The Washington Post ran an article recently titled “Restaurants can’t find workers because they’ve found better jobs.” After restaurants shut down during the pandemic, many workers never returned.
Wow, this is an entirely new and frightening capitalist weirdness, to me.
As a gov't worker, an "essential" 'team member' even, for an "essential" gov't department; we never got furloughed in 2020 (I had to burn through all my vacation days in that early uncharted phase of the pandemic, to stay away from that fucking death trap for as long as possible), never got bonus pay (in fact we got hefty salary cuts foisted upon us, that still haven't even been taken back completely yet), and never worked from home or did "hybrid"-anything. We always had to come in to the office come hell or high water.
Wow, this is an entirely new and frightening capitalist weirdness, to me.
As a gov't worker, an "essential" 'team member' even, for an "essential" gov't department; we never got furloughed in 2020 (I had to burn through all my vacation days in that early uncharted phase of the pandemic, to stay away from that fucking death trap for as long as possible), never got bonus pay (in fact we got hefty salary cuts foisted upon us, that still haven't even been taken back completely yet), and never worked from home or did "hybrid"-anything. We always had to come in to the office come hell or high water.