When Ryan McDowell bought the Baskin-Robbins franchise in St. Joseph, he never realized it would be this hard finding employees to scoop ice cream.
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When Ryan McDowell bought the Baskin-Robbins franchise in St. Joseph, he never realized it would be this hard finding employees to scoop ice cream.
But the ice cream shop had its own booth at a recent Missouri Western State University job fair, along with banks, social service providers, clothing retailers and a bowling alley. There was even a manufacturer advertising $1,000 signing bonuses.
They were all chasing the one element that’s become scarce in this economy: workers.
In my local area, within a 3 mile area....in the last two weeks the following places have closed up.
Qdoba, Subway, Wendys, and two Waffle Houses have had to close for at least part of the time due to staffing issues
I realize these jobs all have common themes....but these were the first jobs many had right out of high school, and launched you onto bigger and better things. If these jobs are no longer going to be around.....what is the next cycle of juniors going to do for their first jobs? The ones not going to college or technical schools?
We have over 10 million unfilled jobs in this country RIGHT NOW....jobs people dont want to fill at the rate offered. Okay. And those jobs are disappearing now that businesses are closing down. Maybe you think that is a good thing....i think it sucks. It will depend on how long people can spend at the teat of government before they have to forage for themselves again.
Parents now give their kids money for doing nothing, so there is no motivation for the kids to pursue work. People think giving their kids everything is making them special, when fact is many only breed future potential criminals, because they never learn to earn for themselves. That bull crap people watch on Lifetime Movies of a bunch of well to do spoiled kids, produce a lot of those malicious one that take that madness on to university campuses, and some could out, with a sense of entitlement, and the result to the public is they get positions and titles and any scam sounds good to them if they think they get paid a bonus.
what the public gets is "less services", "poor low quality goods" and claims of strained profits, but they never look at the excesses that are paid to these so called 4 yr wonders, they pay more than they are worth, when these 4yr wonders don't have any experience and many have no idea how the world works in the working class society.
Many young people who come out with these titles and high pay, have no concept of the business or corporate responsibility to the community they exist.
Adults are not running around looking to scoop ice cream when they have rent, upkeep, utilities, car payment, insurance and mouth's to feed. We see all these Pizza places claiming to pay so much, and people find out, its nothing more than "spin", when they find out that the rate of pay has no consistency or stability in earnings.
People also are not going to rush back to all these eateries that are complaining, to be paid $2-$3 hr. and told to rely on the generosity of the customers for the rest, and then tell them they have to split their tips with the other employees. Pay the people a living wage and any tips they earn has nothing to do with the business owners, most of the business owner
can't make tips a mandatory part of the bill.
Too many of these Franchise owners, don't even show up at their businesses, they are too busy living good off the labor of the people, while paying someone $10-11 hr and calling them a Manager.
Before they start whining and crying about no employees, they should sit down and figure out what it cost a person to live, and they'd know what its not worth the peoples time, to come to make less than it takes to pay their monthly expense.
Some people work those jobs and rely on pay day loans, or have to budget based on 45 days instead of 30 days, and end up having bad credit and late payments, and then the business wonder why they are not "inspired and happy employees".
It's about as dumb as slaver's who gave the people nothing and then expected them to be inspired, motivated and happy just to produce high profits for the slave owners. America needs to get that business mentality modeling out of their systems and minds.
