So what is the true cause of all the labor shortages

You think there is some magic switch that puts people back to work?

As it turns out, paying people not to work makes people not want to work

The CDC overruled the Supreme Court and extended the evection moratorium. So, basically, all those people who are getting paid more to stay home are also paying no rent, which gives them more cash to blow on whatever. They’ve never had it so good. No way they’re going back to work.

They gave checks for unemployment that were in most cases twice the amount that would be given. Unemployment is on the norm half of the previous salaries. Then there is pressure from that move to pay more in salaries then the market will allow. Then comes the tagalong short supplies due to no workers. Then comes the increase in price due to shortage of supplies caused by backlog demand. Then.....

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An extra $1,200/month + rent moratorium + 25% increase in snap benefits =/= normal unemployment benefits.

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Add in the stimulus checks

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Something doesn't add up...

But neither does the housing shortage we're seeing in North carolina.

Our homes have nearly 30% increase the last 12 months...unhealthy situations

People putting 90k for due diligence ...that money is non refundable...

Up to 100k over asking price. Its insane whats going on here.

Gas 3.07 Supreme is 3.79

Chick fi la has limited store hours due to labor shortages.

McDonald's offering 400 signing bonus..

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Building back better

Child credit government checks.

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You don’t have to replace someone’s income entirely to get them to stop working.

You just have to give them enough money so they are not uncomfortable.

CDC overuling the Supreme Court? Someone explain this shite to me.

A lot of bosses have been getting away with treating their people like crap for years. Can't get away with running a shop and behaving like the characters on the Office anymore. Want Dwight as your boss?

From the WaPo (edited to fit)

Last week, two of my friends abruptly quit relatively new jobs on the same day. One was writing for a small publication whose editor had departed, leaving them rudderless; the other, working for a public-service call center, had had a random manager demand an explanation for why her terminal had been briefly inactive during a recent shift. So they quit.

What you have to understand is that these friends are not the type to impulsively abandon paid work. When we finally landed paying jobs, no matter how toxic or how bad a fit they were for us, we stuck them out as long as humanly possible. Finding and pursuing one’s Passion in Life was all well and good as a concept, but rent and health care don’t pay for themselves. We resigned ourselves to being bored or stressed or underpaid until something better came along.

Anecdotes, of course, aren’t data. But along with employment statistics and “Help Wanted” signs everywhere, seeing these two friends take “resignation” from a passive state-of-being to an empowered course of action simply confirms for me that U.S. workers, in the words of consulting firm Grace Ocean CEO Phillip Kane, have overwhelmingly made “a decision to no longer accept the unacceptable.”

We’re seeing the results of these decisions as frontline workers in health care, child care, hospitality and food service industries, pushed to the brink of human endurance, decide that the grueling hours, inadequate pay, lack of balance and abuse by employers and clientele are no longer acceptable trade-offs for their mental and physical well-being. Restaurant signs urge patrons to “be patient with those who showed up to work” because they can’t afford to lose any more workers to abusive customers.

The other day, while grocery shopping, I overheard a young new cashier complaining to co-workers about back pain from standing in the same spot all day with no movement except scanning purchases and accepting payments. She wondered aloud “how anyone does this for 20 years.”

As I thanked her for ringing up my purchases, I mentioned that having a chair to sit in, as some grocery chains provide, would surely bring relief. If her employer is smart, it’s already considering chairs along with other ways to improve working conditions. Because I guarantee that this worker, and anyone who might be hired to replace her, isn’t about to resign herself to accepting the unacceptable — and certainly not the painfully uncomfortable.

Reader query: During the coronavirus pandemic, have you left an unsatisfactory job that you might have held on to before? What was the final straw? Write me at work.advice.wapo@gmail.com and share your story.

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