Recruiting Technicians Today ft. Morgan Dolan, U.S. Xpress

Responding to your suggestion of posting reasons why techs ghosted employers.
- the workshop was outfitted like a backyard garage.
- service manager wouldn't buy a tire inflation cage when asked if the shop possessed one.
- the service manager never worked as a tech in their life, doesn't have 30k of his own money in tools, and cannot turn the wrench nor read the meter, but conducts the interview as if any wasted time constitutes him to "ride your butt" to make time or finish difficult repairs.
- the shop serviced garbage trucks and they did not have on-site showers or locker room so the smell doesn't follow you home or in your daily driver.
- they changed the hours, schedule, pay, or conditions last minute.
- was introduced to the supervisor who you report to and they have tats, gauges in ears, tye dye lip rings, and some misunderstood expectation that me standing before them in a shirt and tie is going to take leadership from their unprofessional appearing self.
- lack of safety equipment and knowledge of safety protocol/procedures.

Employers are always so amazed when they get ghosted by potential employees, but how many of them have ghosted applicants they weren't interested in at the time? There seems to be a double standard when it comes to the way businesses treat people and want to be treated.

It's pretty common to hear of people applying, having multiple email correspondences, filling out personality assessments and skills tests, having one or more interview and being asked when they can start and almost assured the job is theirs then never hearing from the company again.

This happened to me while applying to a nationwide company that does remote and in process scans and module programming. After weeks of taking breaks from work to interview, after all the assessments and the third interview and being told they'd get back to me they can't even be bothered to send an automated rejection form letter.

They started calling me again about interviewing about eight months later and I just blocked them on my phone, email, and social media. Let them waste someone else's time.

The same double standard also seems to apply when employees leave. Shops always complain when techs quit with no notice, but how many of them give any notice or severance when they let someone go?

Let’s look at a dissatisfied group of workers and use a hr as a a sales department geared towards selling (what you know is a line of bs) to the employee rather than I don’t know, hr advocating for the employees. You are not in hr sweetheart. You are a just a sales person. You can’t “ tailor “ shit for me. You aren’t the problem. It’s not your fault. But you. Are. Not. Helping.