of availability and you may even get scheduled for that if it’s slow you’ll get sent home.

They have a couple dozen signs saying “money is not free” and “let’s get to work!” One is a new local business we wanted to support…until we saw those signs. Now, we will never go in.

so many of the workers found better jobs with more stability, benefits, fewer maskhole customers, etc. Shitty COVIDiot customers can ruin your whole day. A shitty boss is worth leaving

Go back Union Strong, or

don’t go back.

When you have diners coming in who are anti-mask, anti vax, and then berate or castigate a server for masking...who wants to work in that kind of environment? These jobs aren't worth dying on a hill for...

The days of tipping waiters and waitresses and pretending it's for good service should rightfully be numbered. Pay the employees a living wage and THEN let us leave a modest tip for exceptional service.

I'm tired of looking at prices on a menu knowing that it is a mental trick designed to make you think you're paying less than the final tally. Your tip is essentially subsidizing a poorly-run business. Jack the prices to cover the pay increases; the difference to the paying consumer would be negligible.

when people tell me it's so expensive to go to restaurants in places like northern Europe. I tell them the tax and tip is included in the price. What you see is exactly what you pay, no more. And they get free health care and education.

Not having Socialism EU and Canada style is shooting oneself in both feet, one labour, the other capital.

They're treated like normal employees, paid and insured accordingly. Tips are for top-notch service. Most Americans leave a 15-20% gratuity not realizing that, unlike in the States, these workers are not ostracized and demeaned because of their job choice

Our system is one of deception and greed. It needs to go.

It goes in the same bucket as other marketing bullshit tactics. An insult to our intelligence. As contemptable as ending prices in 99 cents.

I went to was with a Church group. Small, just getting started. They were late coming in for the reservation. Made with the owner.

Chicken tenders, $6.99. The wife insisted 2 sides came with it. So I ordered French fries and after urging cole slaw. We waited over an hour. My bill came. $6.99 for chicken, $3.50 for french fried,$2. For cole slaw. I had to take 3 bites to make sure I was not eating fish.

Doubt I will return.

Now, I believe people would also like to share in some of the massive profits generated by their labor for the wealthy, in a more equitable societal setting.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but, hopefully, unless the morbidly rich start sharing the fucking wealth, they will end up doing the work themselves.

Union Strong.

Labor markets were extremely tight and unemployment rates across most of the country were minuscule before the pandemic. Certainly in historical terms. Seasonally adjusted 3.5% nationally BEFORE the pandemic. Well below the 4.4 to 4.5% just prior to the great recession. This isn't surprising or unforeseen.


https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-unemployment-rate.htm#:~:text=undefined,Oct%202016%3A%204.9%25


The US population is aging, so the workforce isn't keeping up with economic growth. Hasn't been for some time and will continue to age faster in the future. Simple solution to this problem. Immigration! We need them just as much as they need us. In my mind, logical, sensible immigration reform has got to get done. Unless we want to end up in Japan's black hole of stagnation, it has to get done.

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/program-retirement-policy/projects/data-warehouse/what-future-holds/us-population-aging

I spent the last five years in retail and left due to the increasingly hostile and entitled attitudes I encountered at work every day. I was physically assaulted three times in that five years. After I was hurled by a drunk customer into a glass display case I never went back.

.....maybe these restaurants might want to set up a cafeteria line, people serve themselves. Wouldn't that be novel, they'd have to get off their asses to get the condiments.

I think the lack of understanding, people acquired new skills,stay at home caregivers, etc but the real story is the hundreds of thousands of people that died or became disabled due to Covid or those that had to leave the workforce to care for them.
The next dynamic shift we will see is the exodus from healthcare. Right now, there are hospital systems paying nurses $70-80k every 3 months.
That isn’t sustainable but it is allowing nurses to gather a nest egg and pay off bills so that they can leave the profession.

And now 33% of Teachers say they will leave the profession because of threats, fear and intimidation over critical race.

for the last 10 years and will continue to for another 8 years. The ones most likely to take early retirement at 62 are the ones with the lowest average earnings. 1) because they need the money and 2) because the reduction in their benefit isn't all that much.

And it's amazing to me that the owners or managers apparently struggle to understand what they're conveying to everyone with those messages!

Or maybe there's more people with "social dominance orientation" than I realize, and they think it's perfectly normal! Ugh! Those people suck the life out of me!

https://dictionary.apa.org/social-dominance-orientation
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social dominance orientation (SDO)
a dispositional tendency to accept and even prefer circumstances that sustain social inequalities, combined with a general preference for hierarchical social structures.
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This was in a town packed with military, college students, vacationers, in general, party goers.

56 years ago !! No one threatened to sue, burn down, blow up, boycott, or start a riot.

All communities should implement ordinances that expand that to No shit, shoes, masks, NO SERVES.

We refuse to go into any business that doesn't enforce such a rule.

We buy groceries online for curb pick-up. We buy other needed products online for home delivery.

WE WANT TO SEE OUR LOCAL BUSINESS REOPEN AND SURVIVE!

Why should workers have to endanger themselves for minimum wage jobs?

But we aren't willing to take the chance of catching Covid or fighting with unmasked individuals to make that happen.

BTW, where were you stationed? Shaw?

We did communicate with Shaw all the time on the radio and of course had plenty of guys and gals from there visit Pope. I can't even remember the name of the major we dealt with. Perkins, maybe? This was like 79-80 when I was there... a bit later than your posting. Of course, it is all part of Bragg now. Oh well.

One of my favorite stories related to Bragg. I got a four-day pass and decided to go home. So back then, if you were in uniform, you were safe to thumb rides. Civilians would stop and give you rides.

Anyway, I got a ride from Shaw to Bragg. Stuck my thumb out. This Buick or Oldsmobile (big tanks back then) convertible driven by an NCO said where you headed I said New England... hop in I'll get you to New York. I hopped in; he put the pedal to the metal, and we passed everything on the highway.

I finally said, man, you are in a rush. This was around 16:00 Friday when he picked me up. He said he had duty on Sunday, so no time to waste. He was going to see his girlfriend. I never made it home faster than on that trip. A little white knuckles at times. That must have been one girlfriend, was all I could think.

Where the middle lane usage changed from one direction to another? Every single airman that came to Pope had to be told and told again about not getting killed because of that road. There were some gruesome accidents out there.

on the stores P&L. In other words the employees they do have are doing double the work. This is the reason why they are having trouble with turnover. The employees are catching up to the corporate greed in these institutions.

Found only two references to it...a link to a publication called Lapham Quarterly that uses in reference to senatorial reform, and something that sounded very wing-nut that I didn't read.

but it makes sense that it’s already out there in the wild as a Beach Boys reference.

I'm stealing it...

Propelling popular culture forward.

A major food chain my son worked for used to go out of their way to keep most of its workforce from getting benefits such as insurance and pensions. They did this by keeping the majority of their employees at part-time. In order to get as much work without paying benefits they would work their employees right up to the limit, 39 hours a week, just 1 hour under full-time. It was truly a capitalistic win-win for the company.

I know for a fact my son would still be working there if they had ever made him full-time. He spent 5 years of good service to them, even receiving several commendations, and they never made him part of the company (part-timers are not really considered "in" the company).

I noticed this company had a sign complaining about not being able to find workers. Well, I know first hand why they don't have my son working there. They didn't really want him. They wanted his work, but not him. A person in their early 20s needs to find a career that has a future.

...still, there's a guy who's so willing to mistreat his workers that no one wants to work there is also a guy who is careful to make sure his customers always get good, healthy, safe food.

Yeah. Uh-huh.

We hit McDonalds a lot due to our schedule and they have become pretty much non functional in some locations. The locations that say they are open until midnight for example, you pull up to the drive through and they simply ignore it. A few workers inside doing the nightly cleaning but they effectively are closed by 10 pm. You literally can order on their app, the order is taken, yet they just do not fill it. Cars just sit in the drive through and then leave, one after another.

Other locations the drive through lines just do not move, we sat for 45 minutes the other night and only 1 car went through. 2 young assistant manager trainee looking guys in dress shirts running around like crazy were the only 2 workers in the entire restaurant.

People no longer will accept low paying jobs where customers treat them like garbage.

.... one person got the $18.00 job. The rest aren't seeing anywhere near that.

Our state has lowered the legal working age to 14 for after-school workers. It won't last long if we ever get out of this pandemic.

It was an 8-Days Inn. I had a lot of hats to wear for 2.35 an hour.

.... paperboys across the city. I believe it was $1.50 / hour.

If I could afford it, I’d put up my own signs, wherever those offensive signs appear, reading:

People simply don’t want to work for greedy, sociopathic, assholes.

gonna cook your Mexican food when your Mexican worker is gone?’

‘Who’s gonna build your wall’ by Tom Russell with photographs but David Burckhalter. (YouTube)

Have heard lots of Repubs equate going to school with child care services so their parents can work.

I only did it because someone paid me enough.

Seems little has changed.

Besides the usual mask-holes (and one guy was coughing!), I noticed a sign at the deli that urged people to apply, starting at $12.35/hour. Right now, until January, minimum in Colorado is $12.32, so they get a WHOLE THREE CENTS MORE PER HOUR THAN MINIMUM.

Shit.

And minimum will be moving to $12.56 in January, not like you can live on that, either.

The moral of tha story is not that people don't want to work. Nope.

It is that they don't want to work in jobs that have unpredictable scheduling, no benefits, and not enough hours.

Silly workers! They just want more and more and more and more, don't they? But we have plenty of billionaire parasites soaking up money that should be going to pay for stuff like healthcare and dental care.

They do start people as part time. You are on probation for 3 months. A friends Grandson started at $14 an hour.

That it’s not that people don’t want to work, it’s that they (the owners) apparently don’t want to pay what it would take to get people to work there. Jobs aren’t a privilege the owners are offering to us, jobs are the labor the owners need to have to provide the good or service their business provides. It’s not the workers’ responsibility to ensure the jobs are filled, it’s the owners responsibility to pay enough to get those jobs filled. Workers don’t owe the owners their labor, but the owners do require the labor for the business to operate.

Hopefully people are (re)discovering this.

I'm kind of still in disbelief in the face of all the drunk, angry, entitled a**holes I had to serve on a daily basis. People have gotten mean. The job sucked out a little piece of my soul every day.

They should have thought about that when they cheerleading the anti-Vax con man in chief.

The signs do not tell the rest of the story.

Are the workers quitting in order to not work

or

are they quitting to work in better paying jobs?

Low wages/low benefits are not competitive.

Who sees a sign shitting on potential employees and thinks, “that’s where I want to work!”