Job Fairs

[2LaneCruzer]

I went to my favorite (easily the most consistent) restaurant for dinner Friday night. The Caesar salad came with a small tub of Dale’s dressing. Good grief.

The grouper plate tasted a bit like fish sticks, perhaps it was freezer burn. The tartar sauce was also not made on site.

None of this is how things were handled before.

I’m happy he is still in business and I feel for him since he obviously no longer has access to competent staff.

Most of the servers are family members and I’m sure that is the only reason he still opens the doors.

This morning I went to Waffle House to get breakfast after the gym . Only half the booths were open due to short staffing. The server was bussing the table as I ate lol

I’m done.

Initially I felt a bit guilty for buying a Big Green Egg grill last summer. They aren’t cheap but what comes off that grill is better than anything that comes from a restaurant. They way things are now, I feel like I made the right move.

You wouldn’t believe the pizzas!

You wouldn't believe my baby back ribs, chicken wings and brisket! Recipes upon request.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

You wouldn't believe my baby back ribs, chicken wings and brisket! Recipes upon request.

Pack them on ice... I'll gladly pay for shipping and the meat. I'm a well known authority on the smoked meats.

 

[fried1765]

I went to my favorite (easily the most consistent) restaurant for dinner Friday night. The Caesar salad came with a small tub of Dale’s dressing. Good grief.

The grouper plate tasted a bit like fish sticks, perhaps it was freezer burn. The tartar sauce was also not made on site.

None of this is how things were handled before.

I’m happy he is still in business and I feel for him since he obviously no longer has access to competent staff.

Most of the servers are family members and I’m sure that is the only reason he still opens the doors.

This morning I went to Waffle House to get breakfast after the gym . Only half the booths were open due to short staffing. The server was bussing the table as I ate lol

I’m done.

Initially I felt a bit guilty for buying a Big Green Egg grill last summer. They aren’t cheap but what comes off that grill is better than anything that comes from a restaurant. They way things are now, I feel like I made the right move.

You wouldn’t believe the pizzas!

In early 1967 I bought "The Big Green Egg",.... though it was not called that, and was actually orange.
I bought mine in Japan, for $35......how times have changed.
It traveled with me across both the Pacific and the Atlantic, but eventually came to reside with me permanently in the USA.

I used it for 25+ years, with delightful success, until it finally collapsed from exhaustion.
I have often thought about a new one, but the $800+ cost is impossible for me to rationalize.
A small Weber at 1/2 the cost, will do me fine.

 

[Frankenkubota]

About 30% of my business is landscaping. I am very backed up on jobs right now. I have job openings posted on several job sites.

When I do get someone to apply, my first two interview questions are usually:
1. Are you "high" right now?
2. What are you on parole/probation for?

Most restaurants in my area are having to reduce hours and/or close a couple of days a week because they can't find workers.

And it doesn't seem to matter what you offer to pay.

Unemployment must be very close to 0% right now. Almost every business that I know of, is looking for employees. Even our local McDonalds still has not re-opened their dining area and are still only 'drive thru'.

Say 10? years ago my son and a few of his buddies worked for a guy who's business was leaning grease hoods in restaurants. That's a subject you don't want to know about but......

The owner supplied the work vans and theses kids drove all over the southeast cleaning grease hoods. They would go in at closing and work thru the nite.

The owner was offered a significant discount on his insurance if his employees would take and pass a drug test.

Guess what.....hardly anyone could pass the test, couldn't hire anyone. the owner went back to business as usual.

 

[Diggin It]

Ustacould pick a place where you wanted to work. Walk in one day, fill out an application, usually no more than one page .. ... name ... address ... last school ... last job ... experience if any. Most likely you'd go to work the next day or the beginning of the next pay period. Show up, do your job for how many hours. You'd get a check or cash every week with just a few mandated deductions. Probably be there for years.


Now, you have to get on a waiting list. Pre qualify to be allowed to fill out a 10 page application. List every relative back to the 1600s, every job you had going back to mowing lawns as a kid, every person you ever knew, even just casually, full medical history, every car or bicycle you ever had, how many times you fell down and skinned your knee as a kid, every class you ever attended and the teacher's names. Then write a small novel about why you want to work for the company and what you can do for thme. Wait six months and maybe you'll get notified of the next step in the process. Take a drug test. Take a Psych test. Take that test. Take a test about stuff just cause we want to know. Take three more tests to find out if you told the truth on the tests. IF you get hired, you take this class, then that class, then a class on stuff, then a class on more stuff, a class on how to talk to people, a class on what not to say to people. Then you might get some classes on how to do your job. And don't forget the daily rah-rah meeting and company appreciation indoctrination sessions. Maybe you get paid once a month on a debit card. A three page long list of deductions including fees for all those classes, hallway cleaning fees, parking lot fee, food disposal fee and so on.


People said screw it.

 

[deserteagle71]

Diggin' It - this has been my experience also.

When I got my first "real" job after military service in the early '70s I was interviewed by the head of the department I would be working for on a Thursday. Monday morning I started the job.

Now, with the same company it is at minimum a 4 month process - that has to start with filing an application on line. Meet with an "HR" person who thinks up improbably scenarios and asks you how you would resolve them. Give them a big line on how it will benefit the company to hire you. Tell them what your "goals" are in working for the company and how you plan to advance. Several drug tests and a physical. On and on.

Nothing is simple anymore.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Pack them on ice... I'll gladly pay for shipping and the meat. I'm a well known authority on the smoked meats.

It's a rare occasion when a slab of ribs leaves this house; it's either for a birthday or funeral, or when I cook for the Elks. You might try my recipe, though. I use my Egg on direct heat, because I like my ribs a bit browned.

Smoked Baby backs and DG's Rib Rub recipes

I know I have posted this before, but I was unable to find it, so I'll post it again in case anyone is interested. Yeah, my memory ain't what it used to be. I'll probably embarrass myself and discover I've posted it twice in the last month...

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[Complete Turf Care]

About 25 years ago, I had a guy in my office for an interview. I needed someone really quick, so I said 'You're hired. I'll call the doctor's office so you can go take a drug test and you can start tomorrow." His reply was...." I can't pass a drug test today, but I will be able to pass one in 3 days." My reply to that was.... Goodbye!

I delivered a piece of equipment to a golf course this morning, and I told the superintendent that I always ask in an interview, "Are you high right now?" He laughed and said one of his guys is absolutely high this morning. Not sure what the 'high' guy was doing, but I'm glad he was not gonna be on my equipment.

 

[Hay Dude]

I am randomly CDL drug tested. The young lady who took my sample took great trouble to seal my bottle ’o pee and have me put my John Hancock on the label, then put it in a hole in top of a sealed box. I asked why all the nonsense and she said people break into the clinic and tamper with the samples.

 

[Jstpssng]

I took a drug test once or twice many years ago. It wasn't a concern for me.

 

[MoKelly]

We used to have hair sample drug tests.

That was a long time ago.

MoKelly

 

[JethroB]

I asked our HR manager once how many applicants failed the drug test. He said about half. HR hired about 25 people a week, mostly unskilled at $12/hr. Tests were done onsite with immediate results. Why even apply? He just shrugged IIRC.

 

[PuffyC]

I’m still not sure how random drug testing is even legal. Seems like a huge violation of privacy, not to mention nobody seems to care if your mind-altering drug of choice is alcohol.

 

[Hay Dude]

I’m still not sure how random drug testing is even legal. Seems like a huge violation of privacy, not to mention nobody seems to care if your mind-altering drug of choice is alcohol.

Agree
I cannot believe the intrusion on Americans lives by regulatory institutions.
But if you want to transport large amounts of cargo, there's really no other way.
Its a safety issue.

 

[Citydude]

I’m still not sure how random drug testing is even legal. Seems like a huge violation of privacy, not to mention nobody seems to care if your mind-altering drug of choice is alcohol.

You can't be serious. So people have a right to be impaired in a work place? Thats idiotic.

 

[PuffyC]

You can't be serious. So people have a right to be impaired in a work place? Thats idiotic.

Who said anything about it being OK to be impaired at work? My point is that what you do on your own time is your business, not that of your employer. Or maybe you think drug tests only detect what you’re under the influence of at the time of the test, and that the tests are only done during work hours? You can be stone sober on Monday and still fail a test for something you did Saturday night.

 

[Citydude]

Who said anything about it being OK to be impaired at work? My point is that what you do on your own time is your business, not that of your employer. Or maybe you think drug tests only detect what you’re under the influence of at the time of the test, and that the tests are only done during work hours? You can be stone sober on Monday and still fail a test for something you did Saturday night.

Well we are talking about job fairs, you know, work?

I fired a few people with the same attitude. I could care less what they did off company property. If they were too dumb to show up Monday morning after a weekend of whatever impaired, they were fired.

People deserve a safe work environment.