From NJ1015:
Most small businesses across NJ and the U.S. continue to struggle to fill job openings
Nearly half of small business owners could not fill job openings last May, according to The National Federation of Independent Business’ monthly jobs report. That is a record high. In fact, May marks the fourth consecutive month of record-high readings for unfilled job openings.
Small business owners are doing everything they can to get workers back on their payrolls. NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg says owners are offering higher salaries but in the end, higher labor costs are being passed on to the consumers in higher selling prices.
As the summer tourist season gets under way, there’s a fear that small businesses won’t be able to open at full capacity because there’s just not enough workers.
“Perhaps it’s time for Governor Murphy to offer bonuses for those returning to work instead of the $300 additional unemployment subsidy,” said Eileen Kean, NFIB New Jersey state director.
Amazon Fresh buying Fairway stores – West Paterson and Paramus
NJ Covid State of Emergency officially over.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/06/gov-murphy-officially-ends-njs-covid-health-emergency-here-are-the-powers-he-loses-and-keeps.html
Nearly 15 months after he installed it, Gov. Phil Murphy on Friday signed an executive order terminating the public health emergency he declared in New Jersey over the coronavirus pandemic as the state’s cases and hospitalizations continue to fall while more people get vaccinated.
Getting out of NYC yesterday at 5:30 was a mess, ended up killing some time and grabbing dinner in Harlem. Everyone was saying Rt 3 flooding had everyone going up to the GWB. Hit the road around 7:30 and it still took 30 minutes to get over the GWB.
I was in Manhattan yesterday, east side 50s, one closed store after another, very sad. West village looking like the 70s/80s, homeless everywhere.
Kids soccer was cancelled this morning do to waterlogged fields, at the diner now and it’s 100% packed, and no masks to be seen. It actually feels strange, like we are doing something wrong.
Over the past week parents masks disappeared at grammar school drop off and pick up
I was in Manhattan yesterday, east side 50s, one closed store after another, very sad. West village looking like the 70s/80s, homeless everywhere.
From what I hear, grafitti is getting out of control there.
Over the past week parents masks disappeared at grammar school drop off and pick up
Not in Mercer county. I’m the only one who isn’t wearing at school pickup. The idea that we are going to force the kids to wear them in school come September is ludicrous and more importantly, impractical. My whole class is vaccinated and 50% of them had it. They are already all chin diapering it and most teachers aren’t going to go out of their way to be compliant when it makes no sense.
City must be flush with COVID cash. $234 million to hire 10,000 to clean up graffiti…
https://nypost.com/2021/06/03/de-blasio-promises-cleanup-corps-to-tackle-soho-graffiti/
Deblasio is like a disease on NYC.
Ed Koch is turning over in his grave.
Amazon taking over everything. Food, retail, delivery, AWS, home security, communications.
They broke up Bell Telephone for less than that.
NYC is just a symptom of a disease that is going to get much worse, and is metastasizing all over the country.
The women from Oakland, NJ, just made themselves more famous on Daily Mail.
You won’t see it in the local paper. Interesting.
Uncensored version:
https://bit.ly/3pt5XH1
Daily Mail:
https://bit.ly/3pmMhon
Guy nails it. I can’t believe how soft and privileged this generation is. WOW! None of these people have a work ethic. Just read all the tweets. Sad.
“The voice of privilege. There are literally a billion people who would kill to get these jobs you people are too good for. “OMG i have to work in an office”. Just listen to yourself, Karen.”
https://twitter.com/darkarpscanada/status/1389634925201031170?s=21
BRT; My brother lives on the upper west side, NYC born and bred, not one of these blow ins from the mid west and other areas in the USA including NJ. He works in midtown, major law firm. He hates WFH ( this will make Pumps happy), his firm is going 3 home 2 in the office after Labor Day, those that wish to work full time in office will be allowed to for now. He did acknowledge that he does like one day WFH, and that’s what he plans to do. Anyhow he has told me the city is a mess and it breaks his heart, mid town still pretty much deserted most days, homeless everywhere, people defecating on the streets in broad daylight, garbage everywhere and just all around filthy! Many of his favorite restaurant closed forever. Big liberal too, but despises Di Blasio. Said NYC will take years to come back and who knows in what form.
3b says:
June 5, 2021 at 2:36 pm
“Big liberal too, but despises Di Blasio…”
I know several NY libs that say they can’t stand DiBlasio, and hate what he’s done to NYC. But I bet every one of them will vote Dem in the next city election.
As someone who’s now commuting to the city once a week and walking from Penn Station to the Grand Central area, I can tell you that midtown is dead. I can’t count the number of corner deli’s that are closed with their windows covered in sheets of brown paper. Lots of vacant retail along 5th Ave, even directly across from the Library/Bryant Park. Of course the area around MSG/Penn Station/Hotel Penn is still chock full of bums.
But I bet every one of them will vote Dem in the next city election.
Liberals are dumb animals, they still think s0c1alism is a great idea and progressive compassion will enlighten the herd. You know, ‘we believe’ and ‘love is love’ and all that happy hokum and bouncy bullsh1t.
I can understand being indifferent to work from home if you live near work. But if you live over a mile away, it’s a godsend.
Liberals are dumb animals, they still think s0c1alism is a great idea and progressive compassion will enlighten the herd. You know, ‘we believe’ and ‘love is love’ and all that happy hokum and bouncy bullsh1t.
It only took 1 candidate to undo 20 years of progress in NYC. How they voted to f*cking reelect him boggles my mind.
Eddie, I’ve never understood it. As a reformed registered democrat, I’ve seen what the policies have done to NJ and CT. They simply do not work, that and the parties move away from individual liberties and toward collectivism I really can’t fathom the level of support they enjoy. Not that the other side is necessarily good, but it doesn’t seem like they are as destructive. It’s like this notion that we can tax corporations or rich, it’s political theatre for those who are slow. Corporate taxes are no different than VAT or Sales taxes, consumers end up paying. They sell their grandiose spending plans based on the premise that someone else is picking up the tab but in the end it is the upper middle class that winds up paying.
BRT I don’t understand how they elected that POS in the first place, so many red flags. I remember when he came into office city services in midtown started to slide very early in his administration. It was pretty obvious he’d bring the downfall of NYC, but have no fear NYers will elect another “woke” POS for their next mayor. Even the people’s republic of VT has acknowledged the dems are bad news and is governed by a republican governor.
To be honest, I remember it being over the day those two officers were murdered and the entire NYPD literally turned their backs to him whenever they were in person.
4:12 I think the pandemic and the affects upon most urban centers should be seen as a mitigating factor. But yeah, really effective Democratic Mayors are a rarity for NYC .
Small: don’t know who he plans to vote for in the next election. I will ask him
Next time I am talking to him.
Going gray
With its population growth sinking to the lowest rate in decades, China is aging, and its working-age population is shrinking:
12 million
Babies born in China in 2020 (The country’s fewest births since 1961)
18.7%
China’s population age 60 or older, up from 13.3% in 2010
63.4%
China’s population ages 15 to 59, down from 70.1% in 2010
$8,242
China’s per capita GDP, which trails world average of $11,057
Sources: China National Bureau of Statistics, World Bank
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Apple employees pushing back against returning to the office.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9655645/Apple-employees-revolt-against-CEO-Tim-Cooks-order-return-office.html
This is the worst I’ve seen New York since……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dMUoAAdaE
yRsGufLHYixMPAS
There is a case study on Yahoo about remote work and we all know how that turned out. People eventually get demotivated and check out—some even get a second job because, well, they can. In-person workers are more engaged. Period.
https://twitter.com/tylerdempsey17/status/1401347663900012544?s=21
If our tech companies do decide to give in to workers and let them WFH, be prepared to see innovation take a big hit…and this hurts our entire society long term.
Every major company that tried to do the remote work abandoned it after time….some of these companies never recovered in the race for “innovation.”
Pumps How do you know it will decline? You state it as fact. Also what major companies tried WFH and abandoned it, and which of those companies never recovered. Where do you get this crap from? You just make it up. We all know you hate WFH , and we all know why you hate it. It’s weeks now that you have been hyperventilating in anger over WFH, give it a rest.
“Every major company that tried to do the remote work abandoned it after time….some of these companies never recovered in the race for “innovation.”
Jesus.
You are like from another planet.
I am a programmer.
I’ve been reading here w/ a great many astonishment about
programmers (supposedly) who can not find decent work.
2 weeks ago we bid farewell to our buddy to go to facebook (with many
nice words like “see Zuker – kill him, save the world”).
Middle 400s.
He actually had 2 offers, another one from Bloomberg, about
the same totcomp.
That is the range nowadays.
If you claim to be an IT professional, commuting to the city
and earn less than 400 – you are not really an IT professional,
you are just plain incompetent.
As for teachers – it is a union job.
And that says it all.
It is a bunch of extremely stupid, ignorant people, who are
failing miserably at all they touch and do.
And you are the best example.
American teachers are a disaster.
They are mostly totally illiterate to an astonishing degree.
Yes, I’ve had several occassional pleasures to prove
to math teachers the most trivial mathematical things
that they were teaching wrong.
No, nobody in truly innovative industries needs to go to the office.
None, zero, nada.
Extremely idiotic.
You insist on office presense – you loose the most precious
workers right away.
That’s just the reality.
“Yes, I’ve had several occassional pleasures to prove
to math teachers the most trivial mathematical things
that they were teaching wrong.”
Well, people that are really bright, that work for “Middle 400’s” are not willing to work for “teacher pay” as it is beneath them, so why not work for an unethical company like Facebook and make more money. They could do the ethical thing and actually teach American kids, but like most Boomers, would rather pocket the money for themselves.
And if we were to pay teachers mid 400’s, you would hear so much screaming from the Boomers about their tax bills it would echo to the North Pole.
And I do prefer teacher presence.
It’s WFH for now, to becoming more and more WFI, WFC, WFP, WFT.
Or just WFA.
“and progressive compassion will enlighten the herd.”
Guess “righteous violence” might work better.
Yes, pay matters. I’ve been saying this for years. Laughing at the fools that scream teachers are overpaid, yet demand perfection. Pay up if you want the math teacher to be on the same level as you getting paid 400k.
Fact of the matter, there are a ton of good teachers out there doing a great job and are highly underpaid for what they can get somewhere else with the amount of work they put in. Falls on deaf ears most of the time because people love to belittle the teaching profession.
“As for teachers – it is a union job.
And that says it all. It is a bunch of extremely stupid, ignorant people, who are
failing miserably at all they touch and do.
And you are the best example.
American teachers are a disaster.
They are mostly totally illiterate to an astonishing degree.
Yes, I’ve had several occassional pleasures to prove
to math teachers the most trivial mathematical things
that they were teaching wrong.”
Fact of the matter, they are little bitches. They are so overpaid compared to the rest of the professions, it’s not even funny. Yet, they still whine and cry…still want more. Bitch, get to the office you entitled prick, you are not getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit at home. Wtf do you think this is? Tech boys are such little bitches.
Just wait till the supply of programmers catch up with the market. If WFH is here to stay, then that will definitely happen. Just remember to come back to this blog and cry about how your job is being offshored for cheaper markets. That you should have listened. But for now, enjoy getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars working from home. It won’t last…
“No, nobody in truly innovative industries needs to go to the office.
None, zero, nada.
Extremely idiotic.
You insist on office presense – you loose the most precious
workers right away.
That’s just the reality.”
Just off the top of my head. Yahoo, IBM, and Bank of America. Oh wait, so yahoo and IBM were just ahead of their time, right? Or was it that WFH only works during a pandemic when your competition is doing it too. Give it a few years when these WFH success stories go against real competition…ones that actually go into work in person. Going to wipe their a$$ with their wfh competition. Not even going to be a competition.
In person collaboration is rocket fuel for innovation. Just take smart people and put them together. Random conversations lead to fabulous innovative ideas. Competition amongst team members does the rest. WFH, you have no idea who winning the competition amongst team members…you only know your task, and your task only.
So yes…wfh will stifle innovation and setback society years. You think the iPhone would have been created in a WFH environment? Steve job’s creative genius and his ability to get the most out of teams would never have happened in a WFH environment…facts.
3b says:
June 5, 2021 at 10:15 pm
Pumps How do you know it will decline? You state it as fact. Also what major companies tried WFH and abandoned it, and which of those companies never recovered. Where do you get this crap from? You just make it up. We all know you hate WFH , and we all know why you hate it. It’s weeks now that you have been hyperventilating in anger over WFH, give it a rest.
The issue is so complicated, yet too many people are only looking at it from a short term perspective. They only care about the now and getting to stay home or live in a cheaper location. They are not thinking about the ramifications and how this will change things long term.
That’s actually another great debate. What will happen to local startup and tech economies if workers are paid high salaries. London salary in Italy would destroy market for engineers in Italy. There are more extreme examples of that too. It’s another problem to solve.
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Well, people that are really bright, that work for “Middle 400’s” are not willing to work for “teacher pay” as it is beneath them, so why not work for an unethical company like Facebook and make more money. They could do the ethical thing and actually teach American kids, but like most Boomers, would rather pocket the money for themselves.
And if we were to pay teachers mid 400’s, you would hear so much screaming from the Boomers about their tax bills it would echo to the North Pole.
And I do prefer teacher presence.
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God, how I hate web blog format that does not have quoting
and references to the previous statement.
Phoenix,
I’m not advocating paying 400 to teachers.
I’m pointing out that any, literally any field shielded from competition –
stagnates and produces bad outcome.
Old kind of unions in industry (as a part of my telecom job I am required to
train once in 4 years to be a strikebreaker) – some of them have
managed to maintain some integrity, but generally – the rule
above stands.
The teachers are bad because they are union.
The schools are bad because there is no choice.
And it is not like NJ teachers are underpaid, especially considering
the quality of their job.
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Yes, pay matters. I’ve been saying this for years. Laughing at the fools that scream teachers are overpaid, yet demand perfection. Pay up if you want the math teacher to be on the same level as you getting paid 400k.
Fact of the matter, there are a ton of good teachers out there doing a great job and are highly underpaid for what they can get somewhere else with the amount of work they put in. Falls on deaf ears most of the time because people love to belittle the teaching profession.
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Yes, I was wrong, saying that _all_ teachers are bad.
Selection bias, you know.
The bad ones stick w/ you longer.
Of course, there are good ones.
Just rare.
No, my point was not about pay.
It was about competition.
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“Fact of the matter, they are little bitches. They are so overpaid compared to the rest of the professions, it’s not even funny. Yet, they still whine and cry…still want more. Bitch, get to the office you entitled prick, you are not getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to sit at home. Wtf do you think this is? Tech boys are such little bitches.
Just wait till the supply of programmers catch up with the market. If WFH is here to stay, then that will definitely happen. Just remember to come back to this blog and cry about how your job is being offshored for cheaper markets. That you should have listened. But for now, enjoy getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars working from home. It won’t last…”
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Oh, come on.
Supply of _real_ programmers will NEVER catch up w/ the market.
Yes, low level has been replaced (bad move, if you ask me.
I can tell you stories ….).
Upper level – nope.
Was not, is not being, will not.
Just not enough ppl, genetics, you know.
If anything – it is going to get much worse.
Why ?
Because when Sty and Bergen academy drop entrance test to accomodate
current unbelievably stupid and idiotic vogue, as unis drop SAT requirment
– that means that smart kids will not get what they need.
It means that mediocre stem students will be even MORE prevalent.
It means that there will be more and more literally idiots in the pipe
(as if there is not enough now).
It means losing global competition.
It means that anybody who is smart – will have even more choice.
Well, that is assuming that the country survives this oncoming
marxsist onslaught.
Which is not obvious at all.
“In person collaboration is rocket fuel for innovation.”
Like in the garage ?
You literally have no idea what you are talking about, do you ?
And that it was Woz who did the thing ?
“So yes…wfh will stifle innovation and setback society years. You think the iPhone would have been created in a WFH environment? Steve job’s creative genius and his ability to get the most out of teams would never have happened in a WFH environment…facts.”
The whole apple thing was done while wfh.
The iphone probably would have been much better.
Me personally, I hate all things apple.
They appear friendly, but if your need is just a bit off the main road –
that’s it, you are out of luck.
And it’s been that way since I first was asked to do something
unusual on an apple product in about 94 or something.