because we only work 7 days in a 2 week period). Those that come to work don't want to actually work. Some are too dumb to keep because they'll either hurt themselves or someone else. For every 20 people they hire we might keep 2.

And on top of dealing with that some of the ones they keep are addicts and are strung out some days. Or they are abusing a prescription so even if they test positive they aren't fired because of the prescription.

Someone found 16 grams of coke on the floor last week. They turned it in. It got passed up the chain of command and then swept under the rug. Our HR dept sucks

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Until people are left to starve and die in the cold, it won't change. The pussification of our society keeps forcing those who get up very day to work to pay for lazy pieces of shit to sit on the couch on their phones. Until parents start physically shoving these lazy bastards out the door, it will not change.

 

[Jsmegs77]

Nonsense. Both my 16 year old sons have jobs, and didn’t have to look too hard to find them. One is a dishwasher at a local and very popular restaurant, the other works for a trampoline park.

Gotta start somewhere, but they both max their allowable hours (for students during school year) every week and are pretty well liked at their respective jobs because they show up 10-15 minutes before shift like clockwork, volunteer for extra work and eagerly cover absences. One son is doing it to fund a car and college… he wants to be a sports medicine/physical therapist. The other is working to buy a pickup truck with cash, and hunting gear… aspires to be a game warden one day, albeit not in NY.

Son #3 is too young to get hired yet but is showing an alarming (to me) proclivity toward axes, chainsaws and trees. This is also the one who wants to do the IBEW apprenticeship and become an electrician. He says the tree thing is to relax after work…

 

[Saltwater60]

Nonsense. Both my 16 year old sons have jobs, and didn’t have to look too hard to find them. One is a dishwasher at a local and very popular restaurant, the other works for a trampoline park.

Gotta start somewhere, but they both max their allowable hours (for students during school year) every week and are pretty well liked at their respective jobs because they show up 10-15 minutes before shift like clockwork, volunteer for extra work and eagerly cover absences. One son is doing it to fund a car and college… he wants to be a sports medicine/physical therapist. The other is working to buy a pickup truck with cash, and hunting gear… aspires to be a game warden one day, albeit not in NY.

Son #3 is too young to get hired yet but is showing an alarming (to me) proclivity toward axes, chainsaws and trees. This is also the one who wants to do the IBEW apprenticeship and become an electrician. He says the tree thing is to relax after work…

I did the same except the amount of allowable hours was not satisfactory to me so I got two jobs and worked a third over summer with my grandpa.
Your kids want to succeed so they will. The people in this article work for a few days then get fired and collect unemployment or just refuse to work. That’s the difference.
My youngest is turning 16 and may want to work but he likes to do sports so we will see what he chooses.

 

[tgenec86]

My daughter's boyfriend came all the way across the country to be here. 23, no college degree, and he found a job he wanted after one week of job hunting. He also found three jobs he decided he didn't want. We're being lied to. BIG GOVERNMENT is telling us about the terrible unemployment. At the same time restaurants, small business, warehouses, etc... are telling us that they're having a hard time keeping up because they're critically understaffed.

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[Jsmegs77]

I did the same except the amount of allowable hours was not satisfactory to me so I got two jobs and worked a third over summer with my grandpa.
Your kids want to succeed so they will. The people in this article work for a few days then get fired and collect unemployment or just refuse to work. That’s the difference.
My youngest is turning 16 and may want to work but he likes to do sports so we will see what he chooses.

My eldest son is ok with the legal amount of hours, as his job is accommodating him with his sports commitments (he does swim and lacrosse, and is firmly unwilling to short either one). The other is decidedly not ok with the legal amount of hours but isn’t scrambling to find a second gig (yet) because of the various hunting and fishing seasons. Once we pass the new year he would like to start working with a family member who owns a construction company.

Ya gotta want it. My kids have goals that need money, and have discovered that making money is actually pretty simple. Show up, do work, go home, get paid. Something a lot of their generation has sadly not absorbed…

 

[Saltwater60]

Eve

My eldest son is ok with the legal amount of hours, as his job is accommodating him with his sports commitments (he does swim and lacrosse, and is firmly unwilling to short either one). The other is decidedly not ok with the legal amount of hours but isn’t scrambling to find a second gig (yet) because of the various hunting and fishing seasons. Once we pass the new year he would like to start working with a family member who owns a construction company.

Ya gotta want it. My kids have goals that need money, and have discovered that making money is actually pretty simple. Show up, do work, go home, get paid. Something a lot of their generation has sadly not absorbed…

Everyone is different and minimum wage when I started was $4.75 and as of the first of the year it will be over $14/hour where I’m at. I didn’t encourage my kids to work until they graduated high school unless they wanted so it wasn’t a knock against your kids but I was simply stating what I did. I just wanted to make that clear and you should be proud of your boys as not many kids these days work.

 

[ManualF150]

I started working on a farm when I was 12 cleaning stalls and by 13 I was on a tractor baling hay and operating what we call "dangerous equipment".

Did that few years, then worked at a restaurant, now I'm doing a totally different job. Those early years of work was for food for the dinner table; eggs, meat, etc from the farm. I occasionally fill in when the old man is short a farm hand.

Now a days, the farmer would go to jail for child endangerment, child trafficking, sweatshop labor, etc... who knows.

I do/don't miss those days of farm labor. But I sure did learn a lot!!

 

[FRANKIE]

The article says they're struggling to find work. I doubt that's the case. Most of them don't want to work.

Here's what we've been dealing with at work. They've been trying to fill openings for over a year. The majority of those we hire don't make it a month. They either quit or get fired. Most get fired because they can't bother to come to work(pretty sad because we only work 7 days in a 2 week period). Those that come to work don't want to actually work. Some are too dumb to keep because they'll either hurt themselves or someone else. For every 20 people they hire we might keep 2.

And on top of dealing with that some of the ones they keep are addicts and are strung out some days. Or they are abusing a prescription so even if they test positive they aren't fired because of the prescription.

Someone found 16 grams of coke on the floor last week. They turned it in. It got passed up the chain of command and then swept under the rug. Our HR dept sucks

“Most get fired because they can't bother to come to work(pretty sad because we only work 7 days in a 2 week period).”

That is very sad. I remember working 2 weeks in a 7 day period and was only to happy

 

[libertysnake]

The article says they're struggling to find work. I doubt that's the case. Most of them don't want to work.

Here's what we've been dealing with at work. They've been trying to fill openings for over a year. The majority of those we hire don't make it a month. They either quit or get fired. Most get fired because they can't bother to come to work(pretty sad because we only work 7 days in a 2 week period). Those that come to work don't want to actually work. Some are too dumb to keep because they'll either hurt themselves or someone else. For every 20 people they hire we might keep 2.

And on top of dealing with that some of the ones they keep are addicts and are strung out some days. Or they are abusing a prescription so even if they test positive they aren't fired because of the prescription.

Someone found 16 grams of coke on the floor last week. They turned it in. It got passed up the chain of command and then swept under the rug. Our HR dept sucks

Ironically, this is what your HR department looks like right now:

 

[Modean]

All we keep hearing is how great the economy is and how low unemployment is but they leave out the rate for young folks. 18% in NYC and it’s largely impacting young men. The rest of the state it is at 9%. I’m glad my son has a steady and recession proof job.

Young People in NYC Face Double-Digit Unemployment

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How many of them just don't want to work? They is a lot of that out there right now, and places are begging for workers.

 

[That_FNG]

Most 18-25 year olds don’t want to work or have no work ethic. We cycle thru so ma y in that age group it’s not even funny. I don’t even bother to learn the names of the new hires because they don’t last long enough. Seems like many just want to be on their phones watching tik tok or snapchatting or else they just want to sit and smoke weed. It’s frustrating beyond belief. I know not all 18-25 year olds are like that but the vast majority of them are.

 

[Acer-m14]

"The report noted unemployment rates were slower to recover in New York City because it was the initial epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic not only caused staggering job losses in 2020, but devastated industries that employ more young people like restaurants, retail, and recreation, causing more young people to leave the workforce"

LMAO