https://www.businessinsider.com/labor-shortage-restaurants-hospitality-temporarily-close-food-work-jobs-employment-2021-7
so they're swapping from blaming employees to blaming consumers. that's something
I mean, the only people going to restaurants are loudmouth chuds high on the concept of not having to wear a mask in public and brunch libs who haven't gotten to yell at a poor person in a year. Restaurants are now full to the brim serving exclusively the worst customers, and it's just too much for workers after basically just spending a year forced to either deal with smaller numbers of exclusively insufferable assholes or just not having a job at all and struggling to make rent or pay bills.
Petite bourgeois class traitor here, I haven't eaten inside a restaurant since the pandemic started. My entire family has gotten takeout maybe six times total in the last eighteen months. Also, we have never tipped less than 20% and (so far as I know) we have always treated all the restaurant staff politely. My dad spent most of his life as a chef and I've spent years working in kitchens also.
I live in a touristy area which is now absolutely packed with my fellow petite bourgeois from around the country. Almost none of them are masked and I would say that at least 99% of them are white while most, but not all, are boomers, with plenty of women among them as well. To me it just seems like a form of slow-motion suicide for these people to be wandering around, eating at restaurants, and going inside shops that sell the same useless overpriced garbage. (How many times can you buy a $20 wooden plaque which says "It's Wine O'clock" or "Live Laugh Love"?)
When I have to head into town to get groceries and risk getting coronavirus, I play a new game: find someone who is smiling. Maybe 1% of the people out there appear to be having a good time. The rest honestly look pretty miserable. It's hot. It's crowded. There's nothing to do. Everything smells like fucking car exhaust and fried food. The food you're eating is making you fatter. You're aging. Is this really the purpose of all human existence? Wandering around yet another tourist trap?
It seems to be, inshallah, that this is the last hurrah of the bourgeoisie. I know in reality we probably have decades until the workers take control or the human species goes extinct. But I almost feel like the petite bourgeoisie is trying to get all their consumerism out of their system before the next lockdown / wave of riots hits the country. I have also never seen so many American fucking flags out there. Even for America, there is a fucking shitload of flags out, to the extent that you literally cannot walk anywhere without brushing against American flags. One town near here has an American flag on every single fucking telephone poll for miles alongside the state highway. It's like, hey, are you kind of concerned that this entire shithole country of yours is a joke, and that, godwilling, it will soon cease to exist?
I mean it definitely is kind of a death knell. I'm a little terrified of that happening, given that I'm in the middle of nowhere and don't have a car, so my literal only option to get groceries is fuckin' Doordash. My literal only option to get household goods is Amazon. There aren't stores here, and I can't afford a car, even on what's considered a firmly middle class salary, and certainly not with the shortage of used vehicles at the moment. The entire used car market in the 150-200 km around me is exclusively massive brodozer jacked up pickups from the early 2000s, and not a one is below about $12,000. I cannot drive a truck, I am a relatively tiny woman, and would not be able to even see the end of the hood in one of them. This shit is fucked and when it hits the fan, so am I.
Believe me, folks, when the revolution starts, I’m going to put my hands up and surrender and hopefully get myself and my family just a few years in the labor camps. I may be petite bourg but I can split rocks with pickaxes real good.
Spent most of my life working in either food service or call centers. While business owners want to extract wealth from your labor, consumers felt like the viewed interactions with you as a risk free exercise in sadism.
Felt a lot grosser.
Throw a bunch of shit at the wall, hope something sticks, or hope people take sides over a bunch of wrong answers.
Also I can't remember who on what podcast said something about a lot of the American retail/service/hospitality industry being about leasing out temporarily the experience of being old-school royalty with servants and shit. That's part of that promise of US capitalism that's being failed that Matt talked about.
Responding to "labor shortage" discourse is like responding to "blue lives matter". It's inherently flawed because it accepts the assertion that lives can be blue (besides the Blue Fugates who fuck everything up). There is no labor shortage. There's only stingy assholes and businesses that have no reason to exist.
place i work can't do deliveries because we don't have enough employees to run the store and do deliveries
Pretty sure the place I work is gonna get sold to Miller-Coors
You can see how the bouge really fucked up in cutting off most people from any hope of small business ownership. They tried to form groups to go pressure Biden to pass another bailout for small businesses and his stance was that he's not going to do shit about it and they should just pay more. Now they are running constant pieces about failing restaurants, but there is no longer any mass of potential entrepreneurs to influence. There's not going to be any 1980s style "save the beloved small town diner" crap, it's just over for these people.
Someone who is rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
https://www.rightattitudes.com/2007/09/12/waiter-rule-interpersonal-skills/ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/69738-a-person-who-is-nice-to-you-but-rude-to https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9576302-i-don-t-trust-anyone-who-s-nice-to-me-but-rude https://www.lifehack.org/423541/how-you-treat-servers-reveals-your-personality
