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that was mighty tempting, but I was just glad to have the light at the end of the tunnel not actually be an oncoming train for once, so I took the high road.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 11 April 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
one year passes...
Okay, so I passed the work test, and it seems I'll be starting a new, long-term freelance gig later this week or early next. It pays more per hour than anything I've ever worked, and it is guaranteed to be a bit of a nightmare, but I'll be making as much in a month as I do in four now.
I'm absolutely terrified.
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Monday, 14 December 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
four months pass...
"Everybody's flush with stimulus money and nobody wants to work" is something I've heard from four different people in completely unrelated conversations this week. The restaurant where I tend bar is going to close on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for the time being because the owner can't find a prep cook who doesn't throw money in the trash can. The roofing contractor who did some patch-up work for me Wednesday said he can't fill out work crews. An entire shift quit at the local McDonald's a couple of weeks ago because their manager was an asshole to them once too often.
Recalibrating the future of work and the value of work is playing out in some interesting ways. One of the servers at the restaurant, an extremely conservative white woman in her 50s, shocked the hell out of me yesterday by saying how this says more about the state of wages in Mississippi than about anybody's willingness to work.
― In my house are many Manchins (WmC), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
if you’re a business reporter or similar there’s always a column waiting to be written about the “skills shortage” in industries x, y, and z where goldurn it they just can’t find the right people - itisamystery.gif
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 April 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link