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Brilliant_Rock
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I retired.
I'm jealous!
The companies that are offering full time work with benefits even if the wages are not super high are getting a ton of applications for every job opening here.
Place offering even 15 an hour part time with no benefits are getting sworn at and told where to shove it.
People are tired of working crap jobs and covid has shown them that working 2-4 part time jobs to make ends meet has no future.
Look behind the unemployment numbers, what is actually being offered? Mostly crap jobs.
If they want workers they are going to have to take some of the crap out of them. Full time and benefits is a good start.
Edit: I hope I caught all the swear words if not im sorry.
Why should I go back to work ? when I can receive more money by staying home drinking beer all day long.As an employer who is willing to pay well above average. Bottom line - The State of California is paying them $400 per week and the Federal Government is paying them an additional $300 per week, plus the rental moratorium in California - due to COVID, they are not required to pay their rent despite the additional income and landlords are not allowed to evict them,
Why should I go back to work ? when I can receive more money by staying home drinking beer all day long.
As usual, absurd faux news talking points without evidence. The idea that folks are just sitting at home choosing not to work bc the govt pays them enough is absurd.
It's also a lie.
80% of people who receive benefits work full time. Every state has work requirements and all welfare is finite. I learned all of this working for a local branch of The United Way during my senior/gap year before college. It was eye opening. We're the only first world where our largest employers hand out welfare information in their employment package upon hiring- and give tips on how to sign up. I feel absolutely no sympathy for corporate America, and very little for small business.
If you can't pay living minimum wage- then you don't have a viable business model.
Talk about entitlement.
We are the only first world that shows such open contempt of it's people and such slavish subservience to it's corporate 'job creators' who historical evidence shows, create no jobs.
“no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By ‘business’ I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of decent living,”.
~President Franklin D Roosevelt, 1933
PAY THEM and offer benefits on par with EVERY other first world.
This parallels the Black Plague somewhat in a catastrophic event causing people to stop and take stock of their worth/ and know their power. It's about time.
*This is what essentially ended feudalism in Europe. Though even in medieval Europe they had more time off. Yeah, for real, they did.
Just to be clear, I’m not apologetic about having to be on unemployment. There is just this ignorant stigma about people who collect, not everyone has a wonderful safety net of family to fall back on.
Most of the people I know who are home are there because of childcare. Prices have gone up A LOT because of COVID restrictions, many don't get paid enough for it to be worth it to work. My mother watches my kids, if she couldn't DH would quit his job and stay home with them. What his company pays isn't worth it if we had to pay for childcare.
It's also a lie.
80% of people who receive benefits work full time. Every state has work requirements and all welfare is finite. I learned all of this working for a local branch of The United Way during my senior/gap year before college. It was eye opening. We're the only first world where our largest employers hand out welfare information in their employment package upon hiring- and give tips on how to sign up. I feel absolutely no sympathy for corporate America, and very little for small business.
If you can't pay living minimum wage- then you don't have a viable business model.
Talk about entitlement.
We are the only first world that shows such open contempt of it's people and such slavish subservience to it's corporate 'job creators' who historical evidence shows, create no jobs.
“no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By ‘business’ I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of decent living,”.
~President Franklin D Roosevelt, 1933
PAY THEM and offer benefits on par with EVERY other first world.
This parallels the Black Plague somewhat in a catastrophic event causing people to stop and take stock of their worth/ and know their power. It's about time.
*This is what essentially ended feudalism in Europe. Though even in medieval Europe they had more time off.
Yeah, for real, they did.
Also nobody should have to defend what they had to do to survive a pandemic! Just stop! You didn't do anything wrong.
Raising/educating children is not wrong.
Taking care of your own or someone else's health is not wrong.
Wanting a living wage so you and yours don't starve and have basic necessities like healthcare is not wrong.
Stop apologizing. 'Bootstraps' mentality is bull****
That is something we've been conditioned to do.
It's also one of the greatest indicators of America's weakness.
A strong country country takes care of it's people as a point of pride.
As usual, absurd faux news talking points without evidence. The idea that folks are just sitting at home choosing not to work bc the govt pays them enough is absurd.
It's not faux news. At the small business that I work at, we used to get calls from temp agencies all the time for manual labor positions. A year ago, you could get someone reliable for $15 an hour, plus markup. These days, we put out job posts for full time positions with benefits all the time, and people are demanding $20/hour to stay with less experience than candidates we used to get.
I should add, instead of temp agencies calling us, this year we called them week after week, and they couldn't give us any candidates.
It's not faux news. At the small business that I work at, we used to get calls from temp agencies all the time for manual labor positions. A year ago, you could get someone reliable for $15 an hour, plus markup. These days, we put out job posts for full time positions with benefits all the time, and people are demanding $20/hour to stay with less experience than candidates we used to get.
I should add, instead of temp agencies calling us, this year we called them week after week, and they couldn't give us any candidates.
But, is $15/hr really a living wage? Where I live (mid-size, East Coast city) it really isn't.