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    ‘The final straw’: How the pandemic pushed restaurant workers over the edge

    The article discusses how former restaurant workers do not want to return to the restaurant business after the pandemic. Mostly because of low pay and abuse.
    "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

  • #2
    I don't blame any of them for not wanting to return to restaurant work. Even up here where there isn't a separate, much lower, wage for tipped positions, it's just not that feasible. Most places only pay minimum wage and won't give you f/t hours, yet they will tell you that you must remain available in case they call you in to cover a shift. It's just not worth it.

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    • #3
      I agree. True I never really was a server myself, but I hung around in restaurants and intend to do so again. I watched what the waitstaff went through, and for such poor wages.
      Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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      • #4
        People want to blame the extra $300 on unemployment, but around here the job would have to pay under $26,000 year for unemployment to pay better than working as a server. That says that the problem isn't that people just want to sit home. The problem is the wage.

        With that said, there was a local restaurant that was on the news talking about what he did to get enough employees to reopen. He dumped the tip system and wage, raised his prices a little over 10% and is paying his employees a living wage starting at $18 an hour. As soon as he did this, he was flooded with applications and had no trouble hiring a full staff.

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        • #5
          Most people want to work. It used to give me pride until Karens undid my work. I was a Wal-Mart janitor. Almost sounds like a horror movie. They want the pride of a job well-done. "Let me wake up feeling terribly proud that the girl in the mirror is me" from the movie version of A Chorus Line works well. The whole point of that song, Let Me Dance For You, is that Cassie wants to work again (she's an exceptional dancer who tried to be an actress but couldn't make it so she's come back to a theater that once employed her to plead for a dancing job).

          There is pride in work. Until it gets overshadowed by Karens who ruin it, bosses who destroy your soul and spirit to appease corporate and/or their own greed, and realizing that you're paying the babysitter and the second car's payment and insurance about as much as your job pays you, so at best you're breaking even. The pandemic stopped this kabuki theater, so now people want a wage that's worth working for. They want the pride of working back. How dare mismanagement demean that just to keep money they're never going to make? (No business without employees).
          Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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          • #6
            welcome to my world. I chose to stay employed as being home 24/7 would have driven me insane. I have had several stints of having to stay home for various reasons (sickness, store closed cause of covid). took one hellva risk by working but I did make bank for most of last year.
            I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
            -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


            "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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            • #7
              As a former foodservice worker, one major issue is the simple, inescapable fact that calling out sick more than once in a blue moon is a really good way to get yourself fired tout de suite. Anything short of a doctor's note (which usually means an in-person visit that an uninsured worker can't really afford) is not considered an excuse, if it's even believed. The assumption is often "hung over or blazed."
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              • #8
                Once the hotel re-opened and I was called back to work I've kept working, even if only part-time for the most part. When my boss called me back I was about ready to take bathroom renovations into my own hands and start knocking out walls...and I'm in a rental.

                I worked for years in restaurants, both front and back of house, and I am so glad to be done with all that. Especially after having entirely too many managers and owners who only cared about the almighty dollar and never hesitated to remind you that you could be replaced before you could blink. And if you desperately needed that job, you put up with a lot of crap. Never again.

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                • #9
                  Quoth KuariKaydrith View Post
                  Especially after having entirely too many managers and owners who only cared about the almighty dollar and never hesitated to remind you that you could be replaced before you could blink. And if you desperately needed that job, you put up with a lot of crap. Never again.
                  This was literally Corporate's attitude back at GameStore. They knew damn well that, even at the worst of times, we had several apps coming in every day at each store. During the XMAS "Hire ten more people for 3 months because we said so" season (meaning, 8 hours a week each if they were lucky, while our veteran workers saw their hours dropped to allow for this), our store's app pile would routinely exceed two hundred due to increased app volume and the SM having less time to work on them despite working 80+ hours/wk (including unpaid overtime) from BF~New year's.
                  "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                  "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                  "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                  "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                  "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                  "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
                  Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
                  "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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