And yet no employer wants to offer full-time or stable part-time hours. This is really the hitch. Once you've set up to deal with not being employed, why both

And yet no employer wants to offer full-time or stable part-time hours. This is really the hitch. Once you've set up to deal with not being employed, why bother coming back for an unstable, shitty job? Anecdotally: working low end hospitality has become shittier. It seems like a lot of the nice customers are still infrequent and mostly staying home, while the selfish customers are going out (quelle surprise). Quite a few restaurants I frequent have stories about needing to call the police for patrons assaulting the waitstaff when they never needed to pre-pandemic.