Yes, the vaccines are working!
I'm preying they stop making us where masks at work by the 30th
That means they won't
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We don't have a supply chain problem, we have a leadership problem.
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I'm preying they stop making us where masks at work by the 30th
That means they won't
PolitiFact - California’s trucking regulations may have had an impact on port backups, but there’s more to it
As hordes of ships wait to unload at California ports and elsewhere, some are shifting blame to the Golden State’s regul
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Politifact lmaoPolitiFact - California’s trucking regulations may have had an impact on port backups, but there’s more to it
As hordes of ships wait to unload at California ports and elsewhere, some are shifting blame to the Golden State’s regul
You're still dancing around the real issue
Keep going
The early response to COVID was not the damaging one, it was the late and ongoing response to it
IF IT SAVES ONE LYFE!!!
What if we told you that the container ships docked outside Long Beach were all full of masks?
all of which is apropos of nothing when it comes to supply chain issues
you have the most reactionary and simplistic grasp of the topic
is Pete Buttigieg, the politician who doesn't matter to my day to day life, going to do something to staunch the spiked demand for imported goods by online shoppers?
Biden does have an infrastructure bill which includes upgrades to the overloaded system delaying the offloading of goods in East Coast ports. I'm sure you're 110% supportive of the Biden infrastructure bill since you care so much about throughput at the ports.
I can't wait to see your thread celebrating the Department of Transportation's free tuition program for people attending truck driving schools since a driver shortage seems to be extremely problematic....
One aspect: Delays at ports mean truckers wait in longer lines and therefore are not being paid an hourly wage that meets minimum wage.
www.latimes.com
Port truckers win $30 million in wage theft settlements
XPO Logistics, one of the world's largest trucking companies, settled with drivers who had alleged it paid them less than minimum wage.
www.latimes.com
I already said Pete Bootygig is immaterial to this,
Online shopping was going on far before the pandemic, to blame this on that rather than people being stopped from working is ludicrous
But judging on how you get and process your information this isn't surprising
Are we talking about the core infrastructure bill, or the one doubled by social engineering pork? And what possibly makes you think glacial government throwing money at an acute problem is going to do anything to fix it? So we get the upgrades in 2026?
yup. it all works out.You know, the militantly unvaxxed aren't working, they love the free market, and we DO have a lack of cheap/free labor... seems like we have a temporary solution...
on a side note, i'm enjoying seeing labor flex, at the moment. not a bad thing, imo. also enjoying watching management - small business owners in particular - struggle to deal with it. a business owner who thinks paying for billboards like this makes more sense than improving wages/conditions in a highly competitive labor market doesn't deserve to thrive.
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There are businesses out there that have a good company culture and pay their employees fairly- do you enjoy watching those types of businesses struggle as well?
fairly is a relative term. if they have a good company culture and pay their employees well, they won't be struggling with labor problems.
in my entire working life, the management/labor paradigm has been: you are expendable. you need us more than we need you.
it does not bother me to see that turned upside down, particularly in light of the substantial 2018 tax cuts that did not seem to benefit the employees in any significant way.
I don't disagree with most of this. . . . Work culture has become toxic. I'm all for the labor market asserting itself and it's long overdo.
Unfortunately from what I've seen, lower-to-mid management is basically at the mercy of the owners/board/cfo/hr etc in terms of what they are willing to pay and budge on, and are basically told to eat sh!t and make it work.
Case in point, friend of mine is mid-management for a university dining and has been stuck working insane late hours for BS alumni circle jerk events because she can't get the help, so it falls on her to see the events through and mop the floors at the end of the night. She's probably the most liberal person I know and would gladly pay the kids more if she could, but she has no say in that matter. Those are the type of people who are eating sh!t in this labor market, and who's misery you are applauding
I'm not applauding your friend's misery but her misery is a necessary part of this paradigm shift. She sounds like she works for somebody like ARA or some other institutional catering outfit? And it's likely her upper management team are paid quite well - not necessarily fairly, but well - because they have enjoyed substantial disproportionate pay increases over the last decade or two (partially by holding down labor costs). But these problems will trickle upward and it's likely your friend also has options now that she did not have a year or two ago...and when she has had enough and leaves, and her company can no longer meet the performance metrics of their contract, hopefully something will have to shake loose at the top and trickle back down - as it should.
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She doesn't work for a catering outfit. Some universities call it the "regents" or the "corporation", but it's basically a non-profit wing of the university admin that manages all of the vending, and all of the workers are state employees. However it is basically run like a for profit corporation, even though the students are stuck there and aren't going to travel a mile out of their way to save 50 cents on a cup of coffee
The bean counters have basically baked low pay into the budget like you mentioned above, so getting any kind of reasonable pay increase is like steering the titanic. I do agree that it should be a good thing in the long run, but in the short-to-medium term its the loyal employees who are eating sh!t through all of this by having to pick up the slack. I see this whenever I have to take my car in for service, buy groceries, go to a restaurant, etc. I also think that there are a lot of business owners that are riding this out and hoping that the market stabilizes and they can go back to treating and paying their employees like dirt. Hopefully not, but I can see them playing chicken with it.
Employee ownership. I worked for an emloyee owned tech corp for many years. It's amazing what a few hundred shares of stock does to the us-vs-them mentality.
Right - employee ownership is a terrific alternative example to the traditional coporate model. A rising tide should lift all boats. Here's another nontraditional comp model... they laughed at this guy, called him a socialist, doomed him to failure etc but he really broke the mold for corporate pay scales and you can be certain he has no labor problems ATM.
CEO on why giving all employees minimum salary of $70,000 still "works" six years later: "Our turnover rate was cut in half"
In 2015, CEO Dan Price raised the salary of everyone at his Seattle-based credit card processing company Gravity Payments to at least $70,000 a year.
www.cbsnews.com