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Old 09-02-2021, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy View Post
The Economics of Rudeness - Mauldin Economics

I am sure that there are a number of them amongst the posters here. . . has to be given their points and replies here.
As I see it, the “economics of rudeness” is just the typical diversion from the fundamental problem. The problem as stated is the difficulty to find enough employees.

Today’s restaurant chains expect:
1)employees to accept less than 30 hours per week so as to avoid paying benefits
2) employees to accept weekly planned or unplanned shift rotation.

Want more employees? Provide more “40 hour per week” jobs with benefits and limit shift rotation so employees don’t have to fear that their private life routines will not be upset by constant shift changes.

The “covid” stress is real. But that is just icing on the cake for someone working 25 hours per week at $12 per hour with no benefits and constant shift rotation (making a 2nd job impossible to plan). Rude people is just extra “crap” on top of an already “crappy” work experience. It doesn’t have to be that way. It didn’t used to be.