Have you looked at the recent restaurants lately. Nobody wants to work especially for the wages at restaurants. A lot of places have to close on Monday to the lack of staff. During Covid they gave you extra money for unemployment but those days are long gone. Not sure how people are living. But maybe they all have better jobs. This is definitely a job seeker environment right now.
That may be the case in coffee shops, but in high end restaurants, the servers are doing pretty well. Ppl with money are spending freely.
“This is definitely a job seeker environment right now.”
Not for me. I haven’t had a job since October 2018, because whenever I have applied for a job, I’m told I am overqualified, which may also mean I am too old. Four decades of work experience, good health and good work habits is worthless, when the employers would rather hire someone thirty years younger than me, and pay him/her an entry level salary.
I keep wondering where the people are? Two years ago the job market was tight with some help wanted signs. Now business after business has closed or severely
curtailed hours because because of lack of staffing.
Have we returned nationally to the parent at home family? Did many more working aged die? Where are they?
I was driving through Ohio this past week and a young man {30-40} was standing at a red light holding a sign that stated, "Help wanted" begging for money.
The irony of that sign was too much, because there were three business on that corner with "help wanted" signs.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, good grief.