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- Restaurants struggle to re-staff post-pandemic, and while Republican pundits posit that more generous unemployment benefits are to blame, workers are taking a stand and demanding jobs that provide more than just enough pay - or often not enough pay - to make ends meet. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #LivingWages
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I was a server for a convention center and I did not return when they called me back to work many months later. They did not communicate with me regarding COVID19. They did not inform staff when one of our guests had COVID19. Fortunately, I landed a higher paying job with benefits.
My employer literally sent us into sick people's homes until I got sick. I was sick for a month and a half I cannot afford to have covid-19 a second time it almost killed me the first time. I'm going to sit out the next wave of covid-19 and probably start my own business if we ever get this pandemic under control
@BlueMarvel Congrats!
Respect
Someone gets how this works
@@Impromptuinterviews I wish you the best, your last employer sounds awful. Take care of yourself!
I worked as a manager for a pizza joint, cooked at a banquet hall and cooked at a bar for 3 three years straight to save a nest egg. Just to have a year of only working one job. Worked through the whole pandemic but finally said no more. Took my time to finish my training to be an electrician. I will never go back to working in a kitchen.
unless it's your home kitchen? 🥳 Congrats
Awesome, happy for you buddy
Right now
AMEN!
unless the stove needs electricity or something?
If you pay minimum wage, expect minimum work effort. I'm leaving my job because they expected me to pick up the slack from being short-staffed, but did not pay me for the extra intensity.
100%
Where I live our minimum wage is so low that places pay on average $5-$7 more an hour than minimum wage.. hints why minimum wage should be low.
It's more and more common for companies to cut employees and make other employees do those jobs, too.
At the vet hospital, VCA cut out the kennel worker positions and added that to vet technicians' and technologists' jobs with no extra pay.
Also, RVTs did not go to college to become kennel workers. It's like asking registered nurses to be janitors.
That's what my job is currently doing to us
@@hardcorewhovian556 where I live, places almost refuse to pay above minimum wage.
They think we left restaurant and retail to sit on unemployment? Nah, I got my Master's while at home during the pandemic, and now I'm teaching and considering a move to administration in a couple of years. From 20k a year to 50k now, to 70k+ in another year or two. Never going back.
I'm glad that worked in your favor and I hope you never have to go back there or a similar employer. Congratulations!!!!🤩
AWESOME! I worked on a micro masters in cybersecurity, 🤞 I get a job from it.
@@debbiandrews1981 wait that’s so cool! Was wondering if anyone had success from those! Congratulations!
@@duncanbug I don't know yet, but hopefully so! 😊
Me too!!
I believe it was Chris Rock who explained what Minimum Wage really is. "When your boss says he's going to pay you minimum wage, what he means is, he'd like to pay you less, but it'd be ILLEGAL!"
I remember when he said that.
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law.
@@henryadam5300 I agree with your opinion man, generally I always look out for it to drop so I can purchase, to me truly I believe it has come to stay.
Bitcoin trading nowadays is a big change to make money.
That’s what “right to work” laws allow employers to do, especially to tipped employees whom they can get away with paying as little as $2.13, regardless of tip averages and how seasonal their market is.
I found a better job. Monday- Friday and holidays off! No more weekends in the restaurant. Now I get to spend time with my kids.
Congratulations!!!!
🍾congratulations 🎉
You’re awesome!!
So happy for you!!
Nice!
See this is what happens when people say, you should get a real job instead of flipping burgers... That's what people did and now look at the situation.
Employer: "If you want a living wage get a better job."
Employees: "Ok."
Employer: "You weren't supposed to do that."
If they actually got better jobs why are so many still unemployed?
@@user-sb1vz9pv5y Probably because not all the businesses are doing so and were not gonna just accept a low pay and deal with it.
@@user-sb1vz9pv5y Because they lack job skills and educations and like some people they go and get laid alot so they now have kids to aslo feed and they get mad they cant get better paying jobs and live better lives because of poor choices they made. Im not saying this is every case but I am saying you cant have a society where you reap benefits but do not contribute. its simple economics.
@@brianlogan4243 "reap benefits but do not contribute" Ohhhhh! You mean like investment banker or mid level manager.
“No one wants to work anymore.”
Well, business owners, if you treat your employees as a necessary evil at best and as s*** on the bottom of your shoes at worst, you can’t expect loyalty from said employees.
This is so accurate I’ve worked in the restaurant industry for six years and during the pandemic I applied for other jobs and now I have I have better paying job with benefits and I don’t have anyone screaming at me for ranch
lol what do you mean you dont have honey mustard?! congrats on the new job!
Ranch...the most over rated dressing ever!
Im glad u don't have to experience Texans anymore
Lol, lucky!
Realest comment I've ever read
I went back to school. 🤷🏽♀️ What did they want us to do? Wait a year and do nothing so they can lay you off again with no warning?
I did the same. The funny part is people still expecting you to take anything although you now have a Bachelor's.
Same. I’m going back to get my master’s.
They tell you to get a better job and for that you need an education, and now they're complaining people are trying to get better jobs whilst not relying on those petty wages that barely cover tuition.
You go girl! F em
And when you have a degree that means you have a lot more debt and have to take a higher paying job. I really wish more Americans knew you can go to an accredited American college in Europe for free and they teach in English. There's a reason not a lot of people are aware of that.
All those restaurants should learn a thing or two from Gravity Payments, the credit card company which raised the salary for all its employees to $70,000, while the CEO took a paycut to $70,000, down from $1.1 million. The turnover rate at the company has dropped, and the profits have grown.
If only all companies treated their employees that way.
Yeah. . correct
That’s a company who puts people over profit. A real CEO is willing to cut their pay before their employees. But a lot just don’t care, it’s pretty clear where a lot stand.
This employer deserves a Nobel.
I'm sure they're already set with the millions they earned to do shady stuff on the stock market.
I pursued my degree in Cyber Security and was able to break away from being paycheck to paycheck with my new job.
My aspiration
I will be starting a PCI DSS Cybersecurity course this week.
A restaurant worker does more work in one 8 hour shift than politician will do in a month.
I would say in thier entire life.
Yeah it’s not like they went to college for years are generally highly educated successful lawyers and then ran for office multiple times. And help pass legislation The guy flipping burgers does way more work totally 😂😂😂
Those lazy A$$ politicians are always out of session. So the politicians probably work abut three months out of a year.
I dunno man. I'd say the person actually doing exploitative work is still more beneficial to society than people like Majorie Green.
@@hunterxcraft8328 well mostly after they get their degree, they don't have to try much after that unlike lawyers and doctors
As a former server it is horrible we have to rely on the generosity of customers to pay our wage since the restaurant won’t.
Pretty much an American thing too.
Serve somewhere better then cause real severs be making bank 😂😂😂 u must of been over at steak and shake
Thats sad because servers are the backbone of the internets
@@hunterxcraft8328 Yeah, why should servers complain about making $120.00 a day when people who work in factories make $15.00 an hour plus health, medical, & dental? I mean it's not like they have families to support, right?
@@charlesstebbins7207 no one anywhere makes 1,200 a day buddy
"No one wanys to work anymore..."-in an industry that not only resists paying a living wage, but whose management STEALS tips given to front end workers as well!
can i be your friend? you sound like a decent human being who has heart.
Managers deserve those tips!!
If $300 dollars a week is the difference between working or staying home... I think that's says more about the state of the employer rather the employee
An extra $300 per week per employee would probably bankrupt most employers... Just because a bunch of losers with minimum wage jobs learned to suckle off the government's teet doesn't mean small business owners are to blame for having to pay low wages just to stay open. No one is talking about how the profit margin in restaurants is usually around 5-8%.
@@thisisgettingold if your profit margin is so low that it can only be sustained by paying poverty wages then your business model is wrong.
A local Dairy Queen also did the "No one wants to work anymore" line on their hiring.
I walked in and asked for a job, got interviewed, got told the pay was 10/hr and said "Ah, sorry, I got a better offer from every other place in town".
Best part is I'm self employed.
That seems like a whole lot of work just for the punch line. 🙂
Worth it
@@generationwolves And a free blizzard!
Lol was that in Vancouver
Trolling the trolls... brilliant. 🤣
10 years ago, I left the restaurant industry. Food service is like that abusive boyfriend who gaslights you into thinking you don’t deserve anything better, and that you’ll never find anything else. Now I’m working a job where I make three times the pay for half the hours, and I don’t work every evening and weekend and holiday. And I don’t have obnoxious customers abusing me.
Everyone I’ve stayed in touch with from those days has moved on to better jobs during the pandemic. The unemployment benefits were a cold hard slap of reality that showed them what it’s like to make a living wage. So they searched for something better. Their new jobs showed them what it’s likenot getting screamed at by customers and brainless owners. They got used to way more humane hours. They have zero intention of ever returning to that industry ever again.
So it’s definitely not a matter of “nobody wants to work anymore”. It’s just that nobody wants to work at a miserable job anymore.
The unemployment benefits you got today are something we never ever got before. There was no unemployment compensation during the depression and if you lost your job before 2020, you only got it for a very short number of weeks before you were cut off. You had to prove you were looking for job and had to take the first job you were qualified to take. Now we have to get more money than we ever made full time in unemployment benefits, plus the stimulus money and then feel abused. Just about everyone under 40 seems to think they get their dream life with everything they ever wanted with little to no effort or sacrifice on their part. I rent out 2 apartments and it's amazing when looking at people's credit reports what they blow most of their money on. People making barely more than minimum wage driving new cars, nice clothes, lots of partying while having totally maxed out credit cards. This isn't just one applicant, it's just about all of them. I worked as a waitress for 11 years and I don't recall people being horrible unless now people are less courteous than they were in the 70's and 80o's. Yes, you worked hard, but the tip money was great. You leave your work behind when you go home after your shift. Now think about all the jobs where you work a standard wage where no matter how much extra work you put in, like teachers, therapists, social workers, bosses, etc. where you might put in more than 10 hours a week of unpaid work, you have people's lives you are responsible for like social workers and teachers. Sometimes you spend a lot of your own money buying things for your clients, like food, clothing and temporary housing. No overtime for all of this at all and wages that aren't superlative. Young people think they should make massive wages working little hours while blowing whatever they earn on cars, entertainment, tattoos, full service subscriptions and other nonsense. Your parents never expected anything from you while giving you whatever you ever wanted. Never any consequence for bad behavior or lack of effort. Sorry kids, in the real world sometimes you have to work for things, do without and make sacrifices, and if you got yourself or someone else pregnant that's your problem. You knew how to avoid that. Time to put on your big person pants and realize you aren't a child anymore. Life is not one never ending party.
@@amywalker7515 In the 70s and 80s, food servers made $2.01 an hour. It’s still only $2.83. Also in the 70s and 80s, people knew how to behave in restaurants. Now they all act like YOU, pointing your accusing fingers at people thinking you’re somehow better than them. Your thinking is outdated and cruel.
@@phillydragonfly thank you
Truer words have never been spoken.
The pandemic isn't over. The illness it's out there and few employees are so at risk. Pay decent wages, nobody wants to die cause they were working at McDonald's
"It's a free market! If your job doesn't pay enough, just quit and find a better-paying job!"
"Okay."
"Wait no not like that stop."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is funny when a stingy boss's advice to a worker to quit and find a better job backfires on them because it was a rhetorical complaint that turned out to be much more effective than they expected it to be.
“No one wants to work for starvation wages” so well said.
Then get a better paying job
@@brianlogan4243 No one working full time should be live in poverty. Or need to get food stamps because their employer is too cheap to pay them fairly.
@@LdyVder I disagree. If you have no skills and no desire to improve your station in life then you unfortunately are going to struggle. There is not enough money in the world to pay every single person even 500 a week to do nothing. That's one reason why communism doesn't work. If you don't produce you better be wealthy but even wealthy produce to a certain extent. People do get bad breaks and deserve help but they are exceptions and not the rule
No one WANTS to work. I never worked for starvation wages because low pay jobs are not meant to support people they are meant to start people out.
In america if you dont make enough for food you can get food stamps
“We’re essential workers, but we’re not really being treated like essential workers.”
The pandemic summarized in one phrase.
P
Even in NZ the government put a wage freeze on these essential workers 😑 like, the world wouldve went into Mad Max apocalypse zone if it werent for essential workers. USA specifically were half way there with all their drama.
Being called essential is as meaningful as a stripper telling you your her favourite customer
I work for a major pharmacy and we are definitely essential. Our wages start at $12/hr. $13 for management. Apparently all it takes to stop total social collapse is just $12/hr. Thanks for getting rid of unions, Republicans.
Because I don't
I went through a Steak 'N Shake drive through, yesterday, and the Franchise Partner was working the window. I hope this trend continues so that all these corporations realize exactly how essential the employees are.
Let the big chains disappear. Mom and pop shops can come back, there will someone who figured out how to pay their employees. It just took covid to figure it out.
@@andrewboyce7268 What are you talking about? There are independent restaurants freaking _everywhere._ And most of them are no better than the big chains when it come to pay & benefits.
@@lisarenee3505 I'm a chef, been in the business 30 years, the mom and pop places are the worst to work in. You never know when they're going to shut down, they expect you to ignore health guidelines, etc. Then they'll argue about your worked hours trying to pay you less.
That sure is some sweet karma. Imagine how many of those franchise owners called republican governors to cut off unemployment benefits so they can get back to abusing their employees while they sit in the office all day
💯
I moved from cooking for $11 to forklift operation in a warehouse for $17 and I have never been happier
That's still a sad comment on wages when a person can be happy on less than what minimum wage should be only because they are accustomed to living on sustenance wages or less
I've got no extra pay for being essential in fact I lost hours and had to work harder than ever
Me too so I don't feel the least bite bad for quitting. I did too much free work it's time for management to up their game
Same.
"Nobody wants to work anymore," -- Uh, no they don't want to work for /you/
Amen
This is true 👍..
Or "They don't want to work anymore for you !"
Don’t want to work for a pittance!
Big difference.
It's almost like the pandemic created an invisible Union of workers that demanded a better condition from the workplace.
Now if only they would form an actual union and have strike funds
That's the dumbest thing I've ready today. People are choosing to not work because your daddy government is paying people to not work.
@@boneappleteeth3127 and also add the fact that many people realized how much they got exploited
@@boneappleteeth3127 so is the government not supposed to help there people
💯 percent
Restaurant workers should be paid at least equivalent to members of congress ~ they actually work and serve more people.
Sir, I love yr statment. That would make a great bumper sticker!
You should get that on a shirt, definitely would buy.
Brilliant
lol, another fantasy land comment. You dont think there are congressman that waited tables or came from poor homes?
@@brianlogan4243
Name them.
I'd replace that phrase with
"no one wants to be exploited anymore"
😎🍿🍕📺
can i be your friend? you sound like a decent human being who has heart.
"No one wants to work anymore?" Incorrect, people want to work, but they want a living wage and decent treatment while doing so.
No i seen alot of youth come in our warehouse and quit 😒😒😒 we pay 31$$
Its ROBINHOODS FAULT ... wait till next years tax season. Gonna be a bloodbath
@Adam A. Your reasoning is incorrect. Here in California, most of those menial food service jobs were performed by "undocumented" workers who got paid under the table in cash and they did not pay taxes or contribute to the unemployment insurance fund. If there were no contributions, they are not eligible for unemployment benefits of any kind including the federal stimulus payments.
Furthermore, the restaurant industry claims it operates at a slim profit margin and it must hire undocumented workers who are paid less. However why are these low profit restaurants still in business after being closed for over a year? The answer is they are getting corporate welfare from the government. In other words, they are making more $$$ by not doing anything just like you claim unemployed workers are.
Republicans=HYPERBOLE!
@Adam A. and you know this from what source?
@Adam A. trust me alot are, I know some.
"I guess it turns out when they (restaurants) say 'Nobody wants to work, what they actually meant was nobody wants to work for the starvation wages that we were willing to pay them.' "
Thank you, Trevor!
The same exact principle applies to harvesting crops. There’s no such thing as: “jobs Americans won’t do”. Only jobs unwilling to pay fair wages for the labor required.
He really didn't get it right although he did appeal to his main audience. If you actually look at the unemployment number data that they are reporting it shows that people are going back to work but women are not going back to work. School has not gotten completely back to normal so women are still stuck at home taking care of kids. The unemployment data for women right now is staggering vs men. This is an easily explainable news story but no one wants to give you the truth because everyone is speaking their political agenda instead.
@@Tential1 No he did get it right and it seems that you can't understand. Maybe if women were paid a livable wage they could afford child care. No political agenda people just want to afford things (child care, rent Food) especially if they are working lots of hours per day.
@@Tential1 The real question is: Why did schools become the nation's babysitters and parents. It's kind of like the police thing (well a lot like it) We don't want to fix society and we are already paying for schools and police, so let them do it ... and 2020 showed us why that is not working out well for us. But as a mother who raised three kids mostly on my own. I do not disagree with your point at all. The struggle is real and it will not be an easy fix because parents can not afford to pay the full value of quality child care and child care can not afford to stay in business at what parents can afford to pay and there were not enough qualified child care facilities before the pandemic shut a lot of them down. So it is still an uphill battle and we lost a lot of ground last year.
Bingo!
I am a waitress. This made me cry. Thank you for speaking the truth
This pandemic has allowed people to spend more time with family. Made them realize how many far more important things that matter more than pleasing your managers and corporate who will replace you in 24 hours if they want to. Hope this pressure continues and helps make some life changing laws.
So they want me to put my life in danger to be abused by Karen and not even make a living wage...? Oooookay.
...you mentioned Karen but you forgot Kody..he's a POS too.
same here
And not when Karen is always asking to see the manager if one of her fries is bent 🙄
You left out the part where you now also need to arbitrate if this is a vaccinated person who isn't wearing a mask, or an anti-mask anti-vaxer, just lying to to go around maskless.
@@dextersmithbsee
Don't forget the Tuckers.
people realized they can get other jobs that don’t exploit them and put them in danger
truth. I cooked professionally for 12+ years, now I'm going to "sit home and Netflicc" until August when I go back to college 🙌
Working in a restaurant puts you in danger?
@@apexcrypto01 "This is a robbery, put the money in the bag."
@@apexcrypto01 Have you ever dealt with the public? WHEN are people not dangerous ?
@@apexcrypto01 knives, fire, chemicals, back injuries, drunken patrons, and Karens. so yes.
In business school they taught us one of the best ways to save money was to cut workers pay… I kid you not ‼️
Employees mean nothing more than a necessary evil/cost if doing business, to corporations, on an expense spreadsheet. To employers, you are nothing, but a tool, & can be replaced at anytime. "You, foolish employees are not human beings. You are merely human doings. Now get back to work slaves, so I can hurt you some more!!" ~entitled employer, who owns a company too big, to fail.~
High turnover, hiring new employees, and training them costs money. Loyal seasoned employees do their job without their managers having to hover over them, and rarely make mistakes on the job. They have really missed this point in the service industry.
Translation: Do I want to go back to work and have to struggle to meet my basic needs while being abused by both the business I work at and customers, or would I rather meet my basic needs and be able to arrange my life in a more healthy, happy, and sustainable way? 🙃
It's almost as if people don't want to work themselves to death in jobs that pays non-living wages. Can't imagine why...
Non living wages......Is that about the cost of living increasing on an hourly basis? Maybe find out what's causing THAT to happen and prevent the cost of living from increasing more. Huh?
@@boneappleteeth3127 How about doing both? Increase wages in the service industry from minimum-wage to a livable-wage so that workers do not have to rely on tips anymore, _and_ curb the cost of living to an afforable level? A lot of european countries are trying to do just that.
@@1989Nihil And what's a "livable" wage? Why not increasing it to $50/hr? Or $100/hr? This will only cause inflation. But many of you choose to ignore inflation.
@@boneappleteeth3127 The problem is inflation has been happening, and pay hasn’t gone up to match.
@@papinprincess I'll mention this again. Read carefully. The cost of living.......Is increasing! It has not stopped for the past twent years. Increasing the minimum wage is one way to cause inflation. Mass printing the USD also causes inflation.
Tired or Karen’s yelling at me and demanding to speak to Mannager. Top of all that my boss buying new cars but can’t pay $15
Not any different then Bezos stealing money from Amazon flex drivers and workers going to the bathroom in bottles. Meanwhile Bezos just bought a half billion dollar yacht. Oh and Amazon helps themselves to welfare and barely pays hardly any taxes.
@@mjohnson1741 They pay zero income tax.
I know one who complained about giving his workers health insurance but went out and bought a brand new yatch
@@markwilliams6378 That's kinda sickening really.
@@colabama yep that's what they do. The rethuglicans keep talking about trickle down economics. Yeah right. It's more about up flow
This happens everywhere after the pandemic. I am from Bulgaria and used be in the restaurant business. Many of my former colleagues, now managers and owners, are struggling to find workers. What happened is that many people who worked in restaurants moved to the country side, found different jobs, started their own business, started some type of education or simply chose the security of social benefits instead of working/not working pandemic situation. We are witnessing an economic and social shift towards a different way of life. The lock down gave many people opportunity to just stop, relax and rethink their life choices.
When your entire business profit model is predicated on exploiting cheap abundant labor..
Ironically many of these “staying at home” people are allowing people start their own business, find better jobs or even go back to school.
When people have started their own home based business, are they still allowed to keep collecting their "dole" benefits? Do they declare their income for tax purposes?
@@jivvyjack7723 ...yes. yes...it's allowed...🌸
@@jivvyjack7723 not if the state paying their benefits considers that to be "work" which probably is the case
one of the oldest UI scams in the book is to claim that you're out of work while self-employed...as far back as I can remember that's considered unemployment fraud, a very popular fraud as it is hard to prove but still fraud
just as it is unemployment fraud to turn-down work while collecting UI, but again easy to do if you only apply for jobs that you can't get.
That's a fair complaint on both sides. Employers merely need to offer people jobs and then report the offer to the state Division of Labor office. Eventually the state will put 1 and 1 together. But that takes additional time and effort on the part of employers which is often not worth their time. They really want to cancel the UI benefits and leave the unemployed desperate for money and forced to come in to accept whatever salary they can get. Which...is the entire point of unemployment insurance. The real problem here is that the GOP signed onto the benefits but didn't get the reward they wanted, which is that the businesses hit by the pandemic would get government money to stay open and pay their staff AND the unemployed workers would vote for Trump and keep him in office. Now the business owners will demand tax cuts to compensate.
No more corporate
Funniest part is, many people im sure still know the pandemic isnt over yet, so they arent going to work. But republicans are acting like there never was a pandemic!
So, the restaurant had enough money lying around to plop tens of thousands of dollars on a single robot that will require ongoing maintenance and expensive upkeep, facility upgrades and storage, but paying an actual person a couple dollars more an hour and treating that person with basic dignity was going to bankrupt them... Right....
Don't worry, the robots will turn on them soon enough.....
100 dollars an hour for a tech to fix it...that's what my company pays our engineers to fix ours...they pay me $20 to operate it.
Well, there is training, injury insurance, & then being left staff less, etc, so in b the long term the robot would save money, but ya, I love how they can ask afford to pay more NOW, after supposedly losing so much in the last year
The robots will be cheaper in the long run....and cost them their businesses. This country NEEDS a balance between employers and employees. Without employees, work doesn't get done. Without employers, people can't afford the necessities of life. Here's the rub: without CUSTOMERS, the service industry is DEAD. Employees become customers when they can afford it. Employers who cut workers, are cutting customers.
@@ursamajor6347 I'm thinking we're headed for a serious shake-up in the next decade or so. Climate change is going to change how we live--whether they deny it or not. Immigration will be a fact of life as the fall-out of damaged ecosystems gets worse. Curious....all those businesses who want cheap labor, could support immigration and find workers ready to fill the gaps.
See how the billionaire companies didn’t go out of business when they raised there minimum wages
"their"
Literally every business I drive by has "Now Hiring" signs hanging
I actually love seeing it because it's what most business owners deserve. Perhaps you will pass by those same business owners standing outside a welfare or unemployment office line.
omfg those politicians are so dense! it’s not that people “don’t want to work”, they want to make enough money to *actually* live on! who would be eager to go back to a bs situation??
Exactly. When the fast food joint doesn't pay their workers enough to afford the product they're selling the system is broken. No one can afford to take a job where 100% of your paycheck doesn't even cover rent.
Pay for bombs, really. I agree most of us can live better when not under the the threat of war. Our gvt. is perverse.
FINALLY ANOTHER PERSON WITH COMMON SENSE
Plus covid-19 is a health risk
The politicians know they're spewing bs; they're playing to their base.
You know, the same base that gladly accepts the stimulus money, but still demonizes the party that's helping them survive.
Pre-pandemic, a lot of servers had to have 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. People just don't want to do that anymore, and they shouldn't have to. Scary when the work force starts making demands, huh?
I worked 2 full time for 11 years only quit the night one after I remarried. Still took both of us working to make ends meet. No savings to speak of cuz if you're blue collar with a kid all $ gone as soon as you get it.
This makes me think of what happened after the black death. So many peasants died that Nobles were forced to give them better deals. I think it might have been part of the reason that the west got rid of the Peasant work model and allowed commoners free travel and choices in work.
I mean it even helped Western Civilization as the loss of workers forced a massive increase in technology to replace the loss workers.
@@Nostripe361 It made Europe look for slaves, as well.
@@beatrizmedeirosnoleto9391 that’s kind of all of history. Those in power are always trying to find someone to take advantage of.
I mean peasant is just a fancy way to enslave people to the land. So once they started to become freedmen the nobles decided to just use foreigners.
and here I am telling my son he could make more money waiting on tables than the total scam of an occupation he chose. Where are these horrible jobs where you have to work 3 to make ends meet? I waited on tables for 11 years, made fabulous money while going to college. Can we learn how to BUDGET?
Amen Trever. If you cannot afford to pay a living wage to your employees, you do not belong in business.
can i be your friend? you sound like a decent human being who has heart.
People figured out how to make ends meet when the restaraunts closed so people figure hey if I'm gonna barely get by I'm atleast gonna do it on my terms and not be exploited or treated badly while I'm doing it.
AWESOME 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Wait, so people actually want a living wage? Who would’ve thunk it!
The refrain for the last 20 years has been, “You’re lucky we let you work here and you should be grateful for a job”. UGH
@@sunnysal3889 ppl still think like that
It's not that simple though the employer will just pass along the cost to customers and very likely take a bigger cut for themselves. That will initially reduces demand resulting in a stagflation economy and potentially a very very long pain recession or series of them. That's pretty much what most of the 70's and early 80's were. It took over a decade to get rid of and that was when we almost had competent politicians something the US hasn't seen in over two decades now.
Except a 7.00 burger vs a 3.50 burger means nothing to you and everything to them. You won't get stagflation. They have more money. You will still want the burger.
@@Dayandcounting Oh no. The economy!
This is like opening the door then getting upset when your hostages escaped
Sad but true
Great analogy
ON POINT!!
Haha 100%
@@dannyv2230 not really an analogy. It is literally the situation.
I don't think people realize that telling retail/fast food workers to "just get real jobs" if they want better pay creates a problem. Who gonna work these jobs when the old workers are gone? _Somebody_ has to work underpaid. But why would anyone intentionally do this? Only people with limited options would do this. And isn't that kinda immoral that people who are desperate for employment are being taken advantage of by being underpaid at these kinds of jobs knowing that they can't leave as easily? It's not rocket science.
Plenty of people with college degrees are working those jobs. Let that sink in.
They don't believe unskilled workers deserve decent pay.
Robots will work the jobs
Thank you for making this video. I just wanted to say that the content also applies to folks who worked "fancier" gigs than the ones represented in the video. I was very fortunate to have a lucrative serving job at a place with sustainable hours and great management, but I still don't want to go back. I WOULD if offered some simple "perks" that people in other jobs take for granted: a meal break (and a place to sit instead of standing in the dish pit), some health insurance, and a reasonable amount of paid vacation time. Every place I've ever worked has intentionally restricted FOH hours so that we don't qualify for insurance plans that are offered to managers and cooks. I think the whole team deserves these benefits and I would work my heart out for them. Until then, I'll continue to look for a job that will give me better quality of life and I'm grateful that the pandemic gave me a kick in the pants to do so.
"You can't pay workers if they're not doing anything. This is business. It's not Congress." What a perfect line.
Trevor's Is Hilarious 😂
💯 percent
It''s not only congress, all government jobs are like that.
I work for government and it's the most chill job I've had ever!
So now the restaurant owners can do it all and save money right. hahha
I love him😃❤
I'm not gonna lie I just left Wendys after my first day because they believed I didn't need adequate training for the job. The minute I walked in the manager said start taking orders like really. No training on POS system or anything. Its not about the unemployment benefits its about how the restaurant industry is neglecting standards on training, pay and instead is paying more attention to their demands instead.
Correct, adequate training is becoming a relic in corporate America due to capitalism. I've worked in the financial sector for large banks and can attest to the same thing barely there training. Wrongful termination law suits have surged in the last 30yrs due to lack of training of management.
Same in Retail. No proper training. Just figure it out on your own time. When I asked my last manager why she refused to take some time each day (as required by the company) to go over proper procedures with me she said, because no one had trained her and basically she didn't know what she was doing😒
Even the postal service is not properly training any more; it seems like an easy job till you start doing it
0:51 can we talk about what 57% looks like on a pie graph?
I saw that too 😂
Man of culture I see....
“Watching Netflick and having sec”, I’m dead🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Ikr??? Wth is a Netflick????? Yet he has the authority to make decisions about other people's lives. LMBO!!!!!
The reason I'm not rushing to work at a restaurant is because I found a job that pays me 30 an hour
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Depends on where you work.
Just curious, what type of job did you get?
Blessings!!
Happy for you! Please stay safe.
A lot of people went to work for call centers performing customer service from home. They get better pay and benefits. Notice call centers haven’t been as pressed for employees
Yeah my friend went from Starbucks to a call center for insurance. ~7.50/hr raise right there baby!
And that shows how terrible restaurant jobs are. Because call centers are the worst
@@amelialeila9289 Yeah, I do customer service and customers can really try your patience sometimes.
@@V.E.R.O. Plenty of bad customers in the restaurant and retail industry. I can attest for that during high school.
That's the only reason I took my last call center job, which was so stressful, I didn't last a year there. But I needed to money😩
They act like, someone is gonna be a millionaire, with all 300$ "extra funds" 🙄
I worked in a restaurant washing dishes for a grand total of three days- that was enough to clue me in to how restaurant workers are treated. The manager and the main chefs, while their jobs are undeniably highly stressful and complicated, will usually be treated all right; everybody else under them are treated like garbage. That was BEFORE the pandemic.
They do anything but pay workers a REAL LIVING WAGE
it's not always that simple though, some of the smaller businesses can't afford to pay 15 dollars a hour.
No offense but Get a skill that pays more. It’s what the rest of us did. Ijs.
@@pforgottonsoul then they shouldnt be in business
@@pforgottonsoul smaller business already pay more than minimum wage and if they can’t afford to pay people well the owners should take less money
@@DaniSmithe that requires money most of the time
As someone with a 4 year technical degree who FINALLY got a job in their field after working in service for years, I got really upset hearing my rich in-laws complain about how no one wants to work in the service industry anymore.
I honestly can not get over that. I'm from a country where it's not even legal to employ workers for tips only (not that some businesses wouldn't try to sneak past that). I can get it in the few restaurants / venues where people are throwing around with money, but in some small coffee & cookies joint? That's a bad joke.
As for the ****** in-laws: either go with
_"everybody can make it and earn enough money, if you don't , there's something wrong with you!!"_ ,
or with
_"I want you to service me for a not-even-livable wage, if you don't, there's something wrong with you!!!"._
Not both.
the waiter/waitress job is something to do for a while, not a carreer. that is the problem. you did the right thing.
@@Julia-lk8jnNot requiring restaurants to pay the same minimum wage as for every other industry was a huge mistake in the US. Hopefully, that will change.
Yeah. No one does because as inflation happens, the wages will no longer cover it. The wages hasn't changed much but I seen stuff going up in prices everyday. I remember working as a server for this cafe for university students and the menu prices goes up like 5-6 times in a year but our salary stayed the same.
@@lukewarmwater6412 So, while someone is waiting tables they are supposed to be homeless while they figure out a different job that people like you consider life-long worthy? Every person working full time should be able to afford a roof over their head. Either people start getting paid more, or rent and goods need to become cheaper. Either one will work.
boss is ungrateful before you're even hired, thinks you're lazy because you don't work there already.
Either start paying workers more or go out of business
Them: “You don’t like minimum wage? Get a better job!”
Restaurant workers: [actually go and get better jobs]
Them: [surprised pikachu face]
Also, one thing I think we’re forgetting is that a lot of working class ppl DIED this past year. Kinda hard to work when you’re six feet under 🤷♀️
Hey, you're right. That didn't get mentioned. Bet those would make for some interesting statistics.
also it’s been much harder to immigrate/flee to the USA from places with much worse situations
They're not ready for that convo💯💯
A lot of people also don't wanna work for companies that willingly endangered their workers' health and lives by forcing them to work during a global pandemic just for a pittance of a paycheck.
@@glennwelsh9784 to a degree, ill agree. In theory people could just not work for them and they would fail. However, in many instances, those kinds of businesses are the only choice within a reasonable travel distance from their homes, so the choice they're left with is to work for them or don't pay bills or eat.
I'm loving every story about someone actually being able to use a livable unemployment rate to hunt for a job, without fear driving them to take what they can get, and reduce their underemployment. It's a balm to my soul.
Exactly
Not in Texas..
Preach. It's about time the working class got some help.
Child care for one toddler costs most of the monthly earnings. One estimate was $910 per month. And you can't leave a 3 y/o alone in the house all day.
Probably shouldn't be having children if you and/or your spouse is earning minimum wage...
@@fordguy8792 Why not?
There’s no shortage of workers, only of those desperate enough to accept the usual poverty wages and little to no real benefits. The real shortage is of employers will to pay a living wage.
That's disgusting.
I’m working and still can’t pay my bills and still have a little money. It’s not just restaurants workers. Health care pay is sickening.
Get a better job
@@williamerazo3921 Just be rich. William why haven't people gone to you for your endless wisdom. Which field did you get your PhD from?
I think it was a joke 😂
To be honest some persons just want to have a luxurious life style before they reach far in life. you only have to cut bac a little. I know this girl who only got 4k month car bills alone is 1200 per month, rent 1500, food and other expenses vary.
@@williamerazo3921 lol that's why the restaurant industry CANT FIND PEOPLE TO WORK. BECAUSE WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR ANS GETTING BETTER PAYING JOBS.....
I've worked for the restaurant business for 20 years. And that whole time I had to live paycheck to paycheck. Now I'm a Chauffeur and don't have to worry about if I have enough money to to buy me a 🥩 to eat. 😌😂
I wonder if they let you drive luxury cars Lol
The senators complain about "people not wanting to work hard" but they literally take half the year off from how many holidays/weeks off/vacations etc they get. Also hilarious the restaurants are saying a 401k is a perk for their workers, probably has 0% match so its worthless as a perk - not to mention they know those people will never be able to afford to retire on those low wages.
Lie by omission.
“ this is a business, this is not Congress” I’m crying 😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭
Everyone who has worked a restaurant or food service job knows exactly where to go to cry: the freezer.
True dat
Yessss
Or dry storage...but then again you're usually sweating like crazy from incessant demands for ramekins of ranch so the cooler IS probably best. 🙃
Its also where you go to tend to your burns with the medical supplies you bought because the kit is always empty.
Every person must HAVE to work as a server or FF-Worker for at least a month before they can do any other job. Period. Then they'd really get it and would treat their servers with respect and kindness and NOT THINK $2 is a GREAT tip regardless of their ticket total!
“You know a job isn’t paying enough when every meal ends with a mini go fund me” 😭
hahahahaha
A living wage should be at least $ 20.oo per hour according of cost of living.Federal Minimum Wage should be fair!!!
Those robots probably cost more than hiring a new employee for a higher rate of pay than usual
I honestly don't get how it's legal to pay people $2 an hour and hope they make tips that's crazy they should be brought to the federal court
You're ill-informed and dūmb
My sister is a single mom with 2 kids that has no help, yet she makes enough working 3 days a week off of tips to sustain the household. And she doesn’t have to claim most of it because it’s cash.
@@mikecaldwell8014 Well that's gonna end soon. All places now are going cashless you get tips of a credit card or zelle. They want to tax you on those tips. Regan was the one who discovered at one time it was worth being a server because of the cash.
@@mikecaldwell8014 for every person like that there’s a hundred who aren’t making enough money.
@@AA-wb9zu dude that's literally how the restaurant industry works you're ill-informed
I left kfc this year and now the location I left is struggling cause others followed suit. We all got tired of getting worked like crazy and not getting the pay or appreciation for the job we do. But now I work somewhere better and make more money than I ever did there
Yeah all Republicans are idiots.
Agree same thing at the hotels and motels. To much work for not enough money the living expenses are to high so people look for more pay in other jobs to meet their budget.
that doesn't fit the narrative that people are lazy and just want free handouts. how dare you pull yourself up by your boot straps and find a better opportunity.
yes
Congrats! That's awesome.
I thought conservatives' beloved capitalism dictated that when demand for labor exceeds supply, wages must go up. But conservatives don't like it when conditions favor workers instead of business.
Because they believe only the rich deserve to be well off.
This is exactly why I worked so hard to get out of the food service industry years ago. Low wages, no real purpose or chance for advancement, and no respect for the amount of physical labor which is often a part of these jobs meant that there was no incentive to stick around -- no hope that it was ever going to get better or be worth the amount of time and frustration.
Exactly.
If a company can’t afford to pay people a living wage, they shouldn’t be running a business in the first place.
Very true
They can afford it, but it would profit them the most to pay you the least
How that makes sense a livable wage is something that veries greatly from people to people not only that bussinesses dont necesseraly need to they just pay the necessary amount of money they have to get the skill you provide.Now that demand for restaurants is up employers will have to increase wages so that they can attract workers
A great President said something along those lines about 90 years ago.
Yes!
I saw this in a joke but it resonated!!
A lot of people have never worked in customer care or service and it shows, getting yelled at and abused
Absolutely, dealing with so many Karens in your working day!! They should be paid serious danger money in those working conditions !!
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Or harassed by people that don't understand the concept of no.
Gah. Wage theft.
PREACH!!!!! Customers yell and complain they can't reach an AMERICAN customer service agent, but they want to abuse us and not pay us. Enough is ENOUGH!
They could always solve the problem by making their current workers full-time.....but then those workers would have basic rights like Healthcare, sick leave, and vacation leave. Which is something these companies have been fighting against for decades.
Employers want to have their cake and eat it too.
Before the pandemic, I was a pizza hut delivery driver and was enrolled in truck driving school. I was making $8.56 an hour while I was not making a delivery and $5.25 when I was making a delivery. I had one customer called me a pie boy. So not worth it. Now I'm a Class A driver and make $1,200 to $1,800 net a week as a flat bed driver. No more rude and uppity managers and customers to deal with.
I'm a barista, we don't get paid much and have to rely on tips to make up for the lack of set pay.
Funny how last year we were called " essential " but, we don't get treated well or pay for that manner .
The cooks are with you. How 'essential' are you when most of your staff is last in line to get the vaccine? How essential are you that when you return they pay the same and offer no more? Nah fam
I saw a great metaphor that made the problem easy to visualize: "There are 300 cookies to divide between 20 people. The CEO takes 290 cookies, and fires 10 workers so there are enough cookies to go around."
You're missing the part where he says that the 10 fired workers just want cookies for free, because they are lazy and stuff.
@@Dreagostini BEAOTCH PULEEZE...
OBVIOUSLY YOU NEVER worked in the service/restaurant industry to say such a thing. 🙄
"TheNeoVid" describes Wall Street better than most economics professors.
Blows my mind when someone making $17000 a year plus perks can vote against $15.00 an hour.
Oops !I meant $170.000 a year
The CEO should take 291 cookies. 20 people minus ten equals 10 people, but the CEO IS one of those. So 9 normal workers.
Super pedantic I know 😞
Unless...unless...the CEO was never part of the equation...and just takes the cookies 🤔
I left the hospitality industry right before the pandemic due to being overworked and constantly stressed out. Making double doing security jobs which is always needed and even uber pays better and I make my own schedule. I’m actually happy, go figure.
"pundits" that don't understand restaurant workers.
if you work full time, you deserve to have enough money for rent, food, and education.
Loool my ex boss took the ppe loan and laid eveyone off and when everything opened up they gave us less than 24 hours to say if we were going back lolololol safe to say no one went back and they got shafted for almost a month. Brings joy to my heart if we being hoenst.
My ex employer took the PPP loan then told us we need to come back to work in the height of a viral pandemic because they declared them self essential even though I would need to be in 5 to 15 households per week to do my job. I did not feel safe and I have underlying health conditions so I contacted the Attorney General's office to inform them I was being ordered back to work and they told me to go on unemployment. My employer continue to threaten me until I told them that for my own health and safety I cannot enter another person's house carpool or any of the other things that our state had said we should not be doing in a viral pandemic.
They continue tearing out people's kitchens in occupied houses well people were dying from their actions. I hope one of the clients that lost a family member because of them takes them to court and proves it was their fault. They also got me sick before I stayed home to begin with. It took a month and a half to recover
@@Impromptuinterviews Who did you vote for?
@@dannacht6827 your mom
So now the country knows how important these people are. They're the people that no one cared for and treated with little respect. Hmmm? 🤨
Consider the following: There is an increasing amount of abusive customers in the retail and hospitality fields which encompasses hotels, restaurants, and even the local supermarkets. When I say "abusive customers", I do in fact refer to Karens and Kens specifically. Customers who are far too often physically, verbally, and mentally abusive.
I have made a huge shift in mindset since covid. I will never be subjected to full time in an office 8-5 ever again. We can do almost everything from our home these days which gives us the opportunity to live with dignity. We can work from home and take 10 minute breaks from the computer to switch out a load of laundry, water the plants, do dishes, pet my dog, etc… I can take my laptop outside on the porch and get fresh air. I can schedule doctors appointments and run errands with the option to work whatever hours I prefer as long as I get the job done. I will never ask permission to take a vacation ever again and I will get paid what I deserve.
As far restaurant workers - I’ve been a server and they need to be treated with more dignity as well. More money, more time off if they need it without feeling like they will lose their jobs. And pay should not be across the board. If someone is a great server maybe they should get paid more. Give them incentives. If the restaurant hits their profits for the evening maybe offer a bonus.
Lol “we sent them so much money “ 😂😂😂
That little $1400 didn’t cover my mortgage!! These ppl are crazy!!
I died at that moment.😂🤣⚰
$ 1400 barely covers the rent for a single month. Forget child care, groceries, utilities. These are all monthly bills. The cheapest place I lived in the past 10 years was a 2 bedroom apartment in a collage town, and that was $750 per month just for rent.
@@seanpeacock4290 the problem with Republicans is they're using smoke and mirrors. They have a fundamental belief that some jobs have value and others do not. CEOs make millions yearly, and Republicans always say it's too little. Cashiers make $30 k a year, and they're making too much.
Gop are tightwad unless its tax cuts for thrm
Not taking sides but they were referring to the unemployment
Unemployment is the reason I’m never going back to retail. So instead, I’m starting my masters this fall in data science so I can start a career instead of working every other day and still can’t pay rent 🙄
Can't pay rent? It's almost as if we should find out what's causing the cost of living to increase........And prevent that from happening more.....Instead of raising minimum wage.
IM REALLY GLAD THIS PANDEMIC MADE YOU CONSIDER SCHOOL.
@@breannabrown9344 thank you! It looks like a lot of people have which might put some of us at a better advantage. I’m ready to start but also scared lol. I’ve been out of school for a few years so I hope I can readjust lol
Digital marketing course helps too
@@boneappleteeth3127 and how is somebody who's starving, and homeless and in need now supposed to do that?
What bugs me is that we are hearing about restaurants not being able to find workers, when there are essential human services who cannot find workers.
26 year restaurant veteran, and yes. That's exactly why. Was an issue before the pandemic, now it's been exposed. It's an industry that relies on cheap labor and because it's seen as "easy work", employees aren't seen as valuable because there's always someone waiting to take your job. Not the case now because the industry has been put on blast. Everyone wants to go out for an enjoyable meal and experience, but wants to pay as little as possible, treat people as poorly as possible. It's the service industry, not the SERVANTS industry. I used to take pride in what I did until I realized how we're compensated and viewed societally. Long hours, low pay, lack of benefits and seemingly indifferent owners have driven the business to the brink. Who wants to pay a living wage or offer benefits when you have 3 house payments, and that Cadillac isn't going to upgrade itself? We're treated as expendable because there's no one there to stand up for us. It's exceptionally difficult to hire competent people who care when there's $10/hr BS jobs everywhere, where one misguided complaint can mean your job? And if your place is busier and you pay the same low wages, you won't keep anyone around for long. It's a vicious cycle, and it's imploding.
This entire situation proves why we need unions. They had the opportunity to do this the entire time and only did it after this happened.
Which is why the conservatives and corporations in general spent generations and billions of dollars busting the unions.
@@OverworkedITGuy Yeah they don't wan to share their profits with the ppl who made them rich. Jerks.
@@100lamadrina8 exactly.
These companies need to pay people more. This pandemic has been a revelation for a lot of people.
The crazy leftits are talking about this since decades. And suddenly it's reality. Who would have thought.
And how do you expect companies to pay people more, if they can’t event afford to operate due to lack of job demand? On April there were 7 million job openings and only 2 hundred thousand were taken, this is due to Biden’s massive spending that just keeps people at home not wanting to work. If we want higher wages, we need companies to be able to hire people on the first place and we must stop this massive unnecessary spending, that by the way is causing inflation (which is something that also happens no matter how much you raise the minimum wage).
Why i am going to pay more to someone i gotta train that's the problem now
@@daisytinsley8575 Then run the entire business by yourself. If you can't run a business paying employees living wages, then you don't deserve those employees.
We've really found out that the "essential workers" who keep our country running are not valued monetarily in comparison with their usefulness to society.
People are not lazy, it's the pay
I worked in restaurants for almost 30 years in Indiana. I never made more than $2.13/hr., no health benefits, tipping out bussers, bartenders, and hosts, and last but not least by far is paying taxes at the end of the year.
I won't work for a company that won't pay me enough to at least cover my taxes.