[The Outsider]

Which factors do you think are causing the shortage of workers?  These 3 things are what come to my mind.

1.  Too many people who really do not want to work/lack of work ethic?
2.  Too much "free" money from the government?  Unemployment is much too easy to get right now.
3.  Pay too low on entry level jobs.  Why work when you can make close to the same amount not working.

[Cardfan1]

A mix.
And I’ll add a
4. COVID broke the rat race. A colossal shift in thought.

Don’t you have to go back if you are offered your job back or you lose unemployment?

[jetpilot]

Which factors do you think are causing the shortage of workers?  These 3 things are what come to my mind.

1.  Too many people who really do not want to work/lack of work ethic?
2.  Too much "free" money from the government?  Unemployment is much too easy to get right now.
3.  Pay too low on entry level jobs.  Why work when you can make close to the same amount not working.

Finally a thought-provoking thread from you guys. Of course gov't made it lucrative to not work. They shouldn't have just sent money for not working, they should have added $400/month to people who kept working on top of their paychecks and much less to not work. Lots of people made more money not working and any business person will tell you they couldn't get employees...

[vector#1]

Which factors do you think are causing the shortage of workers?  These 3 things are what come to my mind.

1.  Too many people who really do not want to work/lack of work ethic?
2.  Too much "free" money from the government?  Unemployment is much too easy to get right now.
3.  Pay too low on entry level jobs.  Why work when you can make close to the same amount not working.

Finally a thought-provoking thread from you guys. Of course gov't made it lucrative to not work. They shouldn't have just sent money for not working, they should have added $400/month to people who kept working on top of their paychecks and much less to not work. Lots of people made more money not working and any business person will tell you they couldn't get employees...

Or maybe they should pay a little more

[Cardfan1]

Which factors do you think are causing the shortage of workers?  These 3 things are what come to my mind.

1.  Too many people who really do not want to work/lack of work ethic?
2.  Too much "free" money from the government?  Unemployment is much too easy to get right now.
3.  Pay too low on entry level jobs.  Why work when you can make close to the same amount not working.

Finally a thought-provoking thread from you guys. Of course gov't made it lucrative to not work. They shouldn't have just sent money for not working, they should have added $400/month to people who kept working on top of their paychecks and much less to not work. Lots of people made more money not working and any business person will tell you they couldn't get employees...

but if they call you back, Don’t you have to go back or the unemployment stops?

[Cardfan1]

https://www.businessinsider.com/restaura...age-2021-4

Interesting take.

Especially interesting considering the companies with wages at $15 a hour are experiencing a massive wave of applications.

[Hoot Gibson]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

[Cardfan1]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

[Hoot Gibson]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

[vector#1]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

Commrade Quooter is already getting a government check for sitting on his Fat A$$ all day

[Hoot Gibson]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

Commrade Quooter is already getting a government check for sitting on his Fat A$$ all day

Get a job, Twin Ticks. Kicking that shameful government dependency addiction will be tough but other lowlifes have managed to do it. If I were a betting man, though, my money would be on you continuing to be a burden on society.

[vector#1]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

Commrade Quooter is already getting a government check for sitting on his Fat A$$ all day

Get a job, Twin Ticks. Kicking that shameful government dependency addiction will be tough but other lowlifes have managed to do it. If I were a betting man, though, my money would be on you continuing to be a burden on society.

Commrade Quooter I bet the Dear Leader gave your check Direct Deposit

[Cardfan1]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

Hogwash. You would not trade your cushy check that you lost to Covid for a minimum wage when your family depended on you for more.

I have a job, chief.  Job and a side hustle paying more taxes than your hero.  Of course that ain’t hard. My kid paid more than DJT in his summer job.

[Hoot Gibson]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

Hogwash. You would not trade your cushy check that you lost to Covid for a minimum wage when your family depended on you for more.

I have a job, chief.  Job and a side hustle paying more taxes than your hero.  Of course that ain’t hard. My kid paid more than DJT in his summer job.

I don't believe you, Twin Ticks. It is very unlikely that a supervisor would allow you to serial post on BGR on a company or government computer all day long the way that you do. My guess you post from somebody's basement.

[Cardfan1]

My wife had an interesting discussion with the owner of a great Thai restaurant today. They have been unable to hire employees because people are collecting $2,800/month in unemployment and COVID related benefits.

How can any rational person not only defend the government paying people more in welfare benefits not to work than they would be making to return to work? As if that is not bad enough, the communists/socialists/nazis in this forum support raising taxes to load non-working Americans with even more welfare benefits.

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

Hogwash. You would not trade your cushy check that you lost to Covid for a minimum wage when your family depended on you for more.

I have a job, chief.  Job and a side hustle paying more taxes than your hero.  Of course that ain’t hard. My kid paid more than DJT in his summer job.

I don't believe you, Twin Ticks. It is very unlikely that a supervisor would allow you to serial post on BGR on a company or government computer all day long the way that you do. My guess you post from somebody's basement.

Don’t care if you do. 

Let’s stay on target. You said you’d work for min wage because you have too much pride to trot to mailbox even-though your family would benefit from the unemployment amount.  

You sticking by that disengenious garbage, Hooter?   I think you’re FOS.

[Hoot Gibson]

So Hooter you lose your job because of the Trump flu, are you running out to get a job at the local Thai restaurant?

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

Hogwash. You would not trade your cushy check that you lost to Covid for a minimum wage when your family depended on you for more.

I have a job, chief.  Job and a side hustle paying more taxes than your hero.  Of course that ain’t hard. My kid paid more than DJT in his summer job.

I don't believe you, Twin Ticks. It is very unlikely that a supervisor would allow you to serial post on BGR on a company or government computer all day long the way that you do. My guess you post from somebody's basement.

Don’t care if you do. 

Let’s stay on target. You said you’d work for min wage because you have too much pride to trot to mailbox even-though your family would benefit from the unemployment amount.  

You sticking by that disengenious garbage, Hooter?   I think you’re FOS.

It's not a matter of pride, Twin Ticks - it is a matter of conscience. Earning a living is a good habit that I have formed throughout my adult life. You should try it. As for working for minimum wage, I doubt that will ever be my only alternative. I have marketable job skills in multiple areas.

[Cardfan1]

Well, I would not be trotting to my mailbox once a month to collect a welfare check if honest work was available, Twin Ticks. You should get a job. Trust me, it would do wonders for your self esteem and it might even diminish your hatred of this country.

Hogwash. You would not trade your cushy check that you lost to Covid for a minimum wage when your family depended on you for more.

I have a job, chief.  Job and a side hustle paying more taxes than your hero.  Of course that ain’t hard. My kid paid more than DJT in his summer job.

I don't believe you, Twin Ticks. It is very unlikely that a supervisor would allow you to serial post on BGR on a company or government computer all day long the way that you do. My guess you post from somebody's basement.

Don’t care if you do. 

Let’s stay on target. You said you’d work for min wage because you have too much pride to trot to mailbox even-though your family would benefit from the unemployment amount.  

You sticking by that disengenious garbage, Hooter?   I think you’re FOS.

It's not a matter of pride, Twin Ticks - it is a matter of conscience. Earning a living is a good habit that I have formed throughout my adult life. You should try it. As for working for minimum wage, I doubt that will ever be my only alternative. I have marketable job skills in multiple areas.

That’s not the hypothetical situation you put forth, Hooter. Quit trying to move the goalpost, so you can score. 

If the only job you can get is the minimum wage restaurant job or take the more substantial unemployment you could receive because of a pandemic bungled by your govt., your picking the minimum wage?  That pride gonna pay the bills?  

fos

[Hoot Gibson]

Hogwash. You would not trade your cushy check that you lost to Covid for a minimum wage when your family depended on you for more.

I have a job, chief.  Job and a side hustle paying more taxes than your hero.  Of course that ain’t hard. My kid paid more than DJT in his summer job.

I don't believe you, Twin Ticks. It is very unlikely that a supervisor would allow you to serial post on BGR on a company or government computer all day long the way that you do. My guess you post from somebody's basement.

Don’t care if you do. 

Let’s stay on target. You said you’d work for min wage because you have too much pride to trot to mailbox even-though your family would benefit from the unemployment amount.  

You sticking by that disengenious garbage, Hooter?   I think you’re FOS.

It's not a matter of pride, Twin Ticks - it is a matter of conscience. Earning a living is a good habit that I have formed throughout my adult life. You should try it. As for working for minimum wage, I doubt that will ever be my only alternative. I have marketable job skills in multiple areas.

That’s not the hypothetical situation you put forth, Hooter. Quit trying to move the goalpost, so you can score. 

If the only job you can get is the minimum wage restaurant job or take the more substantial unemployment you could receive because of a pandemic bungled by your govt., your picking the minimum wage?  That pride gonna pay the bills?  

fos

The restaurant jobs that I mentioned were not minimum wage jobs, Twin Ticks. You made that assumption but the restaurant was unable to match the $2,800/mo. in federal and state benefits that potential employees are receiving, which is well above minimum wage. Consequently, three family members are working very long hours with no other employees to avoid going out of business.

What I would not be doing is sitting around riding the government gravy train as long as the monthly relief checks kept coming. You should be out looking for work, Twin Ticks, not pretending to be at work while you post on BGR all day long.

[Cardfan1]

I don't believe you, Twin Ticks. It is very unlikely that a supervisor would allow you to serial post on BGR on a company or government computer all day long the way that you do. My guess you post from somebody's basement.

Don’t care if you do. 

Let’s stay on target. You said you’d work for min wage because you have too much pride to trot to mailbox even-though your family would benefit from the unemployment amount.  

You sticking by that disengenious garbage, Hooter?   I think you’re FOS.

It's not a matter of pride, Twin Ticks - it is a matter of conscience. Earning a living is a good habit that I have formed throughout my adult life. You should try it. As for working for minimum wage, I doubt that will ever be my only alternative. I have marketable job skills in multiple areas.

That’s not the hypothetical situation you put forth, Hooter. Quit trying to move the goalpost, so you can score. 

If the only job you can get is the minimum wage restaurant job or take the more substantial unemployment you could receive because of a pandemic bungled by your govt., your picking the minimum wage?  That pride gonna pay the bills?  

fos

The restaurant jobs that I mentioned were not minimum wage jobs, Twin Ticks. You made that assumption but the restaurant was unable to match the $2,800/mo. in federal and state benefits that potential employees are receiving, which is well above minimum wage. Consequently, three family members are working very long hours with no other employees to avoid going out of business.

What I would not be doing is sitting around riding the government gravy train as long as the monthly relief checks kept coming. You should be out looking for work, Twin Ticks, not pretending to be at work while you post on BGR all day long.

That’s 17.50 dollars an hour for 40 hours a week vs whatever your restaurant pays. Ain’t too many restaurants paying that. You’ve found a needle in a haystack if so. 

Hooter, you’re trying to avoid the hypothetical question.
Will you do what you expect others to do?  Trade unemployment for what is half of what you made before the economy collapsed. 

Liar.  Of course you would. 

TRt says I work at the unemployment office.  You say I’m unemployed. 
damn, I’m getting up every morning for no reason and going to the wrong place  

you guys are obsessed with my job.

[Hoot Gibson]

Don’t care if you do. 

Let’s stay on target. You said you’d work for min wage because you have too much pride to trot to mailbox even-though your family would benefit from the unemployment amount.  

You sticking by that disengenious garbage, Hooter?   I think you’re FOS.

It's not a matter of pride, Twin Ticks - it is a matter of conscience. Earning a living is a good habit that I have formed throughout my adult life. You should try it. As for working for minimum wage, I doubt that will ever be my only alternative. I have marketable job skills in multiple areas.

That’s not the hypothetical situation you put forth, Hooter. Quit trying to move the goalpost, so you can score. 

If the only job you can get is the minimum wage restaurant job or take the more substantial unemployment you could receive because of a pandemic bungled by your govt., your picking the minimum wage?  That pride gonna pay the bills?  

fos

The restaurant jobs that I mentioned were not minimum wage jobs, Twin Ticks. You made that assumption but the restaurant was unable to match the $2,800/mo. in federal and state benefits that potential employees are receiving, which is well above minimum wage. Consequently, three family members are working very long hours with no other employees to avoid going out of business.

What I would not be doing is sitting around riding the government gravy train as long as the monthly relief checks kept coming. You should be out looking for work, Twin Ticks, not pretending to be at work while you post on BGR all day long.

That’s 17.50 dollars an hour for 40 hours a week vs whatever your restaurant pays. Ain’t too many restaurants paying that. You’ve found a needle in a haystack if so. 

Hooter, you’re trying to avoid the hypothetical question.
Will you do what you expect others to do?  Trade unemployment for what is half of what you made before the economy collapsed. 

Liar.  Of course you would. 

TRt says I work at the unemployment office.  You say I’m unemployed. 
damn, I’m getting up every morning for no reason and going to the wrong place  

you guys are obsessed with my job.

What job?   Nobody would pay somebody to post hour after hour on BGR under multiple accounts.

The federal and state governments should not be providing incentives for people like you not to work. It makes sense that you support massive federal spending bills that pay people for doing nothing, Twin Ticks.

[vector#1]

It's not a matter of pride, Twin Ticks - it is a matter of conscience. Earning a living is a good habit that I have formed throughout my adult life. You should try it. As for working for minimum wage, I doubt that will ever be my only alternative. I have marketable job skills in multiple areas.

That’s not the hypothetical situation you put forth, Hooter. Quit trying to move the goalpost, so you can score. 

If the only job you can get is the minimum wage restaurant job or take the more substantial unemployment you could receive because of a pandemic bungled by your govt., your picking the minimum wage?  That pride gonna pay the bills?  

fos

The restaurant jobs that I mentioned were not minimum wage jobs, Twin Ticks. You made that assumption but the restaurant was unable to match the $2,800/mo. in federal and state benefits that potential employees are receiving, which is well above minimum wage. Consequently, three family members are working very long hours with no other employees to avoid going out of business.

What I would not be doing is sitting around riding the government gravy train as long as the monthly relief checks kept coming. You should be out looking for work, Twin Ticks, not pretending to be at work while you post on BGR all day long.

That’s 17.50 dollars an hour for 40 hours a week vs whatever your restaurant pays. Ain’t too many restaurants paying that. You’ve found a needle in a haystack if so. 

Hooter, you’re trying to avoid the hypothetical question.
Will you do what you expect others to do?  Trade unemployment for what is half of what you made before the economy collapsed. 

Liar.  Of course you would. 

TRt says I work at the unemployment office.  You say I’m unemployed. 
damn, I’m getting up every morning for no reason and going to the wrong place  

you guys are obsessed with my job.

What job?   Nobody would pay somebody to post hour after hour on BGR under multiple accounts.

The federal and state governments should not be providing incentives for people like you not to work. It makes sense that you support massive federal spending bills that pay people for doing nothing, Twin Ticks.

Commrade Quooter If what you say is true(which I have my doubts) then some DA is paying you for doing the same thing. Your on hear every half hour. After 12,000 posts numbers don't lie

[Cardfan1]

It's not a matter of pride, Twin Ticks - it is a matter of conscience. Earning a living is a good habit that I have formed throughout my adult life. You should try it. As for working for minimum wage, I doubt that will ever be my only alternative. I have marketable job skills in multiple areas.

That’s not the hypothetical situation you put forth, Hooter. Quit trying to move the goalpost, so you can score. 

If the only job you can get is the minimum wage restaurant job or take the more substantial unemployment you could receive because of a pandemic bungled by your govt., your picking the minimum wage?  That pride gonna pay the bills?  

fos

The restaurant jobs that I mentioned were not minimum wage jobs, Twin Ticks. You made that assumption but the restaurant was unable to match the $2,800/mo. in federal and state benefits that potential employees are receiving, which is well above minimum wage. Consequently, three family members are working very long hours with no other employees to avoid going out of business.

What I would not be doing is sitting around riding the government gravy train as long as the monthly relief checks kept coming. You should be out looking for work, Twin Ticks, not pretending to be at work while you post on BGR all day long.

That’s 17.50 dollars an hour for 40 hours a week vs whatever your restaurant pays. Ain’t too many restaurants paying that. You’ve found a needle in a haystack if so. 

Hooter, you’re trying to avoid the hypothetical question.
Will you do what you expect others to do?  Trade unemployment for what is half of what you made before the economy collapsed. 

Liar.  Of course you would. 

TRt says I work at the unemployment office.  You say I’m unemployed. 
damn, I’m getting up every morning for no reason and going to the wrong place  

you guys are obsessed with my job.

What job?   Nobody would pay somebody to post hour after hour on BGR under multiple accounts.

The federal and state governments should not be providing incentives for people like you not to work. It makes sense that you support massive federal spending bills that pay people for doing nothing, Twin Ticks.

Hypocrisy.  Hooter, you must be a terrible poker player.  You’re tell is obvious; you want to insult to dodge. 

How about you admit to what you would do for your family?  You would accept the unemployment benefits over a much lower paying job.  

FWIW, you’re the one who got on here blabbing about people not running out getting themselves a restaurant job.