BRACE YOURSELF FOR A MASS EXODUS OF EMPLOYEES

Restaurant Business ^ | Oct. 07, 2021 | Peter Romeo

[proxy_user]

Here at the retirement village, we hired a few young guys for outdoor work - yes, including cutting the grass. We offer $15 an hour, 2 weeks vacation after one year, regular hours, a 401K plan, and a Christmas bonus. You don’t have to deal with the public, and we don’t micromanage like Amazon.

We raided grocery stores instead of restaurants, but the principle is pretty much the same. We got some nice young guys who are somewhat lacking in academic skills, but they can drive trucks and cut grass OK.

[Rebelbase]

Add in COVID bennies and former two income homes have not suffered a standard of living change in becoming a one income home.

[NoLibZone]

They are entry-level jobs and people are moving beyond that.
This is a great thing.

[T.B. Yoits]

Could it be that a lot of two income households became one income households, and decided they liked that better? Once you add up commuting, child care, clothing, and other work related costs, a low paying McJob becomes a lot less “worth it”.

I witness that and retirements of people who could have retired years ago but had stayed working up until the COVID nonsense started.

[central_va]

So people with IQ’s less than 100 should kill themselves when they reach 30?

[central_va]

My local ‘home-style’ restaurant is already operating at reduced days open due to lack of employees willing to work for the arbitrarily set wages being offered.

Fixed it.

[central_va]

Simple if you want employees then PAY MORE FOR THEM.

[central_va]

As a result the employers cannot afford to pay the higher wages.

That statement makes no senses. It should be "employers cannot afford to NOT pay the higher wages".

[central_va]

They all say it’s because they can’t hire anyone.

Or unwilling to pay the prevailing wages to get employees. F them all.

[cgbg]

We went through this with the inflation in the 1970s.

Employers got stuck between a rock and a hard place, and many had to go out of business regardless of which choice they made.

Classic heads you lose, tails you lose—pick one.

[moovova]

Good. Less spit in the food.

[Rappini]

It’s like Obama’s chief of staff said never let a crisis go to waste.

[central_va]

BS. If materials go up in price they pay. But if labor goes up 10% the have to close? BS. They have tons of cash from years of underpaying and overcharging and are riding out the “crises”.

[New Perspective]

years of underpaying and overcharging

Sounding off like a true over the hill virtue signaling has been woke hippy.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“We take so much for granted...being able to travel and eat out will be distant memories and luxuries that only happen on rare occasions”

We could travel to Panem and watch the elite at play.

[JoSixChip]

So people with IQ’s less than 100 should kill themselves when they reach 30?

I don't believe I even insinuated such a thing. If you're just looking for a fight, come back later tonight after I've had a couple of beers. Maybe then I'll be more accommodating.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . and the modern Jimmy Carter no longer has to worry about being voted out of office because those who cast the votes decide nothing and those who count them decide everything.

[rfp1234]

Just in time for the massive ill eagle caravans.

[who knows what evil?]

Have we reached ‘PEAK VACCINATION’ yet?

[woodbutcher1963]

We had a young women show up for her first day of work.
The next two days she called in to say she had a “family emergency”.
She came in day four.
Day five was another “family emergency”

They told do not bother coming back.

One of the other employees said it was just a way to go back on unemployment benefits.