It’s 2021. We’re still in the throes of Covid-19. Businesses are screaming that nobody wants to work, but they still want to pay starvation wages and manipulate schedules so that nobody gets close to benefit levels for the pleasure of having to be abused by customers. If your only competition is unemployment, your business model is broken.
“Work for us or starve” would be better than what they’ve been doing. It’s been “Work for us AND starve” forever. Now, these places paying starvation wages are getting their butts kicked because the government unemployment benefits paid more than working.
A hint to all retailers out there: if you’re having to bribe people with contract-signing bonuses to work there, you’ve screwed up somewhere. Offer realistic pay in tune with the inflation we’ve been under for decades, and you might find people willing to put up with other horrible human beings for their paycheck at the end of the day. Until then, enjoy the worker shortage, because COVID taught everyone that you only live the one time, there’s only so many hours in one’s life, and we shouldn’t have to waste those hours working three part-time jobs to make ends meet. Full time, benefits, and actual days off, not 29 hours a week, no benefits, and you’ll work 13 days in a row, with at least one clopen hidden in there.
It’s 2021. We’re still in the throes of Covid-19. Businesses are screaming that nobody wants to work, but they still want to pay starvation wages and manipulate schedules so that nobody gets close to benefit levels for the pleasure of having to be abused by customers. If your only competition is unemployment, your business model is broken.
From 2006 to today: still true, apparently, for too many business owners.
It would be starvation wages if the government didn’t pay people more then most places.
Exactly. If all you offer is “work for us or starve” you don’t deserve to exist as a business.
“Work for us or starve” would be better than what they’ve been doing. It’s been “Work for us AND starve” forever. Now, these places paying starvation wages are getting their butts kicked because the government unemployment benefits paid more than working.
A hint to all retailers out there: if you’re having to bribe people with contract-signing bonuses to work there, you’ve screwed up somewhere. Offer realistic pay in tune with the inflation we’ve been under for decades, and you might find people willing to put up with other horrible human beings for their paycheck at the end of the day. Until then, enjoy the worker shortage, because COVID taught everyone that you only live the one time, there’s only so many hours in one’s life, and we shouldn’t have to waste those hours working three part-time jobs to make ends meet. Full time, benefits, and actual days off, not 29 hours a week, no benefits, and you’ll work 13 days in a row, with at least one clopen hidden in there.