Now do a lottery $1M to get hospitality workers actually working (1 Viewer)

[Judge Smails]

What is going on? Economy opening up. People traveling. Except no workers can be found. Just experienced it in DC. Restaurant turned me away an hour 15 before closing. Had room.  Maxed with servers and in the kitchen. Couldn’t handle any more. Friend just got back from Nashville. No housekeeping at hotel. Person at front desk said she was the only one there. Bars didn’t have enough servers. Same at restaurants. Said Nashville was “dirty” and smelled like New Orleans. Wouldn’t go back for awhile. 
 

Is it just the extra state/fed assistance that’s keeping workers home? I mean owners can’t be good with turning away customers or giving them a bad experience. Temper your expectations for any trip. 

 

[BassNBrew]

Local KFC closed at 4, no workers. $15 an hour and $300 sign on bonus signs everywhere.  I had two tenants bring me rent assistance checks covering current plus four months. My go to AC vendor told me Thursday not to send them anymore work, not enough techs. Hards to find a plumbing company that will get you on a schedule inside two weeks. Even the landscapers are losing help left and right and turning away work. I’ve got maintenance company sales guys calling me wanting to do business and then the scheduling department doesn’t t return my call. Added a small pressure washing company and after 6 weeks had to dump them as they hadn’t completed the first job I gave them.  
 

Wish I could figure out how to pull this off

 

[FairWarning]

What is going on? Economy opening up. People traveling. Except no workers can be found. Just experienced it in DC. Restaurant turned me away an hour 15 before closing. Had room.  Maxed with servers and in the kitchen. Couldn’t handle any more. Friend just got back from Nashville. No housekeeping at hotel. Person at front desk said she was the only one there. Bars didn’t have enough servers. Same at restaurants. Said Nashville was “dirty” and smelled like New Orleans. Wouldn’t go back for awhile. 
 

Is it just the extra state/fed assistance that’s keeping workers home? I mean owners can’t be good with turning away customers or giving them a bad experience. Temper your expectations for any trip. 

Yes it is.  It's killing the service industry.  The brewery I was at today was overwhelmed.  Another bartender could have made $25-30/hour in tips easy.  

 

[bostonfred]

What is going on? Economy opening up. People traveling. Except no workers can be found. Just experienced it in DC. Restaurant turned me away an hour 15 before closing. Had room.  Maxed with servers and in the kitchen. Couldn’t handle any more. Friend just got back from Nashville. No housekeeping at hotel. Person at front desk said she was the only one there. Bars didn’t have enough servers. Same at restaurants. Said Nashville was “dirty” and smelled like New Orleans. Wouldn’t go back for awhile. 
 

Is it just the extra state/fed assistance that’s keeping workers home? I mean owners can’t be good with turning away customers or giving them a bad experience. Temper your expectations for any trip. 

Went to the Burger King near me to get my kid French toast sticks. They had two people working and the guy at the window said he got called in on his day off because everyone had quit. He then chatted with me for a while about the Fight for Fifteen and said that corporate was considering just closing that location.  Drove by another location today and there was just a sign that said closed. 

With all these places opening back up competing for the same labor, the ones who offer 15 plus per hour are having no trouble finding people but the bigger businesses are afraid to increase their pay scale across the board because they'll have to match it for their entire staff, and that means the managers too because they'll demand a raise just to keep pace with the people below them. 

This, plus inflation, plus the economy suddenly coming back online... it's going to be rocky for the next few months and probably longer.  

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Just the usual supply and demand situation. Just this time in reverse.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

With more WFH, government assistance, others offering min $15/hr, why would these people want to work for at/near min wage or not go to the company offering top $$?

Noticed it happening a ton around here with businesses opening many hours late / closing many hours early due to lack of staffing.

 

[FairWarning]

I fear for the long term effects, starting with SS benefits.