Two words for you Dave, CRITICAL THINKING! Look it up, apply some of all of those principals to your problems that affect your life. You will be amazed by the positive changes that occur! Best wishes to you, and your success with life,Gary.

Just saying, but I along with other employers used temp agencies at times when real busy.
We used it as a way of finding good employees. Get a decent temp guy and we would offer them a full time job.
Most of the time they declined a full time job at 25-30% more than the temp agency was paying them, go figure.

Unfortunately the vast majority of people who work temp like the temp basis. They want enough money to get by on then stop working for awhile.

Seen lots of lazy lumps like that on the Railroad-mostly the Machine operators on the seasonal extra gangs,but also labourers.They had the option to bid on and hold permanent jobs on separate seniority lists when the gangs shut down for the winter,and hold that seniority while working as machine operators,but instead would not bid on those jobs and take the layoff(unemployment insurance) for 6 months every year,so they could stay home and smoke dope.They had no ambition to move further up to management jobs.
An interesting thing-workers who moved into middle and upper management positions on the RR were almost always the good Union men who were tough on the company when contract negotiations were hammered out.I think this was one of the main reasons our unions and the company got along very well for both the good of the company and the good of the workers.

up here Temp agency charge 35-50% over the base rate they pay their people
we had to use them when there was big snow storms - they were good for about 3 hours work then you had to get a dozen donuts into them and a gallon of coffee
felt sorry for them because they got 1 cent over minimum wage and they had to get back by 5;45pm to get a cheque then find a cashier open

Boco those guys just rode around on their snow machines in the winter months, and now with drug testing it has ruined their cultural puffing of the rope stuff to go back to work.

Well after lot talk about it, at $15 hr now, I could get $19 plus easy if fill time an go but pt an close , I have quit other pt job an work full time elsewhere for 18-19 hr, I guess just lately it is something, worker shortage , heard 4 quit went up street start $17, ya no reason for $13 stuff ,cost living way up , 15 ok but no big deal , extra 35 after tax in my pocket every week , better than 50 cents raise at least 2 bucks , why big worker shortage ?

I seriously can't even comprehend the majority of coonman's comments.

... I heard they all keep getting smashed inside the presses ... usually when there’s dorks or colored hands at the controls

Nearly 4 million workers changed jobs in April of 2021, the highest rate in the 20 years of tracking that statistic. Bodes warnings for those that are not serious about working out ways to hire and keep employees. If workers are that much of a drag on a business, why are employers searching so hard to find them?

Bryce

I'm Adlerian as in Albert Adler psychology = the choices you make in life effect the outcomes you have in our life.
Yep.

He said after talking with them he's up to 15 an hour and could get 19 easy if he goes full time somewhere else but he doesn't want to quit but he'd have to quit both part time jobs. It's a no brainer he should go full time at $19 but then he wouldn't be able to trap and lose three bucks a coon.

Nobody I know would give up the trapping way of life for 4$ an hour.

At $19 bucks you can still scratch the itch to lose money trapping by setting n checking on the way to work. The other thing to consider is the $19 job might put you into a $25± job in the future. You gotta look at the whole package, what are the benefits that come with it? $4 an hour is $8000 over two thousand hours, that before taxes, would buy lots of rust preventer.

Good luck to ya coonman220, hope it turns out.