#work shortage

[jaythelay]

Can we dismiss this idea of a worker/labor shortage to it's core? The accuser?

Because every fast food place around me has exactly one (1) worker most days of the week. You can't tell me you're still unwilling to pay more than state/federal minimum wage when you're already paying minimum wage for someone to do the work of 14 until it became standard to be short staffed so unrealistically 8.

You're shortstaffed? Honey, you're not looking for workers in the first place, this is a dream come true as far as they're concerned. Who's gonna complain about uncooked burgers and missing items when there's one (1) dude handling a line?

I'm fucking serious. My roommate and me have asked. It's one person. Not a manager either. Everything. Everything.

These places aren't hiring, and if they are, they're hiring at the lowest legal wages they can to purposefully drive off any real applicants. Not one soul young or old, experienced or not, is going to do that shit for 7.25-13.50/hr

Sincerely ask yourself after going to a Mcdonalds with one (1) worker inside handling a line of 12, if you'd ever consider putting an application in, when the stated wage outside is the bare minimum still?

Then realize there's no way they don't/didn't have applications coming in, they just don't need to. They're surviving on literally 1/X of their staff. For minimum wage, an entire store.

It's actually true, people don't want to work, there, they don't want to work, there, your shithole you purposefully made a shithole.

We need to hit this at the heart, because it will backfire when we make it known:

There is a hiring shortage, not a worker shortage.

#fast food #labour shortage #work shortage #it's all bullshit

[kiinghanalister]

but like seriously guys, im so tired of applying for jobs and gas is so expensive even if i worked full time somewhere for 15 buckaroos an hour that’s barely enough to get by BARELY

#i dont want to take a job for 15 but also if its the only one willing to hire me #which is DUMB because i have a great resume and im a great worker #work shortage #yes there is one cause no one is gonna willingly work for nothing #as;ldkfja #liz does things

[vergess]

I'm fascinated by the insistence of even fairly progressive people over a certain age (around 20 years my senior) insistently believe the myth that "no one wants to work."

Meanwhile, again, myself and everyone I know are blasting applications as aggressively as possible for a less than 1% chance of an interview for glamourous positions such as "grocery store janitor" and "gas station cashier"

Meanwhile, study after study shows definitively that the labour "shortage" is caused by companies claiming they are hiring when they are not.

Meanwhile, the basic reality of looking around yourself at how many young people as dying in poverty while scrabbling for nonexistent jobs continues to occur.

Meanwhile, more people are striking than have in decades because working conditions are continuing to deteriorate.

"No one wants to work" is a LIE, and an insulting one at that.

(Links to studies will be provided in the reblogs)

#Automatic OP tag #Labour #Labor #Work #Labour shortage #Labor shortage

[bigmammallama5]

Speaking of a previous fandom post I just shared: I have Not stepped away from fandom this fall, I’m just dealing with some health stuff and I’ve been pretty short on the energy I usually have. I’m doing okay and should be all the way better soon! But energy has been going to real job and pottery (which is also real gig job with taxable $ involved but pottery is the art form I have consistently fallen back on for comfort the past decade). I still have so much interest in unfinished fics and art I hope to return to in the new year. And I’m still hoping to noodle out some drawpiles with @sango-blep as my body and energy level allow. But yeah, still here just working to keep my nose above the water.

#arting #stupid rant is stupid #i miss u supercorp i think about u all the time #also the few minutes i usually nab writing during work jobs has been nuked with lots of product photography #so then when i get home im sore and exhausted #also new worry unlocked #the adhd drug shortage has finally hit me and i could only get 20 of my 30 pillss this month #i still have a chance to find those missing 10 but i have to wait until im almost out and get an additional rx from my dr #which is not stressful at all and eating into my energy reserves #anyways

[spacedace]

So. I wasn't able to sleep AT ALL last night, to the point that I gave up and went out to the living room so I wouldn't wake up my partner with all my tossing and turning.

And, this has happened before. I figured it was the fun one two combo of insomnia and chronic pain, since my nerves were way worse than usual last night. But no.

NO.

I literally just now realized as i was looking at my pill caddy to take my ADHD meds this exhausting morning that, uh oh. They're not there! You know what is there??

MY CHRONIC PAIN MEDS

I SPENT THE WHOLE NIGHT IN PAIN AND UNABLE TO SLEEP BECAUSE I WAS A DOOFUS AND TOOK THE WRONG MEDS LAST NIGHT

#jesus christ #i'm so fucking tired #and i can't evsn take today ofd from work because i'm already gonna be the only one on my team there today #weighing the options of not taking my adhd meds this morning now #pro taking meds: slight chance of a coherent thought happening today #con taking meds: there's a god damned shortage still and i'm already trying to make what i have last #motherfucker this kinda shit is why i have a pill caddy in the first place 😭

[cybersteal]

ɢʀᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴍᴏɴᴋᴇʏ

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk photomode #cyberpunk v #oc: vice de'angelo #my screenshots #guess who's worked out AMM #THIS BIIITCH #y'all will never know a moment of peace again i'm not going to apologise #the shirt shortage in NC is getting worse i see #one day i'll put a shirt on him...........just not today mkay?

[frevandrest]

Do you think things would've been different had Louis and Marie Antoinette accepted constitutional monarchy.

Oh, definitely. I am bad at alternate history (which I dislike about myself, because it is super interesting), so I can't guess how, but it would sure be a very different situation if they honestly accepted constitutional monarchy.

There is this misconception of the French revolution as the "mob"/revolutionaries jumping at the first opportunity to crush royals, but in reality, Louis and MA were given so many chances and things dragged for several years until it became clear that they were uninterested at being constitutional monarchs. Then and only then the republic was founded and monarchy abolished. (And all of this before any of them lost their head).

We know is that the people of France - revolutionaries at least - wanted constitutional monarchy more than Louis and MA did. National Constituent Assembly prepared everything for it to be put into place, all while the royal couple pretended they wanted to play along. In the writings and speeches of many prominent revolutionaries, there is a clear will and hope for constitutional monarchy. Only a minority (mostly among Girondins) called for a republic. Still, the project of the constitutional monarchy was well underway and constitution prepared when Louis and MA decided to flee the country.

It became clear in the summer 1791 that Louis never really supported the idea of a constitutional monarchy. And yet, they did not proclaim the republic then and there - Louis got another chance. So things dragged for another whole year, but this is where the idea of a republic was truly born: through Louis' actions and treason.

So given that the king's treason and unwillingness to accept the constitutional monarchy led to the proclamation of the republic (and (in)directly, other things, such as the war with foreign powers and a surge of counter-revolutionary efforts to name a few), I can definitely say that things would've been different if he and MA honestly accepted constitutional monarchy.

#i can't say what else would've happened #what would be the treatment of sans-culottes and their rights #would there be food shortages etc #i can't guess how stable or long lasting this constitutional monarchy would've been #but with the foreign and civil wars and counter-revolutionary efforts avoided there would be more time to figure things out slowly #build institutions and organize things #so even if constitutional monarchy proved unstable the revolutionaries would have more time to organize things #versus what happened - working in the situation of a war and civil war and counter-revolutionary efforts #try building a country from scratch in the middle of a war with half of europe #another thing that is often forgotten when comparing the “good” 1789 and “bad” 1793 #there was no war in 1789 #anonymous #frev #french revolution

[khytal]

something magical is happening with the cravat brush again

#dl #this isn't even the best example I have (from the canvas I've been working on) #god it's so good for making hair fluffy. and there's no shortage of fluffy-haired characters in kr

[undefeatablesin]

DARK THUNDER ⚡️: PAGE 1 + 2

#sin scribbles #comic ; dark thunder #bloodborne #bloodborne oc #good hunter #hunter bloodborne #(ITS ALOYSHA HOURS YALL!!!!! YAAAAAH) #(this mini comic got very delayed despite being only a handful of pages lifes been nuts for me lately) #(anyways my art block is still dragging me down + national shortage of adhd meds means i am being destroyed SO!!!!) #(instead of dumping all pages at once im doing it in parts lmao enjoy) #(not as polished as altar bc working on two fully coloured and rendered comics would be.......a lot LOL 4 ME) #(aloysha was not well liked by the healing church despite being a useful cog in the machine of the hunt. suspicions are high)

[valentinezlove]

*offers you a giramie edit in these trying times*

#ohsama sentai kingohger #kingohger #giramie #gira hastie #jeramie brasieri #gay people #still working hard to fix giramie content shortage

[naamahdarling]

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#ashamed and alarmed to discover that much like teachers #people who work closely with folks who spend a lot of time on the streets #and in shelters #or in buildings that offer services to the disadvantaged #will catch every fucking thing that goes around #just like their clients do #which sucks more for them #by like a whole fucking lot #but also sucks for my boyfriend who needs to do his job which is to help them and would rather not have to do that while sick #but we don't have a choice and they don't have a choice and this work MUST be done #so he has to try to do it anyway and hope he can hold up #desr god he is tough #for a soft guy #it also sucks for me because i catch almost all of it too #we have each been sick three times this year #and i know people do deal with and are dealing with way worse so i feel bad being mad about it #not mad at the people or my boyfriend but mad at the whole situation #this is infuriating and between us this year we could have fulfilled the snot needs of the entire nation if there were a shortage #i hope i don't catch whatever this is #and i hope our immune systems are not so ravaged by the covid we had a year ago that we cannot build a more robust immunity to rhinoviruses #ughhh stupid flesh hovels

[velvetafterdark]

Hey uhhh you know who's cool? @deceptichubs

go read his work and send him some love bc I would not be making this kinda stuff w/o him

#chubformers #transvoremers #fuel shortage #do NOT pester him to continue writing but please for the love of GOD read his work #not ONLY is he an excellent writer but he's a wonderful friend

[yunogf]

Playstation 127 circa 1995

#nctinc #nct 127 #nct #gfx #mine*gfx #mine*works #only 3 this time bc i wanted them out quicker <3 #they got progressively better as i went like favorite maam u r in a league all ur own #feels criminal not to have jaehyun as the main focus in all of these but thats ok :) #its not like theres a shortage of jaehyun content or anything :) #excited to make my new gfx series [jaehyun voice] stay tuned #wanted to use 97 for the yr but i went w the yr ps1 launched in north america instead

[calicotisane]

Additional wayne partially made as an excuse to show off my shitty wayne playlist aka Cool ween compilation (still working on it)

+ sketches thumbnail etc

#there was a shortage of ween on every wayne playlist i saw and it felt like an issue. i dont know. working to fix this. #my art #hylics #wayne hylics #Hiw do i hit him #thank you august for helping after i suffered from brain damage and ran out of songs instantly #taking suggestions from anyone but they have to be good ok? i trust you #music tag

[actualmermaid]

I'm not going to write another long commentary on "quiet quitting" or "nobody wants to work anymore" or the "great resignation" or whatever. There's been enough of those.

What I AM going to write is a little bit of advice for those of you who are contemplating a career change, because workers have more power than ever and it's a great time to look for a new situation. You can take it or leave it--this is just what worked for me.

Family, school, and culture tried to keep me on a "white-collar professional" track, but I didn't like it and wasn't cut out for it. I have a BA in English and worked a customer service/tech support job for several years until the pandemic hit and we all got laid off (which was, truly, the best thing that ever happened to my professional life). I'm now a pastry chef and I love it.

It's not too late to start something new. Many jobs are willing to train you, as long as you have basic aptitude and willingness to learn. Search for apprenticeships and entry-level positions in fields that interest you, whether or not you have any previous experience.

Keep an open mind. See what jobs are urgently hiring and/or offering good wages, and do some research on what those jobs entail. Does it sound like fun? Send out a resume. You don't have anything to lose by trying or interviewing, even if it doesn't work out.

Write a brief cover letter explaining that you are changing careers, and although you don't have formal experience in [field], you are interested in the work and are willing to learn. Mention the skills that you learned in your previous job(s): customer interaction, critical thinking, time management, bookkeeping, confidence under pressure, whatever.

Don't get discouraged. You're awesome and brave, and if people don't want to hire you, that's their loss. Take your skills and experience to someone who will appreciate them, even if you have to be ghosted and rejected several times in the process.

If you can afford it, don't be afraid to take a little bit of a pay cut. (I got severance from my office job, and my wife makes a good salary, so we could afford to be choosy.) If you have to take a job you don't love in order to pay the bills, keep looking for something better! Again, don't get discouraged!

All experience is good experience. You learned things at your previous jobs, even if it doesn't seem "relevant." If nothing else, previous jobs can tell you what you're NOT cut out for, so you know what to avoid.

You have power in interviews. They're not just deciding whether or not they want to hire you--they're also showing you who they are as a business/industry, and you can (and should!) ask questions and set boundaries. Be firm, confident, interested, and polite.

If you're interested in a specific field, lurk in professional forums online to get a sense of the industry culture and what employers are looking for. Search for things like "electrician forum" or "women in trades" or "forest service lgbt friendly" and so forth.

Get all your paperwork in order. Make sure you have your resume updated and that you have access to transcripts, vital documents, and the names/phone numbers of past employers. Put all of this in one place.

Be bold! Think about what you wanted to be when you were 10, and look up what that job requires! Maybe you won't get to be a paleontologist-astronaut-ballerina, but you'll learn that you have a real talent for making artisanal ballet shoes (or whatever)!

#work #employment #labor #labor shortage #career

[emahriel]

so grateful to ppl who write fanfics fr, if nobody got me i know fanfic writers got me

#em: txt #work has been hell this past month - moreso this week #and the only thing keeping me sane #are these leon fanfics i've been bingereading #god i'm so glad there is no shortage of them too... free therapy tbh #i love reading about how unwell my man is 🥰✨