Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that millennials feel that raising a family and buying a house are out of reach because they simply aren’t working hard enough.
Whoopi Goldberg argued on “The View” that millennials feel that raising a family and buying a house are out of reach because they simply aren’t working hard enough.
Has anyone else noticed how wild it is that in the service industry, despite the supposed crisis of shortstaffedness, things like McDonald’s never have to close locations even temporarily? It was never easy to work at McDonald’s yet all the workers pull through every single day with so fewer people to do it all. And they get less for it too. It’s beyond me how people could see the current generations as anything but the hardest workers since god knows when.
Management has a lot to do with it. There’s a pizza shop in town that has had the same young staff for years. It’s unheard of anywhere else. They all appear happy and motivated. Other places are mixed bags. Some employees are good, some aren’t great. You get what you pay for. I can only assume the good place pays well and aren’t monsters to work for. During Covid they never had staffing shortages unlike the rest which had long wait times or signs on the door about staffing shortages. One place in was getting testy about their signs, not going as far to say “no one wants to work”, but close. Turns out they were offering $11/hr, while the Grocery store literally next door was offering $15/hr, and usually more hours at that. I don’t know if they ever figured out why they couldn’t keep staff.
I don’t see any of these places actually struggling though. Sure it takes longer to get mcdonalds but like I said I’ve never seen a closed mcdonalds even during snowstorms. The employees ALWAYS make it work. I used to work at a Tim Hortons which was “short staffed” but you should have seen the stacks of applications we had pouring in. They were like small town phone books. Almost daily interviews too. But nobody else got hired the entire 8 months I was there. Management had “help wanted” signs up, but they clearly didn’t want help very badly. The “worker shortage” is nothing but pure bullshit on bullshit on bullshit. Literally nothing is true about it, not even what you’re saying that the jobs aren’t worth it. Even the worst jobs have tons and tons of people competing for them.
I can’t speak for McDonalds I don’t go there. Can’t recall any of the chains closing for worker shortages or anything, but the mom and pop shops definitely did have worker shortages, I know some of the workers personally and they took jobs for more money in other industries. I’m pretty sure McDonalds paid more than these places during covid. I haven’t seen any signs in well over a year so I’d agree that there is no shortage anymore. I can confirm that several grocery stores were hiring people between 2020 and 2022. A lot of older people retired early or left public facing jobs.
I’m not denying that some businesses choose not to hire people on purpose, I’m sure that happened too. But I’d argue that Business owners doing that are also probably terrible to work for and people probably end up quiting.
Because if they acknowledged our efforts they’d have to give us something for them.