As if the low wages weren’t enough, the grueling hours, no set schedules, little or no breaks, not honoring time off requests…what else am I missing? Chime in!
Being underpaid is a significant part of the issue, but when customers are rude, insulting, or degrading, management historically sides with the customers in service industries. This is delicious karma to watch. 🙂
Higher wages mean higher prices. At least part of the problem is we ourselves. Not just the businesses In America we used to make stuff here of high quality and the wages were good because people were willing to pay for the quality. also our standard of living was much lower. When I was a kid 99% of houses unless you were really well off,all for the entire family to share, had 1 TV, 1 telephone, often no air conditioning, 1 car. IF they had a car at all Now everyone has to have 3-4 of everything and we have moved to a disposable goods economy and Nobody is willing to pay for stuff. Everything they want has to be cheap which is why manufacturing went to other countries. You cant have both high quality goods made here and sold at affordable prices AND pay high wages. The same thing goes for the services industry. You want the best and most perfect paint job possible in your living room but you aren't willing to pay for the time it takes to achieve that. Thus contractors are forced to hire low wage (often illegal alien) workers. Womens lib has also contributed to it. Supply and demand. It used to be the man worked and the women stayed home to mind the kids,house etc etc. Thus the available workforce was effectively half of what it is now which also had the effect of driving wages up. Then women decided they wanted to be able to work too. Thus inflating the available work force. Which drives wages lower. We as a society, got what we wanted. the problems is we don't want the realities associated with getting what we wanted. Labor demand right now is driving wages up. Grab the jobs now while you can because now that all the freebies are about to be cut off and the freeloaders are forced back into the work place. They are going to stabilize again. And those higher wages WILL drive the costs of goods and services up eventually even for the lower wage workers who the higher wages are supposed to be helping.
@@butchgriggs6325 No...you are. I actually own and run a business. ANY time you raise the costs of a business, be it by wage,tax, or regulation the end effect is a raise in the costs of goods and services. This is why the iPhone you are likely droning on is made in China Not here. If your $1,000 iphone was made here it would cost more than twice as much due to labor costs
Yes, the last 20 years or so, no matter where I work, wages don't go up at all, or very little while "the big guys/gals" pocket more and more of the money we earned for them. Time to stay away from low-paying jobs.
Nobody wants to stand on their feet all day for $2.20 an hour...plus tips. The stimulus package gave people the opportunity to make better career choices.
@@noskpain2792 HAHAHAHAHA. You’re paid what you’re worth 99% of the time. Hard work or not, low skill jobs that only require 2 or 3 weeks of training (or less) will NEVER pay a great wage.
@@DanStratocaster1 yeah and people are choosing to value themselves more than what these people want to pay, thus they cant find help at the same price.
Yeah, and if that “low skill job” is so important to a business that it can’t run without that worker then maybe it has more value than we think and businesses need to pay more. And maybe customers need to pay more. And if that means we have fewer customers maybe there doesn’t need to be a McDonald’s, Burger King, Hardee’s, Wendy’s, etc every 4 miles across the country.
Don't apply for a job if they dont pay $15 an hour. You dont deserve to live in Extreme Poverty, so don't work for an Employer that will banish you to that class.
@@sandycharlton8669 Here is my problem with a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage.. 15 dollars in one state is not equal to 15 dollars in another state. The minimum wage should be calculated on a variety of factors adding up to the ability to afford to live in that location. A "living wage" is a better qualifier .. and should definitely be mandated as a law.
So, we're trying to tell a bunch of people who have realized they can do better than waiting hand and foot on other people making their lives smoother ... we're telling them to go back to these jobs that don't even pay enough to live a simple, modern life. I can tell you for an unfortunate fact that a lot of us will never work those jobs again. We will work, just fine. It's you that are going to have to change.
Same. I would rather be homeless then make less than $15 an hour. I will never go back to the stress of working and being homeless because they pay less than $15.
Good for them. Unemployment is paying what they would make risking their lives to serve some ungrateful person. Once technology and robots take over… employers won’t lose any sleep cutting their employees. So get out while you can.
Right, Republicans (including many restaurant owners) have been saying for years "if you want better pay then get a better job!" Well that's what people have done. Now they're complaining that people did what they told them to.
@@jaridkeen123 honestly with the way the apartment and housing market is, you would still be homeless at 15 and hour. Its terrible that they had gotten away with this in the first place. The gap in pay between the people that own the company and the actual people that keep it running has widened, while everything around us has increased. Its time that everyone can actually have a real living wage, and not worry about which bill they have to let roll over still after working a full work week.
It's so true. If I could stop working, I would. I'm in physical pain all day. I really can't blame people for not going back but we can't let our economy fall.
Not to mention how you’re abused by customers, spoken to like your brain dead and considered human trash 🗑. Oh yeah, let’s rush back to those jobs ASAP.
@@jalene150 worked in fast food lasted a few months and I was Out Never again in Life Will I work fast food again . Now Im studying to be a software developer so I never have to do work like that again I think Everyone is starting to Realize their worth and Want more out of life this pandemic opened a lot of peoples eyes including mine.
When a person works 40 hours a week and can't afford a one bedroom apartment and to support themselves, we have a problem. We are about to see a huge problem with homelessness if this doesn't change
If you look back at a company like GM. Their CEO made a little more than his employees. There is absolutely no reason someone should make 245% more than their employees. This greed is going to be the downfall of this nation and world eventually
It's not that simple. It's also necessary to be either profitable or absorb short term loss. Increasing salaries cuts into profits and spurs losses. It also results in cost of revenue increases. In a "normal economy", these things lead to layoffs and fewer businesses to act as competitors to each other. I won't even get into the inflationary affect on everyday consumers.
@@PhilMoskowitz or the employers can reduce their salaries and put it back into the wages of employees. The employees make the business far more money than they get paid by the business
he took the opportunity available and is working to improve himself... he gop should be happy about this... they hand money to companies all the time...this guy is taking initiative... and a smart business owner will his his drive and initiative and hire him.
Then he will get also tired of his tech job and go back lazy I know many tech now they got sick and tired quit (the job they say they will be excited and making money) and now doing TH-cam or living off the system So no matter the story those folks that says are going back to school bla bla they will get fed up at some point People are just lazy no matter the kind of job or career
Worker productivity is at an all-time high, yet wages have remained pretty stagnant for years and years. It's about time to pay people for what they are truly worth rather than sacrificing their lives for employer gains.
You also have a welfare state to pay for that's at an all time high. Guess how that's paid for? It comes at the cost indirectly of depressed wages. Every problem without exception stems from DC. Even complicit big businesses wouldn't have any power if DC didn't allow it
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN..THEY ALL THE SAME...THEY LIKE TAG TEAM IF U REALLY THING ABOUT IT ??? JUST LOOK AT HISTORY..AND U CAN TELL ! BUT I LIKE TO WATCH WWE SMACKDOWN INSTEAD ! IT'S JUST WRESTLERS WITH SUITS THAT'S ALL,LOL
B.S. you want higher wages. Learn a marketable skill Wages if they are stagnant is because people arent willing to put for the effort required to get a raise instead opting for the minimum effort required to keep their jobs. Many workers complaining now dont have 1-10th of the work ethic their higher waged grandparents did. You want a lot of money. But arent willing to do what it takes toactually earn more money.
That’s fair. There are two sides though. You can find 50 workers who reap the benefits of unemployment who for every one person attempting to better themselves like Richard Ascoto, both are significant.
If the Minimum Wage was tied to the GDP like in everyother European Nation the Minimum wage would be $22 hr in America. If you are not being paid $22 an hour in America your being under paid for your labor.
@@LadyLegendary Doesnt Matter. The United States was born from a European Nation and we follow a lot of the same Legal Norms since we are the same people
@@Frankieefootballmundial I feel this in my soul. I'm so tired of having to cover a minimum of 3 positions a day at work. I'm actively putting in applications so I can escape retail.
If you're younger, you're not experienced enough (even if you are), and if you're older/have experience, they don't want to pay you what you're worth and are afraid you might demand some respect as an employee, god forbid. The hiring process is out of control.
My daughter has gone on eight interviews, yet no one will hire her. I know she's not the most physically impressive applicant, but if these companies are truly wanting to hire people, why won't they give more people a chance???? My daughter's story is not the only one I know of. I have heard this story from many others.
@Beverley Ibrahim Most interviewers would probably get offended by that. They don’t like being asked questions and if they answer truthfully they are afraid of lawsuits- so they just do not call back. It happens in even very high paying lawyer jobs- my aunt had the same experience and she was successful and a great candidate still getting disrespected by companies looking to hire. So many companies just don’t do anything at all.
@@CapnCody1622 why is beauty a job requirement? I took it to mean not physically strong, but who knows. If appearance is important for most jobs, the world is messed up. This is exactly why I let my remote workers leave their cameras off for meetings. Their appearance has zero impact on the bottom line, and the work they're doing is more important.
I feel for these people. In the mid 1980s I was laid off from my factory job with good pay & benefits, for four years. It was a rough 4 years, cost me a divorce and the daily time with my two daughters. The farm economy tanked and yet the NYSM soared but I was barely getting by and child support was always paid on time. I never missed my obligations there. Any job I could get was at minimum wage but after taxes there wasn’t a lot left over. Thank goodness other UAW locals got together so there were food baskets at Easter & Christmas. A big plus was that local groceries had begun bulk food sales, I ate a lot of pasta & rice. I came through on the other side thanks to my church friends and the community. I found out first hand how important the farm economy was for the financial help of the whole economy. I could have left the area and gone home to D.C. but I wouldn’t leave my girls. A living wage shouldn’t be paycheck to paycheck, that’s just existing, in some cases barely.
Sadly, this philosophy does not exist with America's large retailers. This is why it is so important to only buy from Amazon to shudder the other businesses down so we can then take on Amazon shutting them down with actually buying from real people like small mom and pop stores that truly care about their workers and not the stockholders. The greed of America's corporate executives has destroyed lives and the American economy as well as our well-being. It's time to make them pay.
@@kwebster62 they're* And yes, tipping is a barbaric practice that needs to end. If people want to tip on top of the regular earnings that's ok. But paying somebody $2hr just because they might get a tip should be illegal.
How unbelievably cruel. You are asking their CEOs to go without that seventh house on the French Riviera and that third yacht. Positively, indubitably brutal.
@@lindabuck2777 those companies intentially keep workers below 32hrs a week to avoid matching contributions to those insurance benefits. That was always the plan
@@edwelndiobel1567 they've been expired in my state for the last 2 months and it hasn't moved the needle at all. I still can not find employees for my restaurant. It would appear that those"bums" got better jobs/skills instead of working 2 crappy jobs just to survive and mess up your food order.
There is hope for humanity. Most people have learned, have grown, have "awakened " during the pandemic. Society will become wiser. It's up to the people.
Exactly! Politicians who are the definition of BEGGARS and live on donor handouts have the nerve to call hardworking Americans as “lazy”. We need an actual living wage not starving wage which only benefits the rich.
The working class folk getting help...what a concept!! Fracking rich people have tax lawyers and accountants who help them shelter their millions while we support our country on our backs.
People are tired of waiting on people, hoping that they will get paid. End the tipping system or add tips into every check because no one wants to hope to get paid while hoping not to catch the Rona
@@KayDejaVu The the areas I've lived in, in the past 10 years. A burger meal at a small restaurant went from $6 to $14. Houses went from $300K to $700K. You must have your eyes closed.
Yaaaay, cyber security! Good for you for pursuing it and challenging yourself…it’s a great field and you’d continue to find it interesting. Wish you all the success.
Cyber security is the future. Wars will be fought over it and I am all for the underpaid worker who wants to hack into rich people's accounts and redistribute the hoarded wealth. Let's fight this greed.
I worked at a retail store and was fired for no fault of my own because the new manager made two schedules instead of one and I worked the wrong schedule. I decided to take me a jewelry class last year and will be opening my own custom jewelry store I also have a job that pays 20 an hour better than the 10 an hour I was making part time at my previous job and that job starts on the 29th of this month . Not everyone wasted the extra benefits we did something with them .
They'll just lessen the amount of hours given to employees. Overtime should not be disallowed to people, like it's actually forbidden. It's part of your job to not work more.
@@deadinside8781 I trained people to find jobs for 10 years, but that ended because of the pandemic. Tutoring was just an easier and safer transition working for the same company.
Another phenomenon that wasn't covered in this report is it there are many of us who are approaching retirement age who have just decided to not go back to work. Why as I begin the last phase of my life would I want to take the chance of catching covid from some inconsiderate coworker who refuses to wear a mask or knowingly comes to work ill. And don't think it doesn't happen I have a neighbor in her late twenties who now has long-haul symptoms due to an inconsiderate coworker knowingly coming to work with covid.
What are you talking about? I literally have seen far more openings in tech than even the daam finance department. Even in Texas I see departments spending more money to hire people in tech and would only hire one finance person or manager
Has anyone studied the whole picture? Higher wages means so much more than a boost to the employee and economy. It means our tax dollars can go farther due to the reduced needs from HHS, or potentially a tax break. That is just one side benefit!
Politics are such BS right. Even if the Prophet Trump 😂was sill in office prices would increase and there would be a labor shortage. The only difference is he would be in office and still blaming the other side. Wh in their right mind would go back to a job with crap hours, crap pay and no benefits. Especially if there was an alternative. I have no resentment for someone wanting to better themselves. Folks saw a chance and took it. The same senators that whine and complain are the 1% that don't give a damn about their fellow Americans. Amazes me folks will still vote for them and give them money, then complain about everything. News flash....Senators and ex-presidents (included the beloved Prophet 😂) don't care if any of us live or die! All they care about is power and money!
Profit margins have been too high since the mid 80’s. Unrealistic expectations for shareholders cost employees deserved pay increases to meet the costs of living. It created an unsustainable economic model.
@@cabayern9416 I've noticed this being a growing trend with businesses for the last 15-20 years. I think they pushed people to far and now they have a real problem
I’m a server I make 2.13 a hr, I’ve worked the entire pandemic and the way I’ve been treated for the last six months is bad people are rude entitled and it’s no wonder no one wants to be abused for maybe a 15% tip with reduced tables cooks short staffed I can’t get food out fast and make money I just quit my job now I’m moving on….
Adjust 1960s' minimum wage for inflation, should be $25. $15 is not enough, it's an insult. Less than $15 is abusing a young ignorant population, basically indentured servitude.
Especially when wages back in the 60's could pay for a semester of college. Nowadays, we can't. Because everything is treated like toilet paper was last year. (A Get Rich Quick scheme.) Which includes housing. And instead of intelligent solutions: The "hard working" people of 'Murrica would rather gaslight and threaten us. Because we said something they thought was "communist." And they'd rather call for a Civil War instead.
It’s a sellers market for chefs/sous chefs, pre pandemic i was only getting offers around 35-42k a year post pandemic my lowest offer we 60k a year to be a sous chef… so I’m good now lol
I’m so happy for you but holy crap you made $35k as a base to be a sous chef?!?! I work in medical billing in AR, and I make $13.40/hr…comes out to $28k per year.
@@Rockrgrl4 If he's working in a major city on the coasts, $35,000 is peanuts. I made that coming out of college ten years ago and couldn't rent a studio apartment in DC on my own (it's gentrified a lot in the past 20 years).
"Help wanted! Need laborers to exploit and treat terribly!" If by "it's a sign of the times" you mean "it's a sign if how fed up people are with mediocre working conditions, low pay and unsecured employment" then businesses struggling to find employees are indeed signs of the current times
It's not exploiting if both parties agree to the terms of employment. Wage slavery doesn't exist when you can negotiate or leave at any time you want to.
I still feel for those who are laid off, because of the whole pandemic. If it weren’t for it, though, I never would’ve had my shopping job, in which not only gives me good workouts (since I’m always walking around the store for many hours) and it gave me a good chance to build some money up for my future. Frankly, I know there are more opportunities ahead, but this is only the beginning. Good luck to all still trying to get hired, stay safe, and build up the future.
6:35 But it took a pandemic, it took bodies being thrown in the back of trailer trucks! We still need Congress to do their job, more to my point, Texas basically has a band on abortion (punishing those who help). If there was a federal law in place, there would be no way that the Supreme Court could interpret the law as it has done for Texas. #CongressDoYourJob you’re the only legislative body in this country!
I live in a rural coastal town in Oregon. My town relies on tourism to survive. We are facing the same hiring crisis because we have no affordable housing. Period.
I moved to Texas 2 months ago I have filled out many applications specifically where I see a hiring sign on windows, it's not true, they are not hiring.
Mayra, keep trying. Some employer out there is looking for you. If you have to, go back to the same place, and remind them you filled out an application. It could be sitting on someone's desk.
The public takes out their frustration out on the workers who actually show up. Customer demand far exceeds worker supply. I work at a grocery store and the Deli is dirty grueling work and to be paid $12.85 to deal with that and hostile customers. Nope.
I'm confused about this: you don't even make $1,000 a week and live in a cramp basement apartment yet you think 1,2,3 and 4 children are a good idea???
It seems to be the American way! For decades Iv watched people play out the government dollars at every angle, it’s like a business to a lot of family’s.
People have found out that they have been working for peanuts and they are tired of pay check to pay check life. These job need to pay people a living wage. Stop blaming it on the Gov.
Thank you CBS Sunday Morning for highlighting the main source of the problem with the last frame of the video. Most of the money is being funneled up to the top employees and very little is trickling down to the folks actually doing the work that the companies rely on for their profits. The middle class in this country has had the life squeezed out of them for decades and it has to stop.
plus the fact that a lot of people have retired and those close to retiring, may do so earlier than expected, because of overwork and increase pressure do to lack of labour.
Right now, what we're seeing is the low-paying wage sector, fast food, retail, etc. that are having a high shortage of workers. Let's keep it that way.
Your jobs suck. No one wants to be your servant anymore. People are ruder than ever. You don't care about or protect your employees. Why is this so difficult for rich people to comprehend?
Exactly! Politicians who are the definition of BEGGARS and live on donor handouts have the nerve to call hardworking Americans as “lazy”. We need an actual living wage not starving wage which only benefits the rich.
Waiters, bussers, cooks and dishwashers have been paid crap wages in this country since I began in the industry in 1980. Good. Don't go back to work until they pay you what you are worth. KUDOS food service workers!!
Where do you think all the multi-millionaire lobbyists and corporate gatekeepers are supposed to live in order to access federal representatives and their gatekeepers?
After working for the same retailer for 20 years and getting .10 to .15 cent annual raises, yes, my time has finally come. Instead of earning less than the new hire, I can actually have a living wage.
This only proves that service workers were way underpaid. 600 dollars made a huge difference on changing people's lives. Why the employers never thought to improve the lives of their workers?
I don't eat out much because 1) i can't afford it and 2) i flat out refuse to keep getting guilted into tipping more and more when management refuses to pay a living wage. "We must tip 20-25% now". Nope. We must not. Therefore I don't eat out because after spending $20 on a meal and $5 in tax and $5-6 on a tip that's pushing $30 for a dang mexican meal at a mediocre restaurant. Next thing you know it will be 30%. Nope. It's no wonder people are leaving the industry in droves. Also, the last time i visited our little local taqueria they had raised their prices, again. $12.99 for street tacos. 3 tacos and a 1/2 cup of rice and a 1/2 cup of beans. $3.99 for iced tea. For iced tea!! Nope. Good luck restaurant industry. You're gonna need it.
This is exactly why I feel like the argument that certain jobs are for teens and college students only is, at best, disingenuous. This is why everyone, no matter how simple you deem their career choice, deserves a living wage. A lot of people are leaving those jobs to do what everyone claimed they needed to do, "get a real job". Now look, shortages everywhere.
Yeah your right I remember a time when service jobs were kid jobs now I see whole grown adults working these jobs. These jobs were suppose to be stepping stones to a career. I don't know what's going on not to offend anyone. But service jobs are for kids not a 40 + year old. With kids and a spouse.
@@jessicacannady1931 Yeah, service jobs are for kids. That is why McDo's, Burger King, and grocery stores close during the school day... because all their workers are at school. Oh, they don't close? Then who can work there? 😎
Here is my problem with a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage.. 15 dollars in one state is not equal to 15 dollars in another state. The minimum wage should be calculated on a variety of factors adding up to the ability to afford to live in that location. A "living wage" is a better qualifier .. and should definitely be mandated as a law.
Yay for the restaurant workers that are getting out of their low paying jobs where the owners want you to give you're oh that please don't expect that in return from them. Time for the restaurant workers to step up and say no to slavery wages as a workers have. And give their workers a job to be proud of.
When you disrespect, under appreciate, and devalue your workers during big profit times and you never saw covid coming, this is what you get. A lot of people won't be returning to some of those jobs either. Republikklans seem to think receiving unemployment is the problem, but it's a inhumane as well as a wage problem. Watch and see when those profits get back up, employers will turn around and cut hours as well as find a way to stagnate wages again. Their attitudes will revert back to underemploying and overworking their staff. Wait for it. History repeats itself ALWAYS.
I really get tired of rich mofo's giving their opinion about how much the less fortunate should receive. The issue is these people have gotten a bit smarter. Life is too short to work @ a job you HATE, with people you don't like for $HIT pay!! If you can't afford to pay your workers a livable wage then eff'in CLOSE!!!!
If the taxes coming out of my check to support "lazy people" who don't want to go back to work then I'll do it, mind you the video said they were getting about $1,000 a week that is still $48,000 a year and for a family with three kids that's barely above the poverty line so I don't think anyone is going to Tulum eating bonbons and shrimp with their increased benefits. Nobody wants to make $8 an hour being berated by customers. Not to mention during this pandemic a lot of people started their own businesses, began investing, moved to a cheaper town and went back to school to get their degree.
Oh look, we're finally talking about reality. Too bad it took a global pandemic and a collective refusal to return to work. Maybe next time we'll try to be more proactive as a society. And the idea that profit margins are too slim to pay employees a living wage is ludicrous. If they keep lying about it they'll just have to go out of business. Oh well...
Strange days and times. I remember workers complaining about low wages, lack of benefits, no healthcare, over scheduling and under scheduling. But, the workers would not stand together and strike. And if they did strike, I remember many Americans were not behind them. Well, the Pandemic came and truly showed America who needs who
As if the low wages weren’t enough, the grueling hours, no set schedules, little or no breaks, not honoring time off requests…what else am I missing? Chime in!
No sick time. We like viruses
The lack of respect and gratitude
No benefits unless full time, and they will make sure you are not working 40 hours.
Unappreciated, no room for growth
No help with child care, Over stressed, lack of care from employers towards the fact that without the employee the employer would be out of business.
Treat someone like crap long enough, eventually they'll leave. Treat everyone like crap, everyone leaves.
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Yup
Why work when you can earn more with unemployment for 18+ months.
So not making enough to have shelter and food at the same time is "the best ever"?
@@demonwaterdemonwater4993 are you sure you have a brain or common sense ?
Being underpaid is a significant part of the issue, but when customers are rude, insulting, or degrading, management historically sides with the customers in service industries.
This is delicious karma to watch.
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Yup
In my experience it’s the coworkers that cause the most problems for you. At least the customers go away.
so true!
Grow a thick skin
@California Dreamer no I don't, because I'm not a California dreamer like you :)
Wages have been low for years. This is the wake up call for many
It SHOULD be, but I don't have hope that it is.
Higher wages mean higher prices. At least part of the problem is we ourselves. Not just the businesses In America we used to make stuff here of high quality and the wages were good because people were willing to pay for the quality. also our standard of living was much lower. When I was a kid 99% of houses unless you were really well off,all for the entire family to share, had 1 TV, 1 telephone, often no air conditioning, 1 car. IF they had a car at all Now everyone has to have 3-4 of everything and we have moved to a disposable goods economy and Nobody is willing to pay for stuff. Everything they want has to be cheap which is why manufacturing went to other countries. You cant have both high quality goods made here and sold at affordable prices AND pay high wages. The same thing goes for the services industry. You want the best and most perfect paint job possible in your living room but you aren't willing to pay for the time it takes to achieve that. Thus contractors are forced to hire low wage (often illegal alien) workers.
Womens lib has also contributed to it. Supply and demand. It used to be the man worked and the women stayed home to mind the kids,house etc etc. Thus the available workforce was effectively half of what it is now which also had the effect of driving wages up. Then women decided they wanted to be able to work too. Thus inflating the available work force. Which drives wages lower. We as a society, got what we wanted. the problems is we don't want the realities associated with getting what we wanted.
Labor demand right now is driving wages up. Grab the jobs now while you can because now that all the freebies are about to be cut off and the freeloaders are forced back into the work place. They are going to stabilize again. And those higher wages WILL drive the costs of goods and services up eventually even for the lower wage workers who the higher wages are supposed to be helping.
@@thomasmendez2816 Out of touch much?
@@butchgriggs6325 No...you are. I actually own and run a business. ANY time you raise the costs of a business, be it by wage,tax, or regulation the end effect is a raise in the costs of goods and services.
This is why the iPhone you are likely droning on is made in China Not here. If your $1,000 iphone was made here it would cost more than twice as much due to labor costs
Yes, the last 20 years or so, no matter where I work, wages don't go up at all, or very little while "the big guys/gals" pocket more and more of the money we earned for them. Time to stay away from low-paying jobs.
I don’t blame the guy who used to work as a waiter he’s learning how to code I hope he work as a programmer
WOW! He's going into security. Not programming
@@angeladesantis7911 cyber security, so he would still program
Learning to code and getting a job in the computer field is a big jump.🤣🤣🤣
@Sister Supersonic no it’s it not it’s like doing calculus or Trig you have to know how to put the right code in order not to trigger errors
@@Frankieefootballmundial that's why it's called CODING and not just MATH! :-)
Nobody wants to stand on their feet all day for $2.20 an hour...plus tips. The stimulus package gave people the opportunity to make better career choices.
You said it let business owners learn the hard way
@@noskpain2792 HAHAHAHAHA. You’re paid what you’re worth 99% of the time. Hard work or not, low skill jobs that only require 2 or 3 weeks of training (or less) will NEVER pay a great wage.
@@DanStratocaster1 yeah and people are choosing to value themselves more than what these people want to pay, thus they cant find help at the same price.
All thats going to do is drive up inflation that itself is running out of control thereby nullifying the pay increase in the first place!
Yeah, and if that “low skill job” is so important to a business that it can’t run without that worker then maybe it has more value than we think and businesses need to pay more. And maybe customers need to pay more. And if that means we have fewer customers maybe there doesn’t need to be a McDonald’s, Burger King, Hardee’s, Wendy’s, etc every 4 miles across the country.
Don't apply for a job if they dont pay $15 an hour. You dont deserve to live in Extreme Poverty, so don't work for an Employer that will banish you to that class.
But the owner really needs that 5 million dollar house over on the island, Jarid.
Where can you pay rent at $15 an hour
@@sandycharlton8669 Here is my problem with a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage.. 15 dollars in one state is not equal to 15 dollars in another state. The minimum wage should be calculated on a variety of factors adding up to the ability to afford to live in that location. A "living wage" is a better qualifier .. and should definitely be mandated as a law.
@@sandycharlton8669 here in Missouri
UBI is the future
So, we're trying to tell a bunch of people who have realized they can do better than waiting hand and foot on other people making their lives smoother ... we're telling them to go back to these jobs that don't even pay enough to live a simple, modern life. I can tell you for an unfortunate fact that a lot of us will never work those jobs again. We will work, just fine. It's you that are going to have to change.
Same. I would rather be homeless then make less than $15 an hour. I will never go back to the stress of working and being homeless because they pay less than $15.
Good for them. Unemployment is paying what they would make risking their lives to serve some ungrateful person. Once technology and robots take over… employers won’t lose any sleep cutting their employees. So get out while you can.
Right, Republicans (including many restaurant owners) have been saying for years "if you want better pay then get a better job!" Well that's what people have done. Now they're complaining that people did what they told them to.
@@jaridkeen123 honestly with the way the apartment and housing market is, you would still be homeless at 15 and hour. Its terrible that they had gotten away with this in the first place. The gap in pay between the people that own the company and the actual people that keep it running has widened, while everything around us has increased. Its time that everyone can actually have a real living wage, and not worry about which bill they have to let roll over still after working a full work week.
It's so true. If I could stop working, I would. I'm in physical pain all day. I really can't blame people for not going back but we can't let our economy fall.
I agree the food industry is super stressful and has a history of being underpaid in general across the board.
Not to mention how you’re abused by customers, spoken to like your brain dead and considered human trash 🗑. Oh yeah, let’s rush back to those jobs ASAP.
@@penelopelopez8296 my time in fast food was the most demoralizing job I’ve ever worked.
@@penelopelopez8296 😂😂😂 Exactly.
@@jalene150 worked in fast food lasted a few months and I was Out Never again in Life Will I work fast food again . Now Im studying to be a software developer so I never have to do work like that again I think Everyone is starting to Realize their worth and Want more out of life this pandemic opened a lot of peoples eyes including mine.
Naw. You forget about the underground economy run by mob bosses because it's convenient for you.
When a person works 40 hours a week and can't afford a one bedroom apartment and to support themselves, we have a problem. We are about to see a huge problem with homelessness if this doesn't change
Unfortunately, it won't change.
It's wage slavery.
Just start your own restaurant.
If you look back at a company like GM. Their CEO made a little more than his employees. There is absolutely no reason someone should make 245% more than their employees. This greed is going to be the downfall of this nation and world eventually
@@Higgins8 Yeah, but you also need workers, and the money to pay them.
When products are in demand, prices for those products always go up. When employees are in demand, wages should always go up. Period.
It's not that simple. It's also necessary to be either profitable or absorb short term loss. Increasing salaries cuts into profits and spurs losses. It also results in cost of revenue increases. In a "normal economy", these things lead to layoffs and fewer businesses to act as competitors to each other. I won't even get into the inflationary affect on everyday consumers.
@@PhilMoskowitz If you're not profitable enough to pay living wages then you don't have a successful business.
@@PhilMoskowitz or the employers can reduce their salaries and put it back into the wages of employees. The employees make the business far more money than they get paid by the business
YUP. Just like graphics cards, gaming consoles, toilet paper and hand sanitizers in 2020.
Except we aren't products or merchandise. We're living beings with a soul.
At least that young man is using the time to re-tool himself
Tool he is
he took the opportunity available and is working to improve himself... he gop should be happy about this... they hand money to companies all the time...this guy is taking initiative... and a smart business owner will his his drive and initiative and hire him.
@Sagada Polk- Chez lmao aren’t conservatives always saying minimum wage = minimum skills? Why be mad that people are choosing to increase skills?
@@r.i.pyoutube6881 lmao aren’t conservatives always saying minimum wage = minimum skills? Why be mad that people are choosing to increase skills?
Then he will get also tired of his tech job and go back lazy
I know many tech now they got sick and tired quit (the job they say they will be excited and making money) and now doing TH-cam or living off the system
So no matter the story those folks that says are going back to school bla bla they will get fed up at some point
People are just lazy no matter the kind of job or career
Worker productivity is at an all-time high, yet wages have remained pretty stagnant for years and years. It's about time to pay people for what they are truly worth rather than sacrificing their lives for employer gains.
You also have a welfare state to pay for that's at an all time high. Guess how that's paid for? It comes at the cost indirectly of depressed wages. Every problem without exception stems from DC. Even complicit big businesses wouldn't have any power if DC didn't allow it
@@brandynhenry7107 Nah, it's just greed.
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN..THEY ALL THE SAME...THEY LIKE TAG TEAM IF U REALLY THING ABOUT IT ??? JUST LOOK AT HISTORY..AND U CAN TELL ! BUT I LIKE TO WATCH WWE SMACKDOWN INSTEAD ! IT'S JUST WRESTLERS WITH SUITS THAT'S ALL,LOL
B.S. you want higher wages. Learn a marketable skill
Wages if they are stagnant is because people arent willing to put for the effort required to get a raise instead opting for the minimum effort required to keep their jobs.
Many workers complaining now dont have 1-10th of the work ethic their higher waged grandparents did. You want a lot of money. But arent willing to do what it takes toactually earn more money.
@@tdm3301 Nahh. Just worker lazyness
I’m so happy this business person actually a knowledges the situation rather than blaming the workers
Literally the only one I've seen... and that's a shame
That’s fair. There are two sides though. You can find 50 workers who reap the benefits of unemployment who for every one person attempting to better themselves like Richard Ascoto, both are significant.
If the Minimum Wage was tied to the GDP like in everyother European Nation the Minimum wage would be $22 hr in America. If you are not being paid $22 an hour in America your being under paid for your labor.
"every other European Nation" ... we are in fact NOT a European Nation, sir.
@@LadyLegendary Doesnt Matter. The United States was born from a European Nation and we follow a lot of the same Legal Norms since we are the same people
You would also have the Much HIGHER TAXES that other countries except. 50% of your income goes to others. No thanks.
@@scottsacre6232 Not true. Do some research.
And you would be paying 5 times as much for food, rent and everything
I don't blame them, dealing with rude customers and awful hours.
It sucks even more when you have to work at a job with a lack staff
And poverty level pay!
@@Frankieefootballmundial I feel this in my soul. I'm so tired of having to cover a minimum of 3 positions a day at work. I'm actively putting in applications so I can escape retail.
@@danielmoore4871 well good for you I had to at least pick more days to be in college
YES INDEED
Applied for 20 jobs got 3 call backs. There's a problem. Im a 52 yr old woman.
Keep the faith! You will get a job.
If you're younger, you're not experienced enough (even if you are), and if you're older/have experience, they don't want to pay you what you're worth and are afraid you might demand some respect as an employee, god forbid. The hiring process is out of control.
Normal these days
Age discrimination. They probably think you'll slip and fall to get a payout for retirement.
Ageism.
My daughter has gone on eight interviews, yet no one will hire her. I know she's not the most physically impressive applicant, but if these companies are truly wanting to hire people, why won't they give more people a chance???? My daughter's story is not the only one I know of. I have heard this story from many others.
Did you just call your own daughter ugly?
@Beverley Ibrahim Most interviewers would probably get offended by that. They don’t like being asked questions and if they answer truthfully they are afraid of lawsuits- so they just do not call back. It happens in even very high paying lawyer jobs- my aunt had the same experience and she was successful and a great candidate still getting disrespected by companies looking to hire. So many companies just don’t do anything at all.
@@CapnCody1622 🤣🤣😍😍😍😂😂
@@CapnCody1622 🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅
@@CapnCody1622 why is beauty a job requirement?
I took it to mean not physically strong, but who knows. If appearance is important for most jobs, the world is messed up. This is exactly why I let my remote workers leave their cameras off for meetings. Their appearance has zero impact on the bottom line, and the work they're doing is more important.
I feel for these people. In the mid 1980s I was laid off from my factory job with good pay & benefits, for four years. It was a rough 4 years, cost me a divorce and the daily time with my two daughters. The farm economy tanked and yet the NYSM soared but I was barely getting by and child support was always paid on time. I never missed my obligations there. Any job I could get was at minimum wage but after taxes there wasn’t a lot left over. Thank goodness other UAW locals got together so there were food baskets at Easter & Christmas. A big plus was that local groceries had begun bulk food sales, I ate a lot of pasta & rice. I came through on the other side thanks to my church friends and the community. I found out first hand how important the farm economy was for the financial help of the whole economy. I could have left the area and gone home to D.C. but I wouldn’t leave my girls. A living wage shouldn’t be paycheck to paycheck, that’s just existing, in some cases barely.
A company that values its own employees as assets rather than liabilities will get much better results and productivity from them
Sadly, this philosophy does not exist with America's large retailers. This is why it is so important to only buy from Amazon to shudder the other businesses down so we can then take on Amazon shutting them down with actually buying from real people like small mom and pop stores that truly care about their workers and not the stockholders. The greed of America's corporate executives has destroyed lives and the American economy as well as our well-being. It's time to make them pay.
I find it appalling that wait staffs aren't even paid minimum wage
And min wage varies state to state, city by city and sometimes depends on how many employees there are. PA is still $7.25/hr
To my knowledge and looking back thru the years this isn’t new news but old news! Waitress waiters depend on tips and tips alone!
So strike until that changes.
I'd have no problem with their being paid a more competitive wage...if we stop the practice of tipping.
@@kwebster62 they're*
And yes, tipping is a barbaric practice that needs to end. If people want to tip on top of the regular earnings that's ok. But paying somebody $2hr just because they might get a tip should be illegal.
Well why don’t they pay more, health benefits, no sick pay.
How unbelievably cruel. You are asking their CEOs to go without that seventh house on the French Riviera and that third yacht. Positively, indubitably brutal.
Benefits only for FULL TIME of 40 hrs or more, it’s the INSURANCE COMPANIES that WONT insure part timers. GO AFTER THE INSURANCE COMPANIES TOO!
@@lindabuck2777 those companies intentially keep workers below 32hrs a week to avoid matching contributions to those insurance benefits. That was always the plan
Unemployment benefits expiring so the bums have to go back to work
@@edwelndiobel1567 they've been expired in my state for the last 2 months and it hasn't moved the needle at all. I still can not find employees for my restaurant.
It would appear that those"bums" got better jobs/skills instead of working 2 crappy jobs just to survive and mess up your food order.
There is hope for humanity. Most people have learned, have grown, have "awakened " during the pandemic. Society will become wiser. It's up to the people.
😂
Exactly! Politicians who are the definition of BEGGARS and live on donor handouts have the nerve to call hardworking Americans as “lazy”. We need an actual living wage not starving wage which only benefits the rich.
@@thinkbeforeyoutype7106 I actually agree
Most humans are brainwashed sheep now.
@@thinkbeforeyoutype7106 they will just import more labor, Biden is paying people to flood the country
It's a WAGE shortage, not a worker shortage.
tell that to Kohls
It's actually a quality of worker shortage.
The working class folk getting help...what a concept!! Fracking rich people have tax lawyers and accountants who help them shelter their millions while we support our country on our backs.
it is not million, it s hundreds of billions of dollar that Rich/corporations don't pay any taxes annually. Amazon received tax refund
AND rich people get rich people welfare aka "grants"
People are tired of waiting on people, hoping that they will get paid. End the tipping system or add tips into every check because no one wants to hope to get paid while hoping not to catch the Rona
Workers want more. The time for income "equitability" has come.
Even when people are getting paid more with inflation it still isn't enough to keep up.
But what has gone up? Food is around the same price. So is gas and every day products. Even rent is about the same compared to last year.
@@KayDejaVu Where do you live? Because in Louisiana gas and food prices have gone up.
@@KayDejaVu The the areas I've lived in, in the past 10 years. A burger meal at a small restaurant went from $6 to $14. Houses went from $300K to $700K. You must have your eyes closed.
THEY JUST WANT U TO GET PAY ENOUGH TO SURVIVE...THAT'S THE NAME OF THE GAME .
Acclaimed mixologist. Huh. They just called me a bartender
Lol mixologist. Have you ever heard of a sandwich artist ? Subway LOL
@@DogeLeague they call those the meat-masters. 😆😆
Yaaaay, cyber security! Good for you for pursuing it and challenging yourself…it’s a great field and you’d continue to find it interesting. Wish you all the success.
Cyber security is the future. Wars will be fought over it and I am all for the underpaid worker who wants to hack into rich people's accounts and redistribute the hoarded wealth. Let's fight this greed.
I worked at a retail store and was fired for no fault of my own because the new manager made two schedules instead of one and I worked the wrong schedule. I decided to take me a jewelry class last year and will be opening my own custom jewelry store I also have a job that pays 20 an hour better than the 10 an hour I was making part time at my previous job and that job starts on the 29th of this month . Not everyone wasted the extra benefits we did something with them .
Finally the little guy gets a break.
Snap it up. It won't last long.
The problem is the WAGES!!!! No one can live on what most of these companies are paying!!!! ENOUGH is enough!
Pay your workers fair wages 💯
But then most businesses would go out of business
@@FireMcgwire That's not how that works
They'll just lessen the amount of hours given to employees. Overtime should not be disallowed to people, like it's actually forbidden. It's part of your job to not work more.
THAT'S THE NAME OF THE GAME...TO KEEP PEOPLE SOME WHAT ...SATISFY !!! DON'T FEED PEOPLE TO MUCH..JUST ENOUGH TO MADE THEM GRACEFUL.
@@reginaldbrownmusic8356 “benefits should be given in small amounts ata time that way the flavor last longer “
I became a writing and reading tutor for people who have learning disabilities when the pandemic began. I have earned more income since then.
That's interesting! And you're helping people, how did you get to that?
@@deadinside8781 I trained people to find jobs for 10 years, but that ended because of the pandemic. Tutoring was just an easier and safer transition working for the same company.
Companies: We are desperate for employees!
Also companies: only part-time positions available
umm....
no benefits, no retirement plan...
@@quaithom3138 6 thousand dollar deductible health insurance if you have it at all. Things have never been more depressing.
Another phenomenon that wasn't covered in this report is it there are many of us who are approaching retirement age who have just decided to not go back to work. Why as I begin the last phase of my life would I want to take the chance of catching covid from some inconsiderate coworker who refuses to wear a mask or knowingly comes to work ill. And don't think it doesn't happen I have a neighbor in her late twenties who now has long-haul symptoms due to an inconsiderate coworker knowingly coming to work with covid.
Thank you. You said it all.
There are still fewer office, & tech jobs. The available jobs are the ones you will catch Covid-19 Variants in a few weeks for low pay.
Right? And wear a mask all day but STILL get coof? F^ck no.
What are you talking about? I literally have seen far more openings in tech than even the daam finance department. Even in Texas I see departments spending more money to hire people in tech and would only hire one finance person or manager
Youre more likely to catch the coof from a family member than the big bad world youre scared of.
I’m so happy this man was able to carve a new path for him & his family.
Once I considered this phenomenon a silent protest against the unliveable wage. It is good to hear those who many think should stay silent speak up.
Has anyone studied the whole picture? Higher wages means so much more than a boost to the employee and economy. It means our tax dollars can go farther due to the reduced needs from HHS, or potentially a tax break. That is just one side benefit!
Wealthy doesn't want to pay higher wages because they don't pay taxes anyway
@Colin Grayson true true
@@joe7665 it’s ok I steal from them
Politics are such BS right. Even if the Prophet Trump 😂was sill in office prices would increase and there would be a labor shortage. The only difference is he would be in office and still blaming the other side. Wh in their right mind would go back to a job with crap hours, crap pay and no benefits. Especially if there was an alternative. I have no resentment for someone wanting to better themselves. Folks saw a chance and took it. The same senators that whine and complain are the 1% that don't give a damn about their fellow Americans. Amazes me folks will still vote for them and give them money, then complain about everything. News flash....Senators and ex-presidents (included the beloved Prophet 😂) don't care if any of us live or die! All they care about is power and money!
@@donalbein2772 Wow... pretty spot on
Profit margins have been too high since the mid 80’s. Unrealistic expectations for shareholders cost employees deserved pay increases to meet the costs of living. It created an unsustainable economic model.
Profit margins are too high for which industry? Full service restaurants average around 6%.
Every quarter, businesses are pushed to exceed the previous quarter just to keep some faceless shareholder happy. If they fail, down goes their stock.
Now hiring $8 per hr
32 hrs per week so they don't have to give you health insurance
Yes. School districts do this with custodians, teacher aides, and others.
@@cabayern9416 I've noticed this being a growing trend with businesses for the last 15-20 years.
I think they pushed people to far and now they have a real problem
@@joe7665 yup a big problem. Oh well
I’m a server I make 2.13 a hr, I’ve worked the entire pandemic and the way I’ve been treated for the last six months is bad people are rude entitled and it’s no wonder no one wants to be abused for maybe a 15% tip with reduced tables cooks short staffed I can’t get food out fast and make money I just quit my job now I’m moving on….
Adjust 1960s' minimum wage for inflation, should be $25. $15 is not enough, it's an insult. Less than $15 is abusing a young ignorant population, basically indentured servitude.
Especially when wages back in the 60's could pay for a semester of college.
Nowadays, we can't. Because everything is treated like toilet paper was last year.
(A Get Rich Quick scheme.)
Which includes housing.
And instead of intelligent solutions:
The "hard working" people of 'Murrica would rather gaslight and threaten us.
Because we said something they thought was "communist."
And they'd rather call for a Civil War instead.
It’s a sellers market for chefs/sous chefs, pre pandemic i was only getting offers around 35-42k a year post pandemic my lowest offer we 60k a year to be a sous chef… so I’m good now lol
Good for you!!!
I’m so happy for you but holy crap you made $35k as a base to be a sous chef?!?!
I work in medical billing in AR, and I make $13.40/hr…comes out to $28k per year.
@@Rockrgrl4 If he's working in a major city on the coasts, $35,000 is peanuts. I made that coming out of college ten years ago and couldn't rent a studio apartment in DC on my own (it's gentrified a lot in the past 20 years).
@@athena608 I live in the DC/PG county area so yeah 35k was low
That extra money arrived just in time to pay for his school. Yay.
Yippy for the Mexicans
Yes, changed the quality of his life for sure.
@@leeboy244 Yippy for an American.
@@leeboy244 quite down boy
It isn’t just hospitality. Retail is suffering as well
It should. Retail is a crime in America.
The owners and their children can staff the places themselves.
"Help wanted! Need laborers to exploit and treat terribly!"
If by "it's a sign of the times" you mean "it's a sign if how fed up people are with mediocre working conditions, low pay and unsecured employment" then businesses struggling to find employees are indeed signs of the current times
It's not exploiting if both parties agree to the terms of employment. Wage slavery doesn't exist when you can negotiate or leave at any time you want to.
I still feel for those who are laid off, because of the whole pandemic. If it weren’t for it, though, I never would’ve had my shopping job, in which not only gives me good workouts (since I’m always walking around the store for many hours) and it gave me a good chance to build some money up for my future. Frankly, I know there are more opportunities ahead, but this is only the beginning. Good luck to all still trying to get hired, stay safe, and build up the future.
What company do you work for?
6:35 But it took a pandemic, it took bodies being thrown in the back of trailer trucks! We still need Congress to do their job, more to my point, Texas basically has a band on abortion (punishing those who help). If there was a federal law in place, there would be no way that the Supreme Court could interpret the law as it has done for Texas. #CongressDoYourJob you’re the only legislative body in this country!
Yes i agree
I live in a rural coastal town in Oregon. My town relies on tourism to survive. We are facing the same hiring crisis because we have no affordable housing. Period.
I moved to Texas 2 months ago I have filled out many applications specifically where I see a hiring sign on windows, it's not true, they are not hiring.
What happened to the American Dream
@@Yandel21ableify Karen took over.
And so began the culture of hating smart people.
Mayra, keep trying. Some employer out there is looking for you. If you have to, go back to the same place, and remind them you filled out an application. It could be sitting on someone's desk.
@@quaithom3138 Fast Food places and restaurants are needing workers.
LOW WAGES, NO WAGES INCREASES, COST OF LIVING AND INFLATION
START YOUR OWN BUSINESS MAKE MONEY ON YOUR OWN!!!
People are tired doing the job of 2 people, but getting paid for one. There is no loyalty anymore working for a company, no pensions.
As the hiring manager for a retail store my experience is that most applicants can't do the job.
People want good wages, good benefits, good hours and a chance at promotion.
The public takes out their frustration out on the workers who actually show up. Customer demand far exceeds worker supply. I work at a grocery store and the Deli is dirty grueling work and to be paid $12.85 to deal with that and hostile customers. Nope.
I'm confused about this: you don't even make $1,000 a week and live in a cramp basement apartment yet you think 1,2,3 and 4 children are a good idea???
Blows my mind also
It seems to be the American way! For decades Iv watched people play out the government dollars at every angle, it’s like a business to a lot of family’s.
You think he could have found time to marry his fiance/mother of his 3 kids during the past 18 months.
More kids more Welfare
@@housevinyl4640 True. His and her priorities are not correct. Major life decisions such as kids before marriage is troublesome down the road.
Wages are too low.
I know so many people applying for jobs and being turned away for not having drivers license or skills.
Almost done with my associates degree and plan on going into a cyber security
Yay! Good for you!
When I got furloughed at my work I was getting paid 3 times the amount than I would have working 40 hours a week
People have found out that they have been working for peanuts and they are tired of pay check to pay check life. These job need to pay people a living wage. Stop blaming it on the Gov.
If people had to "find that out" They are not too smart anyway.
Thank you CBS Sunday Morning for highlighting the main source of the problem with the last frame of the video. Most of the money is being funneled up to the top employees and very little is trickling down to the folks actually doing the work that the companies rely on for their profits. The middle class in this country has had the life squeezed out of them for decades and it has to stop.
Doesnt matter if wages go up if rents go up at same time
I have applied everywhere with a sign or ad and can't even get a call back? Beginning to wonder if this 'can't find help' crisis is a hoax?
It mostly is.
Bingo- to shutter the business and get government assistance. It's meeting a requirement to get the forgivable loan and more.
'These businesses will probably qualify for more PPL money, or they wont have to pay back the existing loans.
plus the fact that a lot of people have retired and those close to retiring, may do so earlier than expected, because of overwork and increase pressure do to lack of labour.
When I start seeing "Now hiring" signs from professional career, I will believe that people are really hiring.
Right now, what we're seeing is the low-paying wage sector, fast food, retail, etc. that are having a high shortage of workers. Let's keep it that way.
Your jobs suck. No one wants to be your servant anymore. People are ruder than ever. You don't care about or protect your employees. Why is this so difficult for rich people to comprehend?
You are so right!! And yes people are ruder than ever!!
Exactly! Politicians who are the definition of BEGGARS and live on donor handouts have the nerve to call hardworking Americans as “lazy”. We need an actual living wage not starving wage which only benefits the rich.
Waiters, bussers, cooks and dishwashers have been paid crap wages in this country since I began in the industry in 1980. Good. Don't go back to work until they pay you what you are worth. KUDOS food service workers!!
"Take your jobs and shove it.
We ain't working there no more, covid showed up and took all of the reasons we were working for"
I think we need a 2021 version of Paycheck's song!
I'LL BE YOUR HUCKLEBERRY DOC !!!!!
Pay them good money and it won’t be an issue
Funny that in America Washington DC and surrounding towns are some of the most expensive places to live…..
And how is that "funny"?
That's where the public money flows, driving up prices.
Where do you think all the multi-millionaire lobbyists and corporate gatekeepers are supposed to live in order to access federal representatives and their gatekeepers?
All businesses that won’t pay employees at least $15+ a hour, they deserve to go under.
I keep telling everyone I know that now is the time to get training in a field they love. Employers are desperate enough to train!
After working for the same retailer for 20 years and getting .10 to .15 cent annual raises, yes, my time has finally come. Instead of earning less than the new hire, I can actually have a living wage.
This only proves that service workers were way underpaid.
600 dollars made a huge difference on changing people's lives. Why the employers never thought to improve the lives of their workers?
Making Work America..
Health Insurance..
Medical Insurance.
How about a 401k
Contributions from Employers
We Work to Work
NOT LIVE TO WORK
American worker has more value being dead than alive. Reality hits hard.
I don't eat out much because 1) i can't afford it and 2) i flat out refuse to keep getting guilted into tipping more and more when management refuses to pay a living wage. "We must tip 20-25% now". Nope. We must not. Therefore I don't eat out because after spending $20 on a meal and $5 in tax and $5-6 on a tip that's pushing $30 for a dang mexican meal at a mediocre restaurant. Next thing you know it will be 30%. Nope. It's no wonder people are leaving the industry in droves. Also, the last time i visited our little local taqueria they had raised their prices, again. $12.99 for street tacos. 3 tacos and a 1/2 cup of rice and a 1/2 cup of beans. $3.99 for iced tea. For iced tea!! Nope. Good luck restaurant industry. You're gonna need it.
They can afford to pay a living wage or eff them. Period.
The greed of America's Corporatocracy has come to roost!
This is exactly why I feel like the argument that certain jobs are for teens and college students only is, at best, disingenuous. This is why everyone, no matter how simple you deem their career choice, deserves a living wage.
A lot of people are leaving those jobs to do what everyone claimed they needed to do, "get a real job". Now look, shortages everywhere.
I agree a 💯 services jobs are really part time or high school or semi retired .
Yeah your right I remember a time when service jobs were kid jobs now I see whole grown adults working these jobs. These jobs were suppose to be stepping stones to a career. I don't know what's going on not to offend anyone. But service jobs are for kids not a 40 + year old. With kids and a spouse.
@@jessicacannady1931 Yeah, service jobs are for kids. That is why McDo's, Burger King, and grocery stores close during the school day... because all their workers are at school. Oh, they don't close? Then who can work there? 😎
I started my own business right before the pandemic thank god is good money but I regret not doing unemployment
Richard, good luck to you! You are doing the right thing :-*)
Mitch wants to keep people poor!
Nobody else controls YOUR destiny!
Here is my problem with a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage.. 15 dollars in one state is not equal to 15 dollars in another state. The minimum wage should be calculated on a variety of factors adding up to the ability to afford to live in that location. A "living wage" is a better qualifier .. and should definitely be mandated as a law.
Yay for the restaurant workers that are getting out of their low paying jobs where the owners want you to give you're oh that please don't expect that in return from them. Time for the restaurant workers to step up and say no to slavery wages as a workers have. And give their workers a job to be proud of.
When you disrespect, under appreciate, and devalue your workers during big profit times and you never saw covid coming, this is what you get. A lot of people won't be returning to some of those jobs either. Republikklans seem to think receiving unemployment is the problem, but it's a inhumane as well as a wage problem. Watch and see when those profits get back up, employers will turn around and cut hours as well as find a way to stagnate wages again. Their attitudes will revert back to
underemploying and overworking their staff. Wait for it. History repeats itself ALWAYS.
Yall messed up. The scam backfired. Now your wage slaves woke up and took control of their own lives. Karma
I really get tired of rich mofo's giving their opinion about how much the less fortunate should receive. The issue is these people have gotten a bit smarter. Life is too short to work @ a job you HATE, with people you don't like for $HIT pay!! If you can't afford to pay your workers a livable wage then eff'in CLOSE!!!!
This society needs to raise the pay ..this just proves it and treat staff better. Housing, food all these items are going up in price.
Mitch you zombie, is so out of touch with reality it is appalling! 😒
Sureeeee let’s blame Mitch lmao wow there is no help for you sheep
@@drozone3658 Appears Mitch bit you 🤔😒
@@crawnyxx quit being an idiot
@@drozone3658 Just quit, you're already an idiot. 👋🎤.. Goodnight
Mitch knows exactly what he's doing. He just doesn't care who it hurts. He works for himself, not his constituents.
Teachers too! We have SO MANY substitutes in public schools across the country right now.
This Evolution. Finally they gonna pay more per hour
Doubt it. Retailers are the stingiest people on earth.
If they’re not paying $22 an hour minimum, they should not be doing business. People are not serfs.
Not everyone can
@6:36 “Market pressure is doing what the federal government couldn’t do [in raising working wages]…”
Correction:
What REPUBLICANS wouldn’t do.
If the taxes coming out of my check to support "lazy people" who don't want to go back to work then I'll do it, mind you the video said they were getting about $1,000 a week that is still $48,000 a year and for a family with three kids that's barely above the poverty line so I don't think anyone is going to Tulum eating bonbons and shrimp with their increased benefits.
Nobody wants to make $8 an hour being berated by customers. Not to mention during this pandemic a lot of people started their own businesses, began investing, moved to a cheaper town and went back to school to get their degree.
Oh look, we're finally talking about reality. Too bad it took a global pandemic and a collective refusal to return to work. Maybe next time we'll try to be more proactive as a society. And the idea that profit margins are too slim to pay employees a living wage is ludicrous. If they keep lying about it they'll just have to go out of business. Oh well...
Strange days and times. I remember workers complaining about low wages, lack of benefits, no healthcare, over scheduling and under scheduling. But, the workers would not stand together and strike. And if they did strike, I remember many Americans were not behind them.
Well, the Pandemic came and truly showed America who needs who