after working in the same restaurant for nearly 7 years, and working through the ENTIRE pandemic in 2020, including in the beginning when everyone was scared not knowing WHAT THE FUCK was going on?
i never want to work in another restaurant for the rest of my life AGAIN. low pay, shit hole customers, arrogant, entitled cunts. you get treated like shit by most of em, and they act like they OWN you after they pay. it's sickening. you have to clean EVERYTHING and scrub it after every shift and get nothing for it.
my silver lining was me working for a small ma and pa family owned placed.
but overall? restaurant or service industries are totally not worth it. and that's what restaurants are struggling
100% this I worked my way through college working at a fucking applebees and it sucked shit. Pay is way better then other minimum wage jobs though with the tips depending on the place. It honestly motivated me to get through college and get a good job. My wife was doing the same, olive garden though, during the "pandemic" and she never went back after got a better job after some trade schooling. I don't doubt some more people have died but I am just not seeing it in my community nobody I know even tangentially has died could just be lucky. Like you say I think people re assessed their priorities and finally had financial breathing room with stimulus money during covid and many are not coming back to the service industry. Everywhere around me good high paying jobs are in short supply but every restraunt and retail outlet has hiring signs.
Word I didn't say it wasn't bad before just that people had more options because of all the unemployment extra money and they changed industries permanently. The short staffing is changing the industry for sure.
Except it's every job market that can't find employees. I've talked to high end WFH programming people etc as well and even they can't find workers. Everyone thinks the workers are taking some other kind of job but no jobs are getting filled.
Can't agree just not true in my industry, even locally places that pay more are not having trouble filling positions. Maybe the companies in "high end" programming you talked to just suck to work for. Chik filet near me pays $19 an hour and it's highly competitive to get a position.
after working in the same restaurant for nearly 7 years, and working through the ENTIRE pandemic in 2020, including in the beginning when everyone was scared not knowing WHAT THE FUCK was going on?
i never want to work in another restaurant for the rest of my life AGAIN. low pay, shit hole customers, arrogant, entitled cunts. you get treated like shit by most of em, and they act like they OWN you after they pay. it's sickening. you have to clean EVERYTHING and scrub it after every shift and get nothing for it.
my silver lining was me working for a small ma and pa family owned placed. but overall? restaurant or service industries are totally not worth it. and that's what restaurants are struggling
100% this I worked my way through college working at a fucking applebees and it sucked shit. Pay is way better then other minimum wage jobs though with the tips depending on the place. It honestly motivated me to get through college and get a good job. My wife was doing the same, olive garden though, during the "pandemic" and she never went back after got a better job after some trade schooling. I don't doubt some more people have died but I am just not seeing it in my community nobody I know even tangentially has died could just be lucky. Like you say I think people re assessed their priorities and finally had financial breathing room with stimulus money during covid and many are not coming back to the service industry. Everywhere around me good high paying jobs are in short supply but every restraunt and retail outlet has hiring signs.
Restaurant work has always been like that. I did it for years at multiple different bars/restaurants.
Word I didn't say it wasn't bad before just that people had more options because of all the unemployment extra money and they changed industries permanently. The short staffing is changing the industry for sure.
Except it's every job market that can't find employees. I've talked to high end WFH programming people etc as well and even they can't find workers. Everyone thinks the workers are taking some other kind of job but no jobs are getting filled.
Can't agree just not true in my industry, even locally places that pay more are not having trouble filling positions. Maybe the companies in "high end" programming you talked to just suck to work for. Chik filet near me pays $19 an hour and it's highly competitive to get a position.