Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end

[NinoBrown]

Of course you're an engineer.... That explains quite a bit of why you think the world works in a vacuum

You got me there breh...

 

[basedlawd]

It's funny to watch the reactions to this article across different platforms. I've noticed people saying things like how ungrateful these people are or how they're making it so retail jobs don't exist and they'll be replaced by automation which is such a strange response. This isn't a story about people just not working, this is about people realizing there are better opportunities and taking them. This is exactly what people have been saying to do forever, especially in response to the higher min wage discussions. This is exactly how the capitalistic market is supposed to work. If people don't want to work a job, they have to raise wages and improve their conditions. That's the market.

This reveals the truth, people are just mad that the class of workers that makes average people feel superior can do better. The general pop are crabs in a bucket man.

 

[O.G. Gumpy Johnson]

I’m sure this has already been pointed out but you can’t automate the hospitality industry you also can’t fully automate any fast food and retail operations. This ain’t the fukking Jetsons and even the Jetsons still needed a labor force

They don’t have to fully automated. A Couple people with current technology could easily run fast food and retail operation. Hospitality could be automated. It’s better than the Jetsons right now. The Jetsons didn’t have iPhones

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

So when I was a teenager I should have been figuring out my whole life plan

fukkin sounds ridiculous now that you grown don’t it

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

It's funny to watch the reactions to this article across different platforms. I've noticed people saying things like how ungrateful these people are or how they're making it so retail jobs don't exist and they'll be replaced by automation which is such a strange response. This isn't a story about people just not working, this is about people realizing there are better opportunities and taking them. This is exactly what people have been saying to do forever, especially in response to the higher min wage discussions. This is exactly how the capitalistic market is supposed to work. If people don't want to work a job, they have to raise wages and improve their conditions. That's the market.

This reveals the truth, people are just mad that the class of workers that makes average people feel superior can do better. The general pop are crabs in a bucket man.

It's always been very transparent the hardcore capitalist were pieces of shyt. They want their wage slaves so they lied to them about that hardwork crap to make them think they couldn't do or demand better and the only way out was to "work" and if you didn't work enough that meant it was ur fault and ur a loser. No, it's the system, same people bytch hard about capitalism when it negatively affects them.

"Capitalism for thee, not for me"

 

[Arithmetic]

 

[thekingsmen]

Its obviously the wage. Lets take Florida (and my 27 year old cousin) for example. (Since I live here.. even though its worse in other states.) He's works at Best Buy as part of their geek squad for over 7 years now. He makes $17.50hr right now. He's got his own one bedroom apartment, that he pays $1090 a month for. Lets do the math.

$17.50hr x 40 hours gives you $700wk. After taxes (and we're lucky that we dont pay state taxes) he takes home what? $580'ish. Lets multiply that $580 x 4 weeks in a month, and that gives us $2320. You take out the rent and that $2320 becomes a whopping $1230. Car payments $308. That brings his monthly income to $922. Insurance? What.. $100? We're down to $822. Gas? Lets just say $100 a month. You're down to $722. Cell phone? shyt i dont know.. lets say $70. You're down to $652. Internet (dont say he doesnt need it.. its 2021.. another 50 bucks. We're at $602.

So we're at $602, and understand.. I haven't even mentioned food yet. With the price of foods these days.. it really doesn't matter if he eats out or grocery shops. The difference in pricing is minimal these days. Lets say you do a whole months worth of groceries.. lets be modest and say you spend $400 a month on groceries. You're left with $202.

$202 to live off of. Guess what? He has no kids. He works full time. He lives in a cheaper part of Orlando. 95% or more, or 1 bedrooms in Orlando are more than what he pays.

Orlando thanks to Disney helped create Retail City for the area. Living in that area requires understanding the environment.

 

[Arithmetic]

Companies would rather buyback their stock to please shareholders.

 

[Arithmetic]

Breh, salary is not even in the top 5 biggest expenses for corporations

For corporations payroll is not only the largest operating expense, it is a good percent of the total revenue.

 

[Alvin]

Pay them what they worth... shyt makes no sense the CEO doesnt do shyt gets paid millions and millions...

nah C-level execs def do things lol, the issue is that the worker shouldn't have to be paid peanuts for them to make the money they do. If most places went up to $20 an hour the C-levels would still be living better than most of America, that's the fukked up thing about it, the greed portion.

 

[Xyrax]

 

[RareHunter]

Good on them and I don't blame them. People are being a$$holes more and more also. My mom works in a medical office and people have zero patience anymore.

The only thing that I think will happen in September is panic honestly. I've been reading these reports closer and realizing that these hundreds of thousands of people are quitting/resigning.... Not being laid off.


You cannot get Unemployment if you just leave a job for no reason. And 649,000 people quit retail regardless of not getting UI. All these expectations that people are going to suddenly rush back to these low paying jobs in September might be a false hope companies are floating to make themselves feel better. These cats in denial. If those people left, and arent getting a check, they arent coming the fukk back period. They didnt leave for unemployment, they left to work elsewhere. All these articles including this one in this thread say stuff like this:




That means they are leaving these jobs and mainly finding other ones. Supply and demand. They not coming back to flip burgers for 9 an hour. That shyts done.






Whats not realistic is expecting your business to grow or make a ton of money when the shopping season hits this winter and you dont have staff in 90% of the fukking stores.

Thats the "realistic" a lot of these companies are about to learn.

Meanwhile min wage:

shyt is common sense. People not gonna work for you just to be homeless, they can be homeless and broke without a fukking job. Make it make sense.

It’s like this in nursing. A bunch of ppl are leaving the field of nursing or hopping around on travel assignments from what I’ve been hearing.

 

[Trust Me]

Orlando thanks to Disney helped create Retail City for the area. Living in that area requires understanding the environment.

It’s not just Orlando tho. I’ve got family in Tampa and St. Pete and Cocoa. It’s all the same. People can’t make ends meet by working a full time 40 hour work week. And it’s mostly because of este of lay, but also has to do with the continual upswing in rent. They go hand in hand.

 

[Bossino]

This isn’t fair even though there is some truth to it.

Leaving it solely up to employers to determine minimum wage isn’t their responsibility even though some (like myself) can read the tea leaves and set a ceiling as they so desire for wages.

This is a government issue and for YEARS the Bureau of Labor Statistics (the US Government) has been putting out straight BULLshyt in regards to many sectors of the economy which in turn mislead corporate entities who USE THAT DATA to determine the ceiling for wages in a geographic region.. EVEN THOUGH goddamn Ray Charles as a CEO could see the problem between the data the government puts out and fukking reality itself in regards to costs of living and so on.

It puts enormous pressure on businesses (especially small to medium) ones to enact change on a level like this regarding wages that shouldn’t really shouldn’t be there and this has been the case really since the fukking 70’s and really took off with Reagan..look at how slow State and the Federal Government have been in addressing this wage shyt! It’s preposterous.

My point is with how much power lobbyists has and how often officials fluctuate between private industry and government positions, creating loopholes solely for themselves and their ilk to exploit you're essentially having corporations/corporate interest run government. It's really been over.

 

[mastermind]

not all is exploitation. there is a good day's work for a good day's pay. nothing is wrong with that.

greed leads to exploitation.

Before Reagan, corporations did HEAVY profit sharing with the employees. shyt came off the rails once he got in office and put in policies that allowed these corporations to run wild with cutting off profit sharing programs to have the monies go straight to the rich investors instead. Began the sharp rise between the rich and poor

TBF, this started in the 70s. Reagan just pressed the gas pedal.

And what you are describing is collective bargaining.

What happened is unions were extinguished under Reagan, but the corporatists Dems and Repubs supported their extermination and the rise in corporate profits.

Its good that workers are fighting back, but until something is collectively done and people see themselves as a class against the elites, this will go nowhere.