re: The workforce shortage is real and ridiculous

Biden’s America

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Damn near every retail outlet I've been to for a while now has signs out that they are hiring. I was in Target last Monday morning and when I left there was a sign on the door that said "Now Hiring----$15 Hr. to start"

If it's for a 40 hour week, that works out to $600 a week for someone with little to no work skills for a starter job.

You're not getting rich, but it is a start.

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Yeah but the thing is that increase in wages is getting passed on to middle class in prices and I doubt most of middle class is seeing an increase in wages

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The article actually did talk about that and how the UI benefits gave these workers a financial cushion to pursue other careers and theoretically better themselves.

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In over 400 years of western society, when did it become true that one must be unemployed to better himself?

And how can anyone claim that the low income wage force is going back to work at better jobs when they are still collecting unemployment?

If people were smart they would be getting ahead of the game working hard to promote themselves. Good opportunity to get a higher position than in a non labor shortage time.

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If it's for a 40 hour week, that works out to $600 a week for someone with little to no work skills for a starter job.

You're not getting rich, but it is a start.

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That's actually really good for a starter job

Hopefully this will show that a universal basic income won’t work. It’s tough to swallow, but some people are poor and uneducated because they’re lazy and don’t want to work. There are obviously exceptions to this, but I believe we have enough systems in place already to help those individuals succeed.

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It is the righties that have said they are 100% the cause

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OK. You win. Its only 98% the cause.

Have been trying to hire since January....have hired 0 people. We offer guaranteed hours, overtime, benefits and a fricking matching 401k.... all these short sighted imbeciles see is the hour rate vs their unemployment check.... can't compete

God bless being an American, where they have that option and aren't forced to go work shitty jobs. Tell me, if these jobs had good insurances, better wages, and a possibility of raises - wouldn't they have the incentives to go back? A lot of the *good* workers in those jobs found better jobs or got out of the industry all together to work at warehouses with better opportunities for them - look at the northshore for example. WalMart DC and Associated Wholesale gladly scooped up all of the labor they could to meet their needs in the pandemic and paid the workers far more than they were making. That's the fun part of having the choice, and ending the fed assistance isn't going to do jack shite to change the problem in the restaurant industry. They've gotta adapt or sink.

Cook your own burgers and verbally abuse your own family, the workers are tired of that shite.