I was eating-out very recently and the table next to ours entered into our conversation…. they claimed to manage a high-end restaurant at a local golf course…and blamed their inability to get hired help on unemployment benefits. That’s pure B.S. in my opinion …and told them so.
The reason help doesn’t come to the job is because the job doesn’t PAY sufficient wages. You can’t expect people to take Your Job which is still offering pre-covid-inflation wages….when the worker is facing Increasing prices on everything they must pay for. It’s a two-way-street.
I'll disagree with you there. Do wages need to increase???? Yes, But at the same time the people that want to work, are already working.
I know of two people bi**hing right now because they "can't find work", or that job is "beneath them" when offered one. One of those said people has 2 more months, then it's boot to booty and they can find out what truly being homeless is about.
I told both of them the same thing. The job is paying more then what you are making now!!!
Both also brought up a living wage. Well when your currently making $0.00. $10 an hour is $400 more then what your bringing in currently.
Both were also upset over the states cutting out the federal bonus for unemployment. That $600 works out to $36,000 a year. If that person was also qualifying for max unemployment at $425. Well that works out to $1,025 a week to sit on your fanny doing nothing. Thats over $100k a year for a couple if both qualified for max unemployment, in case you missed it.
Heck... where can my wife and I sign up. We'll take a 25,000 a year pay cut to sit on or fannies at the house
Unemployment was set up for short term support to keep you semi afloat till you can get another job. What happened during the pandemic was it got turned into and considered welfare.
There's a big difference between the two.
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