Relax, Everything is Going to be Okay!

[Forkyfinder]

Legit question.

Why would volunteer work be put on hold??? Wouldn't it be a good year to ramp up volunteer work?

I volunteered for the FS building trail in college. There is a lift in managing, coordinating, and scheduling all of it.

Perhaps the comparision for your industry would be subcontracting - you aren't at all off the hook for a lot of the details just cause it was sub'd out.

 

[Straight Arrow]

As a volunteer for a week trail maintenance project in the Bob Marshall Wilderness I really appreciated the USFS horse-pack gal who hauled our tools, equipment and food into the backcountry. She likely is unemployed presently and won't carry the load backcountry. Thus volunteer work will be without the regular USFS support and guidance usually part of the volunteer programs.
More recently, we met a USFS gal at Gooseberry Park with her six pack mules and saddlehorse, as she was supplying wilderness crews and cabins with essentials to do their maintenance work. We called her "Seven-mile Krista" cuz each time we asked how far to such and such place, she would say "about seven miles thataway". They all were also monitoring a fire up on Bow Mountain to be ready for suppression work and also to help folks escape to safety if need be. Likely, Seven-mile Krista and most of the maintenance crews won't be working this summer. That's a real travesty, IMO!

 

[MTGomer]

I’ll pay a survey crew chief that can work independently, show up on time, sober, work hard and communicate like an adult $40/hr
He doesn’t have to report to an office, there’s no boss looking over his shoulder, give him an almost new truck to take home, 401k, insurance, PTO etc
This is a six figure job with a little OT


The engineer I share an office with pays very well, allows remote work and needs a civil engineer that is skilled in grading/drainage and stormwater modeling.


This is in AZ. We both struggle to staff positions like this, likely due to being in a resort/retirement community.(havasu)

Here in Absarokee, MT, I couldn’t find someone to paint my house.
And I don’t mean someone that I could afford. I mean nobody would agree to drive from Billings or Bozeman or even Columbus to do it. We finally did it ourselves.
In Worden/Huntley MT last summer the irrigators were all hispanics.
When I was in high school, not that long ago, that was what my friends and I did.
Now farmers have to import people to do it.

Positions that are hard, especially if they are hard physically and involve having a brain can be very tough to fill.

My new guy (gen Z) did not show up this morning for his first day. “Ghosted” me as the kids would say.

When you sign a job offer, an employer stops trying to fill that position, doesn’t offer that position to others that are interested in it, etc.
if you don’t show up, it sets them back months in their search.

 

[MTGomer]

Outside Mag has a list of how many from each NP were let go

Here’s How Many Employees Each National Park Is Losing

A nonprofit is tallying up how many NPS employees have been let go from each park. A key asset has been social media posts from terminated employees.

www.outsideonline.com

 

[406dn]

My new guy (gen Z) did not show up this morning for his first day. “Ghosted” me as the kids would say.

When you sign a job offer, an employer stops trying to fill that position, doesn’t offer that position to others that are interested in it, etc.
if you don’t show up, it sets them back months in their search.

I'm sorry about that. That is not an honest thing to do to an employer. The silver lining is, the person showed you, by their actions, that they weren't what you were looking for.

I hope you find a good employee.

 

[Irrelevant]

My new guy (gen Z) did not show up this morning for his first day. “Ghosted” me as the kids would say.

When you sign a job offer, an employer stops trying to fill that position, doesn’t offer that position to others that are interested in it, etc.
if you don’t show up, it sets them back months in their search.

oh man... I would lose my shit on them if I ever saw them again. I might even reach out to some others in the field and "warn" them.

 

[BuckRut]

My new guy (gen Z) did not show up this morning for his first day. “Ghosted” me as the kids would say.

When you sign a job offer, an employer stops trying to fill that position, doesn’t offer that position to others that are interested in it, etc.
if you don’t show up, it sets them back months in their search.

I've had this happen multiple times. Along with failing pre employment drug screening even though I told them it was coming before offering the job, ghosting the job interview, offering the job and being told when you call them with the pre employment appointment that they took another job.

 

[WildWill]

I've had this happen multiple times. Along with failing pre employment drug screening even though I told them it was coming before offering the job, ghosting the job interview, offering the job and being told when you call them with the pre employment appointment that they took another job.

I've poached a few people including new hires from competitors business is business.

 

[Nick87]

I've poached a few people including new hires from competitors business is business.

Happens everyday. Everyone does it.