The education system collapsed with the death of the USSR so even before the War in Ukraine started they didn’t have enough Engineers and Technicians to make their country work. Their population has been declining for decades and COVID killed another Million. Then ~700,000 people, mostly men, fled the country when the War started. Then another ~500,000, again mostly men, fled the country when the first conscription was announced. Those 1.2 Million people, mostly men, were likely the ones with the education or trade skills that Russia could really use right now.
If that wasn’t enough Russia has suffered over 600,000 casualties in Ukraine and is now seeking to replace losses with a 3rd round of conscription, so there goes another 130,000 people out of the labor pool.
Russia is now eating its demographic and economic seed corn trying to support a war that has no possibility of a positive outcome. The death spiral is locked in and I’m predicting a collapse of the Russian state no later than 2035.
At some point they will have to be very open towards migrants, although they currently have a reputation of sending them to the front so they’ll definitely need to figure out how to actually retain them.
Russia faces a shortage of engineers, turners, and CNC machine operators. The Russian job portal Avito in September received 2,000 resumes for turners, in comparison to 60,000 position openings. For CNC operators, there were only 600 resumes for 18,600 vacancies, despite the alluring salaries.
Those are some awful numbers. You know a large percentage of those few resumes are going to be junk applicants. But with those huge disparity rates, they are probably going to get hired anyway and the businesses are just going to attempt to do their best to get the junk applicants to be somewhat useful.
Funnny how we never see these sort of break out withinthe US labour markets…
I wonder why 🤔
I wonder why
The US isn’t in a war with hundreds of thousands of casualties, the entire economy re-geared to produce wartime materials, huge needs to on-shore production as foreign partners cut ties, oil and ammo depots exploding all over the country cutting the one major source of export revenue, central bank interest rates at 19% putting even the safest of loans at credit-card levels of interest, and persistent double-digit inflation wiping out the real value of everyone’s savings and making it even harder to afford imports.
In short, the US has a healthy economy and Russia has a wartime economy that is doing it’s best to win the war before an economic collapse.
I want a report on which labour markets have shortages so employees can squeeze the corpo daddy… But plebs never get such data…
Assuming they have senior people they could train new applicants. But its Never good when you offer three to four times higher than the average regional salary and they literally tried to hire the reporter. Seems like they are going taking anyone off streets next. The good boomer “I just walked I’m with a firm handshake” will work here.
For CNC machine operators you can probably find simple repetitive jobs you can train someone on in a day and then every week show them one more new trick until after several years they are useful for simple non-repetitive tasks and a few years later they are useful. I’m not sure what turner is, but if it is lathe operator you can train someone in a couple days to be minimally useful - on the types of things you should use CNC for, but it will be a year or two before they can do the complex things you wouldn’t just drop to CNC. For engineers you really need a lot more training to be useful.
Tight labour markets do magic for the slaves !
When a BBC correspondent phoned a company to clarify the details about the length of a shift, the recruiter refused to provide the information, but immediately offered to hire the reporter.
LOL
Something tells me there is no overtime.
I bet there is a national security law to comoel you to work once they got their hands on you
Hard to say no to the men with guns.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
Never forget
Note that Astro turf usage of “affair”
Oh never heard if it before. Makes me think what the differences between the black plague and the 1886 situation. Both cases suffered from manpower issues.
The Tatarstan Republic reportedly implemented a program in spring 2024 to employ minors aged 14-18 in the defense industry.
A draft amendment to the legislation on alternative service submitted to Russia’s State Duma in June 2024 proposed letting new conscripts choose defense industry work as an alternate to military service.
Only a matter of time before those 14yo get called up to the front lines; more meat for the grinder, all in service to Putin’s delusions of grandeur.
They are going to have to do forced marriages with multiple wives to bring up the numbers again or start acrively punishing women with no children. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if angry mothers start storming the putins palace before that happens.
As a guy this isn’t so bad. Already Russia has a culture that protects male abusers of their wives more than most western countries do. So I can be a bit of a dead beat husband, leaving my wives to support the kids except when I want to play with my kids or sleep with that wife again. I prefer western cultures where things are different. However I can see the advantages of sexism being to my benefit.
Poor kittens
