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Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2022 1:59 pm
by japhy
ousdahl wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:10 pm
Have you been to Buffalo?

The Bills are about all they've got.

If that's what they want to spend their last pennies on so be it. Sure the Bandits are off to a great start this year, but winning the National Lacrosse League Cup does not have the luster of winning the Lombardi Trophy.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:12 am
by japhy
So HyVee grocery stores just laid off over 100 employees when it cut back it's "Aisles Online" program. HyVee in the meantime is suffering a worker shortage in their stores because either "people don't want to work any more" or "people don't want to work for HyVee". The HyVee CEO Randy Edeker had this to say about the IT and marketing department employees who didn't accept new jobs offered stocking the shelves and working the cash registers.

"Our retail stores are the heart of Hy-Vee, and some people just simply see it being beneath them to work at the retail stores. I think it's crazy, and I think that it's offensive," Edeker said in a video the Register reviewed.

Then again some people can't afford a big pay cut and with the number of better paying jobs out there it their field, why would they? No word yet on wether or not Edeker will accept a shelf stocking job when he leaves the CEO office.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:46 am
by MICHHAWK
there is a lot of jobs out there. too bad ain't no one getting off the couch and out the front door to fill those open spots.

for the life of me i cannot figure out how all the non working folks are paying the mortgage and car payment and buying groceries and generally just staying above water without a paying position.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:46 am
by jfish26
japhy wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:12 am So HyVee grocery stores just laid off over 100 employees when it cut back it's "Aisles Online" program. HyVee in the meantime is suffering a worker shortage in their stores because either "people don't want to work any more" or "people don't want to work for HyVee". The HyVee CEO Randy Edeker had this to say about the IT and marketing department employees who didn't accept new jobs offered stocking the shelves and working the cash registers.

"Our retail stores are the heart of Hy-Vee, and some people just simply see it being beneath them to work at the retail stores. I think it's crazy, and I think that it's offensive," Edeker said in a video the Register reviewed.

Then again some people can't afford a big pay cut and with the number of better paying jobs out there it their field, why would they? No word yet on wether or not Edeker will accept a shelf stocking job when he leaves the CEO office.
I have told this story elsewhere, but...

...the GM of a reasonably-nice place I find myself at a fair amount told me a few weeks ago that limited kitchen hours were because they can't find enough cooks. "What am I supposed to do when McDonald's is paying $20 an hour," he lamented.

Oh, I have some idea.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:48 am
by jfish26
MICHHAWK wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:46 am there is a lot of jobs out there. too bad ain't no one getting off the couch and out the front door to fill those open spots.

for the life of me i cannot figure out how all the non working folks are paying the mortgage and car payment and buying groceries and generally just staying above water without a paying position.
I swear to god, lots of R-leaning-leadership companies must be flooding the zone with $8/hour jobs nobody in their right mind would take, just so the rubes can suck at this narrative's tit.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:52 am
by KUTradition
read a piece the other day that said the overwhelming majority of people leaving the work force are retirees…aka, mich’s “folks”

lazy old fucks need to get off the couch and put the bong, cheetos and soda down

edit: not even retirees, but folks 55+ account for more than half of those leaving the work force

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:00 am
by jhawks99
MICHHAWK wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:46 am there is a lot of jobs out there. too bad ain't no one getting off the couch and out the front door to fill those open spots.

for the life of me i cannot figure out how all the non working folks are paying the mortgage and car payment and buying groceries and generally just staying above water without a paying position.
Uncle Joe writes them checks every month.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:02 am
by Cascadia
japhy wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:12 am So HyVee grocery stores just laid off over 100 employees when it cut back it's "Aisles Online" program. HyVee in the meantime is suffering a worker shortage in their stores because either "people don't want to work any more" or "people don't want to work for HyVee". The HyVee CEO Randy Edeker had this to say about the IT and marketing department employees who didn't accept new jobs offered stocking the shelves and working the cash registers.

"Our retail stores are the heart of Hy-Vee, and some people just simply see it being beneath them to work at the retail stores. I think it's crazy, and I think that it's offensive," Edeker said in a video the Register reviewed.

Then again some people can't afford a big pay cut and with the number of better paying jobs out there it their field, why would they? No word yet on wether or not Edeker will accept a shelf stocking job when he leaves the CEO office.
I soon as I read this I thought, “market expert mich” will straighten this out for us.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:16 am
by ousdahl
Didn’t “pandemic relief insurance” end like last summer? And only if one was even still eligible, at that?

And traditional unemployment tends to be limited, and be worth only a fraction of the peanuts you can make actually working.

it’s less suppling the gummint teat (unless you the Bills), and more things like retirement, or you just moved on to a better job, or it just makes more financial sense to stay home with yer kids, or your workforce was likely among the million-plus who have died, etc.

So yeah, sorry HyVee, it’s less that “people just simply see it being beneath them to work at the retail stores,” and more that people simply see it being beneath them to work for the shit wages offered.

Or rather, if actually competitive living wages WERE offered, maybe even people would no longer view retail work as being beneath them

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:20 am
by ousdahl
jfish26 wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:48 am
MICHHAWK wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:46 am there is a lot of jobs out there. too bad ain't no one getting off the couch and out the front door to fill those open spots.

for the life of me i cannot figure out how all the non working folks are paying the mortgage and car payment and buying groceries and generally just staying above water without a paying position.
I swear to god, lots of R-leaning-leadership companies must be flooding the zone with $8/hour jobs nobody in their right mind would take, just so the rubes can suck at this narrative's tit.
The Qusdahl meme pages are rich with anecdotes from the service industry about job postings that avoid listing the compensation, or interviews that avoid mentioning it too, or even job offers that say “I know the listing says we pay up to $20 an hour, but the key term there is up to, cuz actually new hires only get $8”

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:24 am
by MICHHAWK
i must have been absent that day when they taught us "how to get by without working and contributing to society" in economics class.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:24 am
by ousdahl
jhawks99 wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:00 am
MICHHAWK wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 9:46 am there is a lot of jobs out there. too bad ain't no one getting off the couch and out the front door to fill those open spots.

for the life of me i cannot figure out how all the non working folks are paying the mortgage and car payment and buying groceries and generally just staying above water without a paying position.
Uncle Joe writes them checks every month.
Just imagine how quick Uncle Joe would write the Merican people checks, if “the Merican people” was actually a war on the other side of the world somewhere.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:26 am
by KUTradition
MICHHAWK wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:24 am i must have been absent that day when they taught us "how to get by without working and contributing to society" in economics class.
tell your fellow olds to get off their asses and back to contributing

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:30 am
by ousdahl
“If your multi-billion dollar corporation’s employees still need food stamps and Medicaid to survive, it’s the corporation leeching off the gummint, not the employees”

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:47 am
by jfish26
MICHHAWK wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:24 am i must have been absent that day when they taught us "how to get by without working and contributing to society" in economics class.
Show me the evidence of this occurring on anything approaching a material basis.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:54 am
by MICHHAWK
one of these on every street corner:

Help Wanted
Now Hiring

Just look out your window.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:56 am
by KUTradition
i see gorgeous mountains out my window

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:59 am
by Cascadia
MICHHAWK wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:24 am i must have been absent that day when they taught us "how to get by without working and contributing to society" in economics class.
I don’t think you’ve ever taken an economics class. If you did, you clearly didn’t learn anything.

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:25 am
by PhDhawk
ousdahl wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:16 am Didn’t “pandemic relief insurance” end like last summer? And only if one was even still eligible, at that?

And traditional unemployment tends to be limited, and be worth only a fraction of the peanuts you can make actually working.

it’s less suppling the gummint teat (unless you the Bills), and more things like retirement, or you just moved on to a better job, or it just makes more financial sense to stay home with yer kids, or your workforce was likely among the million-plus who have died, etc.

So yeah, sorry HyVee, it’s less that “people just simply see it being beneath them to work at the retail stores,” and more that people simply see it being beneath them to work for the shit wages offered.

Or rather, if actually competitive living wages WERE offered, maybe even people would no longer view retail work as being beneath them
unemployment is limited

the rhetoric lasts forever

Re: Evil Rich People

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:31 am
by MICHHAWK
i would like someone to share their secret to "living w/out working." there are millions of them out there doing it.

i would like to live w/out working. who wouldn't.