My Local Walmart, Arby's, Wendy's, Subway all Closed: No Staff!

Nope, once you get use to sitting home you realize how much working for a living sucks. I've been working for over 40 years and am still working. If I get a three or four day weekend it's much harder to go back to work than if I would have just kept working. It burns you out physically and mentally, you hardly get any time off. I know young people that find a way to get on disability or welfare after their first job because many are lazy and realize that sitting home getting paid is much better than working even though it's a lower standard of living. Not having to worry about medical bills is a load off by itself because one serious illness can bankrupt many people.

The cost of living is so high now because investors drive up the price of everything we need to live so they can make a quick buck in the markets. Many people have to work more than one job with crappy medical benefits just to scrape by. I don't blame them for giving up. There is no incentive to work any more because there aren't livable wage jobs available for those who can't get a higher education. Even if everyone were smart enough to get a higher education, there wouldn't be enough jobs for all of them.

All the businesses in my area, even Walmart are having rolling closures due to staff not coming to work or not being able to find employees.

Some of the restaurants are having to close on the weekends because they dont have workers.

I have never seen this before. And, it isnt like it is something that gradually started to happen. It started happening all at once.

The worker is his/her own representative. If that person agrees to work for a certain wage during the interview process, then he/she has accepted the terms of employment. Simple as that. You don't have to work there.

All the "help" is busy burning and looting right now. All fires eventually burn out and they'll be back to work soon.

And they aren’t. They had enough down time to realize they don’t have to kill themselves for nothing.

It's not just the low wages and government dole causing this problem. The damn covid mandates of forced medical testing and mask wearing aka medical tyranny is forcing people to quit rather than be tortured on the job for a poverty wage.

People need to go back to having independent family farms. At this point you'd have to tear down all the corporate chain businesses and bust up all the concrete to get to a lot of the farm land. Then, maybe go to war with China because they own a lot of the farm land not built on.

25+ years IBEW here.

THIS!!!

Montana just announced that effective in June they will no longer accept Federal Unemployment benefits. Montana pays $515 per week Unemployment and when you add the Federal $300 Federal kicker, people were able to bring in $815 per week! As a consequence there is NO incentive for people to go back into the work force. Make more sitting on their asses than working and contributing to making their state's economies run. Like most states, their businesses cannot find anyone to hire. Nobody wants to work anymore!!! They are hoping by no longer taking the Federal money, people will go back to work.

People not working because they make more taking Unemployment is a BIG problem in the PNW. Lots of businesses in the area also are not opening, or running reduced hours like other areas of the country. This is impacting the economic and social well being of communities! We are rapidly be reduced to the level of a 3rd world nation - cannot buy stuff, cannot get anything fixed, prices going through the roof.......

Hope you all are prepared for the collapse of our country because it is imploding rapidly!!

Just hired 4 people at work. Directive from head office in the US - NO WHITIES, we were supposed to focus on hiring blacks, but none applied, probably because it's an industry that doesn't attract many black people. We got 250 applications from white people several of them with passion and experience in the industry, 20 hispanics, 20 asians and a girl from Russia. The only people I saw as qualified were some of the white people including the Russian girl and one of the hispanics, but we ended up hiring 2 hispanics, 1 asian and we hired one of the white people (we expect to get berated over this from up the chain of command). I don't think they get diversity kick backs from the Canadian government, but word on the street is that they do get a kick back in the US for every diversity hire.

But it's fine for the younger generation, who are trying to build a life - house, car, bills paid and enough left to actually have fun and buy some stuff - to accept these conditions?



America's fundamentally broken - the old mind games of "you have to work even tho it does not provide a liveable income" because your corporate overlords want higher profits and pay the politicians to keep the shit up are disintegrating.

If it makes you feel better, a lot of the world is going thru something similar

Its a wage war plain and simple. People are tired of being squeezed and working shit jobs for shit pay. THIS IS THE RESULT OF TO MUCH MONEY UP TOP. People are burned out. FACT.


An upside down pyramid cannot stand. Price inflation will put the system over the edge. This will get worse. We are in the end game now for this system.

Dang! That is still good living in my area.



I have been living in extreme poverty for most of my life. Quite alot of life opportunities have been robbed from me because of this fact. I have been made fun of in real life for years for having the audacity to keep living at all because I am dirt poor. Try living in poverty for decades. You will either go insane from the very often extreme financial stresses to make ends meet... or you learn an entirely new appreciation for life.

It's been building up to this... maybe a living wage doesn't sound so bad to you guys anymore?

The whole minimum wage sector has burn out. If you don't force the people to pay a living wage... this is what happens.

Tierd of see good people working 2 - 3 jobs to pay for the same nessecities... as the rest of the world... I see them.

I know most of GLP was against the living wage, due to the egoic competitive nature of the insecurity they feel inside... but maybe people will start realizing... $15/hr would get a lot of these people back up on their OWN feet instead of unemployment.

It's been building up to this... maybe a living wage doesn't sound so bad to you guys anymore?

The whole minimum wage sector has burn out. If you don't force the people to pay a living wage... this is what happens.

Tierd of see good people working 2 - 3 jobs to pay for the same nessecities... as the rest of the world... I see them.

I know most of GLP was against the living wage, due to the egoic competitive nature of the insecurity they feel inside... but maybe people will start realizing... $15/hr would get a lot of these people back up on their OWN feet instead of unemployment.

Biden claims the disappointing jobs report makes the case for his rescue spending more compelling. It seems not to have occurred to him that his rescue spending is the reason for the weak job creation. So, expect more of the same.

That's another reason. I would say about a quarter of the population are now neurotic germa phobes afraid to leave their houses thanks to the mainstream media pushing this phony pandemic nonsense making it sound like this the next black plague that killed 50% of Europe's population during the middle ages when actual fact the virus doesn't kill anymore than the seasonal flu. That's why they have to pad their numbers with other diseases such as the flu, Bacterial Pneumonia etc. Notice all the flu disappears and is magically renamed as covid.

$15 an hour is not a living wage when the government shut the entire economy down, can and will probably do it again. It's not a living wage when the business owner needs to lay off half of the staff in order to pay the other workers $15 an hour and all your Marxist BS/AOC bullshit is going to lead to the complete automation/robotization of retail and restaurants.

It would, it's only $300 week man for the federal help.




Fuck the southern republicans.

All any of these stores have to do is pay a livable wage and treat their employees like humans. I gave up working long ago after the three strike rule. Not even including the fact that none of these jobs paid enough to pay rent alone....

1. Got fired from Resteraunt in Texas for using the bathroom while they were busy by a girl just out of high school manager, despite the fact I did the work of 3 employees every day.

2. Then I went to west Texas to get into the last oil boom. Was living out of a backpack trying to get on my feet. Labor ready wouldn't let me keep my backpack at office so I stashed it in scrub desert. Someone found it and slashed it to pieces. Got paid $60 for rolling barrels of hazmat materials all day, lost a $300 backpack. Nice negative $240/day pay from labor ready.

3. Then I got sent to help a guy dig a ditch In neighborhood. He was happy. I took 10 minute lunch then told him I'd be right back after I went to bathroom at gas station 3 blocks away. He demanded I instead go behind house facing in session elementary school and pee on their fence. I got fired by him for not exposing myself to hundreds of young children.

This all was after quiting trucking because my company wouldn't let me sleep, working 5 days straight without so much as an hour break while they paid me $3/ hour. This was only 15 or so years ago when minimum wage was over 7 an hour.

I don't even understand employers expectations anymore. And I'm tired of their degenerate inhumane treatment. They can treat us like humans or go out of business for all I care. I can deal with substandard pay, I won't out up with 6 managers screaming different demands at me, having everything I own destroyed, I won't commit major crimes for starvation wages. I'm not getting into major accidents on the road because your dispatch sucks. It's beyond absurd. I'm 43 years old and I haven't worked for anyone since all that. It's pointless to even try anymore since everyone just strives to be the biggest scumbag and abuser. So quit crying. You Sholes put yourselves here. How's that unlimited demand for housing with unlimited supply of workers suppressing wages and skyrocketing rents working out for you? Still want open borders? You are either evil or braindead.

^that is why employers treat employees like garbage. There is an unlimited supply of h1b holders and Mexicans waiting for your job. So employers took advantage of us and treated us like crap. Can't wait to watch you all payingrhe piper. You've earned it! Bwahaha. I'll enjoy my peaceful thoughtful life as a vagabond. Its far more humane than joining your degenerate death cult

Had to quit my job to raise my income enough to keep my nose above water.

house: 200k
Truck: 50k
obamacare: 23k
food: 10k

Then there's taxes, insurance, education, clothing, maintenance, so on and so forth.

People can't keep up so they give up.

Stagflation: prices go up while wages stay the same.

It's worse than people think and getting worse by the minute.

Biden tax plan is a wreaking ball.

Government taking so much money for it's self slows down the economy.

I quit my residential / light commercial repair and remodeling job 2 months ago because of low wages. Started my own repair service. I'm a one man band now making $96 per hour and staying busy. Work less hard, make more money.

Pity the fool working for someone else having to ask for more money. Work for yourself and you don't have to ask.

People I used to work for are crying the blues. Still haven't been able to hire my replacement. They now call me for service. In the span of 60 days I went from $18 with no benefits to $96 per hour. The company wants skilled experienced workers with tools and transportation. Not one person has applied. Now I'm back working for the same company doing the same work for 5 times the pay.

It's their own fault they can't find good people. Even if we wanted to we can't work for peanuts and survive. Have got to go where the money is.

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The gaiters/ baclavas are much more tolerable.
Make sure to order the ones that stretch (most do).
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To others you appear fully covered, yet it’s thin enough and miles better than restrictive paper-style medical masks with the dopey rubber bands around your ears.
Plus the baclavas are very versatile; and many people (especially in the south) could benefit from have several even if the pandemic never happened, as you can wear them as neck protection from the hot sun while working outside etc. use as a sweatband, etc etc.
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They’re thin enough so that if you cover your entire face and eyes with one, you can still actually see through it, even though to others you’d look blinded and covered.
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That’s the only way to skirt the bullshit in any event where a mask is required to enter and/ or work.

If it was serious business, EVERY place would require N95 or better, and you know by know there are much more ample supplies of the more effective masks.......yet no specific requirement recommended by the CDC etc..........From the start it was all about N95.
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Now magically that’s forgotten, and it’s just “wear that symbol, wear that symbol, any mask will do”.....,,,,,,,,

So, the $15/hr min wage is a horrible idea. It should be more like $40 to keep up with inflation, however, what about people are are in skilled or semi skilled positions making, say, $20 an hour. They've learned a trade and work their asses off (unlike minwagers that are slackers), are you gonna raise them to $40 an hour? And, what about me. I make, now, approximately 5 times minimum. You gonna raise me to 10 times minimum? If government has screwed min wagers, you think they have not screwed the rest of us? If we're gonna reward min wagers with double the wage, I want my raise too!

I work and provide incredibly complex solutions, setup and configurations for computer clusters and networks. You gonna pay me an equitable wage?

No, you're not. You're thinking like government which is a lot like *NOT* thinking. I agree, minwagers have been screwed but if you're gonna try and correct them, you need to correct us all.