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re: Seeing a lot of restaurants are having trouble hiring workers
Posted on 5/3/21 at 9:59 am to tigerskin
Posted on 5/3/21 at 9:59 am to tigerskin
Work for a 3PL and we’re hiring across the board, almost every position, at corporate and every satellite office.
I was in Atlanta this weekend and saw the same thing I see in Birmingham; almost every place you go has a now hiring sign. Did I miss something on the unemployment stuff? I thought the “added bonus” had already expired, not really sure on that but if it has no way these people are actually making more sitting on their arse.
I was in Atlanta this weekend and saw the same thing I see in Birmingham; almost every place you go has a now hiring sign. Did I miss something on the unemployment stuff? I thought the “added bonus” had already expired, not really sure on that but if it has no way these people are actually making more sitting on their arse.
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Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:00 am to Deactived
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I dont normally feel ill will about some random person online but your posting about jobs the last few days has me right there. Jeez dude
Says more about you than me.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:00 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Dependency on the government is what may cause this.
key word being "more"
meaning, if we are pushing out even those that are working these jobs
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:00 am to LouisianaLady
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I see why this might work at Chili's but not really anything local.. and certainly not anywhere higher end.
Agreed. I would expect to see it at McDonald's/Burger King type places first.
But there are other automation technologies coming to back-end operations as well, that will become common at all levels.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:02 am to tigerskin
Ya, went to a newly opened restaurant on sunday. GM said only have 2 servers (restaurant has at least 30 tables). Said they paying double ($4.50/he for servers, $10/hr for bartenders) to get staff and cant find anyone. When he hires them, they never want to work.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:02 am to tigerskin
This weekend my friend went to Home Depot to get some hispanics to come help him with a small light manual labor job at his house.
He offered $25 hour for a three hour job to two guys. Each would get $75.
They said they needed $115 each.
This is an older guy who doesn't have a lot of money so me and another guy ended up helping him knock it out and he just bought us some beer and pizza.
He offered $25 hour for a three hour job to two guys. Each would get $75.
They said they needed $115 each.
This is an older guy who doesn't have a lot of money so me and another guy ended up helping him knock it out and he just bought us some beer and pizza.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:03 am to The Spleen
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I've been to a McDonald's that had them. Nobody was using them despite the employee out there trying to steer them to it.
New technologies take time for people to adapt to. The same thing happened with the kiosks at the airport. People continually wanted to walk up the counter and had to be steered to the kiosks to print out their boarding passes. Now it's common. I see old people doing it all the time.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:08 am to Odysseus32
You should copy this post and save it somewhere, in 20 years when you’re wondering why your life turned out like it did read it again.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:08 am to Bjorn Cyborg
So a McDee's is running the counter with 1 employee where it would have been 2-3 10 years ago, and check-ins at the airport are running fewer employees.
A quarter pounder costs more, and airplane tickets are a lot more expensive. Where is the extra revenue going?
A quarter pounder costs more, and airplane tickets are a lot more expensive. Where is the extra revenue going?
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:11 am to yellowfin
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You should copy this post and save it somewhere, in 20 years when you’re wondering why your life turned out like it did read it again.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:11 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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New technologies take time for people to adapt to. The same thing happened with the kiosks at the airport. People continually wanted to walk up the counter and had to be steered to the kiosks to print out their boarding passes. Now it's common. I see old people doing it all the time.
True, but most McDonald's stores have limited space. I can't see them keeping those kiosks in place if nobody is using them when they could use that space for other things.
I haven't been back to that McDonald's to see if they're still there. This was 4 or 5 years ago. They had 4 of them from what I remember.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:12 am to wadewilson
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Where is the extra revenue going?
Unless you're the owner, it's none of your fricking business where it goes.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:14 am to parrothead
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Did I miss something on the unemployment stuff? I thought the “added bonus” had already expired, not really sure on that but if it has no way these people are actually making more sitting on their arse.
It's a combination of the unemployment payments, stimulus payments, the normal big tax refunds for the single moms with several kids, and I guess in some areas many still can't be evicted for not paying rent, so they have that extra rent money to keep. All of this adds up.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:19 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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The labor shortage is caused by the government, not by the free market. Big difference.
This isn't true, no matter how many times people say it.
Government is a contributing factor, but I've been in retail management for the last 10 years and this is a continuation of a very long trend.
What is it going to take for some of you all to realize that the labor force has fundamentally changed its demands for wages?
$15/hr at full time is $32k before taxes and health insurance premiums. For some part timer working 24 hours/wk in a kitchen or on a cash register, that's about 16k. $1400/mo take-home with no benefits. For the low wage places that are hurting its closer to 11.5k, $960/mo take-home. For the lowest wage places - mall clothing stores, fast food $750/mo. It's a joke. Even for someone living with roommates it's a joke. So they're all holding out for the places that pay more to open up.
Imagine getting a $400 paycheck two weeks after getting spat in the face every day by customers, browbeaten by corporate fricktard management to hit impossible goals to pay off the $1 million dollars they graciously donated to BLM, all so you can't even pay the rent you split 3 ways with roommates. But yeah, the government is why people don't want to work these jobs.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:20 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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New technologies take time for people to adapt to
Automation is coming quickly, particularly with pending inflation and possible increase in min wage.
In the past 4 months, several companies locally have gone to DIY service.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:20 am to Muthsera
at chimes they make a shite ton of money. more then i did selling fruit.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:22 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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Unless you're the owner, it's none of your fricking business where it goes.
It absolutely is my business if I'm an employee and my pay hasn't kept up with inflation, my responsibilities have increased, and the CEO's compensation has increased exponentially.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:29 am to wadewilson
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It absolutely is my business if I'm an employee and my pay hasn't kept up with inflation, my responsibilities have increased, and the CEO's compensation has increased exponentially.
My CEO just sold $2 million in stock after earnings jumped due to free government stimulus. CFO sold $1 million. The company itsellf spent over a million dollars campaigning for Biden and lobbying for that stimulus. They're looking at mass layoffs later in the year and over $200 million in payroll reductions the next 3 years for remaining workers. We hire in at $8.35
God damn that "government" making workers disloyal and uppity.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:30 am to wadewilson
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It absolutely is my business if I'm an employee and my pay hasn't kept up with inflation, my responsibilities have increased, and the CEO's compensation has increased exponentially.
It's absolutely not your business, and the fact that you think it is, is part of the problem.
It's only your business what you make. Not your co-workers, your boss, the CEO, or anyone else. If more people focused on themselves and what they make, and worked hard to better themselves, these issues wouldn't exist.
You sound like a bitter, jealous person.
Posted on 5/3/21 at 10:32 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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It's absolutely not your business, and the fact that you think it is, is part of the problem.
It's only your business what you make. Not your co-workers, your boss, the CEO, or anyone else. If more people focused on themselves and what they make, and worked hard to better themselves, these issues wouldn't exist.
It's absolutely his business for a multitude of reasons. It's anyone who owns any stock too. There's a reason management compensation has to be disclosed.
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You sound like a bitter, jealous person.
You sound like an idiot.
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