Interesting local insight.
There's similar stuff happening down here. Lots of places desperate to hire and offering various incentives.
Also quite a few businesses posting passive-aggressive (and infuriating) notices like "since nobody wants to work, we're short-staffed."
It's not that nobody wants to work, it's that nobody wants to work at ongoing personal risk for insultingly unlivable wages. I daresay that labor, perhaps, is having a moment. It'll be interesting to see how this all continues to unfold.
We probably would have been on the front end of rush hour if we hadn't hit the hour delay before we got there.
Heading to Clemson to see Nephew Alex. Sister Anne and BiL Wayne ended up staying home for health reasons. Prayers for them would be greatly appreciated - Wayne is having heart issues.
I probably do not need to explain this, but unemployment rates are deceiving b/c they are based on people applying for unemployment benefits. These benefits have run out for so many people that there are waaayyy more people not working out there that aren't reflected in the "rates".
So are the Braces or the Astros the greater MLB evil?
Can't get away from it here. Even the casual fan (or in a lot of cases, complete non-fan) is (understandably) pretty into it in Atlanta these days. The immersion therapy is pretty helpful, really...it's there, it's happening, the Barves appear to have a very good chance of winning the Series, and it just has no bearing on my life or frame of mind.
I ran a 5k, The Great Pumpkin Dash, in Revere, MA on Sunday. It was town #55 in my quest to run a 5k (or longer) in every city and town in Massachusetts. Only 297 to go! I count both Bradford and Haverhill even though the towns merged in the late 1800s, Bradford residents never say they are from Haverhill (and vice versa), so I am counting both even if the Commonwealth treats them as a single entity.
But who has the better monorail?
That's what it amounts to. It used to be that restaurant workers got extremely unpredictable hours, often well short of 40 per week...come on in for four hours tomorrow, then we have nothing for you until Friday.
If this all happens to move our employment model for retail places, I'm all for paying more so the people helping me can have a livable wage (and the cost of living around here is pretty high).
I know it's tough for business owners, it really is, but the old model no longer works for most people.