Originally Posted by
Alhanelem
Keep telling yourself that, doesn't make it true.
They clearly don't have enough staff to meet the demand, that's the very definition of a labor shortage.
I've never had a problem making GM calls and getting some form of response in a reasonable time frame during normal circumstances. Or rather, what we used to call normal circumstances.
Guess what? I work in the industry. We don't have enough help. Lots of places don't have enough help. I've seen businesses close permanently because they can't get enough help- even with wage increases. People are quitting their jobs at record rates because everyone apparently thinks this is their opportunity to find greatness, or they want to be their own boss in the gig economy. My job is classified as part time, but up until just this month, i've been working full time hours to make up for less staff.
People who would have considered working at my place of employment now not only aren't working for us, they're adding to our workload (i.e. doordash and instacart). That's where a lot of these people are going. Think about this the next time you order delivery. When businesses didn't have to think about this sort of thing, they had enough help. Now they're under pressure to offer delivery service as people want to go out less and less, and they're competing with the delivery providers themselves for workers.
Now try to tell me "there's no labor shortage" again.
(And no, the problem isn't wages. It's an excuse. I've gotten four raises over the course of this year, plus an extra differential for weekends. I have no complaints about how much I get paid for what I do. Many businesses have raised their compensation offerings considerably and it hasn't proven to be enough. The labor market is changing and people very much don't want to do these things anymore. Also people apparently don't seem to realize this, but to raise wages, you generally have to raise prices. Which means people need more money, which means you need to raise wages, which means you have to raise prices, and so on. You're never going to get a kings ransom working a basic labor job that has no qualifications. Those Instacart shoppers, one told me they're earning like $30 an hour, which may be true if they're serving a whole bunch of clients at the same time all day long, in which case they're probably working harder than me. But they're also running their cars into the ground which is going to eat into that. In the end they likely don't end up with much more than I do.
And what does a GM have to do? Sit at a computer for hours on end, type out messages to support requests, maybe do some investigating.... this isn't rocket science, it's not going to be a high paying job. And I'm sure that they've gotten raises too.