Work.

Thats great, grats

hope you can make it work for you!

i hope so too! thx!

Hate me, but I retired 15 months ago. I feel even better than I imagined I would.

"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.

(If there's a better thread for this, point me to it.)

that lady otm!

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