As if the low wages weren’t enough, the grueling hours, no set schedules, little or no breaks, not honoring time off requests…what else am I missing? Chime in!
Being underpaid is a significant part of the issue, but when customers are rude, insulting, or degrading, management historically sides with the customers in service industries. This is delicious karma to watch. 🙂
Nobody wants to stand on their feet all day for $2.20 an hour...plus tips. The stimulus package gave people the opportunity to make better career choices.
@@noskpain2792 HAHAHAHAHA. You’re paid what you’re worth 99% of the time. Hard work or not, low skill jobs that only require 2 or 3 weeks of training (or less) will NEVER pay a great wage.
@@DanStratocaster1 yeah and people are choosing to value themselves more than what these people want to pay, thus they cant find help at the same price.
Yeah, and if that “low skill job” is so important to a business that it can’t run without that worker then maybe it has more value than we think and businesses need to pay more. And maybe customers need to pay more. And if that means we have fewer customers maybe there doesn’t need to be a McDonald’s, Burger King, Hardee’s, Wendy’s, etc every 4 miles across the country.
Higher wages mean higher prices. At least part of the problem is we ourselves. Not just the businesses In America we used to make stuff here of high quality and the wages were good because people were willing to pay for the quality. also our standard of living was much lower. When I was a kid 99% of houses unless you were really well off,all for the entire family to share, had 1 TV, 1 telephone, often no air conditioning, 1 car. IF they had a car at all Now everyone has to have 3-4 of everything and we have moved to a disposable goods economy and Nobody is willing to pay for stuff. Everything they want has to be cheap which is why manufacturing went to other countries. You cant have both high quality goods made here and sold at affordable prices AND pay high wages. The same thing goes for the services industry. You want the best and most perfect paint job possible in your living room but you aren't willing to pay for the time it takes to achieve that. Thus contractors are forced to hire low wage (often illegal alien) workers. Womens lib has also contributed to it. Supply and demand. It used to be the man worked and the women stayed home to mind the kids,house etc etc. Thus the available workforce was effectively half of what it is now which also had the effect of driving wages up. Then women decided they wanted to be able to work too. Thus inflating the available work force. Which drives wages lower. We as a society, got what we wanted. the problems is we don't want the realities associated with getting what we wanted. Labor demand right now is driving wages up. Grab the jobs now while you can because now that all the freebies are about to be cut off and the freeloaders are forced back into the work place. They are going to stabilize again. And those higher wages WILL drive the costs of goods and services up eventually even for the lower wage workers who the higher wages are supposed to be helping.
@@butchgriggs6325 No...you are. I actually own and run a business. ANY time you raise the costs of a business, be it by wage,tax, or regulation the end effect is a raise in the costs of goods and services. This is why the iPhone you are likely droning on is made in China Not here. If your $1,000 iphone was made here it would cost more than twice as much due to labor costs
Yes, the last 20 years or so, no matter where I work, wages don't go up at all, or very little while "the big guys/gals" pocket more and more of the money we earned for them. Time to stay away from low-paying jobs.
Don't apply for a job if they dont pay $15 an hour. You dont deserve to live in Extreme Poverty, so don't work for an Employer that will banish you to that class.
@@sandycharlton8669 Here is my problem with a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage.. 15 dollars in one state is not equal to 15 dollars in another state. The minimum wage should be calculated on a variety of factors adding up to the ability to afford to live in that location. A "living wage" is a better qualifier .. and should definitely be mandated as a law.
When a person works 40 hours a week and can't afford a one bedroom apartment and to support themselves, we have a problem. We are about to see a huge problem with homelessness if this doesn't change
If you look back at a company like GM. Their CEO made a little more than his employees. There is absolutely no reason someone should make 245% more than their employees. This greed is going to be the downfall of this nation and world eventually
So, we're trying to tell a bunch of people who have realized they can do better than waiting hand and foot on other people making their lives smoother ... we're telling them to go back to these jobs that don't even pay enough to live a simple, modern life. I can tell you for an unfortunate fact that a lot of us will never work those jobs again. We will work, just fine. It's you that are going to have to change.
Same. I would rather be homeless then make less than $15 an hour. I will never go back to the stress of working and being homeless because they pay less than $15.
Good for them. Unemployment is paying what they would make risking their lives to serve some ungrateful person. Once technology and robots take over… employers won’t lose any sleep cutting their employees. So get out while you can.
Right, Republicans (including many restaurant owners) have been saying for years "if you want better pay then get a better job!" Well that's what people have done. Now they're complaining that people did what they told them to.
@@jaridkeen123 honestly with the way the apartment and housing market is, you would still be homeless at 15 and hour. Its terrible that they had gotten away with this in the first place. The gap in pay between the people that own the company and the actual people that keep it running has widened, while everything around us has increased. Its time that everyone can actually have a real living wage, and not worry about which bill they have to let roll over still after working a full work week.
It's so true. If I could stop working, I would. I'm in physical pain all day. I really can't blame people for not going back but we can't let our economy fall.
Not to mention how you’re abused by customers, spoken to like your brain dead and considered human trash 🗑. Oh yeah, let’s rush back to those jobs ASAP.
@@jalene150 worked in fast food lasted a few months and I was Out Never again in Life Will I work fast food again . Now Im studying to be a software developer so I never have to do work like that again I think Everyone is starting to Realize their worth and Want more out of life this pandemic opened a lot of peoples eyes including mine.
he took the opportunity available and is working to improve himself... he gop should be happy about this... they hand money to companies all the time...this guy is taking initiative... and a smart business owner will his his drive and initiative and hire him.
Then he will get also tired of his tech job and go back lazy I know many tech now they got sick and tired quit (the job they say they will be excited and making money) and now doing RU-vid or living off the system So no matter the story those folks that says are going back to school bla bla they will get fed up at some point People are just lazy no matter the kind of job or career
It's not that simple. It's also necessary to be either profitable or absorb short term loss. Increasing salaries cuts into profits and spurs losses. It also results in cost of revenue increases. In a "normal economy", these things lead to layoffs and fewer businesses to act as competitors to each other. I won't even get into the inflationary affect on everyday consumers.
@@PhilMoskowitz or the employers can reduce their salaries and put it back into the wages of employees. The employees make the business far more money than they get paid by the business
Worker productivity is at an all-time high, yet wages have remained pretty stagnant for years and years. It's about time to pay people for what they are truly worth rather than sacrificing their lives for employer gains.
You also have a welfare state to pay for that's at an all time high. Guess how that's paid for? It comes at the cost indirectly of depressed wages. Every problem without exception stems from DC. Even complicit big businesses wouldn't have any power if DC didn't allow it
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN..THEY ALL THE SAME...THEY LIKE TAG TEAM IF U REALLY THING ABOUT IT ??? JUST LOOK AT HISTORY..AND U CAN TELL ! BUT I LIKE TO WATCH WWE SMACKDOWN INSTEAD ! IT'S JUST WRESTLERS WITH SUITS THAT'S ALL,LOL
B.S. you want higher wages. Learn a marketable skill Wages if they are stagnant is because people arent willing to put for the effort required to get a raise instead opting for the minimum effort required to keep their jobs. Many workers complaining now dont have 1-10th of the work ethic their higher waged grandparents did. You want a lot of money. But arent willing to do what it takes toactually earn more money.
If the Minimum Wage was tied to the GDP like in everyother European Nation the Minimum wage would be $22 hr in America. If you are not being paid $22 an hour in America your being under paid for your labor.
@@LadyLegendary Doesnt Matter. The United States was born from a European Nation and we follow a lot of the same Legal Norms since we are the same people
@@Frankieefootballmundial I feel this in my soul. I'm so tired of having to cover a minimum of 3 positions a day at work. I'm actively putting in applications so I can escape retail.
That’s fair. There are two sides though. You can find 50 workers who reap the benefits of unemployment who for every one person attempting to better themselves like Richard Ascoto, both are significant.
If you're younger, you're not experienced enough (even if you are), and if you're older/have experience, they don't want to pay you what you're worth and are afraid you might demand some respect as an employee, god forbid. The hiring process is out of control.
Sadly, this philosophy does not exist with America's large retailers. This is why it is so important to only buy from Amazon to shudder the other businesses down so we can then take on Amazon shutting them down with actually buying from real people like small mom and pop stores that truly care about their workers and not the stockholders. The greed of America's corporate executives has destroyed lives and the American economy as well as our well-being. It's time to make them pay.
My daughter has gone on eight interviews, yet no one will hire her. I know she's not the most physically impressive applicant, but if these companies are truly wanting to hire people, why won't they give more people a chance???? My daughter's story is not the only one I know of. I have heard this story from many others.
@Beverley Ibrahim Most interviewers would probably get offended by that. They don’t like being asked questions and if they answer truthfully they are afraid of lawsuits- so they just do not call back. It happens in even very high paying lawyer jobs- my aunt had the same experience and she was successful and a great candidate still getting disrespected by companies looking to hire. So many companies just don’t do anything at all.
@@CapnCody1622 why is beauty a job requirement? I took it to mean not physically strong, but who knows. If appearance is important for most jobs, the world is messed up. This is exactly why I let my remote workers leave their cameras off for meetings. Their appearance has zero impact on the bottom line, and the work they're doing is more important.
@@kwebster62 they're* And yes, tipping is a barbaric practice that needs to end. If people want to tip on top of the regular earnings that's ok. But paying somebody $2hr just because they might get a tip should be illegal.
There is hope for humanity. Most people have learned, have grown, have "awakened " during the pandemic. Society will become wiser. It's up to the people.
Exactly! Politicians who are the definition of BEGGARS and live on donor handouts have the nerve to call hardworking Americans as “lazy”. We need an actual living wage not starving wage which only benefits the rich.
I feel for these people. In the mid 1980s I was laid off from my factory job with good pay & benefits, for four years. It was a rough 4 years, cost me a divorce and the daily time with my two daughters. The farm economy tanked and yet the NYSM soared but I was barely getting by and child support was always paid on time. I never missed my obligations there. Any job I could get was at minimum wage but after taxes there wasn’t a lot left over. Thank goodness other UAW locals got together so there were food baskets at Easter & Christmas. A big plus was that local groceries had begun bulk food sales, I ate a lot of pasta & rice. I came through on the other side thanks to my church friends and the community. I found out first hand how important the farm economy was for the financial help of the whole economy. I could have left the area and gone home to D.C. but I wouldn’t leave my girls. A living wage shouldn’t be paycheck to paycheck, that’s just existing, in some cases barely.
The working class folk getting help...what a concept!! Fracking rich people have tax lawyers and accountants who help them shelter their millions while we support our country on our backs.
How unbelievably cruel. You are asking their CEOs to go without that seventh house on the French Riviera and that third yacht. Positively, indubitably brutal.
@@lindabuck2777 those companies intentially keep workers below 32hrs a week to avoid matching contributions to those insurance benefits. That was always the plan
@@edwelndiobel1567 they've been expired in my state for the last 2 months and it hasn't moved the needle at all. I still can not find employees for my restaurant. It would appear that those"bums" got better jobs/skills instead of working 2 crappy jobs just to survive and mess up your food order.
Yaaaay, cyber security! Good for you for pursuing it and challenging yourself…it’s a great field and you’d continue to find it interesting. Wish you all the success.
Cyber security is the future. Wars will be fought over it and I am all for the underpaid worker who wants to hack into rich people's accounts and redistribute the hoarded wealth. Let's fight this greed.
I worked at a retail store and was fired for no fault of my own because the new manager made two schedules instead of one and I worked the wrong schedule. I decided to take me a jewelry class last year and will be opening my own custom jewelry store I also have a job that pays 20 an hour better than the 10 an hour I was making part time at my previous job and that job starts on the 29th of this month . Not everyone wasted the extra benefits we did something with them .
They'll just lessen the amount of hours given to employees. Overtime should not be disallowed to people, like it's actually forbidden. It's part of your job to not work more.
People are tired of waiting on people, hoping that they will get paid. End the tipping system or add tips into every check because no one wants to hope to get paid while hoping not to catch the Rona
@@KayDejaVu The the areas I've lived in, in the past 10 years. A burger meal at a small restaurant went from $6 to $14. Houses went from $300K to $700K. You must have your eyes closed.
@@deadinside8781 I trained people to find jobs for 10 years, but that ended because of the pandemic. Tutoring was just an easier and safer transition working for the same company.
I’m a server I make 2.13 a hr, I’ve worked the entire pandemic and the way I’ve been treated for the last six months is bad people are rude entitled and it’s no wonder no one wants to be abused for maybe a 15% tip with reduced tables cooks short staffed I can’t get food out fast and make money I just quit my job now I’m moving on….
What are you talking about? I literally have seen far more openings in tech than even the daam finance department. Even in Texas I see departments spending more money to hire people in tech and would only hire one finance person or manager
Another phenomenon that wasn't covered in this report is it there are many of us who are approaching retirement age who have just decided to not go back to work. Why as I begin the last phase of my life would I want to take the chance of catching covid from some inconsiderate coworker who refuses to wear a mask or knowingly comes to work ill. And don't think it doesn't happen I have a neighbor in her late twenties who now has long-haul symptoms due to an inconsiderate coworker knowingly coming to work with covid.
@@cabayern9416 I've noticed this being a growing trend with businesses for the last 15-20 years. I think they pushed people to far and now they have a real problem
Profit margins have been too high since the mid 80’s. Unrealistic expectations for shareholders cost employees deserved pay increases to meet the costs of living. It created an unsustainable economic model.
Has anyone studied the whole picture? Higher wages means so much more than a boost to the employee and economy. It means our tax dollars can go farther due to the reduced needs from HHS, or potentially a tax break. That is just one side benefit!
Politics are such BS right. Even if the Prophet Trump 😂was sill in office prices would increase and there would be a labor shortage. The only difference is he would be in office and still blaming the other side. Wh in their right mind would go back to a job with crap hours, crap pay and no benefits. Especially if there was an alternative. I have no resentment for someone wanting to better themselves. Folks saw a chance and took it. The same senators that whine and complain are the 1% that don't give a damn about their fellow Americans. Amazes me folks will still vote for them and give them money, then complain about everything. News flash....Senators and ex-presidents (included the beloved Prophet 😂) don't care if any of us live or die! All they care about is power and money!
It’s a sellers market for chefs/sous chefs, pre pandemic i was only getting offers around 35-42k a year post pandemic my lowest offer we 60k a year to be a sous chef… so I’m good now lol
I’m so happy for you but holy crap you made $35k as a base to be a sous chef?!?! I work in medical billing in AR, and I make $13.40/hr…comes out to $28k per year.
@@Rockrgrl4 If he's working in a major city on the coasts, $35,000 is peanuts. I made that coming out of college ten years ago and couldn't rent a studio apartment in DC on my own (it's gentrified a lot in the past 20 years).
I still feel for those who are laid off, because of the whole pandemic. If it weren’t for it, though, I never would’ve had my shopping job, in which not only gives me good workouts (since I’m always walking around the store for many hours) and it gave me a good chance to build some money up for my future. Frankly, I know there are more opportunities ahead, but this is only the beginning. Good luck to all still trying to get hired, stay safe, and build up the future.
Adjust 1960s' minimum wage for inflation, should be $25. $15 is not enough, it's an insult. Less than $15 is abusing a young ignorant population, basically indentured servitude.
Especially when wages back in the 60's could pay for a semester of college. Nowadays, we can't. Because everything is treated like toilet paper was last year. (A Get Rich Quick scheme.) Which includes housing. And instead of intelligent solutions: The "hard working" people of 'Murrica would rather gaslight and threaten us. Because we said something they thought was "communist." And they'd rather call for a Civil War instead.
"Help wanted! Need laborers to exploit and treat terribly!" If by "it's a sign of the times" you mean "it's a sign if how fed up people are with mediocre working conditions, low pay and unsecured employment" then businesses struggling to find employees are indeed signs of the current times
It's not exploiting if both parties agree to the terms of employment. Wage slavery doesn't exist when you can negotiate or leave at any time you want to.
I moved to Texas 2 months ago I have filled out many applications specifically where I see a hiring sign on windows, it's not true, they are not hiring.
Mayra, keep trying. Some employer out there is looking for you. If you have to, go back to the same place, and remind them you filled out an application. It could be sitting on someone's desk.
I live in a rural coastal town in Oregon. My town relies on tourism to survive. We are facing the same hiring crisis because we have no affordable housing. Period.
Thank you CBS Sunday Morning for highlighting the main source of the problem with the last frame of the video. Most of the money is being funneled up to the top employees and very little is trickling down to the folks actually doing the work that the companies rely on for their profits. The middle class in this country has had the life squeezed out of them for decades and it has to stop.
The public takes out their frustration out on the workers who actually show up. Customer demand far exceeds worker supply. I work at a grocery store and the Deli is dirty grueling work and to be paid $12.85 to deal with that and hostile customers. Nope.
I'm confused about this: you don't even make $1,000 a week and live in a cramp basement apartment yet you think 1,2,3 and 4 children are a good idea???
It seems to be the American way! For decades Iv watched people play out the government dollars at every angle, it’s like a business to a lot of family’s.
People have found out that they have been working for peanuts and they are tired of pay check to pay check life. These job need to pay people a living wage. Stop blaming it on the Gov.
Here is my problem with a 15 dollar an hour minimum wage.. 15 dollars in one state is not equal to 15 dollars in another state. The minimum wage should be calculated on a variety of factors adding up to the ability to afford to live in that location. A "living wage" is a better qualifier .. and should definitely be mandated as a law.
Exactly! Politicians who are the definition of BEGGARS and live on donor handouts have the nerve to call hardworking Americans as “lazy”. We need an actual living wage not starving wage which only benefits the rich.
Your jobs suck. No one wants to be your servant anymore. People are ruder than ever. You don't care about or protect your employees. Why is this so difficult for rich people to comprehend?
Right now, what we're seeing is the low-paying wage sector, fast food, retail, etc. that are having a high shortage of workers. Let's keep it that way.
@Bill Jonston 60 hours a week 9 months out of the year i prefer. or at least 40. cause I pay so much no one last few years has needed to or wanted to more than 20. March 1 to thanksgiving 50 to 60 hours. 1 week off for thanksgiving. 30 hours for 3 weeks in december. 3 weeks off for xmas and new years. 20 hrs a week till valentines day. 30 hrs a week last half of feb. $80k minimum plus commissions guaranteed with a contract. $100k by second full year. $250k within 5 years or less. Millions of dollars in jobs for Walmart, tyson foods, jb hunt trucking, schools, banks, freddie mac and fanie mae, city parks and bike trails, headstart, walgreens, cvs, sams club, new churches, police and fire stations and thousands of customers in several states last 30 years.
Waiters, bussers, cooks and dishwashers have been paid crap wages in this country since I began in the industry in 1980. Good. Don't go back to work until they pay you what you are worth. KUDOS food service workers!!
Where do you think all the multi-millionaire lobbyists and corporate gatekeepers are supposed to live in order to access federal representatives and their gatekeepers?
plus the fact that a lot of people have retired and those close to retiring, may do so earlier than expected, because of overwork and increase pressure do to lack of labour.
This is exactly why I feel like the argument that certain jobs are for teens and college students only is, at best, disingenuous. This is why everyone, no matter how simple you deem their career choice, deserves a living wage. A lot of people are leaving those jobs to do what everyone claimed they needed to do, "get a real job". Now look, shortages everywhere.
Yeah your right I remember a time when service jobs were kid jobs now I see whole grown adults working these jobs. These jobs were suppose to be stepping stones to a career. I don't know what's going on not to offend anyone. But service jobs are for kids not a 40 + year old. With kids and a spouse.
@@jessicacannady1931 Yeah, service jobs are for kids. That is why McDo's, Burger King, and grocery stores close during the school day... because all their workers are at school. Oh, they don't close? Then who can work there? 😎
This only proves that service workers were way underpaid. 600 dollars made a huge difference on changing people's lives. Why the employers never thought to improve the lives of their workers?
After working for the same retailer for 20 years and getting .10 to .15 cent annual raises, yes, my time has finally come. Instead of earning less than the new hire, I can actually have a living wage.
6:35 But it took a pandemic, it took bodies being thrown in the back of trailer trucks! We still need Congress to do their job, more to my point, Texas basically has a band on abortion (punishing those who help). If there was a federal law in place, there would be no way that the Supreme Court could interpret the law as it has done for Texas. #CongressDoYourJob you’re the only legislative body in this country!
To the mixologist wanting to become a mushroom farmer. My dad was a mushroom farmer, it’s tough business and you have to know the science. He sold exotic mushrooms to restaurants and mushroom spawn to mushroom growers. He was also a consultant to other mushroom businesses when they got viruses or some kind of bug in the mushrooms. For him it was not a money maker. He was a scientist not a business man. To own a business it helps to have skills in business. That’s why a lot of small businesses struggle. On a side note. I was a mushroom bag maker in high school. Ha!
Is there money is mushroom farming? Go to Kennett Square, PA, mushroom capital of the world - we've never been able to sell as many mushrooms as we grow and now is no different.
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I know many of my friends in the restaurant business left and won't be returning. It is a hard job made harder with Covid. The pandemic certainly had a lot of people reassess their careers. As for my friends the extra benefit money to do other things. One got certified as a Pilates instructor and now has opened her own business. Others went back to school (online) to get a degree so that they can be better paying skilled jobs.
I believe that it's also the fact that people realized that families could afford to have a parent stay home with the kids. Child care is sooooo crazy high...... Why pay it???
Yay for the restaurant workers that are getting out of their low paying jobs where the owners want you to give you're oh that please don't expect that in return from them. Time for the restaurant workers to step up and say no to slavery wages as a workers have. And give their workers a job to be proud of.
Working at a National retailer, we are short of workers for many reasons. Some took advantage to go on to a job that was higher paying. Others decided to stay home. So many of the new workers coming in for retail have a very poor working attitude.
That starts with TRAINING; instead of throwing new hires to the wolves right away; Poor working attitudes comes from not being respected. It works both ways.
99% of the jobs are $8 an hour. The 1% that isnt dont pay much more. I dont blame people not taking these jobs. Its ridiculous to see trade jobs pay $12/hr when it should be $20. Anyone making $20 should be $35 to $40. You cannot afford a car payment and rent under $1000 making $24/hr. Businesses need to get real with wages. Vehicles are $50k thats $1100 a month. A small house is about $800 to 1000. Where i live. You cannot afford both making less than $30/hr. Just 30 years ago you could afford both making $10/hr. Thats what businesses think we are still
