Remember how the Russian trolls said workers were not assets?

And yet they still don't call for interview or offer jobs to the hundreds of applicants they get for each vacancy.

Weird how business owners are better at complaining than they are at hiring.

Maybe it’s you, not the business owners.

That's because he puts down that he'd like a livable wage, say, $21/hr, 2 weeks paid vacation, and full medical insurance. Why should workers get off THEIR butts when businesses won't get off theirs, open their wallets and pay for the labor.

What skills do you bring to the business that will ensure you are worth $21/hr + all the extra benefits that someone has to pay. Flipping a burger on a grill is not a career choice

Then don't bitch about not getting good service when you go out to eat.

Why isn't "flipping burgers" not a career. Those burgers won't flip themselves, you know.

Life choices are a bitch. If you can’t make the business more than $40/hr in gross earnings, then it’s moronic to think you deserve $21/hr + benefits.

If the cost of meat goes up, your restaurant has to pay the higher price. the same goes for Utilities, supplies, and yes, labor. If you don't want to pay the high cost of meat, raise your own cattle. If you don't want to pay the price of electricity, generate your own. If you don't want to pay workers a livable wage, do the work yourself. I'm certain you can personally handle hundreds of orders by yourself during the lunchhour rush.

Meat goes up, you always have the choice to change the menu, use lesser cuts, or raise prices to cover increase. Raising prices will just exacerbate the situation as the kid making minimum wage will still be in the same boat. Electricity goes up you could install solar. If someone that thinks flipping burgers is worth $21/hr, get a machine to do it for you. They are out there and way more productive than most minimum wage slack offs. If you don’t want to work for less than $21/hr. Live on the street and starve.

labor goes up. You always have the choice to do the job yourself or pay livable wages. You may have to raise prices, but that's just how it goes. Get a burger flipping machine? The average start up cost for a restaurant is over a quarter of a million dollars... IF you rent. If you want to own the building, then the price doubles. Add the cost of the automation and you're well over one or two million dollars before you sell your first burger. You can get 2 cheeseburgers from their value menu for two dollars.

If you run a restaurant and don't want to pay $21/hr, you can go out of business, live on the streets and starve also.

As long as the government is handing out free money, they won’t get off their butts. Cut off the money supply, work or starve, it’s your choice

the money was cut off months ago, and people aren't rushing back to those jobs. We're talking those wonderful red states that did that last summer, long before the federal government ended the aid.Just because YOU would quit your job to get a "free" $300 a week, that doesn't mean EVERYONE would. In fact, Stockton, California did an experiment on the Guaranteed Income, or UBI (Universal Basic Income) by giving 125 households in the median income or lower neighborhoods a $500 payment every month. Interesting results, there.

Free money isn't keeping people out of the workplace: people have learned to value their time more.

Have you been to Stockton? Don’t believe they lies you read in the paper about any results. Homeless starting fires nightly, crime rose to all time high, untold millions, meant to help the problems, disappeared without a trace. The former mayor ran out of town on the rails. It’s a feel good story that is full of lies

sources please.

It's NOT me, it's everyone who applies. The "nobody wants to work" story is a lie. They're getting applications, every single one of them.

But the quality of the applicants is not the best. Is it better to hire a dumbass, or keep advertising in hopes that an actually qualified candidate come along.

And for some reason, you want to point that out to me and not to the business owners who are untruthfully complaining that they're getting no applicants at all.

The smart people are too smart to work in a low paying, toxic environment. If you want top-flight workers, you have to pay their price. If you only pay low wages and your business is a toxic environment, expect to get crappy workers.

Smart people aren’t flipping burgers for minimum wage. L

but they would invest in a company that does that as a business model?

If you can get a good ROI, then why wouldn’t you?

apparently that business model isn't working, otherwise they wouldn't have a labor shortage.

Had a great quarterly results, so I don’t think it’s hurting them. Stock is up, earnings are up. Dividend is paid out. I’m loving it.

Revenue: US$6.20b (up 14% from 3Q 2020).
Net income: US$2.15b (up 22% from 3Q 2020).
Profit margin: 35% (up from 33% in 3Q 2020).

what company would that be?

One of the top burger flipping companies in the world, Mc D’s

It’s definitely him.

They don't like that you want to be paid a livable wage.

What costs goes into defining a livable wage? Cable with all the channels? The latest iPhone? Going out to eat every night? The latest Xbox game? Starbucks every morning?

Take all those expenses and use it to pay tuition at a community college or tech school. Learn a trade/field of study that makes you valuable to company.

If a person busts their asses everyday, why SHOULDN'T they be able to afford those things? Isn't that what working is all about. If I work, I don't do it merely to survive, pitting my NEEDS against my budget. Do I pay rent or do I eat? Can I afford my electric bill or will I have to skip a payment to buy a new pair of $10 sneakers at Walmart?

How do you not know what goes into calculating the poverty line? How are you on the internet right now if you can't even operate your search browser to look that up?

There are many people that are experts in that field. I am not, so I look to trust them.

The Health And Human Services department of the US Government puts the poverty line for a single person/ no children at $12,880/yr.

As these signs appear in Missouri, lets look at the cost of living in Greene County.

Let's start with the state's minimum wage: $9.45/hr. A lot higher than the federal wage. A person working 40 hours a week at minimum wage would make ~$19,800 a year. More likely, they're working 28 hours a week so their employer isn't required to provide benefits for them, meaning their annual ~$13,760 before taxes.

What is the cost of living* there? For a single person it would be:**

Food................$3,246
Daycare...........$0
Medical............$2,681
Housing...........$6,948
Transportation.$5,149
Civic................$1,956
Other...............$2,835
After taxes......$22,814

As FDR said back when the minimum wage was first established: "In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." ***

*source: https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/29077
**source: definitions of these terms can be found here - https://livingwage.mit.edu/resources/Living-Wage-Users-Guide-Technical-Documentation-2021-05-21.pdf
*** full speech can be read here: http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html