People have to move somewhere.

Showtalk said:

People have to move somewhere.

If they can't fix the problems at home, and want their kids to have a future, they "vote with their feet". At least the California refugees aren't having to flee in inner tubes and bathtubs and other improvised flotation devices to cover 90 miles of open ocean to reach Florida.

$1,661.87 in cats (ROCKETMAN_S) said...

The trend towards doing everything by rote over the past 30 years has produced a whole bunch of young adults who can do well whenever they have a script to follow, but let a situation happen that there isn't a rote memorized script to follow, and they freeze like a deer in the headlights, often with disastrous results.

They have sown to the wind by teaching to the test and teaching by rote memorization rather than actually teaching the underlying fundamentals and mechanisms, and as a result they have reaped the whirlwind with a whole bunch of twenty and thirty-somethings who couldn't think their way out of a paper bag.

Sounds like lack of qualification as a teacher if you ask me!

FWIW

It's actually lack of qualification by the state legislatures that set the rules of how curricula are taught. The teachers these days are just the grist in the mill between the millstones of administration and all the upstream politicians, and the parents and kids that make up the other millstone.

It’s not that easy to move.  It looks like they are finding jobs first and then moving.  California is trying to tell people that others are moving in. Maybe. Maybe not.

Showtalk said:

It’s not that easy to move. It looks like they are finding jobs first and then moving.

Some may have moved because they could work remotely and calculated "I don't need to renew the lease on that $6000 a month broom closet when I can move to Nevada or Arizona and have a real house with a real yard and even have pets and livestock and fresh air and none of the horrible traffic.

They can, although companies are starting to call people back to the office, which is difficult if they moved out of state hundreds of miles away.

Showtalk said:

They can, although combo keep are starting to call people back to the office, which is difficult if they moved out of state hundreds of miles away.

What is a combo keep?

Anyway I saw an article somewhere that about 40% of workers are polishing up their resume's and planning to quit whenever they are called back to the office, because they already discovered the productivity gains of not having to get up at 3 AM to fight traffic for 4 hours to get to work on time, and repeat it for the same every evening, and go back onto the rat race hamster wheel they had been on before.

So a lot of companies that refuse to continue remote workers are going to find problems filling positions (except for the lower quality workers that are more desperate) and their market share will be taken up by the competitors who aren't burdened by those expensive office spaces in the middle of overpriced cities.

It will be interesting to see how it shakes out. Of course some jobs you have to be there. Like when optical fiber has to be spliced, when power lines need maintenance, and all sorts of similar things. But the pandemic has illustrated for millions of people how much uncompensated useless time and resource wasting crap and busywork outside of work hours makes up many occupations, and don't want to return to that kind of rat race.

LOL, a typo. Autocorrect can’t understand phrasing or grammar.  I fixed it in my post.  It will be interesting to see if they replace people who refuse to show up in person or who can’t because they moved two states away.  Competitive jobs like tech should not have too much trouble replacing people except each hubs are very expensive to live in.  That is why those jobs usually pay very well, too.

Showtalk said:

It will be interesting to see if they replace people who refuse to show up in person or who can’t because they moved two states away. Competitive jobs like tech should not have too much trouble replacing people except each hubs are very expensive to live in. That is why those jobs usually pay very well, too.

I have heard that certain industries can't fill a lot of positions. Thing is, tech workers are more likely to be able to work remotely. Same with customer service, and even sales, tech support, etc.

the very expensive part of things - a lot of tech firms have figured that if they have most of their staff remote, they don't need to renew the lease on that ultra high priced office suite in the expensive, and they avoid all sorts of expenses related to travel and such, and the workers are more productive because they can take care of things like oh, child care without needing to spend half their income on scarce or still non existent day care during the summer when school is out.

It's accelerated a trend that was already gathering momentum.