I want to know about from the employer's perspective what causes this.

I can understand the monetary incentive for example to have few permanent workers and many temps. That makes sense to me, even if that doesn't work in my favor as I'm probably not someone so extra special that I can entice an employer to make me permanent if there's much competition at all.

And I can understand how there are jobs, like certain retail jobs or fast food for example where the nature of the job, the fast pace...a poorly run store...where people won't want to stay because it's low pay and extremely high stress. Also jobs with a huge amount of emotional labor, like telemarketing or call center work. Or things like caregiving and nursing.

But I've been places where they do things like hire too many temps. Is it better for the employer or something if the temps quit? Are they being NICE? (I know this may be a dumb question). Like are they doing people a favor trying to get them to quit instead of calling their temp agency and cutting them off?

And I've been to places that have hired me, given me an interview and whatnot...and then I figure out, sometimes not in the moment, sometimes only in retrospect...that they are trying to discourage me and get me to leave the company. And not training me properly so I can't do the job as well.

I am aware that I am a common denominator in these situations. But I believe that even if maybe I'm not the best employee and there is incentive for places not to keep me around...that it doesn't explain everything.

Why are places this picky? They need the labor. There are a lot of people who can show up, and do the job...and despite it costing money in every time they hire someone...for background checks, drug testing...taxes....I'm not even sure...and the loss of investment in training people...and the lost production time while the person has left and they have to find the next person and get them up to speed with training...they keep discarding people and bringing new people on.

There are a couple places in my town that are notorious for this.

I've also heard Amazon tends to be like this to some extent. That what they're aiming for is that the "long term" workers really only last two years or so.

Is it by design that they don't want people to feel secure in their jobs?

Are people just very possessive of their workplaces? And those people who aren't totally at the bottom of the totem pole are they trying to make their workplace like circle of friends, and they can't handle having boring, impersonal, professional relationships with people?