McDonald's Apologizes for Understaffing: 'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore'

[FrankCostanza]

unemployment rn pays 2k a month. the same as or more than minimum wage. you can't blame people who would rather take the money. we need to stop paying so much for unemployment of young people.

[GooBaaa]

unemployment rn pays 2k a month. the same as or more than minimum wage.

Tax free too lmao

[ErnieMccracken]

B-b-but my efficient market

Megacorps are smart enough not to compete with each other for labor. They know daddy government will always give them money and they can hold out way longer than broke wagecels.

[frankdtank20]

why the **** don't fast food restaurants just have kiosks where you order yourself? Cheaper for the restaurant and takes out a level of human error/interaction. There's a Panera Bread in my town that does this and it's sick.

I think it was McDonald's that tested their kiosks at dozens of locations and every screen tested positive for fecal matter. Yummy.

[GooBaaa]

Unemployment income is taxed

https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/new-e...t-compensation

[katya422]

To me it looks like the working and middle class are being forced to eat the inflation.

A crucial measure of how far from full recovery the economy remains is the growth of nominal wages (wages unadjusted for inflation). Nominal wage growth since the recovery officially began in mid-2009 has been low and flat. This isn’t surprising—the weak labor market of the last seven years has put enormous downward pressure on wages. Employers don’t have to offer big wage increases to get and keep the workers they need. And this remains true even as a jobs recovery has consistently forged ahead in recent years.

Macroeconomic policy (including monetary policy) that prioritized very low rates of inflation over low rates of unemployment is a key reason why real wages have stagnated for the vast majority of American workers in recent decades (as we have shown through our Raising America’s Pay initiative).

Until nominal wages are rising by 3.5 to 4 percent, there is no threat that price inflation will begin to significantly exceed the Fed’s 2 percent inflation target. And it will take wage growth of at least 3.5 to 4 percent for workers to begin to reap the benefits of economic growth—and to achieve a genuine recovery from the Great Recession.

There is a wage spike in the charts now due to the pandemic.

Wages grew largely because more than 80% of the 9.6 million net jobs lost in 2020 were jobs held by wage earners in the bottom 25% of the wage distribution. The exit of 7.9 million low-wage workers from the workforce, coupled with the addition of 1.5 million jobs in the top half of the wage distribution, skewed average wages upward.

https://www.epi.org/publication/stat...wages-in-2020/

[shoelaces]

Run all small business out, only big ones remain.

I was thinking about finally quitting my wage slave job and using the gains I've made from cryptos to finally start a small business (always been my goal/dream).

But I'm not so sure anymore. This past year has shown how easy it is for some random event to completely crush your business. Even small/medium size businesses that have been profitable for decades have been closing left and right.

Sucks bruh.

[Vhagar]

What does that say about our economic system? The government is handing out a few scraps "just so people can survive" and millions of people make less than that working full time.

That these people “making” more as the government kicks the van down the road will be much worse off in the future

[vulgoo]

Fuk mcdonalds

[Godfrd824]

lol this is actually good for the economy. In theory, Mcdonalds will have to pay above the poverty line to incentivize workers to come back. Then... wait for it... we could cut them off the government teet and make them pay 100% of the cost for their own workforce.

Now, what's really going to happen is that Mcdonald's will close or eat short term losses to make sure they don't elevate their labor costs in the long term and can keep collecting government handouts. Meanwhile, the idiots on misc can hate a bunch of peasants for not wanting to sling burgers for almost no money.

My first job ever was at McDonald's, guess what I did, I bettered myself so I could find better employment. Why is that so hard?

[AccountingMajor]

hmmm...nobody wants to work at mcdonalds because mcdonalds treats their employees like chit. im surprised it took this long

Not true, the customers treat McDonald's employees like chit.

[KhanCullorsNLM]

Too many worlstar patrons have ruined the high class Mcdonalds dining experience

[GNHun]

Well. All I can say is the west is going the wrong way. Not sure how much longer the rest of the world is going to put up with supporting America.

[DolphinPilot]

Fuk mcdonalds

I know, right? Their fries aren't that great

[Ikeman83]

prob doesnt help when one of their employees just fails to show up to work cause hes too busy being a ******* on misc making a ITS SUNDAY NIGHT WAGECEEEEEELS thread every sunday instead of getting his 10 an hour.

Dead

[havoc00]

Random that this article was posted on the misc tonight. I went to my local Chipotle on Sunday for lunch. Got into line and they were apologizing to the lady ordering in front of me for being short-staffed. No reason for that to happen during a slower time of day on the weekend lol.

Sad!

[wrastler163]

why would a fast food worker want to work when they can make more money not working

[tk217]

I believe people are getting roughly 18 dollars an hour on extended unemployment right now which is much better than 11 dollars an hour or 15 dollars an hour obviously. So, why would they work?

[Austanian]

Would love to see you "go get it" if this was your life. You wouldn't last a week.

The Mcdonald's sample budget to help their employees lol:
[img]https://i.imgur.com/ZVfjF3s.png[/img

Minimum wage in Idaho is 7.25 all the fast food has signs up with STARTING wages at 13.

13*40 = 520
* 52 = 27040
/12 = 2253

So for an 18 year old kid with no experience either living at home or going in on a house with their bro's I see ZERO issue here.

[Olympia2018]

They can sit at home and collect a check equal to or more than what theyd make working 40 hrs a week

This

My current employee who’s 20 out of college now was a part time server making 600$ a week. Then mad 700 a week + 300 additional for some school benefits to stay at home and not work or go to school. Said he went back to work two months later then went back to unemployment not even a week after getting hired again since got paid more to stay at home

[SmillironS]

This is exactly why the welfare system shouldn’t exist for able bodied people. No unemployment, no ebt etc. if you can work you should work.

[AlwaysFocus]

You dont need to work anymore. biden will pay your bills using tax money collected.

Finally a free life eh boyos!

[dcbone30]

why isn't this a thing universally yet

[PassiveLearner]

I may eat fast food more if there were less 20/30-something dropout tatted up losers behind the counter. Bring on the robots! These twerps can live off their measly universal basic income while I dine on the finest mcdoubles

[guitarwar241]

Who would have known that being Pro-Lockdowns and encouraging world governments to perpetuate a baseless disease would result in people not willing to work because they can make more on unemployment benefits. I'm not mad. You get what you deserve.

It kind of exposed how awful the wages are imo. People received more money from unemployment than certain jobs and now they don't want to go back to jobs that pay like ****.

[climberbrah]

its because we are living in hyper inflation

no one wants to work for 7 to 11 dollars an hour when house are exploding in prices, used cars are exploding up, healthcare is getting more expensive, and even basic goods are expensive now

i estimate inflation to have been 25% this past year

if you didnt get a raise by at least 20-25 %, you are worse off now


100% ded fkn srs, the government and economic elites are too afraid to let the secret out (which is why they are all buying stocks, gold, and bitcoin)

[me12inch]

get back to work ragie wagies

[AgBrah]

its because we are living in hyper inflation

no one wants to work for 7 to 11 dollars an hour when house are exploding in prices, used cars are exploding up, healthcare is getting more expensive, and even basic goods are expensive now

i estimate inflation to have been 25% this past year

if you didnt get a raise by at least 20-25 %, you are worse off now


100% ded fkn srs, the government and economic elites are too afraid to let the secret out (which is why they are all buying stocks, gold, and bitcoin)

I agree, obviously gas and underwear didn’t go up 25% but every asset class did, easily. Maybe closer to 30/35%.

[Darkhare]

its because we are living in hyper inflation

no one wants to work for 7 to 11 dollars an hour when house are exploding in prices, used cars are exploding up, healthcare is getting more expensive, and even basic goods are expensive now

i estimate inflation to have been 25% this past year

if you didnt get a raise by at least 20-25 %, you are worse off now


100% ded fkn srs, the government and economic elites are too afraid to let the secret out (which is why they are all buying stocks, gold, and bitcoin)

Yeah this has me stressed out. Housinf etc is just skyrocketing... its absurd and noone is reacting

[olemo]

No problems here in the netherlands. source: i live next 2 macdonalds.