"Dear Employers: Stop Acting So Entitled and Raise Your Wages"

[orleans]

"It's not American workers who are acting entitled during this labor "shortage"

Have you heard? You must have seen the headlines and read the comments sections. If not, here’s the gist.

NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE.

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS ARE TOO HIGH.

OUR FELLOW AMERICANS ARE LAZY AND ENTITLED.

ALL OF THIS IS CAUSING A LABOR SHORTAGE.

Don’t buy it.

These are the histrionics of cheapskate employers who desperately want to hide the truth.

The truth is that it’s not labor that’s in shortage – it’s wages.

And it’s not the workers who are acting entitled – it’s the employers.

more at link

https://blueridgebreakdown.substack.com/p/dear-employers-stop-acting-so-entitled

[wackadoo wabbit]

1. I wish I could rec this more than once /nt

[ShazzieB]

2. Great article!

Thanks for the link!

Smd @ all the employers who are so deeply offended and shocked -- shocked, I tell you! -- that people don't want to put up with their shitty treatment and crappy working conditions in return fof the "privilege" of getting paid starvation wages. What's this world coming to?

[zipplewrath]

3. HR is part of the problem

My employer was increasing their workforce by 50% in one year. We had weekly manpower meetings. Every week HR would claim that we couldn't find "qualified candidates ". Every week I would point out that we made 8 -10 offers a week and got at best 2 acceptances. The response from the candidates was always that our offers were too low. We were also losing some of our best and brightest to competitors for higher wages. And yet every week HR would deny that our offers were too low. "Our offers are consistent with national averages ". Yabbut we're not trying to hire " average employees". We were pursuing top people.

HR lies and upper management wants to hear that.

[roamer65]

4. HR is the problem.

One of the most useless departments I have ever encountered.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Hear, hear!

Never met an HR person I liked. They are all so sneaky, phony and full of shit. HR people and recruiters/employment agency people. Ugh! Just the worst. I do manage to stay on their good side because I realize the power they have, but I never make the mistake of trusting them.

[SergeStorms]

10. Did they say which nation....

they were averaging? You have to parse every word they utter very carefully.

[monkeyman1]

5. employer 's think about their bottom lines - not employee's!!

[Moostache]

6. Until I see "job creators" passing out from exhaustion at businesses, there is no shortage.

Let them work and create all that work and sweet sweet profit...when I see the owners collapse at the fry machine or the checkout line, THEN I might say something's up...but in truth, I would need a lot of corroboration.

[Mustellus]

7. Wasa matter you????

You never heard of the Federal Maximum Wage act? No worker can receive more than $8.25 an hour, and absolutely no benefits of any kind....

[WVreaper]

8. Pay a living wage.

That is all it would take.

[Magoo48]

14. If an employer can't afford to pay a living wage.

there business sucks. They should shut the doors.

[mshasta]

9. 80% of restaurants food is gross..

they have not updated their menu or a least added a diverse options for people who is vegetarian, kitchens falling apart old, rundown furniture, restaurant owners don't care to update their location, paint it, change floors, clean restrooms, they are expecting customers to walk in and pay not just for food but pay labor,

as a sales representative everyday I hear the same crap, first they got mad for the covid restrictions , they punish their staff and force them to work under stressful conditions , complaint if they need to clean and sanitize their kitchen, complain that everybody is getting money....entitle pricks

[paleotn]

11. Free market. Give them an incentive or shut the hell up.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Employers and HRs: You Get What You Pay For. . .

[Deminpenn]

13. Chipolte figured it out

at least. They raised their starting salary to $15/hr with the potential to rise to a 6 figure management position in 4 years.

[Blue_true]

16. The fact that some workers are better off on unemployment should be

a ringing indictment of capitalism as practiced in this country. An some red state governors are cutting the payments to try to send people back to “work”. Incidentally, they are the same ones that have been poor in response to SARS-COV-2.

[BobTheSubgenius]

17. The employers being typified here want it both ways.

They want supply and demand and "the invisible hand" to rule the marketplace, but to back off when those forces work against them instead of for them. And the forces pushing against them aren't exactly hurricane force - they are people who want to be able to live on what they earn. Talk about "entitled."