re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…nobody wants to work for sub-minimum wages plus tips in restaurants anymore.

It’s not the restaurant industry, but I’m fucking sick of hearing my brother-in-law bitch about how he can’t fill positions at his place because “they” are just staying home and collecting federal COVID payments.

He works for a national delivery service. It’s not that people don’t want to work; it’s that people don’t want to work in his shitty, barely-above-minimum wage warehouse job in 100° heat when they get can finally get a better job elsewhere.

Every time I bring this up, I get the old “You don’t know what you’re talking because you’ve never managed a business” treatment. Next time that happens it’s going to be “Fuck you, I actually take the time to read up on current events and actually do know what I’m talking about”, regardless of how many of my nieces and/or nephews are present in the room.

Christ, he hates his job and he’s making six figures. The fact that he’s shocked that no one wants to kill themselves in a fucking warehouse for shitty pay is unreal.

He was talking to a friend of his and this guy was bemoaning the fact that Walmart can’t fill overnight, third shift shelving jobs, like somehow people were turning down free money. No fucking clue.