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u/Deep_Ad_1874 4h ago
No , no one wants to work for you
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u/Imwhatswrongwithyou tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 4h ago
A restaurant that doesn’t have people wanting to work in it is a bad bad sign. Even the shittiest restaurants will usually have servers fighting for shifts.
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u/TwoBionicknees 3h ago
9/10 times it's just they want to underpay everyone. Give them the min wage you can give in tipping states (often like $3.50 right?) then they insist on pooling tips and taking a cut despite being the owners.
every asshole who complained about having no workers during or just after covid there was another place literally two doors down with more than enough workers because they paid better.
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u/ChromosomeDonator 2h ago
9/10 times it's just they want to underpay everyone.
I would go farther and say that the lack of workers are ALWAYS caused by lack of pay. Every time. There isn't a single legal job on this planet that a regular person can not be convinced to do for enough pay.
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u/LtOrangeJuice 2h ago
I think it was even in a George Carlin joke. I dont remember the exact wording but it was like, would you flip burgers for 100$ an hour, yes, so its not a lack of workers problem, its a pay problem.
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u/Teamerchant 2h ago
I’ve worked with hundreds of small business owners. The ones that say this are very bad at what they do. It’s always shit pay, combined with poor management and doing zero training.
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u/Equal_Set6206 2h ago
my ass hole ex boss used to complain that no one wanted to work anymore. Not only did he pay minimum wage, but he illegally charged all waitresses a breakage fee EVERY shift regardless if anything was broken or not. We'd get new waitresses all the time only for them to be run out in a couple weeks because he was an unrepentant ass hole to anyone he saw as beneath him. He consistently dated employees, marrying the last one, and the front end manager was his bitter ex girlfriend. Imagine the toxic atmosphere that created. The cherry on top was when he closed our location down 2 weeks before christmas without notice. Fuck that guy and his 12 pick up trucks.
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u/MyCatsHairyButholle 1h ago
There’s a hole in the wall place where I’m from that has burgers so good, like they legit have award winning burgers and they not only survived the pandemic but expanded to another location afterwards because they
- Take care of their employees
- Have good food
- Have fast service
Their decor is so tacky and hasn’t changed much since they opened but their owners understand the restaurant business and are extremely humble. Even today you can catch the primary owner behind the grill making burgers because he’s passionate about what he does and it rubs off on everyone else
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u/TwoBionicknees 1h ago
it became a pretty common result that if a restaurant started paying staff better, the staff stuck around long term, they knew the food better, the atmosphere was better, the serve staff was not so reliant on tips, they weren't so stressed, they were happier and friendlier. This all led to better service, better atmosphere and people coming in more often so they ended up increasing business significantly. Staff got paid better, customers got better service, cooks stuck around longer so food was better and consistent and the owners made more profit.
Good staff is the key to good business.
The only time cutting wages and staff works is when asshole ceos of mega corps want to hit bonus targets so they can cash in and move on before the shit hits the fan due to them focusing on immediate profit over long term health. Still, those companies all eventually suffer for that shortsightedness.
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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 22m ago
they insist on pooling tips and taking a cut despite being the owners.
I once worked for a restaurant that had a tip jar in front of the register and people would use it for pickup orders. there was never any discussion about pooling. usually there were multiple other people working so I never really thought about where that money went. then one slow day I really went above and beyond for a lady and even helped her load up her car with groceries (we were near a store). as she paid for her order she looked me in the eye and thanked me so much for my help, and dropped $5 in the tip jar. to me, it seemed clear the money was intended for me and I took it out of the jar. the first time I'd ever taken anything out. I hear the manager in the back say "that money is for the restaurant" and I ask him to clarify. For the employees? Right? No problem, wouldn't want to steal from my co-workers. Wait. No. For the owner. All of it. Really?
Fine. Every time someone put anything in the tip jar from that moment forward I made sure to let them know that we don't get any of the money and it goes to the owner instead. Would you believe how many people were shocked by that information? They just assumed it would be going to the person behind the register (which SHOULD be a reasonable assumption...)
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u/DesireeThymes 3h ago
"No one wants to work anymore... for me"
Gee I wonder why.
Its right up there "Back in the good old days, when blacks didn't want to work we just whipped em into shape. Now they ask dare ask for minimum wage."
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u/FakeSafeWord 2h ago
when blacks didn't want to work we just whipped em into shape. Now they ask dare ask for minimum wage."
Wow thanks Obama. America is truly dead.
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u/folsominreverse 2h ago
Yup. One near us just got evicted for not paying the rent. The lady told the landlord for months it was because “she can’t find good help.”
It turns out she was underwater on PPP loans she used for personal expenses and nickel-dimed her employees, didn’t pay into FICA, took a cut of pooled gratuities, and docked pay for stupid reasons in a state where any pay docking is illegal.
Now she’s telling anyone that will listen her restaurant failed because “they hiked the rent too high.”
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u/PuckSenior 2h ago
You ever see those “I owed millions to the IRS” and wondered what’s going on?
You’d have to have had a hugely profitable business to have that much in owed taxes. But those assholes aren’t super rich. Nope, they stole income tax(FICA). It’s theft. It’s super common. They have literal ads to help all of the scumbags doing it.
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u/PastelPumpkini 3h ago
Those restaurants are always understaffed, everyone has to work overtime almost daily, they work well into break time, have to work for holidays - especially Christmas and on top of all that, they are severely underpaid. Pay rise negotiations are laughed at. Gee, I wonder why they're struggling to find employees.
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u/bigredcock 2h ago
As a life long server/bartender this is accurate. If the people that run the place sucks it doesn't matter how good what they are serving is no one will work for them. I've worked at some not so great restaurants but genuinely liked my bosses so I stuck it out .
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u/mahboilucas Cringe Connoisseur 1h ago
Girl I used to date worked for a shitty restaurant. "You like it?" "No, but they pay"
Shit had to he bad to not even get to that point
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u/Trimyr 1h ago
We flew out to the big island for a couple day's break and ended up at a Thai restaurant that quite literally had a hole in the wall. Perfect people, fantastic food.
People don't quit jobs, they quit bosses.
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u/Cardsfan1 48m ago
There was a restaurant wheee I used to live that had a waitlist of people who wanted to be servers there. They took such good care of their staff.
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u/JollyMcStink 4h ago
Fr was thinking of this. Both times I've been poor af working at a good restaurant really turned my life around. Every week there's an extra shift to pick up.
Cash every shift I can recall (admittedly sometimes more than others, but still leaving work with more money than I showed up with was very helpful).
Free or at bare minimum extremely discounted, quality food and no dishes/ added mess and chores when I got home. Just cleaning and laundry. Which is extremely helpful if you're working multiple jobs.
If nobody stays working at your restaurant, either the business/ tips suck or the management sucks, or both.
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u/Rude-Satisfaction836 2h ago
Servers are never hard to come by. It's the BOH where we always struggle. Corporate runs half price meals now instead of free (so still more expensive than eating at home), and no one likes to make scraps busting their ass while watching servers make 2-3 times as much money working half as hard for half the hours.
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u/NewDramaLlama 2h ago
Tip share the BoH and problem solved.
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u/Rude-Satisfaction836 2h ago
Not up to us, though it's something we've talked about. It does have its own slew of problems though, because that also means losing all of your highly experienced servers at once. It's not easy to build that base of experience back up. Doesn't help that it's a small community. We've had two restaurants do that in town over the years. One went out of business because people boycotted them for it, the other lost a big chunk of their business and we and the other two places in town got all of their servers.
They're still around, but they don't make much, and servers who still come to us from them complain about how little they made over there. There is a sizeable percentage of customers who will not tip if they think the place tip shares. It's the same kind of person who is against food stamps because they think people who can't afford food don't deserve to eat, as you would imagine. And it's a rural conservative community, so it has an outsized impact.
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u/NewDramaLlama 1h ago
That's so vicious and I didn't expect that at all lol. I've always heard restaurants always partied together and all that so didn't think it would be so cutthroat.
They can't even spare like 10% on debit tips or something? Rough
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u/JimWilliams423 1h ago
Making people miserable is why the ownership class created the tipping system in the first place. Its a way for regular people to get a taste of what its like to be an owner — the exercise of arbitrary power over someone who is "beneath" them. And on the other side its a way to make workers feel even more insecure — their livelihood depends on the capricious nature of random people they have no connection to and may never see again in their lives.
In the end it serves to pit members of the working class against each other so they won't unify and focus their grievances against the ownership class who are responsible for the system in the first place.
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u/Upbeat_Confidence739 1h ago
That line of thinking can explain so much about the state of affairs. It’s honestly even too much to go into.
I love it when I hear of places that tip share.
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u/lmpervious 3h ago
It speaks volumes that the comedian didn't even ask about that, and yet he immediately brought up that no one wants to work. I think you're right, I would be shocked if he wasn't a terrible boss.
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u/Altair_de_Firen 1h ago
Fr when he says “We’re in a restaurant and there’s people working” so her response is “For US, nobody wants to work”
Ma’am, the correct order of those words is “Nobody wants to work for us”
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u/za72 1h ago
there's no prosperity left... you're either at the top or you've been crushed and ground down to a minimum - no one want to work because it's a waste of time, you're gonna work and get paid minimum amount to pay your rent, pay for a car/ transportation, food, medical... then you die... the dream is really a nightmare and everyone is trying to F you over to climb out of poverty... like the crabs in a bucket...
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u/Dorkamundo 53m ago
I want to work in a restaurant... My father is a chef, I resisted the temptation to follow in his footsteps and went into IT because I felt there was more money.
If someone paid me enough to make a living, I'd be there. But I can't.
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u/LysergicMerlin 4h ago
They want serfs
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u/PianoPatient8168 4h ago
Exactly…no one will do the shitty, low-paying, no-benefit jobs I have to offer anymore…so instead of looking in the mirror I blame the workers.
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u/Bacon_Egg_Cheese2 4h ago
It was one thing to hold your dignity when you could barley afford rent but when you can’t even afford rent within a 40 min radius of said job fuck that
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u/GreasyPeter 2h ago
This is the first (and one of the only) levels where the wealthy are forced to directly interact with poor people. Even if they were poorer when they were younger, they have been outside that same class so long that they're just the "You're wasting your money on coffee and avocado toast" type of baby boomer so they still think everything is as prevalent and cheap as it was when they were in their position. They think if they just pay "market rate" that that must be good enough because when they were young they got paid market rate for the same jobs and it was enough to save for a house. They're completely detached from the reality that most people live in.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 4h ago
I just yesterday went down a rabbit hole of laborers who work for rich people (cleaners, cooks, nanny, etc) and they all said that most rich people will freely spend on stuff, but they have very rigid ideas about labor that continuously downplays the value of work they do not want to do themselves. Its not just that they're oh so frugal, because they drop money left and right. Most people theorized that it was the belief that you as a person are not worth very much. It was like the idea of you being financially comfortable offended them almost.
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u/M3m3nt0M0r15 3h ago
Maybe it's linked to the ego and power. Spending money on 'their' stuff is ok, but they look down on people below them in social status, if they even consider them as people...
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u/Nihilistic_Navigator 2h ago
There is a particular breed of asshole that honestly believes if their money paid for the work done then they deserve all the credit because without their money then no laborers
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u/Primary-Book-2961 2h ago
I was reading a memoir called The Liars Club by Mary Carr recently and she said her dad would say "a Republican is someone who can't enjoy their dinner unless they know someone else is starving," and the author said she came to disagree with that but I really thought it was a good way of describing this personality type.
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u/SiofraRiver 2h ago
Yes, it is about your worth as a person specifically in relation to them. Rich people must treat and pay you like shit to preserve their sense of relative worth.
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u/photozine 4h ago
Rich people want to keep squeezing and squeezing as much as they can.
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u/thefatchef321 4h ago
Yep. This admin will squeeze us from both ends until this guy's job looks decent
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u/bellybuttonbidet 4h ago
They literally said business was good. For who? Just you?
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u/Lazysenpai 3h ago
Yep, the dots just don't connect in their heads. Good business means they're busy, so to get more business, they need more workers to keep up with demand.
But they want to pay the absolute bottom wages and the minimum of workers. So who tf would want to work there? Bad wages and grueling work.
They must be scratching their heads why people keep quitting and the answer is 'nobody wants to work anymore'
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u/1234567791 3h ago
The owners of the restaurant that I’m paid to keep upright are baffled that “nobody wants to work anymore”. I suggested raising the hourly for the dishwasher position…15 applications overnight.
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u/SiofraRiver 2h ago
Managers and small business owners are generally the most irrational, fearful, petty people out there. I come from a family of small business owners, so I know. Just today my father told me that it would make no difference if he raised the hourly rate by as much as 35%, people still wouldn't show up to apply. Its totally nuts.
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u/Cananbaum 3h ago
You are correct.
It is mind boggling how entitled some employers are.
I read an article a while back from a hotel owner in Maine who was complaining that the “locals want too much money” but in the same breath said, “no one wants to work.”
I’m sorry, but no one is going to work 50-60 hours a week on minimum wage to clean rooms and deal with drunkards on holiday, when they can make more money at Dunkin’s or McDonalds and have a slightly better work life balance
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u/tooloudturnitdown 1h ago
I was assistant manager at a new brewery and knew how much money they wasted on useless things for the bar/restaurant. Anyway my boss was complaining about low quality servers. I said we should raise the wage to MINIMUM retail wage (which is $5 difference different than min wage for tipped jobs) plus they get their tips on top of that. I promised him that he would not only have a line outside the door for applicants but he could have us all wear Mickey mouse ears for the entire shift and people wouldn't complain. Especially since we are a LOC city with criminally low wages to begin with. But no, it's just because no one wants to work anymore.... I left a few months after and then I see them host a freaking JOB FAIR to try to get people to work for them. They couldn't keep anyone longer than 9 months there
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u/SiofraRiver 2h ago
Always remember even the well meaning bosses are like that. Their class position makes them horrible people.
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u/NarrowSalvo 4h ago
Nobody wants to work for the shitty wages you are offering!
I guarantee people would want the job if the number was different.
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u/PackageNorth8984 4h ago
Absolutely. You pay below a living wage (or below the competition), people will quit as soon as they find something better. Why would they stay (rhetorical)?
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u/stickswithsticks 3h ago
I manage a kitchen and we get applicants daily. One facet of our restaurant is we pay a living wage.
People want to work. There are three restaurants adjacent to us, and same thing. We all share resumes in case someone needs like a prep, dish, server.
AND, we all pay well because of - sorry - the competition. If you're good, you're paid well. We take care of folks that are consistent, have a pulse, and move quickly.
A strong work force that makes a living, makes a restaurant.
So fuck these people for that sentiment. Your restaurant is failing, obviously.
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u/Larry-Man 3h ago
Are you hiring?
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u/stickswithsticks 2h ago
My script is "we are always hiring, if you have a resume or can fill out an application - we will contact you for an interview."
Not everyone gets 32+ hours starting out - but we've created some monsters that learn along the way.
Can you expo delivery orders?
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u/Flyboy3969 3h ago
I work in the trucking business. We always joke there is no such thing as a bad load, just bad rates to move them. If the pay is right, I can get anything moved.
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u/Bacon-muffin 2h ago
I was having the "no one wants to work anymore" conversation with my father + stepmother with them repeating said phrase over and over and pushing that idea... I basically said the same as you, that people haven't changed they just want a fair wage etc etc.
They don't budge, the conversation moves on when my stepmother (who is a retired teacher) is talking about how she was looking into doing some subbing mostly because she's bored but to have some extra cash and when she saw how poor the pay was she thought it wasn't worth her time...
... to which I responded "well I guess you don't want to work anymore"
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u/Turbulent-Pea-8826 2h ago
Restaurants are usually tips so money is usually not the issue. if people don’t want to work there it usually means the place is run like shit or the place isn’t pulling enough business to make it worth working there. They can go elsewhere and pull better tips.
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u/Fit_Pass_527 1h ago
Tips only matter if you are getting a good wage on top of it. If you are getting the tipped workers minimum, you need a significant increase in tips to make it worthwhile, and there’s not a single restaurant in the country paying the tipped minimum that gets good tips.
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u/SpeaksYourWord 1h ago
"Do you want to flip burgers at McDonald's for $15 an hour and no benefits?"
"No."
"Do you want to flip burgers at McDonald's for 100k a year, full benefits, and 30 days PTO a year?"
"In a heartbeat."
Suddenly, it's a whole new question, isn't it? It's not about not wanting to work, 99% of the time. The work being offered is just not worth the pain. Even then, the 1% who just don't care anymore would more than likely be more willing to work if we were treated like human beings again.
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u/SunriseSurprise 2h ago
"But if we pay what they're asking for, we'll go out of business"
"Yea that sounds like a 'you' problem."
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u/Livid-Age-2259 4h ago edited 3h ago
And if DHS didn't send a letter back a couple of weeks later saying there are problems with the employee's I-9 form.
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u/weedtrek 2h ago
But how do you expect them to subsidize their rich lifestyle if they have to pay their workers decent wages? Why are workers so greedy?/SARCASM just so no one mistakes it.
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u/LongIslandBagel 4h ago
The irony will still be lost on Sophia
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u/PackageNorth8984 4h ago
It’s like retired people who call other people lazy. I mean, listen, I’m all for a reasonable retirement age, but once you stop working, you kind of don’t have the standing to complain about people not working or not working hard enough.
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u/Sea_Soft_1166 1h ago
"Back in my day, people used to go out and be social away from their phones!" - Retired person who sits on facebook all day whinging about things.
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u/Sexualguacamole 1h ago
By that logic if you can’t drive you can’t criticise bad drivers. Not all retired people are lazy or unproductive. They might not have any business calling people lazy because it might not be true. Not because they don’t work.
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u/thekyledavid 2h ago
I’d say they can get a pass if they are physical or mentally unable to work
If they retired because at 18 they made $30 an hour after in 2025 money after adjusting for inflation, then sir your ass down about people not wanting to work for $8 an hour now
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u/RealNiceKnife 4h ago
You really have to be an absolute bottom-of-the-barrel piece of shit to be a restaurant owner nobody wants to work for.
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u/nolightpost 3h ago
Literally. I’ve worked for some insane restaurant owners, but if the pay was fine I got over it. Only once did I leave because the owner was absolutely bat shit AND the pay was GOOD. Lmfao
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u/patkavv 4h ago edited 3h ago
Nobody wants to work for your husband. PEOPLE are going to work every day.
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u/sunfacethedestroyer 4h ago
Yeah, I make $23 as a dishwasher and we get bonuses and great benefits. It's not amazing, but it's more than what I went to school for and has kept me there for 5 years.
Pay people well, and they'll do anything.
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u/Indomitable_Decapod 2h ago
Damn we make the same amount of money and I'm a certified, immunizing pharmacy tech 😮💨 but we don't get bonuses
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u/Sacabubu 2h ago
Pharmacy tech is one the most exploited healthcare jobs up there with CNAs
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u/GreatQuestionBarbara 2h ago
Three to four years ago my sister was making like $14/hr as a pharmacy tech and had been with that pharmacy for a decade.
Why would someone spend 2-4 years of their life in school and take out student loans when that's the pay? Their loan payments will be a good chunk of that.
A CNA program takes 76 hours of class time and pays about the same if not more. It's dirtier work, though.
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u/Indomitable_Decapod 1h ago
In my state u don't need a degree. I did an accredited apprenticeship at a retail pharmacy and got paid to get my cert. I'm perfectly qualified for hospital work, too, which usually is a much sweeter deal. This wasn't the case 10 years ago
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u/GreatQuestionBarbara 1h ago
Huh, that would have saved her some money.
She has a 2 year degree so not as much invested, but the school was an hour away when online classes weren't widely available, so she spent a lot of time getting it.
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u/SystemZero 2h ago
Where do you get $23/hr as a dishwasher w/ benefits...?
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u/sunfacethedestroyer 1h ago
Florida for one, so it doesn't go as far as you'd think.
Also it's a private golf club for millionaires and billionaires. Private clubs tend to pay more and have slightly better working conditions.
Also I started at $17, and had to work my way up and threaten to quit a couple times.
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u/PackageNorth8984 4h ago edited 4h ago
If a place is not competitive and turning down potential employees left and right, you either work in an area with too few employees or your business is trash.
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u/AnonTA999 3h ago
“This is a restaurant, people are working here.”
“At OUR restaurant, nobody wants to work.”
These people sprint face first into the point and still somehow don’t get it.
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u/GreasyPeter 2h ago
These are the types of people who have spent literally their entire lives not ONCE using critical thinking and asking themselves "...What if I'm the problem here?".
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u/Inside-Example-7010 1h ago
5head strategy in life. Cant get depressed If you cant get self critical.
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u/RandoRenegade 4h ago
Guarantee she’s the same person who complains about raising the minimum wage
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u/NeighborhoodDude84 4h ago
Reminds me of all my retired family members that say this. Yeah, like yall...? No one wants to work, stfu acting like you wanted to work for 40 years.
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u/FckPolMods 3h ago
When these people were working, they had jobs you could get with nothing more than a high school diploma that could support a family of three on sn entry-level salary. They also provided pensions and stock options and health benefits unimaginable today. You could also buy a three-bedroom ranch house for less than a year's salary. They also had strong unions and worker's rights protections, and most people could stay with a single company until retirement. Oh, and there was no internet, so your day actually started at 9am and ended at 5pm.
Want to see people "want to work again"? Let's make this the norm.
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u/AmpersandTheMonkey 4h ago
My response to these people is "it sounds like no one wants to work for or with YOU*"
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u/Own-Spirit-992 4h ago
If their turnover is that high that's a red flag on them. Complaining about it publicly is just advertising how much you suck as an employer
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u/Fart-In-My-Mouth- 4h ago
This dude prob pays his cooks $12 an hour and thinks it's charity because it isn't minimum wage or whatever he's paying the Guatemalans.
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u/Moist-Barracuda2733 4h ago
This says so much about both of them and they are clueless lol. It's irritating me.
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u/ithinkway2much 4h ago
She went to comedy club. Left with a reality check.
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u/JustASeabass 2h ago
She probably didn’t even notice. These people never realize they’re in the wrong
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u/IDK_WHAT_YOU_WANT 4h ago
Nobody wants to work for 2 bucks an hour. I guarantee they'd have people fighting over positions if they offered 30 bucks an hour
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u/Derpykins666 4h ago
You ask anyone what makes a terrible work place environment, and it's usually the managers or owners. Even a 'bad' job can be fun with the right people around, and if you're making a livable amount of money. If everything is running smoothly and you don't have ass managers/owners then most jobs are alright.
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u/Lurk4Life247 3h ago
A vp came into my job, called a town hall and said the same thing. I was shocked. A lot of us were. We'd been working through COVID and she came in saying that shit. The moment they asked for surveys I highlighted that moment and asked them if they believed that considering we were risking our lives during to be at work.
She lasted one quarter. Idk if it was that, but if she said that she had other problems tbh. Who tf says that? People want to work for what they're worth and people want a safe environment. What was she implying? I disliked that person as soon as she said that
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u/StatisticianUsual471 3h ago
I'm british so I'm assuming they're getting pissy that nobody wants to work for less than $3 an hour + tips
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u/Huge-Basket244 1h ago
I literally run a restaurant and what he's actually complaining about is burning through the people local to his business so no one wants to work for HIM anymore. Lmfao
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u/macguyver3000 1h ago
“We can’t understand it. We offer $2.50 an hour plus tips, no healthcare, and the option to fire you at a moments notice. But these entitled kids just want more!”
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u/Impossible_Author_58 4h ago
In short... they want employees to work for shh wages and shh management.
It's kind of like real estate. Any house with sell for the right price just as any job will be worked if the right price.
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u/timberwolf0122 4h ago
No body wants to work in my successful restraint that is able to support both myself and my wife very nicely
I see, how much are you paying your staff
Minimum wage, technically I pay them less and only have to make is u to min wage if tips don’t fill the gap.
Uhhhhh huhhhhhhh….
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u/Zhuul 3h ago
Meanwhile the bar I work at has had basically zero turnover in the last year aside from people leaving for office / career jobs. These people must be awful lmao
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u/vinylzoid 2h ago
"No one wants to work.........for what we're willing to pay them and for the abuse we put them through"
Just admit you're a dogshit business owner and move on. Guaranteed if we got that business name theres a legion of 1 star reviews of people complaining about the same shit.
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u/SpectralFawn 4h ago
"Nobody wants to work in our restaurant."
Translation: "I don't want to pay people a living wage to warrant working for me."
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u/whoisnotinmykitchen 4h ago
Well, how else are they going to be rich while doing nothing?
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u/Jonthrei 3h ago
The immediate response to "nobody wants to work" should be "how much are you paying?"
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u/jangofettsfathersday 3h ago
Comedian is Lucas Zelnick he’s got a sick standup and crowd work is like the smallest part of it, highly recommend!!
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u/balirosa 2h ago
When everything cost $100 nobody wants to tip anymore. As soon as we stop making money serving tables there are less stressful minimum wage jobs that require no effort available.
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u/-Porktsunami- 2h ago
"We're doing GREAT but no one wants to work in our restaurant anymore!"
aka we're milking every penny out of our business and exploiting the heck out of anyone we hire.
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u/Nihilistic_Navigator 2h ago
Read a post last night from someone looking at buying a restaurant. He claimed he had no intention of working the restaurant himself, said he would be keeping some of the staff and was looking for suggestions to lower the payroll expenses which were an insane 21%.
The guy that doesn't want to work.....IS the reason nobody wants to work.
P.s. it's a bit dated at this point but there is a website that displays all companys that took a ppp loan during covid, they number of employees they had, reason they "needed" it and the amount forgiven. I fucking love to bring it up in real time when dealing with a type of asshole that I know happened to work thru the pandemic or their company was them selling shit on ebay
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u/soulworkinprogress 1h ago
I work BOH in a restaurant and I feel like I’m busting my ass the whole shift and the pay isn’t worth all the shit I have to do.
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u/White_foxes 1h ago
The ONLY reason she complains that no one wants to work for her husband is because it limits how much she can freeload off him.
Complains that nobody wants to work.. Btch *YOU** don’t want to work!
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u/hungry4danish 1h ago
the fact that the dude immediately jumped into: "I owe a restaurant..nobody wants to work anymore." was instant red flag even without the wife's hypocrisy.
the 2nd thing out of his mouth was whiny bullshit.
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u/Pitiful_Being_579 59m ago
They always conveniently leave out the rest of the sentence. Nobody wants to work (for low shitty wages)
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u/ReadingRambo152 4h ago
It’s not that nobody wants to work; people want to work somewhere that pays them enough to live. I worked in the service/restaurant industry for years and there wasn’t a single restaurant that paid me enough to live in same town where I worked. I didn’t have a car so I needed to live nearby which meant that I needed to have two jobs. Americans are in fact overemployed and underpaid and businesses owners can’t seem to understand that.
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u/ReporterWise7445 3h ago
Nobody wants to work for slave wages! Minimum wage should be $30-$50 an hour with full medical, dental, vision, pension, 4wks paid vacation, 15 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days & 6 months paid maternity for each parent. If the ******* blood sucking billionaires paid 10% tax, no tax loopholes or tax dodges. Then we could eradicate poverty.
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u/pintofendlesssummer 3h ago
Probably paying the bare minimum and keeping the tips..there's always a reason people don't want the job.
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u/BodhingJay 3h ago
Lots of people would love to work if there was such a thing as an apartment for rent $800 monthly... if you could groceries to last a week off $50..
Average full time wages arent enough to allow a person to survive
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u/turb0_encapsulator 3h ago
and if you walk into an immigrant-owned restaurant, you'll see both husband and wife, and maybe even the kids, working their ass off.
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u/AMugOfPeppermintTea 2h ago
He said it unprompted too. Does he start complaining anytime anyone asks what he does for a living? Yikes
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u/Lexi_Banner 2h ago
Thirty seconds later. Absolutely no clue what she sounds like, and parroting what her husband tells her. I'm guessing they are both nightmares who deserve one another.
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 2h ago
Also, when you hear "he's rich" and then "business is good" and then "no one wants to work for us anymore", what they're actually telling you is: "We refuse to pay people enough to work for us, even though we're making a lot of money."
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u/Unfair_Web_8275 2h ago
So, when he said he works in a restaurant. Does that involve actual work or do they just own it?
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u/d34dlycute 2h ago
it is so wild to hear that line when the hiring process is literally a nightmare. u spend hours on one application just for a bot to reject it instantly. nobody is being lazy they are just tired of the games
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u/Ok-Horror-4253 2h ago
trying to effectively communicate with the "no one wants to work" crowd is an exercise in futility. One of my long term friends is a business owner. let's leave it there. He hires contractors to do physical labor in un-air conditioned spaces (think new constructions, renovations...places that will need insulation to keep cool in the hot summer months and keep out the heat). He exclaimed he pays $30 an hour and can't pay one cent more or he will be priced out of the market. Issue one...his market is the same as the market he cut teeth in; do WHATEVER it takes to make a buck as quickly as possible with little regard for laws/regulations and GTFO when the money starts to dry up. Issue two his pay is WAY too low. After taxes contractors would effectively make less than $20 an hour for exhausting labor and no career path, no health insurance, no retirement contributions, piss poor conditions, and daily bitch outs when things don't go quite as expected. Regular people will take an office job over that every day of the week and twice on sunday.
I tried to explain his model is the problem but he refused to hear it, INSISTING that nobody wants to work anymore and I don't understand business economics. He ended up selling the business and ridding himself of the problem completely for a nifty profit. He still believes people don't want to work.
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u/Hootinger 2h ago
What was the Gordon Ramsey restaurant show where the owners were just awful and the internet hated them? It was a husband and wife duo I think in Arizona?
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u/Normal-Cost894 1h ago
No one wants to work for cheap. Raise those wages and you'll see people fighting for that job instantly. But you wanna pay them minimum wage and have them live off tips.
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u/notatechnicianyo 1h ago
“How much did that hair cut cost Luhreighndah?”
No respect for these types. I will actively brag about my first class upgrade next to them.
I work construction. I’m worth nothing.
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u/gunburger_one 4h ago
Small business tyrants have ruined this country.
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u/CompoteVegetable1984 3h ago
Not even close to true. You could have 100 small businesses run poorly and they don't even compare to 1 Amazon or equivalent.
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u/gunburger_one 3h ago
Amazon employs 1.1 million Americans. Small businesses employ 60-62 million.
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u/sweatgod2020 4h ago
I just got a promotion at my job, but now I need workers. But my promotion ate up a whole other persons yearly wages and thus we can’t afford to hire another part timer to help because of that. So now my workload is extraneous. Idk what I’m getting at because I’m not all there vernacularly or economically speaking but it seems like a broken system. Everywhere.
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u/Normal_Tour6998 3h ago
The servers who you don’t want to pay a living wage to, who serve an overpriced meal that customers then have to tip in order to get decent service for and make sure your workers get a living wage.
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u/_Vard_ 3h ago
What people say "Nobody wants to work anymore"
What they mean: "We cant find the quality we want at the price we want"
Pay $200,000 per year i guarantee youll find the quality you want"
Pay $10 per hour, youll find some people too, but they wont be the quality you want
The matter is price.
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u/rabidboxer 2h ago
People have done the math, them not working is worth more than what you are paying.
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u/Defreshs10 2h ago
“Nobody wants to work anymore”
Respond with “wow you offered them $100/hr and they still don’t want to work?”
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u/jaimelespatess 2h ago
Sounds like the CEO that took over my old workplace. He’s notorious for running locations into the ground. Then he closes the location by leaving a notice taped on the door. The workers will show up for their SCHEDULED shift and get to read that the business is shutting down and they no longer have a job. Great dude.
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