Where all the workers at?

[UglyBear]

So I was working super late, wife told me to get my own dinner, I stop by a fast-food place. They are closed on the inside, only drive-thru. The young guy takes my money, asks me to park, and he brings my food out ten minutes later.
I ask him if he’s the only one working there — he says not today, there’s two of them. Completely short-handed, like every other place around.

Point one: be nice to the poor guys and gals. They are working their butts off, doing jobs of two or three people. Your order will be late, it’s not their fault. Tip them if you can.

Point two: where the heck are all the workers?
I haven’t been tracking this lately, are they still receiving the crazy COVID unemployment? With the prices rising, and places offering any shift for way above min wage, why aren’t people working?

I remember when, in the late 90’s, you had to bring a competitive resume to crappy min wage job, and for nice ones like library or book store, or anything with a skill, you had to know someone on the inside — it looks like now you can just walk onto almost anything?

 

[kwillia]

Good question.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Lowe's is having trouble with both hiring and retention.
Current corporate is more poisonous to the company culture than the last few regimes.

 

[OccamsRazor]

We have hired personnel who were told in their interview that the position demands 100% on-site attendance. Several of them just quit after about 2 weeks stating "I thought there would be my work-from-home options" or "this job is interfering with my home life."
People are getting too comfortable with sitting at home and really just collecting a check. Many others in my office have said that they have had several new hires that were "working from home" who never really produced anything and when confronted, they would just quit.
Its going to get ugly if and when there is an 'everyone back to work in office' situation.

 

[herb749]

We have hired personnel who were told in their interview that the position demands 100% on-site attendance. Several of them just quit after about 2 weeks stating "I thought there would be my work-from-home options" or "this job is interfering with my home life."
People are getting too comfortable with sitting at home and really just collecting a check. Many others in my office have said that they have had several new hires that were "working from home" who never really produced anything and when confronted, they would just quit.
Its going to get ugly if and when there is an 'everyone back to work in office' situation.

A friend of mine has a state job. He was promoted to supervisor last year. They keep sending him new people for a job where you travel to job sites. He said they hired a 70 yr old woman who on the 1st day on the job asked when she could work from home. He told her they can't work from home. She quit that day.

 

[my-thyme]

It's amazing.

If I didn't love this babysit-the-grandsons gig, I believe I could walk out there and get any job I wanted, even if I had no clue how to do the job, they would train me.

Just because I'd show up everyday, dressed like something other than a skank.


(I think that's my new favorite word. Skank. Although I really like succubus, it's too many syllables.)

 

[GregV814]

WE-is, (Prince Frederick), Taco Bell, (Dunkirk), Panera, (Prince Frederick), Rolands (at the Beach,) same..


Oh, for you Hunting Towners, BOWENS, is now BONES ..... its Bowens with slurred slovenly poor enunciation... Gordon just smiled...

 

[TPD]

In Pigeon Forge last week, saw signs on a couple of businesses stating they were closed a certain day (every Wednesday for instance) because of staffing shortages. I can't figure out why people are not working.

 

[Gilligan]

In Pigeon Forge last week, saw signs on a couple of businesses stating they were closed a certain day (every Wednesday for instance) because of staffing shortages. I can't figure out why people are not working.

Ever since COVID, the motels I stay at for business travel usually only provide any room service on a request basis. The reduced level of room service is blamed, on a placard in the lobby usually, on lack of staff. I suspect this is a permanent situation.

 

[Gilligan]

We have hired personnel who were told in their interview that the position demands 100% on-site attendance. Several of them just quit after about 2 weeks stating "I thought there would be my work-from-home options" or "this job is interfering with my home life."

I'm about ready to quit too. Between no "work from home" options, and dealing with hostile, cranky fellow employees, I've about had it.

 

[Kyle]

I'm about ready to quit too. Between no "work from home" options, and dealing with hostile, cranky fellow employees, I've about had it.

Didn't you once mention HR was building a wall between you and the staff?

 

[Sneakers]

Ever since COVID, the motels I stay at for business travel usually only provide any room service on a request basis. The reduced level of room service is blamed, on a placard in the lobby usually, on lack of staff. I suspect this is a permanent situation.

I got turned down from hotel walk-ins because "they were full, no more room". After a bit of prodding, it was because they didn't have house keeping staff. Plenty of rooms, no one to clean them.

 

[Gilligan]

Didn't you once mention HR was building a wall between you and the staff?

Yep. And installing a sound system to blast polka and bagpipe music in the staff spaces.

 

[Sneakers]

In Pigeon Forge last week, saw signs on a couple of businesses stating they were closed a certain day (every Wednesday for instance) because of staffing shortages. I can't figure out why people are not working.

Because they figured out they can scrape enough together with free handouts and do with a little less and still be comfortable. They can also avoid paying bills with little to to repercussion.

 

[Kyle]

Yep. And installing a sound system to blast polka and bagpipe music in the staff spaces.

I have a feeling the wall will need to be ballistic rated?

 

[Gilligan]

I have a feeling the wall will need to be ballistic rated?

I have a feeling you are correct.

 

[my-thyme]

I got turned down from hotel walk-ins because "they were full, no more room". After a bit of prodding, it was because they didn't have house keeping staff. Plenty of rooms, no one to clean them.

Well, no, that's not a job I would do either.

 

[phreddyp]

Yep. And installing a sound system to blast polka and bagpipe music in the staff spaces.

Sounds like you may have been a regular at Blob's Park in your younger days ?

 

[vraiblonde]

People are getting too comfortable with sitting at home and really just collecting a check.

I can't figure this out. I thought unemployment ran out after a certain amount of time, then you had to get your ass back to work? We're coming up on 3 years. How are people still sitting at home collecting a check??

I'm not really complaining, though. Since covid weeded out the slackers who make all our lives so miserable, eating in a restaurant and shopping in a store has become a pleasure again.

 

[stgislander]

I have a feeling the wall will need to be ballistic rated?

Little does he know, Polka and Bagpipe music would be an improvement over what comes out of his computer speakers.