Let's take an honest look.

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(06-11-2024, 09:10 PM)FormerlyBengalRugby Wrote: In the industry, I am seeing barebones staffing, if they can find them, and working salary managers to the bone, where they are basically making less than 10.00/hour when you factor in the hours they are working.

Similarly keeping employees below the hours that would require giving them benefits.

They do not have the staffing to function properly. They do not have the staff to afford to fire the crappy workers who skip shifts or refuse to clean. They feel guilty for leaning on the good workers to do the shit work, while the lazy play on their phones because the facilities need bodies.

I agree what you are saying should be the trend, and pay the people appropriately for their loyalty and dedication.

Its all in a quest of never ending ever growing profits.  Used to be a company could show stable profits and pay comfortable dividends.  CEOs in the 1970s made about 20-30% the average worker salary.  Now they make 200-300%.  Stock holders are no longer individuals but now it all belongs to the Board of Directors , Hedge Funds, and other institutional holders.  The oly goal for companies now is to make as much profit as possible before they implode.  They don't care who they leave in the wake.

Employees have finally gotten wise.  They are no longer going to devote their lives to a job that will screw them down the line.  They don't see the benefit because in many cases there is none.  In a country where the unemployment is 4%, another job is easily found