An interesting perspective on the worker shortage
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They lost me at queerphobia. I have since labeled her as a nut.
Having said that, some of what was written is true. On another board I frequent, one of the regulars is a bartender in an upscale restaurant. She has multiple horror stories about patrons, from the age old gripe about over-demanding people and bad tippers, to the current gripes about having to mask when customers are not required to at any time and the fact that they are so short, busboys are helping to serve and the dishwasher is putting the plated food up for the few wait staff.
Money has never been good in the restaurant business and it never will be. Anything you can learn to do in a few days, just will not pay well...You're too expendable. A commodity. It's best to treat those jobd as a stepping stone to something else.
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They lost me at queerphobia. I have since labeled her as a nut.
Having said that, some of what was written is true. On another board I frequent, one of the regulars is a bartender in an upscale restaurant. She has multiple horror stories about patrons, from the age old gripe about over-demanding people and bad tippers, to the current gripes about having to mask when customers are not required to at any time and the fact that they are so short, busboys are helping to serve and the dishwasher is putting the plated food up for the few wait staff.
Money has never been good in the restaurant business and it never will be. Anything you can learn to do in a few days, just will not pay well...You're too expendable. A commodity. It's best to treat those jobd as a stepping stone to something else.
I get how the pandemic created supply chain issues everywhere including employees. What I don’t get is how people without income survive over time? Maybe some won’t take second jobs and some won’t have a dual income structure.
I expect in a couple of months we will see what is really going on unless for whatever reason the fed and or state govt continues to send checks which would make a search for a job less pertinent.
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@mik said in An interesting perspective on the worker shortage:
I seriously doubt the majority of service workers have simply moved on to bigger and better things.
Yeah - I don't think most people had a freelance job and took up a MFA degree like this writer. Over 50% of Canadian adults received CERB if I'm not mistaken. This person claims to not have received it.
So she's not even representing the opinion of the group she's speaking for.
