Andrea Dooley
tired blipA quote I saw today on another social that will now live rent-free in my head forever:
"No one wants to work" is just "no one wants to date nice guys", but for employers.
skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸@klardotsh OMGdddddd
Sheila DeBonis@klardotsh Omg.... How did I not draw that connection before? "I'm a nice employer when you get to know me, I swear!"
Southern Leftist@klardotsh
"Nobody wants to be exploited anymore."
No time for complicity, get leftist and get working towards workplace democracy.
Nicole Parsons"No one wants to work" really means an employer who doesn't want to pay a living wage, ignores how corporate greed influences inflation, and wants to offshore or automate jobs anyway.
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺That line should be "No one wants to work for as little as you want to pay."
When demand exceeds supply, prices must increase.
Every manager should know that.
Dangandblast@Npars01 @klardotsh I like enthusiastically agreeing with the "nobody wants to work anymore" boomers, sharing stats on who's actually dropping out of the labor force (largely: older people), and expressing my disappointment that senior citizens aren't stepping up to be line cooks and minimum wage laborers.
Lots of people "dropped out" of the workforce during the pandemic.
At least 1.17 million Americans died of covid & the excess death rate remains high from long covid.
Walmart & McDonald's doesn't appear keen to hire 85 year old dementia patients or provide health care or affordable day care for women with school aged children who are exposed constantly to covid.
What they mean is there is a shortage of young, able, and fit workers willing to work these low wage jobs
@Npars01 @klardotsh yes, they *mean* "kids these days (anybody younger than me) is lazy something something bootstraps," but the "great resignation" of younger people quitting work was largely quitting awful work for other work. Those dropping out entirely and not coming back (especially after childcare reopened) have largely been the 65+ crowd. https://www.kansascityfed.org/research/economic-bulletin/how-many-workers-are-truly-missing-from-the-labor-force/
How Many Workers Are Truly “Missing” from the Labor Force?
As of March 2022, the U.S. labor force participation rate remained one percentage point below its pre-pandemic level. After accounting for the effects of slower population growth and the aging of the population in the past two years, I estimate that around 2 million workers are missing from the labor force. Individuals age 65 and older, whose participation rates remain persistently below pre-pandemic levels, constitute most of the missing labor force.
Reboot Robotnik@klardotsh That's why I'm a supervillain
CoolBlenderKitten@klardotsh Cornerstone of capitalism is "everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it" the capitalists just want that to mean goods, not labor.
Prof West Wing Chicken Shack@klardotsh "no one wants to work" ...
for the piss poor wages we're willing to pay them ...
Soozcat@klardotsh yep. Both comments are cop-outs that blame someone else for self-inflicted woes.
Jim
Claudia Caesaris 🏳️⚧️🥚@klardotsh no one ever wanted to work, that was the point of paying them
Viiri@klardotsh “I don’t get why no one wants to work here. I tip my hat and say
m’lady to anyone arriving at a job interview.”
m’lady to anyone arriving at a job interview.”
North Easton 
@klardotsh involuntarily understaffed
fmc01@klardotsh An employer who tells you that “no one wants to work” is telling you a lot more about themselves than they realise. They might even come to understand why no one wants to work (for them) anymore.
Pamela Ehn@frankcat @klardotsh you’re right that “no one wants to work” says a lot more about the person saying it. In my experience, most people DO want to work. Work and productivity gives meaning to our lives. What people don’t want to do is work meaningless jobs with no autonomy and shitty wages. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I would still work. I would still freelance because I like doing it, and I would focus on my company and other pursuits that I’ve had to put to the side because they aren’t immediately remunerative. That’s work; it’s just work I like doing. What that money would free me from doing is having to craft individualized resumes to beat ATS systems so I can finally get an interview at a corporation that will most probably underpay me for the privilege of working in a toxic workplace.
hannahshouse2 🇺🇸 California
belikekramer
DavinaM@klardotsh OMG, you nailed that one
Andy Nonimose@klardotsh Involuntarily working because they can't retain staff they can bully into working poverty wages or unreasonable hours. "Inworks", if you will.
TopKnotWhere I'm from, my conservative neighbors have been telling me that "no one around these parts wants to work anymore."
#1. The people saying this are all old, gray, retired, white men.
#2. This is a US State with an unemployment rate of <3%.
They also tell me that former President Trump is still POTUS and will be serving his 3rd term starting on January 20, 2025. They also are ignorant of what the US Constitution states about this subject. #Ignornce is 100% of the problem.
Jaycie@klardotsh Daaaaaaaang, that's a good one.
Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ moved to @@klardotsh I don't understand the "no one wants to date nice guys" reference, could anyone explain it to me?
Chai@klardotsh hahaha my last job was such a "nice guy", that by the end I would casually use breakup language to talk about it..
"this is such a toxic relationship"
"I have to break up with my boss today"
"he didn't take the breakup well"
Sebastian Gfeller@klardotsh I really liked Thom Yorke comparing projects with other bands to sleeping around - the morals of work are much stronger than the ones on dating, and most of the time it’s a very one-sided relationship once you get into it.
chicating@klardotsh It totally is! Nice catch.
WesDym
radioactivecat@klardotsh But have people been saying 'no one wants to date nice guys' for 100+ years? https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nobody-wants-to-work-anymore-has-been-said-for-100-years-it-wasnt-true-then-and-it-isnt-true-now-11659019444
Red Faster
Nobody Wants To Work Anymore
@klardotsh when the overprivileged bitchboy who stands around in a military/corporate costume telling lies with a smile on his face makes six figures and the janitor dies penniless, toothless, and alone, children SEE this and decide what they want to do with their life.
Then after the university brain drain the few scraps of humanity that are left are who become the employers.
It's some kind of miracle we can still keep the lights on.