It's a Math shortage. 80% of the country Can Not rent a 2 bedroom apartment unless your yearly income is over 55k. 65k if it's in a city. $25 hour wage is still under this threshold. There seems to be no floor to stand on, no place to start, that isn't already behind.
Im 19 and worked as a rear load driver through the fall and winter during covid, and it just felt like a revolving door with the turnover rate so high. If I wasn’t going back to school I’d happily do it for another 40 years but I don’t think I ever woke up and didn’t want to go work. Unless it rained then it kinda sucked haha
Its a good job when your young; but alot of the force is geriatric. Now they got back problems lung problems heart diease. AND THEY ARE CARRYING ALL THE WEIGH
We have alot of workers here leaving work over the Vax mandates. Most worked through the whole lockdown and now are looking at unemployment since here it pays better or moving to Florida or Texas. Medical folks are going to NY and NJ to fill in for fired workers leaving shortages here. I can't believe biden and crew could cause this much damage in 9 months.
There is no labor shortage. There is a wage shortage. I pay $20/hr and its well known around my local area. I get 4-10 resumes per week, even when I have no job postings.
@@buckley3117 It's actually TWO shows - one on Discovery+ ; the other on For Business - Rowe produces and hosts both. (Shcking part - when Rowe did those back-to-back with the the salt mines AND the the sugar cane plant - between them, they had TWO people with post-high-schcol education - which they got AFTER they started.)
My problem with all this worker shortage is I'm 74 and pretty messed up. My kingdom to be 30 again with all these high-paying jobs going unfilled!! It's a worker's choice nowadays!
Some real hard work here. Guys putting in a lot of time, and have little of it. There going to overwork these people. That goes for a lot of jobs now too. Yet like they said, if trash fails...
"Way to heavy" I've seen drivers pick up cans like that all the time where I work. The front of the truck lifts in the air and they slowly pick it ups. If he weren't on camera he'd have probably picked it up. These are some hard working people, salt of the earth that make the place run. If I wasn't 53 and retiring from my job soon, I'd take a job on the back of a trash truck. You never see fat out of shape guys working on the back. Its hard work and a great workout. I'm probably too old for to be working the back of a trash truck. You always see young guys doing it.
Hello I’m a senior diesel mechanic at Rumpke Transportation Columbus since the start of Covid 19 we have doubled if not close to tripled repairs across all lines of business with less mechanics since the start of Covid . Nobody wants to work anymore and the few of us who do are worn out lol
That's weird my union job has an over a year waiting list of people wanting a job Quess it's not so much of a shortage problem but more of a pay and benefits problem
When the Quality of pay and benifits is legit trash. The National worker shortage is inevitable. Unionize these poor people. How did we ever get under 50% uniionzed workforce? Remember when America was Great!? Yah when they had all the unions and the livable wage. The Dream was alive and well!
All the comments about how no one wants to work and “I’d do this job” are cute. Not many people want to be a garbage man or would handle the physical demands. 100 degrees or -40, rain or snow you have to get out and work in it. That’s hard for all the softies of the world to handle. The old saying “you want the garbage man’s service, but you don’t want him living in your neighborhood” applies to most people.
A friend of mine owns 3 trash companies . His drivers start out at 60k a yr / mechanics at 80k. They don’t have to get out of the truck and computers monitor the trash going into the truck . And he has good equipment he replaces periodically. A great job for someone with a high school degree
I don't know all the ins and outs of refuse... but I know that I've always been treated well by MDI the few times I've needed a roll-off dumpster... very satisfied customer.
Sooo, we are 100 years or so behind on management of our forests. Imagine if you piled up your trash for a year in front of your house, it would take days to collect. Except it was 100 years for the forests, and like all people in all neighborhoods worth of space. Now throw in warming temperatures from exiting the ice age (or climate change, same result), and imagine the trash piles can light on fire if left in the sun and years behind on trash collection.
Just because the company is short of people doesn't mean the people available need to work harder... especially for the same money. As I say I can only work as fast as 1 person doing 2 peoples jobs
What a terrible rolloff driver I could’ve picked up the first bin without lifting up my Front end and there was lots of room to get that 40 yard. Wow 🤩
Mike!!! Run for President! Our trash can is consistently much lighter than our recycle & all because I met Mr Rowe in Ft Worth in 2008 or 2009….Class Act.
I used to deliver gasoline and diesel to convenience stores and stations. We got paid by the load. It always sucked to get loaded , drive an hour across Houston, get to the drop point only to see an abandoned car parked over the filling ports. Then wait for a wrecker to tow them off. Less loads , smaller paychecks. Pay truckers by the hour! That's why i got out of it. You pay me by the hour , then the traffic jams become the company's problem, the breakdowns become the company's problem. Etcetera. Greedy companies = no workers.
there is no way he can make 150 stops in 1 day, impossible. Assuming it takes 15 minuets to get to each location on average and facilitate the emptying of the bin, it would take roughly 38 hours. do the math its not possilbe.
I had a tight route here in Phoenix where I had 135 stops and I could knock it out in 9 hours. Most of the stops were single cans. If you have the right route you can do it
And if it takes 2 minutes per bin, then it's 300 minutes or 5 hours. We're both on the extreme end I'd say. I KNOW it will take longer than 2 minutes to drive to and dump each bin, but with a tight route 15 minutes seems extreme. It will be a long day for sure.
That’s great that you try to recycle. I hope your town/city is doing the same. Unfortunately most government programs don’t recycle much of what people put in the bins. According to the EPA, of the 267.8 million tons of municipal solid waste generated by Americans in 2017, only 94.2 million tons were recycled. Sixty-six percent of discarded paper and cardboard was recycled, 27 percent of glass, and 8 percent of plastics were recycled.
I started at 22.95 hr waste management roll off driver ...for the stress it’s a insulting wage one mistake get someone killed I could be in prison should be 35-40 per hr
Randy sucks he just doesn’t know how load a dumpster that heavy I do it all the time with ones just like that and now the bobcat operator has to do extra work cause randy doesn’t know what he’s going..
Mechanic didn’t have on any PPE! Climbing inside and outside of the truck,dangerous!! Also while working on the truck it’s wasn’t lock and tagged out! Dangerous!!!!
How do we know he didn't disconnect a wire somewhere along the way to keep it from starting? The only thing that would start the truck would be the Driver who is sitting in the seat. He would not start the truck with his mechanic working on it, but even if he did it's not like his hand was in a belt or gear. Do shops LOTO vehicles when working on them? I can say most don't.
@@jameswalker590 where’s his PPE? Working on a tuck with the driver in the driver seat!! Dangerous! Safety should be the number one priority,especially while making a video that possibly the entire world could see, with a few major adjustments this company could possibly improve themselves.. hopefully Also Waste Managment LOTO their trucks anytime a mechanic works on them!!!
I'm a sideloader driver for the City of Amarillo. Very short staffed over here, we're picking up our routes (300-400 cans) plus sometimes upwards of 100 cans of extras because of open routes that need picked up. Sometimes we work until 8 or 9 when we're supposed to get off at 5. Morale is in the toilet and we're tired.
He also does not know how to drag a box a couple feet. Back up to it, hook up to it, tighten cable, drag the box until it lines up, then pick it up. You would not survive a week in NYC.
@@kevinbecerson1546 so you're willing to pay that fine a dollar a pound if you're overloaded and you have an accident? Been in the industry for 20 years. And if you have been you know we have weight limits depending on how many axles you have. If my RO can only legally haul 13 tons I'm not taking a 15 ton load.
Sure let’s pick up an overweight box on camera. These comments on his choice on leaving it are ridiculous. One can only guess no camera and he would have taken it.
It's a Math shortage. 80% of the country Can Not rent a 2 bedroom apartment unless your yearly income is over 55k. 65k if it's in a city. $25 hour wage is still under this threshold. There seems to be no floor to stand on, no place to start, that isn't already behind.
But that's asking for too much, a slightly livable request.
Im 19 and worked as a rear load driver through the fall and winter during covid, and it just felt like a revolving door with the turnover rate so high. If I wasn’t going back to school I’d happily do it for another 40 years but I don’t think I ever woke up and didn’t want to go work.
Unless it rained then it kinda sucked haha
Its a good job when your young; but alot of the force is geriatric.
Now they got back problems lung problems heart diease. AND THEY ARE CARRYING ALL THE WEIGH
I am qualified and considered applying to one of these jobs but the shift started at 2 am. no
We have alot of workers here leaving work over the Vax mandates. Most worked through the whole lockdown and now are looking at unemployment since here it pays better or moving to Florida or Texas. Medical folks are going to NY and NJ to fill in for fired workers leaving shortages here. I can't believe biden and crew could cause this much damage in 9 months.
John Fisher, Did YOU Vote For Biden?
@@coiledsteel8344 hell NO. Anybody with 2 brain cells in DE knew he is and always was a scumbag
Florida still has to deal with his mandate... More people need to express their displeasure.
A aa
@@johnfisher5363 People forget us DE folks exist, and saw what he is for years now..
We're literally living in the Idiocracy movie. Omg!!!!
I've been saying the same thing forever!! Specially with Tik tok added to the mix! 😄👍😎
There is a waste management consultant named Tony Soprano, he could probably help with your problems
There is no labor shortage. There is a wage shortage. I pay $20/hr and its well known around my local area. I get 4-10 resumes per week, even when I have no job postings.
But it also doesn’t help when your application keeps getting denied for stupid reasons.
We start CDL-A Tanker Drivers at $22 an hour. But it's a lot of work most people aren't willing or able to do.
@@jamie6387 that’s chump change for someone with a CDL.
@@jamie6387 $22 bucks? come on lol I used to make $24 as a reach lift driver. Im now a truck driver and make $37 per hr in San Francisco California.
Must be in the midwest or south. As a business owner myself,pay the lowest competing wage you can, and make men earn raises.
Recycling is a scam. It’s just something to make you feel better about yourself.
my worms love it
@@TwistedTornsTirade your worms like recyclables?
@@Kimberly-wt1nu avocados turn them on and make them breed!
@@TwistedTornsTirade true, but an 🥑is compostable not a recyclable.
@@Kimberly-wt1nu It is recyclable if you plant the seed.
Wish they would go to DC take some trash out.
😂😂😂
This would make a interesting show fox should do more stuff like this.
*An interesting show.
Dirty jobs was what it's was called
Call it "surviving byeden" 😂
@@buckley3117 It's actually TWO shows - one on Discovery+ ; the other on For Business - Rowe produces and hosts both. (Shcking part - when Rowe did those back-to-back with the the salt mines AND the the sugar cane plant - between them, they had TWO people with post-high-schcol education - which they got AFTER they started.)
My problem with all this worker shortage is I'm 74 and pretty messed up. My kingdom to be 30 again with all these high-paying jobs going unfilled!! It's a worker's choice nowadays!
Vaccine mandate? Quit.
This fun to actually see. Great work on this video!
I always appreciate those heroes job.
You misspelled "national living wage shortage "
They're just illiterate
Stop paying people for setting home
Also stop printing money and cheating workers
Some real hard work here. Guys putting in a lot of time, and have little of it. There going to overwork these people. That goes for a lot of jobs now too. Yet like they said, if trash fails...
"Way to heavy" I've seen drivers pick up cans like that all the time where I work. The front of the truck lifts in the air and they slowly pick it ups. If he weren't on camera he'd have probably picked it up. These are some hard working people, salt of the earth that make the place run. If I wasn't 53 and retiring from my job soon, I'd take a job on the back of a trash truck. You never see fat out of shape guys working on the back. Its hard work and a great workout. I'm probably too old for to be working the back of a trash truck. You always see young guys doing it.
I did residential pickup for 18 years and now I sit behind the wheel of the roll-off truck getting fat
Get it hombre
follow your dreams
Hello I’m a senior diesel mechanic at Rumpke Transportation Columbus since the start of Covid 19 we have doubled if not close to tripled repairs across all lines of business with less mechanics since the start of Covid . Nobody wants to work anymore and the few of us who do are worn out lol
That's weird my union job has an over a year waiting list of people wanting a job Quess it's not so much of a shortage problem but more of a pay and benefits problem
When the Quality of pay and benifits is legit trash. The National worker shortage is inevitable. Unionize these poor people. How did we ever get under 50% uniionzed workforce? Remember when America was Great!? Yah when they had all the unions and the livable wage. The Dream was alive and well!
This was really great. Sure would love to see more content like this from any channel.
All the comments about how no one wants to work and “I’d do this job” are cute. Not many people want to be a garbage man or would handle the physical demands. 100 degrees or -40, rain or snow you have to get out and work in it. That’s hard for all the softies of the world to handle. The old saying “you want the garbage man’s service, but you don’t want him living in your neighborhood” applies to most people.
A friend of mine owns 3 trash companies . His drivers start out at 60k a yr / mechanics at 80k. They don’t have to get out of the truck and computers monitor the trash going into the truck . And he has good equipment he replaces periodically. A great job for someone with a high school degree
I don't know all the ins and outs of refuse... but I know that I've always been treated well by MDI the few times I've needed a roll-off dumpster... very satisfied customer.
It just so happens some dude has a mini loader who says yeah Ill unload some. Get outta here. That dumpster is staying put for a while.
At least until the camera shuts off
Sooo, we are 100 years or so behind on management of our forests. Imagine if you piled up your trash for a year in front of your house, it would take days to collect. Except it was 100 years for the forests, and like all people in all neighborhoods worth of space. Now throw in warming temperatures from exiting the ice age (or climate change, same result), and imagine the trash piles can light on fire if left in the sun and years behind on trash collection.
microbes are amazing and the food would be gone be thankful food comes with microbes or it would up to the sky
most of the crap I can't get rid of easily, I have here, was dumped by other people.
@@YahshuaLovesMe yes we have become lazy and expect to pick up after us I don't even drink and get beer bottles haha
Just because the company is short of people doesn't mean the people available need to work harder... especially for the same money. As I say I can only work as fast as 1 person doing 2 peoples jobs
I doubt they're salary. Don't you think they get 1.5x for overtime?
That's The Voice of Mike Rowe, From Discovery Channel DIRTY JOBS.
You figure that out all on your own?
Ask Sopranos for help. But remember, it will cost you. And if you're complaining they dump the garbage back in your front door.
What a terrible rolloff driver I could’ve picked up the first bin without lifting up my Front end and there was lots of room to get that 40 yard. Wow 🤩
What we need is more regulations. “LGB”
Mike!!! Run for President!
Our trash can is consistently much lighter than our recycle & all because I met Mr Rowe in Ft Worth in 2008 or 2009….Class Act.
Allow people to burn their own trash
1962 all over again.
I used to deliver gasoline and diesel to convenience stores and stations. We got paid by the load. It always sucked to get loaded , drive an hour across Houston, get to the drop point only to see an abandoned car parked over the filling ports. Then wait for a wrecker to tow them off. Less loads , smaller paychecks. Pay truckers by the hour! That's why i got out of it. You pay me by the hour , then the traffic jams become the company's problem, the breakdowns become the company's problem. Etcetera. Greedy companies = no workers.
There is not a worker shortage there is a shortage of people that want to work.
Good people shouldnt work shitty jobs for shitty pay.
@@jocap75 good for you.
minimum skills, minimum wage. too many democrats give out free handouts and that's why lazy ppl stay on their couches.
These folks keep America moving.
Let's go brandon
All of your comments are a bunch of tears needless tears If Americans weren’t so greedy we wouldn’t have this issue shut up go to work
The subtitle regarding worker shortages doesn't really seem to be a part of the video.
Last week there was absolutely no garbage pickup.
there is no way he can make 150 stops in 1 day, impossible. Assuming it takes 15 minuets to get to each location on average and facilitate the emptying of the bin, it would take roughly 38 hours. do the math its not possilbe.
I had a tight route here in Phoenix where I had 135 stops and I could knock it out in 9 hours. Most of the stops were single cans. If you have the right route you can do it
And if it takes 2 minutes per bin, then it's 300 minutes or 5 hours. We're both on the extreme end I'd say. I KNOW it will take longer than 2 minutes to drive to and dump each bin, but with a tight route 15 minutes seems extreme. It will be a long day for sure.
The opening bag of garbage looks like food for my worms, what a shame to throw it on a dump =(
Don't have link, but up to 40% of All Good Goes to W-A-S-T-E!
Pay people liveable wages, stop clowning.
I don't have much waste but have lots of recyclables. I try not to buy stuff that I cannot recycle.
That’s great that you try to recycle. I hope your town/city is doing the same. Unfortunately most government programs don’t recycle much of what people put in the bins.
According to the EPA, of the 267.8 million tons of municipal solid waste generated by Americans in 2017, only 94.2 million tons were recycled.
Sixty-six percent of discarded paper and cardboard was recycled, 27 percent of glass, and 8 percent of plastics were recycled.
i like helping my trash man
DIRTY JOBS with Mike Rowe
How America Works, new show.
Mike Rowe!
Wanna know how to stop it,? Stop testing for marijuana.
Or maybe be responsible and be safe on your route. I can tell somebody lost their CDL for smoking pot
I started at 22.95 hr waste management roll off driver ...for the stress it’s a insulting wage one mistake get someone killed I could be in prison should be 35-40 per hr
Randy sucks he just doesn’t know how load a dumpster that heavy I do it all the time with ones just like that and now the bobcat operator has to do extra work cause randy doesn’t know what he’s going..
Roll off driver here. That 20 yd is filled w concrete. He can pick up more but not if it's concrete over the top like that.
That’s what happens when people are paid to stay home
Mechanic didn’t have on any PPE! Climbing inside and outside of the truck,dangerous!! Also while working on the truck it’s wasn’t lock and tagged out! Dangerous!!!!
How do we know he didn't disconnect a wire somewhere along the way to keep it from starting? The only thing that would start the truck would be the Driver who is sitting in the seat. He would not start the truck with his mechanic working on it, but even if he did it's not like his hand was in a belt or gear. Do shops LOTO vehicles when working on them? I can say most don't.
@@jameswalker590 where’s his PPE? Working on a tuck with the driver in the driver seat!! Dangerous! Safety should be the number one priority,especially while making a video that possibly the entire world could see, with a few major adjustments this company could possibly improve themselves.. hopefully
Also Waste Managment LOTO their trucks anytime a mechanic works on them!!!
@@chrisgeorgia2164 put a sock in it
@@edwinurena9768 No they need to put a lock in it. 😂
Real men don't use LOTO.
Give these guys and all trucks an inch for a minute so they can get their miles for their hours!
Couldn't be more true. I live in St Lucie county Florida and
They probably put that car there purposely. Just for tv
That ford door chime is annoying as hell.
That is a nice McNeilus Atlantic…
Lee County Alabama 🌎
I really like this series
pls come to hulu
I'm a sideloader driver for the City of Amarillo. Very short staffed over here, we're picking up our routes (300-400 cans) plus sometimes upwards of 100 cans of extras because of open routes that need picked up. Sometimes we work until 8 or 9 when we're supposed to get off at 5. Morale is in the toilet and we're tired.
Crybaby
Lame roll-off driver does not know how to pick up a heavy box. Your fired!
I got it!
He also does not know how to drag a box a couple feet. Back up to it, hook up to it, tighten cable, drag the box until it lines up, then pick it up.
You would not survive a week in NYC.
@@kevinbecerson1546 so you're willing to pay that fine a dollar a pound if you're overloaded and you have an accident? Been in the industry for 20 years. And if you have been you know we have weight limits depending on how many axles you have. If my RO can only legally haul 13 tons I'm not taking a 15 ton load.
@@kevinbecerson1546 let me guess you liked your own comment too 🤣
Sure let’s pick up an overweight box on camera. These comments on his choice on leaving it are ridiculous. One can only guess no camera and he would have taken it.