Also “this economy is killing me” after they raise their fucking prices 40% in a year…
I’ve completely abandoned some of my favourite restaurants at this point.
I feel like it’s this rubber band effect where everyone just overshoot everything and now refuses to bring prices down.
I went from eating out every single day to making everything at home for the last 4 months. Cut back on my food spending by 66%
Fucking grocery prices are up big time too. I like to grill Ribeyes, and the price has almost doubled. Everything has gone up, but like you said, the restaurants are even crazier. $14 at a McDonalds for a skinny guy like me? Fuck that
I only really eat one meal a day and it’s a big one. Would be like a 2L of soda and a large pizza or a sub and app from a restaurant. I wouldn’t have it delivered but it was easily 25 bucks a day for that one meal. Now I meal prep egg cups for breakfast and cook up a big batch of chicken tacos for the week or just make rice or salad for dinner. Grocery bills under 80$ for a week. I only have one mouth to feed though and I hate cooking.
Here in Texas you’ll see job posts from one clearly triggered right-wing small business owner paying $7.25 an hour, talking about how if you’re working there you’re WORKING there followed by a list of like 400 things you’ll be doing.
This will be next to a job post from an actually sane individual that’s paying more than twice as much for 1/4th of the effort, and you’re still being overworked.
They don’t want employees, they want indentured servants.
Nobody wants to work anymore
Did anybody ever “want” to work?
If we lived in a Star Trek style utopia with replicators I wouldn’t sit around eating burgers all day and watching TV, but at the same time I wouldn’t do the job I currently have.
I mean there is a small percentage of people who genuinely enjoy the rewarding work they do and look forward to waking up every morning to embrace the day.
But I do agree - sitting around getting drunk and high watching television all day long gets old REAL quick.
I’d do my current job if I could work for like 4 hours a day, 3-4 days per week, and do 1/3 less work per hour.
I love my job and my work, I just wish doing it for 40 hours per week was enough to live on.
I always just mentally add a “for me” after “work.”
I do. I like doing my part to help people out with their needs.
The idea of a “labor shortage” is just idiotic. The demand for goods and services is a function of the size of the population, and guess what else is? The size of the labor pool.
The $15.50 guy would have some people lined up. It’d be appealing for people who needed a job short term, quickly, and wanted the decreased competition for it.
Not a bunch of people would be lined up there, but it wouldn’t be no one.
Something something damn millennials… I mean zoomers no one wants to work. Back in my day we had to walk 10miles up hill both ways to get to work for a dollar an hour and you didn’t see me complaining.
meanwhile they paid $1000 for college and rent was $200
Yeah, I’m hitting them at reality now - paying more for my kid at a small State University, than I paid for Ivy League
At the time, I could take care of it partly by myself and partly through loans that were easily affordable given my expected pay after graduation. My kid, not so much
My inlaws paid for their entire university education working a summer job. Madness.
The reality is that the guy on the left is $15.51/hr, then they put “competitive salary!” in the job description
None of the businesses in my town are offering anything higher than $12 USD an hour and then the managers will try to talk you down from that figure.
Probably depends on your position and academic background. What are you applying for?
I’m disabled and can’t work.
So you are saying that you don’t know the market prices and just make up a number for an artificial job?
I understand that you probably want to be heard but this was not a good start. Better write about your experiences instead of making something up.
