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‘Chipotle’ Sign Saying Staff ‘Walked Out’ Goes Viral (Plus 22 More Similar Signs From Other US Businesses)
The pandemic is not only affecting global public health but also causing chaos for the economy, disrupting supply chains and causing labor shortages for businesses around the world.
Economists say that not only changing demographics like aging and retiring employees are a factor behind the shortages, but also border controls, immigration limits, and demands for better pay and flexible working arrangements.
The latest labor data from the United States, for example, shows that the number of people who are willing to walk away from their jobs or to switch employment is growing. A U.S. Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, released in October, showed there were 10.4 million job openings in August whereas the number of people leaving their jobs (the so-called "quits rate") rose to 4.3 million, the highest level seen on records dating back to December 2000. And it's showing.
On Monday, a Chipotle location in Kentucky was forced to temporarily close its doors after half of its staff walked out on the job
Image credits: ROC United
A video showing the simple sign the employees left went viral on TikTok in the hours following the mass resignation, and local Kentucky reporter Doug Proffitt also posted a picture of it on his Facebook, adding a statement from Chipotle itself.
The location's general manager, Raven Whallen, provided this explanation when reached by the Louisville Eccentric Observer: a series of unexpected staff resignations forced the Chipotle location to temporarily close its doors on Monday, but that didn't prevent it from reopening Tuesday morning. Apparently, the restaurant lost three employees on Monday. One had already put in her two-week notice but decided to leave her position early. Another was too frightened to return to work after discovering that her car's catalytic converter was stolen and her tires slit. A manager also left their position, leaving the store acutely understaffed.
But Chipotle, like many restaurants and fast-food locations across the US, has been struggling to maintain its employee count. The ongoing pandemic, paired with difficult customers, unsympathetic corporate management, and low pay, make these positions difficult to sell, even for the industry's typically young workers. As noted by Whallen, "A lot of people don't want to work nights, and if they do, they’re underage. So, it's kind of hard because they all have to be off at a certain time. We have to follow the labor laws."
In a similar case, one Dunkin' Donuts worker put his pay stub on blast, saying he doesn’t get paid enough for the misery he goes through
Image credits: ScorchedEarthCorey
TikToker @scorchedearthcorey blasted Dunkin' Donuts for not compensating their employees enough. "I just want you to look at this because, for some reason, some people think that other people are there to entertain them," he said in his viral clip."This is my main source of income, to pay child support ... Do you think with my 73 hours of f****** misery and bulls***, that you should come and try to bother me more? People think customer service is end-all-be-all. Let me explain something to you: I do not get paid enough to listen to you. I do not get paid enough to take your B.S. I do not get paid enough for you to treat me like I'm your entertainment."
People think the ordeal at the Kentucky Chipotle is a sign of a larger problem
And they're right, similar signs have been popping up all over the United States
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#1
Nobody Wants To Work
Louis George White Jr 4 years ago
No one wants to work for slave wages...
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Linda Johnson 4 years ago
Most of our employees have walked out because the customers were awful during the height of the pandemic, and are far worse now. People need to go back to kindergarten and learn to behave. Simple as that.
Liam Lowenthal 4 years ago
People want to work - without abuse, slave wages and daily depreciation in order to make you entitled widdle customers all happy. Gotta please the masters, amirite?
Ian Campbell 4 years ago
Appears slavery has never been abolished in the USA! What a dump to work in!! Shame America shame!
Liam Lowenthal 4 years ago
Shame is too kind. I'd call this dumpster fire of a country a goddamn "first world" joke.
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
Do not eat at Chipotle. I ate at my local Chipotle once for the first time ever -- and got a mouthful of sharp chicken bones. They gave me a certificate for a free meal. I came back, got another mouthful of chicken bones. Got another certificate. This went on 3 more times before I just decided it just wasn't worth the free food I was able to swallow. I have never seen any other food service place be so incompetent in my life. I literally can't figure out how they manage to be so bad at the one thing they're supposed to be doing.
wild and free42 4 years ago
Fr that's why most businesses will go bankrupt which hell serves em right
Load More Replies... wild and free42 4 years ago
No it's not that nobody wants to work anymore the refuse to be treated like s**t for 12 an hour its mainly the greedy management worldwide welp y'all better start figuring out ur s**t bcuz everyone is tired of it how can u pay management but basically say f**k u to everyone else u reap what u sow
Debi Givens 4 years ago
Pay a living wage. Have respect for you employees. Stop being damn freakin' greedy!
Debi Givens 4 years ago
Yes, there has been delays in supplies and food from freakin' CHINA! It's the US fault through GREED, that we have depended on CHINA. We are more than capable of producing what we need right here in AMERICA! The US has OUTSOURCED everything. Taken good paying jobs away because "YOU" America said it was cheaper to outsource labor, not thinking about how it would eventually HURT your own American People. Freakin' Greed ! Why do most Meats come from across the pond, when we had mega meat processing plants in AMERICA? I am from Nebraska and when I was growing up in the 60s & 70's it was prosperous. My grandfather retired from Cudahy (a meat packing plant) I was surrounded by these companies in my town. Armour, Wilsons, Swift, Farmland and others. It was their livihood. The pay was great then. Affording families to buy homes, decent cars, maybe a boat and a camper like my grandfather had. Take family vacations and have great neighborhood barbecues. What happen AMERICA? YOU GOT GREEDY!
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#2
Much Better Than The “Nobody Wants To Work” Signs Many Restaurants Put Up Now
Lisette McCown 4 years ago
It's always the people who think they're too good for a fast food job
Jonathan Folsom 4 years ago
They be making 12$ a hour💀 working 40hr a week.. yeah nahhh, we all got bills to pay 😂. Washington state pays 14.5$ or more, MCD makes 15$ hr and rent is a reasonable pricing if you find a right one
Captain Obvious 4 years ago
Yup, and everything is going up. Jack the minimum up to 25 and believe the cost of everything will stay the same. Rent is reasonable? Lol
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Michael Carrillo 4 years ago
I've worked in the hospitality industry for years, started as a cook mixed my way to management,I had a good managerthat believed in me, more and more . Business, work there employees to the ground with no appreciation , always short staff, and manager not willing to help, for the pay that they get paid,I would never go work for anyone, I'm my own boss now, and have happy employees
Captain Obvious 4 years ago
Dunkin donuts is his career? 12 bucks an hour to make and/or serve donuts is pretty good. Maybe set your goals a bit higher. That is an after school job or get you through college, not s damn career nor one where you go to fund your child support payments. No sympathy here.
Barco Blanton 4 years ago
High School dropouts in high school graduates expect to get paid college salaries dream on. You can always go to McDonald's or Walmart.
Erika 4 years ago
Here's a thought: if you're working full-time putting up with customer shenanigans and trashing your body standing up for 40 hours, you deserve to make enough to live on. "College level" should be more than that. You shouldn't have to get a college degree to avoid living in a tent under a bridge.
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#3
It's Happening
Taylor Davis 4 years ago
If the goal of capitalists is to eventually reduce labor costs to zero, who will be able to buy their products? Robots?
Wellington Lee 4 years ago (edited)
Preferably you reduce labor costs to zero (slavery, indentured servitude) then you continue to enslave the labor force by indebtng them. They cannot afford the goods they need so they go into debt, further reducing their negotiating power. These market forces are already in place here in the USA through education and medical indebtedness. The US has some of the highest personal debt in the world...well and China. Both countries have surprisingly terrible benefits pto etc. But hey I cough "we" are so rich!
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Jessica Cole 4 years ago (edited)
In my early twenties I worked for Dollar General as a shift supervisor, was supposed to transition into assistant manager (the one they had was to be fired). First day on the job training my manager had a heart attack. I ended up being trained by the very not properly trained assistant manager .... Long story short, the manager was on salary but worked at least 60 hours a week before the heart attack, we never got another manager until about 6 months later. This store was ran by completely incompetent people, including myself. By the time corporate caught on, I was the only honest one with them, and they kept me "in the loop." I was promised new training, I had put in 6 months of management work, and was promised a pay raise and promotion. They came in one day and did a mass firing, including me, who had been loyal to their plan and getting new people working for the store. This is the absolute worst company I've ever worked for, and was the end of my retail working experience. The manager ended up not coming back.
Duke Cheston 4 years ago
One of the great benefits of capitalism is that they were free to quit and get a better job. Try that with socialism
Julie Atwood 4 years ago
Someone doesn't know the difference between Socialism and Communism...
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Wanda Lumpkins 4 years ago
But notice the common thread: "Nobody wants to work anymore." Sounds conspiratorial. First the little mom and pop. Then the 4 star restaurants. Next the fast food and dollar stores. All driving traffic to Amazon, which means "sit at home and order and we'll bring you what we have": soggy grapes, stale bread, old meat, cold fast food, or, how about somebody else's order. If the fast food chains can take their stores down to just online ordering, they can cut the overhead and increase profits as a result. We're being taken somewhere. Instead of taking it out on each other, we probably should wake up and smell the era changing.
Cecily Holland 4 years ago
Typical Braindead Zoomer post. Guys it’s happening. Y’all aren’t part of some unique movement. People have been walking off the job for hundreds of years
The Paradox 4 years ago (edited)
To All the people complaining and talking bad about capitalism, make your own s**t, sell it, get employees and stop complaining about having to work if you don't want to find a better wage for yourself. They do exist. Most of you are just under educated and want to blame someone else for all your shortcomings. You Communist kill me..
Fuqcancer Prout 4 years ago
That's what I did I haven't worked a 9 to 5 in 3 years. I love it no one standing over my shoulder no such thing as being late it's just freedom. I love it here
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Zua Rodriguez 4 years ago
Please let Mexicans back in the US, they are willingly to work and don't ask for benefits. Just run background checks to make sure they are coming in for the right reasons.
#4
It's About Time
Jessica Cole 4 years ago
"Democrats" give free money.... I swear my first Covid relief check had Donald Duck's signature on it... It's Donald Duck, right? I love it when people don't understand the government as a whole.
Myr Lopez 4 years ago
I think it's actually the orange from the annoying orange youtube videos, he aged REALLY poorly.
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Jeff T 4 years ago
Lmao at these idiots who don't realize that unemployment benefits stopped months ago.
Stephanie Casey 4 years ago
Right it ended in like June in our state do these people need to find a different excuse and quit being bitter about those whom were getting unemployment to survive and take care of their families. These people worked to be eligible for unemployment in the first place. So get off your high horse you bitter people and find a different excuse.
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Gin Marie 4 years ago
"Democrats give free money LOL" says the Trumpie. You don't understand how the economy works, do you, Trumpie?
Lauren Caraway 4 years ago
When you missed the air quotes and sarcasm.... Awkward
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Kevin 4 years ago (edited)
I think it great that so many are willing to quit. Demanding a living wage, 'or else', is the only way we going to steer our economy out of the plutocratic rut we've been hobbled by. If companies refuse to even approach a reasonable salary, and I mean this in the most non violent sense, LET THEM BURN!
Orlando La Santa 4 years ago
I wonder if MattPost would take an application and work a week before posting a letter from the same company that gets money from the government if they remain closed. Stupid.
Zua Rodriguez 4 years ago
Please let Mexicans back in the US, they are willingly to work and don't ask for benefits. Just run background checks to make sure they are coming in for the right reasons.
#5
Local Wendy’s Meets Its End
Bob Stuart 4 years ago
That's another reason my lifetime spending on prepared food is about $100.
Mickie Shea 4 years ago
Tis a shame, maybe if we brought in some asylum seekers they'd work there.
Jeff T 4 years ago
The last states to stop extended unemployment ended it 2 months ago. Many ended theirs up to 8 weeks BEFORE that. The last stimulus check was in January. You are absolutely clueless lol.
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#6
How Are You Guys Doing?
Janet Thomson 4 years ago
So I wouldn't go to a Chipotle if you paid me $1,000!! People have short memories!! Don't you remember the thousand of people who got sick all over the country from eating there: noruvirus,e coli and salmonella???!!!
Damian Henderson 4 years ago
I left a job I loved at chipotle due to no breaks more often than not.
#7
Sorry But We Are Closed
Arthur Waite 4 years ago
Surprisingly honest statement - or is that sarcasm? Comes out to the same thing, but fun to read, anyway.
John C 4 years ago
I'd bet this was typed of by an employee in the process of quitting
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Liam Lowenthal 4 years ago (edited)
How about you all stop bitching about nobody wanting to work, when really they're just sick of your abuse, and maybe cook your own damn food you lazy jerks. (Talking about the comments, not the sign)
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Do people really get drug tested at work (at private companies)? Is that a thing in the US? Is it a thing in other countries?
Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
Yes, drug testing for jobs is a thing. Not all companies/ jobs require it but most decent wage jobs do.
Load More Replies... Debi Givens 4 years ago
We want slaves, not workers that should be paid a living wage. I guess they just don't get it. Who doesn't want Low pay, Long hours, Disrespectful Managers & Supervisors that show no gratitude? Greed, is the American Way!
New York New York 4 years ago
That’s too much no one is doing all that y can’t ppl just do one or the other I’m not sending an application then a resume then this then that it’s too much whatever happened to just sending it on indeed then that’s it
#8
My Local Burger King The Other Night
Mike Loux 4 years ago
"Lack of morale." Morale comes from the top down. That's a management problem.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
A manager of a chain store probably doesn't have any control over pay rates and conditions either. Which is why many of these signs sound like they may have been written by managers.
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John C 4 years ago
looks like they did, right before writing this note. probably through tears and loads of self-doubt about their life decisions. hopefully they quit and found a better job.
Load More Replies... Mickie Shea 4 years ago
Burger King well always have the "looks like a pedophile" demoniac King.
Heather Mook 4 years ago
It is a tree top problem. When all the lower workers look up, all the see is a**holes. When the upper management looks down, all they see are s**theads.
Gin Marie 4 years ago
Yeah, unclench, sparky, if that's your primary concern here.
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#9
No More Exploiting Us
Queserasera423 4 years ago
Multiple chipotles with employee walkouts- makes me think it's a corporate issue and not the local management?
Paul Davis 4 years ago
Ohhhhh yessss it is. I can't even imagine what kind of clown circus is at the top of this worst fast food company in America.
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Jeremy Dencklau 4 years ago
Entitled crybabies... Everyone of them. These people wouldn't know hard work if it bit them in the ass.
Kevin 4 years ago
Right, because you're out "workin' on the railroad" every morning at 4am.
Load More Replies... Gin Marie 4 years ago
Second time you posted this bullshit, a$$wipe. You just hate people.
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They Left Off
Caro Caro 4 years ago
We do want to work, we want to work for housing, bills, kids, a few fun things, pension, a holiday and affordable healthcare. You want us to work for fu*k all, THAT'S why we left, you greedy basterds.
Ellis Reed 4 years ago
If I saw this sign I would turn around and immediately leave. No one wants to work anymore? No, you a s s hole, no one wants to work for YOU for the shitty wages YOU'RE offering. What an entitled prick.
Dasha Slepenkina 4 years ago
Do these businesses really think that signs like these will get them sympathy? I'd walk out the instance I saw something like this in a business.
Alanna Elric 4 years ago
I would never go to a restaurant that says "nobody wants to work anymore" without a hint of sarcasm
Brenda Owens 4 years ago
No, they want to be paid their full net worth. Not the corporations idea of net worth. You mean you cannot afford to lose 100,000.00 dollars a year ? Come on, you spend that on donations every year. How about donating full net worth to the people that made you who you are?
zz mkd 4 years ago
people like to work for a decent pay with benefits. 40hrs a week should be enough for a decent life. working your ass off for peanuts while the corporations are getting richer and the fat ass CEO keep getting their fat bonuses. this country allowed the rich pricks to get richer in the past few decades. time to end that
Emily F. 4 years ago
Service Jobs are not to raise a family on, these jobs are meant for College kids or retirees looking for a few extra $$. If your raising a family on these jobs, you have to find a way to go back to school or trade school. Americans pull themselves by their bootstraps and don't opt of a handout or taking from others, rich or not.
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Jeff T 4 years ago (edited)
Most places that pay and treat their employees well aren't doing too bad with staffing. Sorry that people don't want to work for less than 3 bucks an hour so assholes like you can tip 2 bucks because you're stuck in 1995.
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Jaybird3939 4 years ago
Most people who are working jobs at minimum wage probably have to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. It's not kids working to make fun money anymore, it's people who are trying to support themselves and their families. Kids will put up with some of this cr*p because they aren't there that many hours, but working 8+, it becomes way too much.
Daniel Johnson 4 years ago
Food service is having issues because even with government bailouts they recieve its so negative at the popular nation wide pizza franchise are all dripping with hostility, starting with the management. I'm suffering from two recently diagnosed heart conditions with full documentation with restrictions and as soon as the manager found a reason. My car broke down while delivering for him. I missed one day to come up with the resources to fix this issue. And then I get a writeup. I worked all through covid and I'm not asking for a handout but if I have to go to the hospital via ambulance 3 times in three months have documentation while working as much as possible then then I'm written up because after asking everyone for help covering a 5 hour shift. I still work there and it's so negative how people are just loosing it.
Gin Marie 4 years ago
You're tedious, Trumpie. If Rrump hadn't killed 600,000 Americans AND the economy with his stupid response to Covid-----not to mention dissolving Obama's Pandemic Response team because he's bitterly jealous of Obama-------the economy would not be f****d now.
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Nobody Wants To Work
Libstak 4 years ago
$2.13 an hour is an obscenity. That's $21.30 for 10 hours of a person's life, how can they not be ashamed to think they are entitled to that level of even slave labour from anybody?
Mad Dragon 4 years ago
$2.13 per hour is the wage for tipped employees. It was originally 50% of the normal minimum wage, but the amount has not increased in 30 years!
Lizzie Riley 4 years ago
National minimum wage in the UK is £8.91 ($12.05) an hour. Taxes are only paid when you earn at least £12,570 a year. Our tax and national insurance is taken directly from our wages and the NI pays for our healthcare. I wouldn't move to the states for all the money in the world (I'm epileptic so would probably have to spend it all on medication within the first 12 months anyway).
Brenda Owens 4 years ago
Okay, I am definitely going to say it. I don't care who gets angry.....Them's slave wages. There I said it.
Dina Anastasakos 4 years ago
How is this not illegal? At least in Canada we have a 14.35 per hr minimim wage. Not great but better than this!
Jo Davies 4 years ago
I pay my gardener more than this for 6 hours, a full breakfast, lunch (with desert) and cold drinks during the day. And he keeps Christmas pay and a paid month's leave once a year.
Esther (she/her) 4 years ago
What the f***? 2$ an hour? How do people live like this and other countries worship the usa?
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No One Wants To Work Anymore
ZAPanda 4 years ago
wow, this is literally lower than what we pay a gardener in africa. I'm really not surprised.
lana dever 4 years ago
Ummm, what do you pay your gardeners? Sounds like they deserve better pay as well.
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Some states in the U.S. still have a serving minimum wage. In theory, your tips are supposed to make up the difference to make your income minimum wage. If not, your employer is supposed to pay the difference. As someone who worked one of these jobs, I can the employer almost never payed the difference.
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Rosesinmyhair 4 years ago
I had my first part time job when I was 13. I was paid $3.50 per hour with breaks. In Australia. In 1985. These American wages are criminal!
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
As an adult in a large city in the U.S. in 2012, I made $2.13/hr plus tips. At that time $1,200/mo was average rent for my city. And American boomers wonder why millennials are broke...
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Stephanie Casey 4 years ago
Texas pays like this, also that's all those delivery service drivers are paid, plus their tips, so tip your delivery drivers, waitresses and waiters. Gas is not cheap for the delivery drivers to cater to your convenience so tip them appropriately.
Scott Rackley 4 years ago
I made a s**t ton of money as a server, then even more as a bartender. I understand people not from the US don't understand tips and such. There were bad days when I walked out from a 6 to 8 hour shift with $200. There were average days when that was $300-400. Then there were some saturday nights bartending where I had $800-1000 (which I put in the restaurant safe and got it in the morning, or had the manager deposit it for me since I had the same bank as the restaurant). So no, they didn't get paid $21.50 for a 10 hr day. When I retire from what I do now, I'm gonna part time bartend again.
Andy Acceber 4 years ago
'Sounds like you were at a well attended restaurant/bar. I worked at a couple dives that sometimes would have nights without customers. I'd walk home from a six hour shift with $15. Your personal experience doesn't mean the industry doesn't need to do better for its employees overall.
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#13
9 Employees Quit At A Burger King Location In Nebraska. They Cited Egregious Working Conditions
James Mills 4 years ago
The were probably paying less than the shell was for petrol per litre.
J Aislynn d'Merricksson 4 years ago
All of these ppl are too nice with the 'sorry for the inconvenience'. Don't treat ppl like sh*t, be you management, corporate, or customer.
#14
Nobody Wants To Work Anymore
Caro Caro 4 years ago
That nasty little "due to government handouts" bit is despicable. I hope that Americans will boycot these shitty restaurants!
Ellis Reed 4 years ago
I know if I saw this on a restaurant's door it would be the last time I'd ever be near those doors. This crap infuriates me! Pay your staff better and treat them with respect, problem solved.
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Jerry Mathers 4 years ago
So what they are saying is that even $4500 (or less) isn't crap for money, it is just enough for people to choose that over the lousy pay and poor working hours that the business offers? And for some reason they think that people will sympathize with their plight? This shows the disconnect between business and people.
Lorraine Merchant 4 years ago
You're ignorant to say no one wants to work. People wants to get equal PAY!!!!!
Regina Anderson 4 years ago
It's sad when businesses say people don't want to work. The pandemic showed people what they are worth and now all the businesses are mad because people don't want to work for pennies and be treated like crap by upper management and rude ass customers and still don't have enough to pay rent and bills and eat.The company owners sitting poolside at the homes chilling while their employees don't even have enough money left out of their check to even get to the free beach because it cost gas or a bus ticket or train tickets and if you have a child forget it you have to sacrifice time with your family to get a second job to support them .smh PAY YOU EMPLOYEES OR DO THE WORK YOUR DAMN SELVES
Debi Givens 4 years ago
What Government handouts?? LOL You gotta be joking. HaHaHaHa YOU would rather not take the blame? Of course not. What you stated on that funky stupid sign is NOT TRUE. PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES A "LIVING WAGE" STUPID + STUPID = TWO STUPIDS Greed is the American Way....right? SMDH Greed is the American Way....right? SMDH
#15
Store Closed
Paul-Melissa Lucas 4 years ago
That is the W for Walgreens I'm pretty sure.
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Anne Reid 4 years ago
In 1016, I quit working on an ambulance because Duane Reade (part of Walgreens) offered me $1.50 more an hour. And I didn’t have to carry people up and down the stairs, got regular breaks AND could go to the bathroom whenever I needed to!
Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
I didn't realize there were Walgreens around in the 11th century 😉😅
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Blue Cicada 4 years ago
Walgreens saves money by scheduling employees for 36 hours a week, so they aren't full-time, so they don't have to pay the benefits. No. Health. Insurance. For people who work at a pharmacy and retail shop. Also, raises for long-term employees do not match starting pay for new employees. After 16 years, I was making the same hourly rate as a brand new hire. Thank God I found contracted work using my Master's degree.
J Walker 4 years ago
Many many many places do that. They make sure you don't go over hours to hit full time.
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Anna Repp 4 years ago
Our Walgreens pharmacy is severely short-staffed. Wait lines are long and I've had to come back the next day a few times because I waited too long in line.
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Thomas E S Thomas 4 years ago
A living wage is 22,000 a year. That's $12 an hour after taxes, 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. Anyone making more than $12 an hour should be grateful.
Anna Repp 4 years ago
Grateful? They work for that money - why should they be "grateful" for the normal process of exchanging their skills and time for money? This is not communism, you know.
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Nobody Wants To Work Anymore
Monica Martinez Castañeda 4 years ago
Try paying your workers and they might show up... These signs are shocking.... :)
Wanda Lumpkins 4 years ago
But notice the common thread: "Nobody wants to work anymore." Sounds conspiratorial. First the little mom and pop. Then the 4 star restaurants. Next the fast food and dollar stores. All driving traffic to Amazon, which means "sit at home and order and we'll bring you what we have": soggy grapes, stale bread, old meat, cold fast food, or, how about somebody else's order." If the fast food chains can take their stores down to just online ordering, they can cut the overhead and increase profits as a result. We're being taken somewhere. Instead of taking it out on each other, we probably should wake up and smell the era changing.
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Sonny Finstababy 4 years ago
Don't expect to open again until you pay people what they deserve! And stop blaming the government!!! At least they are paying people, unlike you store owners!
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No One Wants To Work
Paul Davis 4 years ago
I guess no one is wasting this employer's time by helping him make a living. He must not want to do what it takes to get ahead, the lazy bum.
Captain Obvious 4 years ago
The owner doesn't care and why should he/she? A business can go years without making a dime and the government compensates the owner. If people are too lazy to work they can grab a tent and live under an overpass like thousands already are
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Eric Davis 4 years ago (edited)
40k for line cook is actually a very good wage. Try being a sous for 30k. Rediculous. FYI 40k is around 18-19 dollars and linecooks don't get salaried positions so yes massive OT
Fuqcancer Prout 4 years ago
But how long are you working for though, he said long hours I wonder how many hmm. I'm thinking 10 to 12lol
Load More Replies... James Mills 4 years ago (edited)
40k is pretty decent annual wage. but im not sure if long hours means they get paid overtime for those long hours.
Anne Reid 4 years ago
It depends on where this is. Rent for a 1 bedroom apartment where I live is about $1,500 ($18k a year), not including water, gas or electricity. So that’s already half your pay...and the $40k is pre-taxes, so really more than half your pay.
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Albert Kelly 4 years ago
40k a year? For "hard work and long hours" in a "hot kitchen" and somehow they still don't understand why nobody wants to work for them!
Louis George White Jr 4 years ago
40k a good wage?.....This is why workers are screwed because of dumb asses supporting s**t wages...
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Sandra Gomez 4 years ago
40k is not bad if it's in a low cost city. If we're talking So Cal then you're screwed
Jaybird3939 4 years ago
"No one wants to work anymore" for long hours, hot kitchens and "hard work". I bet that the person who wrote this has ever done any of those things. Most likely, they stood around yelling at people to work faster, this job isn't hard people, and I could replace you in a second!
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New ‘Nobody Wants To Work At A Burger Joint Where They Can’t Afford The Food’ Hours
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Fingers crossed that nobody ever gets desperate enough to do that!
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Briana Kessler 4 years ago
I would refuse to ever go here again. What nasty snarky comments in that paper. He can enjoy closing up shop for GOOD
Bobbi McGough Robert 4 years ago
How much should entry level positions pay for non-skilled workers? Minimum wage is sufficient for the unskilled.
Joel Hopkins 4 years ago
Says the baby boomer who walked out of high school into a full time job that could support a family of four and buy a house.
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Yoinks! 4 years ago
Funny how so many signs have "nobody wants to work" on them. It's almost like all these different stores and restaurants across the nation got identical talking points.
Stephanie Casey 4 years ago
And their clueless, it's not that people don't want to work it's that people want to make a decent wage to support their families and not have to put up with bullshit from their managers/ owners m They need to get off their power trips and get in there and be a working manager, don't ask people to do things you wouldn't do self, it's all about respecting people. When you go to a job and your manager is yelling at their employees all the time and make the workplace miserable, who wants to work for them? People don't deserve that kind of abuse from anyone. It's incredible how many managers have no clue what you are doing or how to do it, but their your manager and supposed to teach you, not the opposite
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What's Going On With Fast Food Employees Quitting?
Lisa Stewart 4 years ago
Probably the manager's name since they have love Wendy's on it.
Load More Replies... Debi Givens 4 years ago
We want slaves not workers that should be paid a living wage. Greed, is the American Way!
Lindsey Judd-Bruder 4 years ago
Honestly, even $12.60, which is what I make, isn't that much. If it wasn't for my husband's disability check, we wouldn't be able to cover all our bills. I know I make more than many people might. But a lot of the time, it still doesn't feel worth what I have to put up with...
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Louis George White Jr 4 years ago
I hope the fast food industry collapses, shitty food that kills you...Wont miss it!!
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This Sign At A New York Burger Joint
Debi Givens 4 years ago
We want slaves, not workers that should be paid a living wage. I guess they just don't get it. Who doesn't want Low pay, Long hours, Disrespectful Managers & Supervisors that show no gratitude? Greed, is the American Way!
Mickie Shea 4 years ago
People actually like work where they are paid a fare wage with good management.
Debi Givens 4 years ago (edited)
BS, you are greedy and don't want to pay your employees a living wage. Hell, you jacked up prices, and making more profits . Your employees not seeing any of it!! What the hell do you expect?? Greed is the American Way....right? SMDH
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The Pharmacy In My Pharmacy Is Closed. I Was Supposed To Pick Up My Diabetes Meds Here…didn’t Get A Call, Message, Nothing…
J Robertson 4 years ago
My RiteAid pharmacy shortened hours from 9-9 to 10-6. They are so backed up that the other stores in town have been helping them get caught up. Yet they continue to double book the pharmacist with flu & COVID shots. One of my meds I had to wait 2 weeks for. Luckily it wasn't one I had withdrawals from. My doctor suggested I switch to mail order. I did but there's one I'll still have to go there for. They have an automated phone system. Once they push done in the computer it calls you. I know this because I've sat and waited before. THEY DON'T OFFER HEALTH INSURANCE TO THEIR PHARMACY TECHS! How is that possible when they make billions and billions on medications alone.
Cory Tollman 4 years ago
I work in a hospital pharmacy and we are at the point that we are offering $2500 sign on bonuses for new techs. I don't know what the starting pay is but I hope it is at least $15/hr because Walgreens is offering at least that with a $1250 sign on bonus. We're massively short on technicians and I think the only reason it isn't worse is that the main retail corporations are treating their techs far worse.
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Soleil SanMao 4 years ago
The CVS in my area is overflowing with customers. I wanted to get my son's flu shot and we left twice because not only was the line long (around 15 people with their hands on their hips and visibly frustrated) but the line wasn' t moving. On the 3rd attempt, we got the shot. The area where you sit to get the shot was filled with boxes of supplies. There were 4 employees behind the counter and it wasn't enough to handle the crowd. The phone was ringing non-stop and no one answered. God help them if even 1 employee quits.
Cory Tollman 4 years ago
The corporations want the regular staff to do flu and covid vaccines while still dealing with their regular workload, that they are likely already understaffed for.
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Judas Syal 4 years ago
Im a cashier at rite aid and for the last two days I've been stuck telling dozens of people that call that the pharmacy is currently not answering any phone calls.. Thankfully so far everyone has understood that it's not my fault and i cant do anything about it.. They also just took an hour off the pharmacy hours and moved all vaccines to a one hour window a day
Anthony Ly 4 years ago
even pharmacists?? I figured they would be making a good amount, but I guess not.
Bonnie Edwards 4 years ago
visit out store at 10917... is that supposed to be an address or a phone number?
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Sids In Aptos. Nobody Wants To Work For You Anymore!
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
If it takes $2800 to obliterate your company maybe it's not a good company?
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Carol Emory 4 years ago
Not due to the government handouts, due to the fact that people figured out how to make money from home by starting their own business. It doesn't take a lot of start up money to get one going, it just takes time that no one had until they were forced to stay home. I worked as a tutor before the pandemic. I managed to be in my last semester before everything closed down, finished my degree online and got a job working remotely for an accounting firm. Then the manager that let me go from tutoring because she had to reduce numbers suddenly calls me to ask if I can return. Nope...found a better job at twice the pay.
Phill Freeman 4 years ago
I personally love comic sans... And it looks perfect for "Sid's" it wouldn't look good on Goldman Saks though...
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Michael Fuhry 4 years ago
I'm sending a trend of passive aggressive, conservative douchebags who have no clue as what constitutes treating their employees as fellow members of the human race.
DumYum 4 years ago
What’s happening resembles a restaurant workers union strike. It happening spontaneously without organization as people realize how screwed over they’ve been. My daughter worked for Sonic one summer. If I knew then. What I know now I would have started a lawsuit for wage theft. Basically you are told to show up to work a shift and then when there is a lull — ratio of customers to employees goes down— you are told to clock out! Think about it. Bean counting taken to an outrageous level of inhumanity for the sake of stockholders.
janesa fernandez 4 years ago
I don't like that many are saying due to "government handouts" as if they didn't help businesses as well. People want to work just not for free.
Thomas Santiago 4 years ago
That sign is Laminated! They spent money on The Sign knowing it was gonna be there for a while. If only they thought Gee? This employee is really good! Think I'd like to keep them happy so they stick around! Nope! Gotta go to my office and spend an hour making a sign while everyone else does the work...Hmm? Is it legal to laminate employees?
Ana Garfield 4 years ago
The people who say its because of government handouts, should live on those wages and work under those base conditions.
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Felix Feline 4 years ago
No CEO should earn more than 10x their lowest paid employee. It is the employees who keep the company open and rolling, and they should all be compensated fairly. No, don't raise the prices to pay them more- cut the top salaries and use that money to pay them more.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
You mean, the way it used to be? Funny how the worst offenders are always reminiscing about, and want to return to, the “good old days”, but want to cherry-pick which parts they want to come back.
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Caro Caro 4 years ago (edited)
C'mmon Americans, Boycot those assholes, rise up, We are on your side. GO
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Yes! I have no skin in the game, but I've been following these types of news from the US with growing optimism. Seems like now's the time to make the real changes.
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kath morgan 4 years ago (edited)
Amazing. It’s rife. Us work culture needs a total overhaul. Even my relatively chill boss needs to be reminded that I’m not staying after my paid time and they can’t keep leaving extra things for me to do. She’s just so used to not thinking about it.
Llewella 4 years ago
Not just the US sadly. I left my job after 12 years because Headoffice decided to reduse costs by reducing personel. Why pay 3 workers when you can make 1 worker run the whole shop, 9 hour shift, no break, easy right? Now the shop is only open a couple hours a day because most of the remaining staff quit
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Mommen Ramen 4 years ago
middle aged female here- 20+yrs of varying experience. Associates degree. Looking for p/t work. over 100 applications out. 10 call backs. 3 interviews. zero job offers. local walgreens- 5 positions open. applied for all 5. got email stating- AFTER REVIEW OF YOUR APPLICATION AND QUALIFICATIONS WE HAVE DECIDED TO MOVE ON TO OTHER APPLICANTS.....my associates degree isn't good enough for cashier? now hiring is a lie
albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
Due to your education and experience, they assume you will walk out the door the moment a better opportunity arises. Been on a few hiring committees, and this is the general consensus for over-qualified applicants.
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Jerry Mathers 4 years ago
To me, the best thing to come out of this pandemic is the collusion of low paid workers to basically unionize. I think it's great! For decades in the US, the businesses have been treating folks like crap. Low pay, long hours, crap benefits, etc. And now they are having a hard time understanding that people are over it. Union busting laws, the 2000 bailout of Wall Street while citizens were left to suffer, the shift of the tax burden from the wealthy and businesses to regular citizens have separated us into 2 classes, the rich and everyone else. The funniest thing about this is whining about the government stimulus. There is an easy solution. Offer livable wages and benefits and poof, you aren't closing your doors. But that idea is so foreign to these business owners that they have to close their doors rather than pay people. The irony here is (I hope) that those that choose that path will eventually be on the other end of this and will (finally) understand what the people go through.
Greg Carter 4 years ago
@Effin Fred so go to college and be in debt for the next 30 years? Everything needs to change. "bitching about $12/hour" is justified. People need a livable wage WITHOUT the debt of higher education.
Load More Replies... Felix Feline 4 years ago
The same for colleges and universities. Wages have only risen around 20% over the past couple of decades, but university costs have gone up 170%. Why? Overpaid administrators, of which there are too many anyway. The uni here pays the president a couple of million US dollars, the various sports coaches around US$50 million collectively, and rare is the mid-level administrator who is not getting US$200K or more.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Funny how capitalist bosses dropped that old " supply and demand " mantra when the demand for labor outstripped the supply.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
"We can't afford to buy decent wages because we're too cheap" is the biggest lie. You won't pay decent wages because you first take 90% of the profits for your own self before thinking about the people who got you your profit.
Lynn Grimm 4 years ago
I don't like the titles saying "Nobody wants to work." We all want to work, we just want compensated for our efforts. I'm a middle-aged - single mom - renter - college graduate and I can't do better than $17 an hour with the amount of quality work I do? It's not right. This has bern a long time coming.
Felix Feline 4 years ago
No CEO should earn more than 10x their lowest paid employee. It is the employees who keep the company open and rolling, and they should all be compensated fairly. No, don't raise the prices to pay them more- cut the top salaries and use that money to pay them more.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
You mean, the way it used to be? Funny how the worst offenders are always reminiscing about, and want to return to, the “good old days”, but want to cherry-pick which parts they want to come back.
Load More Replies... Caro Caro 4 years ago (edited)
C'mmon Americans, Boycot those assholes, rise up, We are on your side. GO
Anna Banana 4 years ago
Yes! I have no skin in the game, but I've been following these types of news from the US with growing optimism. Seems like now's the time to make the real changes.
Load More Replies... kath morgan 4 years ago (edited)
Amazing. It’s rife. Us work culture needs a total overhaul. Even my relatively chill boss needs to be reminded that I’m not staying after my paid time and they can’t keep leaving extra things for me to do. She’s just so used to not thinking about it.
Llewella 4 years ago
Not just the US sadly. I left my job after 12 years because Headoffice decided to reduse costs by reducing personel. Why pay 3 workers when you can make 1 worker run the whole shop, 9 hour shift, no break, easy right? Now the shop is only open a couple hours a day because most of the remaining staff quit
Load More Replies... Mommen Ramen 4 years ago
middle aged female here- 20+yrs of varying experience. Associates degree. Looking for p/t work. over 100 applications out. 10 call backs. 3 interviews. zero job offers. local walgreens- 5 positions open. applied for all 5. got email stating- AFTER REVIEW OF YOUR APPLICATION AND QUALIFICATIONS WE HAVE DECIDED TO MOVE ON TO OTHER APPLICANTS.....my associates degree isn't good enough for cashier? now hiring is a lie
albernistuff 4sale 4 years ago
Due to your education and experience, they assume you will walk out the door the moment a better opportunity arises. Been on a few hiring committees, and this is the general consensus for over-qualified applicants.
Load More Replies... Jerry Mathers 4 years ago
To me, the best thing to come out of this pandemic is the collusion of low paid workers to basically unionize. I think it's great! For decades in the US, the businesses have been treating folks like crap. Low pay, long hours, crap benefits, etc. And now they are having a hard time understanding that people are over it. Union busting laws, the 2000 bailout of Wall Street while citizens were left to suffer, the shift of the tax burden from the wealthy and businesses to regular citizens have separated us into 2 classes, the rich and everyone else. The funniest thing about this is whining about the government stimulus. There is an easy solution. Offer livable wages and benefits and poof, you aren't closing your doors. But that idea is so foreign to these business owners that they have to close their doors rather than pay people. The irony here is (I hope) that those that choose that path will eventually be on the other end of this and will (finally) understand what the people go through.
Greg Carter 4 years ago
@Effin Fred so go to college and be in debt for the next 30 years? Everything needs to change. "bitching about $12/hour" is justified. People need a livable wage WITHOUT the debt of higher education.
Load More Replies... Felix Feline 4 years ago
The same for colleges and universities. Wages have only risen around 20% over the past couple of decades, but university costs have gone up 170%. Why? Overpaid administrators, of which there are too many anyway. The uni here pays the president a couple of million US dollars, the various sports coaches around US$50 million collectively, and rare is the mid-level administrator who is not getting US$200K or more.
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Funny how capitalist bosses dropped that old " supply and demand " mantra when the demand for labor outstripped the supply.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
"We can't afford to buy decent wages because we're too cheap" is the biggest lie. You won't pay decent wages because you first take 90% of the profits for your own self before thinking about the people who got you your profit.
Lynn Grimm 4 years ago
I don't like the titles saying "Nobody wants to work." We all want to work, we just want compensated for our efforts. I'm a middle-aged - single mom - renter - college graduate and I can't do better than $17 an hour with the amount of quality work I do? It's not right. This has bern a long time coming.
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