and the amount of time wasted training useless people who jump ship as soon as it clicks this is a job and not a hobby.
Always wondered how so many companies miss that expense; I've worked for several that had 2-3 weeks of training for new hires, which just in wages for the trainees alone was costing them $300+ per hour, not counting the trainers, training materials, etc. and yet they wouldn't spend a cent on retention. At one that comes to mind, I was the last of my training class to ditch them, six months after my hire date. Half were gone in the first month because they turned scheduling into such a mess; if they had a person who couldn't work days and a person who couldn't work nights, they'd put both on unworkable schedules, then tell them they'd have to use up their paid and unpaid leave if they couldn't work their assigned shift for a week or two until it got straightened out, rather than just go into the computer and switch the names in the schedule slots.
At another, a third of the class didn't make it all the way through the three weeks of training and another third left the first week out of class. Turns out, a nearby tech school was sending new grads over there so they could be employed and getting paid while waiting on responses to resumes they'd sent to much better places. A couple of them had started there to fill time waiting for the training class at another job they'd already accepted to start.
Didn't that just recently get shot down in court?
What got shot down was their narrowly targeted attempt to ban just a few things.
You can tell your employees "no t-shirts," or "no t-shirts with any sort of writing or logo on them," but you can't tell them "no t-shirts that say [insert politically charged thing here]."
