Posted on 10/12/2021 10:12:50 AM PDT by george76
A restaurant owner on Cape Cod told us she would interview wait staff and then they would never respond to calls for hiring etc. They just needed to show their unemployment office that they were "looking".
PAY MORE FOR THEM
The fast-food places are actively advertising their starting salaries—at least $12/hr and sometimes up to $16/hr and this is a college town with lots of kids.
Don’t have any idea of what the sit-down places are offering. But at some point, they will either close or raise prices so hight that most people won’t be able to afford an evening out. And then they too will close.
A lot of things really. Pretty good offers for hospitality people to jump to. In my area for example we have “no experience, we train” jobs in meat production, $20-27/hr, forklift $23.50, and specialized mechanics, $31.50.
All with full benefits, the mechanic job even has pet insurance.
Really. Who is this “they” that have “tons of cash” stashed away.
I think unemployment laws vary from state to state.
This was in NH. I think in NH you have to actually get a job for at least ONE day.
In MA(being a very liberal state) you probably just have to say you were looking for work to qualify.
I guess that is why the unemployment rate in NH is 3.0% and MA is 5.0%
FYI, NE is 2.2%, UT is 2.6, ID & SD 2.9
NV 7.7, CA 7.5, NY 7.4, CT, NJ, NM 7.0
https://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm
“...we have “no experience, we train” jobs in meat production, $20-27/hr, forklift $23.50, and specialized mechanics, $31.50.”
That’s interesting. The wages seem high for entry level. Is that because of the labor shortage or is that these positions have historically paid at the entry level?
What is “meat production”?
Tough sh!t. Life as an IT worker in a H-1b visa crazy world is difficult.
We should not have one of two political parties soley in tune with small business and their need for cheap labor. There is more to life than "small business".
Life is difficult for a lot of folks, but I don’t tell you how you should do your job, and unless you own a small business in this nasty environment it is hard for you to understand their challenges.
So that translates too "I can AFFORD to close and still not go out of business" = large cash reserves.
Long hours, low pay, few if any benefits, what's surprising that people want to find something else?
I’ve worked for many small business. A mechanical contractor and a restaurant. They under pay and over charge. That is fact.
Dear ( fill in name here ),
Yo have reached the age of 30 and are no longer useful. You only make min wage. So you are terminated. Report to the “rehab” facility for further processing.
If a business model requires employees to make less than a wage that will support them, they’re essentially expecting their profits to be subsidized by someone else— government, the employee’s family, charity, or whatever.
Chop up cow and make steaks. Butchering factory.
These used to be the place that people with too much dignity to go on unemployment went when they were out of work. Wages low, no one wanted to be there.
JBS bought them out and now it requires a jab.
In other words, back to my childhood!
A friend used to have a small pizza place (for 10+ years). Great pizzas. I suppose it has been 5+ years now that he went out of business.
Ingredients were getting more expensive, and the minimum wage kept going up and up (Seattle area). In order to keep his good people he had to increase their pay as well to keep them above his newly hired at the minimum wage.
We would go there once in awhile to bring him some business as he started slowing down as the price of the pizzas kept increasing. But if he hadn’t been a friend, no way would I have paid what those pizza’s cost (I can’t recall now - but $27 or something??)
I know you do not want to hear this, but labor is a commodity.
It does not make any difference what “wage....will support...workers”.
I would encourage everyone to own a small business for a few years—great way to learn basic economics in a hurry!
I understand that labor is a commodity, but a business that doesn’t pay a wage that will support its workers is expecting someone else to pick up the tab for their profits.
If you add inflation to front-line hazard duty, the lower-end workers at least should probably get their pay boosted by a third immediately, with regular inflation hikes as long as we’re on this path.
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