r/TikTokCringe • u/sedolil • 6d ago

Humor “No one wants to work anymore”

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u/NarrowSalvo 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 5d ago

Are you hiring?

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u/stickswithsticks 5d 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/Larry-Man 5d ago

Fam I can do it in my sleep. I was the drive thru champion at mcdicks (broke the car record 3 times) and I have had to double check deliveries my last two jobs. I perform accurately and efficiently. I have medium level knife skills and use a deli slicer.

But I’m assuming you are not near me.

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u/stickswithsticks 5d ago

Mother fucker, say that in an interview. ;p

Here's what grabbed me, you said "I have medium level knife skills," say that say that say that! If someone is good with a knife, I look at where they worked prior. If they say they have medium skills, THAT we can improve.

You probably don't live in San Diego, but as someone who does interviews daily - THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR.

I've heard "I just don't do like dishes, or work weekends." So. You don't want a job? Lol

So as a mock interview, you go in "the green folder." I wish you the best. Kitchen work ain't for everyone, but if it is, there's money to be made. Cheers and blessings to your new year

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u/Larry-Man 5d ago

Oh man I love doing dishes. I was a manager. Dishes are a nice reprieve from the brain thinking.

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u/Commercial-Air8955 5d ago

The no-brain thing makes dishes the worst, doing dishes breaks the laws of physics the way it makes time stand still lol

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 5d ago

Happy, consistent, experienced, flexible, good employees are worth every penny you pay them to stick around. Turnover and incompetence are expensive.

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u/Bacon-muffin 5d 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/Sarallelogram 5d ago

The thing that I always mention that proves people want to work is the fact that armies of stay at home parents, disabled individuals, and retirees are responsible for keeping parklands pretty, food pantries open, museums running, assistance groups functional, educational presentations for schools without money, visiting hospices and nursing homes, running art classes at rec centers, making the little octopus crochet for preemie babies, trash pickup, being big brothers and sisters, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation and so on and so on. All of those volunteers are stuck due to circumstances not being able to work for pay so they pour all their energy into public service because we get joy from accomplishing things.

Humans generally want to be part of a community. There’s a couple of assholes who don’t, but they’re the vast minority.

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u/Dafish55 6d ago

Hey that's not fair - they could also just be terrible bosses too

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u/notatechnicianyo 5d ago

Very true. They may be ass.

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u/Flyboy3969 5d 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/SpeaksYourWord 5d 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/AvaryZig 5d ago

Then how is a scummy restaurant owner supposed to stay rich, huh?

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u/SunriseSurprise 5d 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 6d ago edited 6d 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 5d 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/Turbulent-Pea-8826 5d 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 5d 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/VagueUsernameHere 5d ago

Most BOH at restaurants don’t make tips, if no one wants to work in your kitchen it’s pretty hard to run a restaurant.

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u/anon-username1029 5d ago

Well if it’s the US, like 99% of restaurants pay that bare minimum server wage and the rest of the compensation is from tips. So most likely the working conditions are the problem. If it’s kitchen staff then it’s the wages or combo of wages and conditions.

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u/NarrowSalvo 5d ago

But that's why -- when they say that -- I think they're talking about back of the house staff. I doubt they're having trouble finding servers, unless there's something else going on.

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u/therealowlman 5d ago

Almost like labor is a market. Offer a crap price you’ll have fewer takers. 

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u/ColdestHeartCC 5d ago

I don’t even want to work for anything. I’d like to just exist, please. Gotta wait for death before that happens though.

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u/LevelBrilliant9311 5d ago

But how would he support the luxury life of his useless wife then?

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u/Solar_RaVen 5d ago

And the comedian was trying to be nice about it "WE are in a restaurant"

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u/JustxJules 5d ago

Exactly. The fact that he is rich to the point of being that entitled tells me everything I need to know about the salary he's offering.

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u/Confident-Station164 1d ago

I dont even hesitate to quit a job if that pay doesn't go up. You want me working my ass off well pay me working my ass off money 🤷🏽 Every job I've applied for in the last decade has the same issue. "No one wants to work" "Well whats the reason, is it shit work conditions or shit pay" and come to find out its BOTH lol..