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Some of my extended family has been facing this problem - they’re blaming the pandemic, unemployment assistance, and even raised the salary they’re willing to p
by pridkett 5y ago
Some of my extended family has been facing this problem - they’re blaming the pandemic, unemployment assistance, and even raised the salary they’re willing to pay. They’re all the way up to $7.45/hr (that’s $0.20/hr more than they offered before the pandemic) with 0 benefits and a random work schedule of 10-20 hours a week.
I tried to explain that they had three levers they could try to move and they continue to blame the people who didn’t want to work.
- nine_zeros 5y agoIt's almost like capital owners take workers for granted. Why would people not spend their lives to make capital owners rich? /s
- me_me_me 5y agoThe solution is obvious bring back the slavery. I don't think I need to state this but just in case its /s
- xboxnolifes 5y agoI do think unemployment assistance is an actual problem here. Not that it shouldn't exist, but that it shouldn't have a cliff where you immediately lose benefits. I know people who make more now not working than they did pre-pandemic when they were working. I've also noticed rates advertised at over 20% increase (somewhere in the range of being $15-$20/hr) from just a year or two ago, with a signing bonus, that aren't being filled. I suspect they aren't being filled because people would have a very marginal increase of pay compared to not working having unemployment assistance. I know I wouldn't work if I would be sacrificing 30ish hours a week for 10% increased pay.