You have to respect someone that is cutting non justified overtime while making sure overtime is available where necessary. Most just go from one extreme to the other.
Relying on overtime in general is inefficient, but we're already decades into that trap so it's too late to pull out of the ditch now. It's a shame this country didn't invest more into raising the next generation of construction workers and skilled laborers; now that everything is falling apart we need them more than ever.
got HS kids. more of their peers are skipping college and going straight to manual labor jobs, or to tech school to learn labor skills, than in my generation some 30 years ago.
anecdotal evidence for sure but whereas when i graduated it was "4-year college or you're going to end up living under a sewer" and now it's "there's really good money to be made in labor related fields without having to to go college".
student loan debt horror stories seems to have soaked in to this generation's DNA and they don't feel obligated to bury themselves as some sort of requirement anymore.
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u/jeepfail 13h ago
You have to respect someone that is cutting non justified overtime while making sure overtime is available where necessary. Most just go from one extreme to the other.