re: #129 Targetpractice

It’s also showing that pre-COVID business practices are no longer workable, such as running “lean” by keeping staffing levels at the bare minimum and even working understaffed to maximum profits while minimizing “costs.” Others were comfortable with high turnover rates because they regularly received so many applications from people desperate to find any job that they could pick and choose who to keep. Both practices are now biting them in the ass hard, whether it’s finding it impossible to fill out their staff as business has picked up or shitty businesses that relied upon constant turnover now struggling to keep anybody who they can find.

we’re finally being forced to acknowledge that

1) the work that relies on academic skills (typically better paid) can easily be done from home — if you’ve got good wifi and a phone, no need to ever be present in person; and

2) the work that relies on physical skills (typically low-paid) can ONLY be done in person. And if that work has anything to do with food — growing, harvesting, processing, transporting, putting it on the trucks, taking it off the trucks, preparing it in a kitchen, delivering it — the entire world comes to a screechng halt if there’s nobody to do it. They’re the very definition of “essential”. All those people sitting at their desks earning a good living, can’t function without the minimum wage FOOD people. Who, the godawful nerve of them, have realized they’re also entitled to earn enough to pay their rent and feed their kids.