re: This employee shortage isn't letting up

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Diversity is negatively correlated with every basic measure of social health.

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Not saying you are wrong, but you gotta link?

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He's probably going off the lists out there where diversity is measured by how many languages are spoken and micro-cultures there are in a country, which puts a lot of third world countries at the top. Of course language barriers and isolated cultural practices negatively impact the social health of a nation as a whole.

The loss of shared values leads to a collapse in society at a local level. People bunker down. They stop trusting each other. They’re less social, have fewer friends, they’re unhappier. They’re also unable to act collectively to solve commuting problems, because they’re no longer a community.

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None of the above is ascertained by being a college graduate now

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Didn’t say they were. I meant working an entry level job as a teenager gives you those things.

Read the body of the study.

Putnam didn’t like what he found and spent five years trying to disprove it.

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I’m a Probation and Parole Officer.

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Diversity is negatively correlated with every basic measure of social health

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Your hypothesis is most obviously disproven by the high quality of ethnic restaurants in diverse areas. Variety being the spice of life and all, that positively impacts my social health. I would think the the more diverse an area the happier and healthier?

Maybe companies should stop treating their employees like dog poo. Maybe they could then retain workers. Call me crazy but it just might work. This was just in the NYT yesterday - cp full article linked.

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In January 2021, Mary Gundel received a letter from Dollar General’s corporate office congratulating her for being one of the company’s top-performing employees. In honor of her hard work and dedication, the company gave Ms. Gundel a lapel pin that read, “DG: Top 5%.” “Wear it proudly,” the letter said. Ms. Gundel loved her job managing the Dollar General store in Tampa, Fla. It was fast-paced, unpredictable and even exciting. She especially liked the challenge of calming down belligerent customers and pursuing shoplifters. She earned about $51,000 a year, far more than the median income in Tampa.

But the job had its challenges, too: Delivery trucks that would show up unannounced, leaving boxes piled up in the aisles because there weren’t enough workers to unpack them. Days spent running the store for long stretches by herself because the company allotted only so many hours for other employees to work. Cranky customers complaining about out of stock items. The result was a six-part critique on Tik Tok, “Retail Store Manager Life,” in which Ms. Gundel laid bare the working conditions inside the fast-growing retail chain, with stores that are a common sight in rural areas. As Ms. Gundel had predicted, Dollar General soon fired her. She was let go less than a week after posting her first critical video, but not before she inspired other Dollar General store managers, many of them women working in stores in poor areas, to speak out on TikTok.

Ms. Gundel planned on a long career at Dollar General when she started working in her first store in Georgia three years ago. She has three children, including one who is autistic, and her husband works at a defense contractor. She grew up in Titusville, Fla., near Cape Canaveral. Her mother was a district manager at the Waffle House restaurants. Her grandmother worked in the gift store at the Kennedy Space Center. Ms. Gundel moved to Tampa as a Dollar General store manager in February 2020, just before the pandemic.

The store used to have about 198 hours a week to allocate to a staff of about seven people, she said. But by the end of last month, she had only about 130 hours to allocate, which equated to one full-time employee and one part-time employee fewer than when she started. With not as many hours to give to her staff, Ms. Gundel often had to operate the store on her own for long stretches, typically working six days and up to 60 hours a week with no overtime pay.

Ms. Gundel’s protest was prompted by a TikTok video posted by a customer complaining about the disheveled state of a Dollar General store. Ms. Gundel had heard these complaints from her own customers. Why are boxes blocking the aisles? Why aren’t the shelves fully stocked?

She understood their frustration. But “Instead of getting mad at the people working there, trying to handle all of their workload, why don’t you say something to the actual big people in the company?” Ms. Gundel said on TikTok. “Why don’t you demand more from the company so they actually start funding the stores to be able to get all this stuff done?”

You have a nice slice of folks that didn’t have to pay rent for most of Covid and then peaced out on their Landlord (while pocketing Federal Enhanced Unemployment, Stimulus, Plus whatever additional Government benefits they could get).

Give them a few more months. They’ll finally piss it all away and have to return to work when unemployment is too little.

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Not gonna lie, that sounds pretty miserable. You realize there are jobs that pay the bills and then some that you don’t have to hate with more payoff than

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Not when you spent two years at home smoking weed or boozing.

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Honestly, I'm starting to wonder if this will end.

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When the Diesel tractors, fuel, corn. cow, chickens...

plus real estate... china...