You say that to all the curious whatevers.
I'm struggling to find a bar manager. I managed to sign a guy up but his old job upped his money and tempted him to stay so he quit before he started. Apparently a lot of people left the industry during the long periods of closure.My work is definitely feeling the “labor shortage.”
We just upped everyone’s pay $1.50 and have a referral program where you get $250 if you refer some who is hired and they work for 30 days and then another $250 if they stay on 60 and 90 days (so total $750.)
This is for entry level work.
There are a lot of other issues going on of course, but I’ve never seen the staffing so low.
Anyone else?
I'm struggling to find a bar manager. I managed to sign a guy up but his old job upped his money and tempted him to stay so he quit before he started. Apparently a lot of people left the industry during the long periods of closure.
This is largely true in most of the hospitality industry in the US. People who had worked those jobs for years don't want to go back. It's a relatively low paying, often toxic environment usually only enjoyed by fuckups and people that don't think they can do any better.
For years, people have bought into the Puritanical tradition that undesirable jobs should be the lowest of low paying jobs. Which of course, flies in the face of market economics. For the first time, people don't want those jobs and it will take more money to get people to fill them.
People always talk about McJobs and how people that work them don't deserve a living wage to do that type of work. But how many people would trade the job they have right now to do a McJob (compensation being the same)?
Is it really? I feel like the less people get paid, the more shit get hoisted onto their plates.Except that right now the labor market is totally skewed and businesses can't compete with government cheese.
I'd work McD's instead of my job, McD's was easy as shit work.
Except that right now the labor market is totally skewed and businesses can't compete with government cheese.
That is what the Sado-Monetarists want you to believe.
There's no real evidence of this. It takes time to find, hire and train employees. Millionaires whining on the news about not being able to exploit people for slave wages are disgusting. They only like having a "free market" when it's rigged in their favor.Except that right now the labor market is totally skewed and businesses can't compete with government cheese.
There's no real evidence of this. It takes time to find, hire and train employees. Millionaires whining on the news about not being able to exploit people for slave wages are disgusting. They only like having a "free market" when it's rigged in their favor.
There is evidence that it is happening but the evidence is not enough to explain the issues in the overall job market. I have heard from multiple contractors that their seasonal workers refused to come in and cited UI benefits as the reason. I have seen many crews running understaffed because they can't get workers, but I do not think UI benefits being what they are is the sole reason for it. For the most recent one I talked to, he said 1 wanted to stay home and take UI, 2 had to be fired for not showing up, and another had a mental breakdown and took a leave of absense.There's no real evidence of this. It takes time to find, hire and train employees. Millionaires whining on the news about not being able to exploit people for slave wages are disgusting. They only like having a "free market" when it's rigged in their favor.
Is work voluntary when the state, private individuals, and corporations control literally all the arable land?Work is voluntary.