Pics of US companies passive aggressively whining about "labor shortage"

Capitalism sucks imo

i enjoyed the one(s?) where the employees covered up the manager's whiny sign with 'we are closed because we hate this job and have quit'

And WHY??? :( :(

https://freepressonline.com/Images/Images/185386.jpg

cuz the pay sucks?

(obviously)

crazy how effective these people are at spreading the "no one wants to work/unemployment is too good" talking point, afaik unemployment is pretty much where it was 5-6 years ago. it seems obvious to me that restaurant/factory jobs just really suck and Covid made them all much worse, all those people are just doing other things now

I hear guillotine manufacture's never been more popular

BRING OUT THE KITCHEN MANAGER

income from restaurants was always a bummer for me cos you'd make your tips, then you'd be so stressed after work you'd go across the street to spend the tips you just earned on booze to come down from it, and lol there goes half your tips if you don't watch yourself.

These signs remind me a bit of Putin saying that there is no happiness in life, as if he bears none of the blame for the extent that that's true for a good number of people. My people are just miserable, I don't know why!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yep. There’s a lobbying group, National Restaurant Association, that actively pushes against increasing the minimum wage, this messaging is their work.</p>— same same (@devlk2) <a href="

Yep. There’s a lobbying group, National Restaurant Association, that actively pushes against increasing the minimum wage, this messaging is their work.

— same same (@devlk2) June 20, 2021

Like the US became accustomed to cheap gas or health insurance premiums or fast food prices, it's become accustomed to having an exploited, underpaid and overworked labor force. That is the "normal". Give that labor force teensy bit of leverage and choice and the truly shitty jobs get exposed like a lake bed after the water's drained. But instead of "jeez we didn't realize how fucked up what we considered normal truly was", a big fraction of ppl will go "see? You can't give these lazy ppl handouts!" or whatever.

Ah, should have tested that in HTML Playground like I usually do, sorry.

Lobbying, it's s like unionizing but for freedom

The ppl making these signs/notes are the ones who like to bemoan how liberals make everything political nowadays

I'm not even allowed to say Christmas anymore! Christmas! Christmas is the word I'm literally tackled and gagged every time I say it! CHRIIIIISTMAAAAAAAS!!!! (flagellates self)

Christine - you can just paste a tweet link on ILX to embed it.

From the McDonald’s drive-thru: pic.twitter.com/txXeZlEk07

— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) June 21, 2021

Thanks to Brexit and the pandemic, but mostly the former, we're knee deep in grim-faced employers popping up on TV to whinge about staff shortages. It is fucking hilarious.

Including one who, not content with regularly appearing on the media in favour of withdrawal from the EU, went as far as to publish and distribute pro-Brexit propaganda in his own estabishments.