Posted on 05/05/2021 4:53:23 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
As more and more states start easing pandemic restrictions, restaurants large and small are grappling with a widespread problem: hiring employees.
Owners and managers from New York, California, Washington, and Chicago told The Epoch Times hiring woes have become a nightmare amid a litany of other challenges like indoor occupancy rules. They say the federal unemployment bonuses handed out during the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic incentivized people to stay home instead of working.
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The entire financial stability of the country is at stake. This is an insane game of chicken.
I can get no one to cut my grass. My landscaper can’t get help.
This is a serious problem across the board in most industries. Trucking, service and other industries and it’s being done on purpose. When we went on vacation restaurants are hit big time and every worker we have spoken to is pissed. They want to work because it’s the right thing to do….but are mad at the lazy people collecting a check and sitting home.
Got an email from a restaurant I visited one time three years ago asking me if I wanted a job.
“Come back to work, please ... but we have a boatload of rules in place that make workers and customers feel like this business establishment is a contaminated dump.”
No, thanks. If it’s safe to go back to work there, then open the business to 100% of its capacity, don’t make we wear a stupid diaper on my face, and make sure EVERYTHING is operating exactly as it was before you laid me off a year ago.
In southern ohio and northern kentucky there are HELP WANTED signs everywhere...
Seems no one wants to work for 10 or 12 bucks an hour..
Fixed it.
Simple solution. OFFER HIGHER PAY AND BONUSES.
I was actually thinking more along the lines of what I am hearing from people on Facebook and even a few FReepers...
PAY MORE
It isn’t necessarily a battle over voters, but over wages. They couldn’t get away with passing legislation to raise minimum wage, so they are using the unemployment stimulus bump to force small businesses to raise their wages.
The really sad truth in many cases...most small employers are already paying close to the liberal idea of a ‘living wage,’ and still cannot find staff. The other sad half of this scenario is ....if you are an employer you are smart to add the question: And what did you do for 1 and half years while on unemployment with a stimulus bump of $300-$600 per week?
This is a WAGE battle.
Muzzles are part of it, too.
I can’t tell you how many former part-timers I know, folks whose families don’t rely on their paychecks, who refuse to go back if they’re muzzled.
What about productivity?
Oh puleeese...go code somewhere else you obviously no nothing about business or economics or that thing called inflation.
What about it?
Never had to make a payroll?
I live in a townhome. The HoA contracts our landscaping yearly. The last time our grass was mowed was over two weeks ago now and they were cutting it at dusk/into the evening past 8pm. Looks like a labor shortage to me too.
I'd go buy a mower and get started on it myself but it's several acres of grass and it's overwhelming for one guy with a mower.
I bet the mexican restaurants are at full staff...but nobody else...
I know trucking is in trouble, I read an article about that recently. In addition to the rising price of gas, lack of drivers is going to help drive infation through the roof very soon. I’m already seeing grocery prices creep up. Just yesterday 20 cents more for a gallon of milk than 2 weks ago. I get that at dollar general or family dollar rather than grocery store, they’re a buck cheaper. I haven’t looked, but grocery store prices were already over $4 a gallon 2 months ago.
It’s going to hit everything. Dairies can’t find workers. Chicken farms can’t find employees. Big tech is losing people in the great exodus from wackifornia. I see ads in the local sale paper constantly, people looking for loggers, drivers and home health care experience. The past month, ads have shown up looking for lawn care guys, landscapers and carpenters too. Oh and a pluming company is looking for somebody, several national franchises have “Now Hiring” signs in their front windows. I need to pay attention to which ones I guess...seems like Big Lots is one of them.
I’m willing to bet the only ones not having trouble are the industries usually infested with illegals, like meat packing plants, agricultural outfits, and around here, lawn maintenance is about 90% mexicans. But they seem to be looking for people too. I quit going to a local used tire store, nothing but illegals there any more. That sucked, been doing business with them for 30 years.
And like someone said above, it’s intentional. The commies infesting the white hut are trying to destroy the economy.
Yesterday, Lowe’s in Tallahassee had tables set up in the parking lot under awnings. Big signs said, “Hiring today. Start right away.” Virtually every place I went yesterday there were signs out that “We’re hiring.” Back when I was on unemployment, the last thing I wanted was to move. I took the payments but continued looking at places where I could stay in my present house and my present, comfortable life with friends I knew well. Eventually, I took a nine month stent a few hundred miles away, but I ultimately didn’t get that job. Eventually, I retired. But the point is, I wasn’t alone. Virtually everyone I knew on unemployment were unwilling to move for a new job as long as payments of any sort were coming in. This is especially true if people were married with children, or, worse, unmarried with children and an ex living somewhere close. That creates real problems. Bottom line, unemployment payments are payments to keep people unemployed.
I guess a lot of lake houses and 40 boats will be up for sale...
Of course they don’t want to work for wages below 15, Stimulus is on the way and more of it. Meanwhile, we need this money so bad that it just flashed on my screen that weekends in Las Vegas are SOLD OUT for the foreseeable future.
There is too much currency floating around and if it is not enough to buy votes, just slam out a few more $Ks and all will be well. Do the math, $15 per hour, 40 hour week, 50 weeks is 30K gross. Sitting at home waiting for the unemployment card to get flush at 800 per plus stimulus is 40+K, with fewer deductions. Even I can see the choice.
Stop the insanity.
Basic Economics, 5th Ed., by Thomas Sowell
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