Quoted from Yoko2una:

Was sitting in the service wait room this morning at my car dealer. One employee came in empty handed. Apparently he was on a Dunkin run for the group. He said that the manager temporarily closed the location as 13 of their 15 employees staged a “group quit” today. This Dunkin offers $15/hr plus tips - the wage that was a big “push” from many (and over twice the NH & Federal min wage).
I’m not saying the rich don’t need to realize and support those who make them rich. Its a big sticking point at my employer. It’s just staggering that $15/hr plus tips for an entry level, no qualifications fast food job doesn’t make you shut up and do your job nowadays.

Quoted from Oneangrymo:

yeah live off welfare

Quoted from Indypin:

We all have to work for the public in some shape or form, regardless if you're working from home or a business.

Quoted from pinzrfun:

Things started changing when Google and Apple began hiring people and having open, flexible hours as well as "fun" work environments - game rooms etc -
My company recently gutted some unused office space and put in a fully equipped exercise room and a nice break/lunch room and offers free breakfast and lunch. They have a $5000 referral offer if you recruit someone, payable after 6 months. Paid tuition and all that.
As for todays workers, my stepson (27, lives at home, has never paid room/board) was recently hired at his first "real" job. He was continuously late for work this spring when we switched to daylight savings time - he told his boss that "he keeps thinking he has more time now, and his brain doesnt work that way" so can he start later than everyone else... He was telling this to my wife who was nodding her head in agreement, and I was like "Are you fucking kidding me, you said that to your BOSS??" And I looked at my wife and said "If I was late for work you'd scream at me to get my ass up on time!"
We have a 37yr old guy that was hired a few months ago - he's late 2-3 times a week, takes at least 8 breaks a day (we've counted, it's fun), has had countless meetings w HR and anyone else who will listen that he thinks he's treated unfairly, wants to be transferred to another dept (and promoted, to boot). Guy hasnt worked anywhere more than 18 months in his life. He's the last one here and first to leave. Does the least amount of work he can, he'll literally sit at his desk doing nothing until someone assigns something to him.
My first job was Burger King in 1980, $3.35 an hour, doing everything from making burgers to cleaning grease traps.

Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:

Enough for a roof, air conditioning, a refrigerator, low quality food, an "Obama phone", and basic cable.
Essentially, a lifestyle better than a medieval King.

Quoted from rai:

I heard this phrase from my kids they said there’s a thing called silently quitting or quit quitting.
It means not really quitting but just doing the absolute minimum possible to keep your job.
Quiet quitting is a term and a trend that emerged in mid-2022 from a viral TikTok video. The philosophy of quiet quitting is not abruptly leaving a job but doing exactly what the job requires, no more no less.[1] The main objective of this mindset is avoiding occupational burnout and paying more attention to one's mental health and personal well-being.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_quitting

Quoted from twoplays25c:

I myself thinks this explains the popularity of Streaming services – I think everyone is staying inside and watching TV all day.
I was in the yard a lot this weekend, and NONE of my nearby neighbors were outside – not even on a nice day with sunny blue skies.

Quoted from twoplays25c:

LOL. Gotcha.

Quoted from timab2000:

I did not say that to make me feel better. The point I was trying to make is that he obviously was able to provide you and your family a good life. Kind of hard to do that without a job.

Quoted from BigalzPinz:

Not talking about a couple living on one income, was talking about how the work force, after being sent home to work, never wanted to come back, thus making it difficult to find workers ....

Quoted from Zablon:

Never understood the people raging against WFH. I've worked from home for 10 years. For introverts it is AWESOME. You just have to get your shit done.

Quoted from gambit3113:

The generation that afforded a mortgage, a college tuition for their kid, a nice car, and a lovely existence paying into a pension on one job, are clueless about how the real world exists now.

Quoted from gambit3113:

Well, this sounds like an issue that is personal to you. There weren't lazy young people with no ambition when and where you grew up? I doubt that. You are studying one subjective piece of data and subjecting an entire generation to scrutiny with the bias set by your experience. Classic correlation = causation problem. If someone can't find help from any person in doing an available job the assumption is always that the people that could fill the position are just lazy, good-for-nothings and entitled. When the common denominator is the employer, actually. No better suggestion that a shit job is paying a shit wage than inability to fill said position. The rest of the world knows this. 145 countries in the world require an employer to pay sick leave. Guess who isn't one of those 145. We rank with 11 countries that don't get it, including Iran, North Korea, and Somalia. But sure, an entire generation is just lazy.

Quoted from Pdxmonkey:

There’s less than 8 billion in the world… so 8 ppl got rich of streaming?… while it’s true that not many become wealthy from it. The tail of ppl making a livable wage or subsidizing their life is pretty large.

Quoted from cnuts13:

Im a Union carpenter. I do commercial framing and drywall. if you are productive, and show up, you can make 100k a year. We work very hard, and are expected to produce. its hard dirty work. Im American obviously and willing to do the hard work which is 80% of the work. I am a minority though. the workforce that isnt management is 70% mexican or central american. They come here to work and are HUNGRY. My company is more than happy to hire them even though there is a communication barrier at most times. I find it very frustrating. I lost it one day and hunted down my boss. I asked him why they cant hire english speaking Americans. He told me I was a dying breed. The white man doesnt want to work, or is incapable of working fast and efficiently. Thats what he told me.
it broke my heart. But thats the sad reality. Americans dont want to work. Incapable of competing with no hablos.
I think the only cure to this I think is extreme financial depression.

Quoted from poppapin:

Not the loads, they don't last long.

Quoted from Dayhuff:

The owner of my company is very smart and started his own temp agency to help staff our company and others around us. Problem is those other company's will pay more for people so all the good ones go to them first and our own company is stuck with the bottom of the barrel people that can't get a job any place else because of there work ethics, but were so desperate we take in ANYONE. Child molesters, felons, druggies, you name it. On top of that our company needs to keep X amount of employees on the payroll so that we get a decent tax deduction so when the hired in numbers drop were told to start hiring ANYONE and next thing you know were stuck with these deadbeats until they quit, because were not going to fire anyone for any reason since were so hurting for people as it is. It's a mess.
John

Quoted from flynnibus:

Even if you want to argue 'well this is the bottom % of the labor pool'. Ok, then lets acknowledge 'the bottom % of today's labor pool is worse than it was 5-7 years ago'.

Quoted from shlt_thunder:

I'm a lazy youth. I put in 12 years post college and through grad school working full time. When I graduated in 2008 we were right at the start of the great recession. I took a "full time job" where I was told when I worked the day before I worked in advertising, and took a 33 cent pay cut per hour to do it. I've had a bunch of jobs over a 12 year period until I got furloughed in the pandemic. I started my own business, and now I make double what I made at my highest paying job and work half as much and have a 5 year plan to step further away from the day to day business aspects and just run operations. Honestly, fuck money and fuck working hard. Working fucking sucks and it's a waste of life. Do what you have to do to get by, but hard work is overrated and takes away from the good parts of life. If you can somehow figure out how to work where you barely work and make enough money to get by and do the things you want to do, then you figured it out.

Quoted from flynnibus:

But don't whine when you lost doing the least.