[fastfredracing]

I hear it everywhere I go. No one can find employees. Shops, roofers, auto parts stores, retail, truck drivers etc..... Especially in the trades .
What gives ? Maybe it's time that these companies pony up, and pay a decent wage.
Seems to me that anyone who can pass a drug test, and show up to work 5 days in a row repeatably, and do a reasonably good job is a rare, and valuable commodity in today's world .
Advance auto parts has been short staffed for a year now. To the point , where I have been calling other parts stores just because they are so much faster .
The store manager told me they took 1000 online applications, and out of that 1000, 3 were potential employees. One failed the drug test, 1 declined the job, the other took the job and never showed .
What are we doing wrong , that we cannot fill these jobs, yet have so much unemployment.?