06-11-2024, 03:43 PM
(06-11-2024, 11:59 AM)pally Wrote: Put a lot of the blame on the service industry itself. They spent decades using and abusing employees. Lousy hours, lousy benefits, lousy pay, lousy customers, coupled wth managers and owners who worked hard to cheat them out of hours or pay. In a different job market the employees were programmed to believe they were stuck with a crummy job becase they were expendable. Then COVID hit, and the pressure these service workers were placed under increased 10fold. They were forced to work as "essential" employee. They were abused by customers all for still lousy pay. These employees wised up. Some little minumum wage job isnt worth what they went through. So they quit in droves...oops turns out these good workers weren't so expendable afterall.
No.
That is a false narrative.
It is affecting great hotels owners as well as the crappy ones, the best restaurants, as well as Arbys. You are correct than Covid helped with the send of entitlement, since employees could just make a claim of covid, and the facility would accept it, and they would get the government payday and stay on it. I saw it happen all through covid, money for nothing, with a 600 dollar bonus. If you're getting 1k a week to play video games and watch Netflix, you might not be in a hurry to return to work and be productive for 400 a week.
Many grow up working fast food as a first job and learn a work ethic. If they didn't get promoted, they moved on, as I did. They use their skills or work ethic to earn another job, and the process repeats itself if they feel their skills are not appreciated.
If you've been a fry cook for 10 years, it says more about you, your skill set, and your work ethic, than it says anything about the employer or industry.
Service industry jobs are important, and should be appreciated much, much more, as the public is sometimes terrible to them, but the entry level jobs are entry level, needing little to no skill for a reason, and get paid accordingly to start.
