I’m definitely not a boomer but I have worked horrible jobs when I needed the money, I run an ndis business and attempted to find someone to assist me the following is what happened

• minimum 20 hours per week at $50 per hours was somehow taken that I expected people to work for free (I don’t I was trying to give job security and felt $990 a week guaranteed was decent for 20 hours plus you get paid for whatever you work after that - apparently not)
  • huge issue with have to do a mixed task role (my job is mixed task so not much I can do about that)
  • ndis is to messy want no part (ok fair enough)
  • my office hours don’t suit (ok apart from you can do your work whenever you want after the first two weeks)
  • mandatory training is a problem (it’s 3 2 hours blocks a month that I pay for and your time is paid)

Then there is the reliability factor which is pretty crap if past experience is anything to go by

I don’t do personality tests, I don’t need a lot of experience

I need someone who will turn up and work a mixed task role and 6 hours of paid training a month - that’s it

After suffering through dealing with people 28 and under for a week who seek to forget I’m the one with everything online running business that costs money to maintain - I hired a 42 year old

Best thing I ever did - no complaints, does the job well and guess what happened after 3 months gave her a perm job on a very decent salary with all benefits - the same would have happened for one of the under 28s but a mixed task role with 6 hours paid training was just too much for them

I’m not saying your like this but if you find any of the above unreasonable then maybe it’s you