Pics of US companies passive aggressively whining about "labor shortage"

-Bob Marley

I'm still waiting on an answer why a dishwasher shouldn't make $21 an hour

There's no reason a dishwasher *shouldn't* make $21 an hour. It's hard work, and if anyone can get and want that work for $21 an hour, they should go for it. I just mentioned it because it's much higher than minimum wage for a position that requires the least amount of skills and experience. If wages for even starting positions can stay that competitive once the dust has settled from the past couple of years then everyone will benefit. Well, maybe not the restaurant itself, but I've never owned or managed a restaurant, and I'm not an economist.

If the dishwasher can afford to eat elsewhere now it’s an actual rising tide lifts all boats situation. Our economy requires people spending money on frivolous shit and 25% interest credit cards have bridged the gap as wages haven’t risen. If anyone is worried about inflation, just raise taxes on the top 20%.

(This will not happen and there will be a bipartisan solution to discipline low-wage labor the first time Biden gets spooked by a poll number.)

Same bitchin' should be applied to CEO compensation. Those bastards should be forced to do the worst job in their industry 40 hours a week a year.

The boss at this firm is just asking to be shivved in the men's room.

No one wants to work anymore. pic.twitter.com/xEIRLZ5oq1

— Yellow Vests Form Like Voltron (@TweetyMctwat) June 21, 2021

Did a bit of digging on this and it appears to be fake

Making the rounds on Twin Cities twitter today:

Had a great breakfast at @JosephsGrill in St. Paul. Server on his 3rd day was exceptional. These words on our table are something I’ve experienced a lot in recent weeks. Fascinated to see if the restaurant industry ever returns to pre-pandemic form. pic.twitter.com/OsMKtt9miq

— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) June 20, 2021

Capitalism sucks imo

i enjoyed the one(s?) where the employees covered up the manager's whiny sign with 'we are closed because we hate this job and have quit'

And WHY??? :( :(

https://freepressonline.com/Images/Images/185386.jpg

cuz the pay sucks?

(obviously)

crazy how effective these people are at spreading the "no one wants to work/unemployment is too good" talking point, afaik unemployment is pretty much where it was 5-6 years ago. it seems obvious to me that restaurant/factory jobs just really suck and Covid made them all much worse, all those people are just doing other things now

I hear guillotine manufacture's never been more popular

BRING OUT THE KITCHEN MANAGER

income from restaurants was always a bummer for me cos you'd make your tips, then you'd be so stressed after work you'd go across the street to spend the tips you just earned on booze to come down from it, and lol there goes half your tips if you don't watch yourself.

These signs remind me a bit of Putin saying that there is no happiness in life, as if he bears none of the blame for the extent that that's true for a good number of people. My people are just miserable, I don't know why!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yep. There’s a lobbying group, National Restaurant Association, that actively pushes against increasing the minimum wage, this messaging is their work.</p>— same same (@devlk2) <a href="

Yep. There’s a lobbying group, National Restaurant Association, that actively pushes against increasing the minimum wage, this messaging is their work.

— same same (@devlk2) June 20, 2021

Like the US became accustomed to cheap gas or health insurance premiums or fast food prices, it's become accustomed to having an exploited, underpaid and overworked labor force. That is the "normal". Give that labor force teensy bit of leverage and choice and the truly shitty jobs get exposed like a lake bed after the water's drained. But instead of "jeez we didn't realize how fucked up what we considered normal truly was", a big fraction of ppl will go "see? You can't give these lazy ppl handouts!" or whatever.

Ah, should have tested that in HTML Playground like I usually do, sorry.

Lobbying, it's s like unionizing but for freedom

The ppl making these signs/notes are the ones who like to bemoan how liberals make everything political nowadays

I'm not even allowed to say Christmas anymore! Christmas! Christmas is the word I'm literally tackled and gagged every time I say it! CHRIIIIISTMAAAAAAAS!!!! (flagellates self)

Christine - you can just paste a tweet link on ILX to embed it.

From the McDonald’s drive-thru: pic.twitter.com/txXeZlEk07

— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) June 21, 2021

Thanks to Brexit and the pandemic, but mostly the former, we're knee deep in grim-faced employers popping up on TV to whinge about staff shortages. It is fucking hilarious.

Including one who, not content with regularly appearing on the media in favour of withdrawal from the EU, went as far as to publish and distribute pro-Brexit propaganda in his own estabishments.