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Jerome Powell says the Gen Z hiring nightmare is real: 'Kids coming out of college...are having a hard time finding jobs’ | Fortune (web.archive.org)

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Millennials be like….

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

What they should have done was just skipped college and worked for literal scraps at a retail institution, or go to a trade school and destroy their bodies/rip customers off for typically easy repairs/slave away for another trade business for years to feel good about not wanting to put the effort in to learn highly technical college skills like mathematics and physics.

That would have been best for the assholes at the top of the economic pyramid. What were they thinking? There are H1B visa applicants to do what these dumb college students are doing for half the price.

I'm being at least partially facetious lol

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose

[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Hard to believe. A story aired that said birthrates are down by over 1 million. So concerns about enough people for jobs. Now the issue is college graduates not finding jobs?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Most of the people i met who graduated from the same CS program as me did not find a job in their field.

This was in 2017

And it's only gotten worse

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are plenty of shit jobs available. Ones that pay a living + enough to recoup the cost of education is what's in short supply. The Dipshit taking a bludgeon to the manufacturing and agricultural sectors didn't help either. Alienating our allies/largest markets are affecting jobs all across sectors

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Anecdotally, I've been hearing from people here in Europe that in my high-skill niche, we're getting a while bunch of US refugees taking jobs.

[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Calling them “refugees” is odd. Also kinda undercuts real refugees who escaped a deadly environment.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Implying the us isnt becoming a deadly environment.

[+] salty_chief@lemmy.world -6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If you are a conservative then you are right. Since a church/school was shot up in Minneapolis and Charlie K was shot.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah...we just ignore the vice president calling to label trans activists as terrorists and the fox news calling to murder the homeless.

[–] salty_chief@lemmy.world -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Last 2 shootings was people either trans or in a relationship with a trans person. So no secret here.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago

Pro-tip: When people emerge from the right-wing bubble, the disconnect from the observable reality that's obvious to normal people makes them sound like a kook. The only way to make this statement make any sort of sense is to presume the unstated: "Last 2 shootings [that matter to me and my political agenda] was people either trans or in a relationship with a trans person. [I'm pretending that all of the shootings that don't align with my political biases didn't happen.]"

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Oh honey... theres litterally multiple shootings every single day. You just dont hear about them because they are so common that they aint note worthy.

If you have something to say, just say it. Dont beat around the bush. We all know what your saying.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Both by repubs, good job pointing out the issue.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Maybe more about uncertainty including terrifs and inflation too.