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Re: Maybe next time....

"bernie" <bdigman@zianet.com> wrote in message
news:e42ada24-8016-4041-a3ef-858164c068ed@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>
>  Heh heh. I left about 10am on Saturday. The place does get swamped
> on weekends from folks coming in to shop.  For a small town the
> traffic is awful.  If anyone wants to make a gazillion bucks they can
> go to Farmington and work. Most of the younger workforce seems to be
> on meth. Its a horrible problem up there and for the oilfield.  Every
> place I went seemed to have a "help wanted" sign. People with CDLs,
> welding skills, roughneck skills, oilfield service skills, restaurant
> skills are all in high demand. Odd that they can't get folks to go to
> work for $24/hr and sign on bonus' of up to $5k.  Companies like
> Halliburton, Key Energy, El Paso, Giant Refining, Schlumberger and
> many others just have permanent help wanted signs up. Life must be
> good for workers in the country.
> Bernie

We have a workforce problem in our area [western Kansas], too.  A local
mobile home factory closed because they couldn't get enough workers
[starting around $15/hr].  Two of our local restaurants closed, and another
is closed some days when help doesn't show up.  There are Help Wanted signs
all over.  Problem here stems from oil industry hiring anyone they can get
at $20+/hr.  I don't understand the unemployment statistics I see, but I
guess not everyone wants to live out here in the rural areas.  Maybe they
don't like clean air and water and little traffic -- but no coffee houses.
Aha!  That's the problem.

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