Matt Davies for October 10, 2021

Need to take 1/2 the items off the shelves on the right…

Nights weekends and no set shift schedule has as much to do with the shortage as wages. Higher wages will overcome the other factors. Won’t happen.

Employers have spent decades paying as little as possible for both employees and materials. And they have spent those same decades squeezing all they can get out of whatever they produce. People have taken the time to think and decided to quit enabling the employers who exploited them. Those who treated folks fairly have no trouble hiring, do they?

Why go back to work for the same people that dumped you like a bad cup of coffee?

CEO’s, business executives and their families should spend a month or two living and working at the lowest paid jobs in their companies. Members of Congress and state legislators should do the same before they debate any bill involving minimum wage, health care, social security, etc. People at the top are out of touch with the realities of every day life. They spend so much time thinking of people in the abstract that they forget people in actual.

Where I shop, the ‘2021 shelves’ are starting to look a lot like those ‘2020 shelves’…

MD, sage observation today. Nicely done…