re: #174 Targetpractice

Corporate America is desperate and all but begging for a recession. A labor pool that is almost 2% below the traditional “full employment” mark is a pool where the labor can demand whatever it wants and business has to pay it if they want to stay afloat. COVID has proven to be the great equalizer and the suits have no solution for their current predicament besides hoping that the economy crashes so they have an excuse to go on a firing spree.

There was a restaurant in Lincoln, Nebr. whose owner was whinging that “nobody wanted to work.” His restaurant was short-staffed.

A restaurant entrepreneur saw an opening and opened a competing restaurant next door to him. His only problem was he needed experienced staff.

When he was ready to open, he went over to the other restaurant and offered that guy’s workers starting pay of $15-18 an hour. His whole staff left for the new restaurant, and the guy was unable to open.

He went to court complaining about “unfair competition.” The court yeeted him and his suit right out. His noncompetitive restaurant is now closed.