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Record Number Of Workers Quitting Jobs
The fast food industry is starving out.
I’m putting in my 2 weeks at my job this week after 20 years.
Minimum wage snd they have the balls?
Looks like the gang is ahead of the fast food chains. The same ones that want to replace them with machines because it’ll be cheaper in the long run. Rather than pay them more.
Big ups to anyone who quits on the spot. Better days ahead, just keep looking. I learned how to hustle after quiting and being unemployed. Had odd jobs that kept me afloat. I only took 1 month of unemployment in that 7 month span.
I would rather be in abject poverty on my own time. Thank you.
Because they’re abusing unemployment benefits
We quit cuz we were working for NOTHING. After Covid we decided not to go back to abuse. Respect is lacking a tremendous amount in places of employment.
This is a 💯💯💯💯💯💯
Yay unemployment! Yay joke Biden! Yay inflation.
That Ashley Wyrick looked high as a kite lol
They will be replaced with hard working Hispanics who will gladly take the job.
When CEOs get million dollar bonuses, they can afford better pay…🤔🤔🤔
Good. They’ve been breaking our collective backs for decades.
Free market at work.
I could never work for a corporate fast food chain, good on them for quitting and finding a job with better benefits.
Its a sign of bidens time.
Fast food was literally the worst job. I have burn scar to show for it.
yes
PUT IN AN APPLICATION…THEY ARE NOT REALLY HIRING PEOPLE….THIS IS ALL B.S. IN
ALL OCCUPATIONS
And i thought it was tha unemoployment xtras
Certain jobs don’t pay much because they are not vital to society. If Burger King goes out of business, it’s no big deal. You can grill your own burgers at home, and better.
This is a merit based economy. What incentive would there be to go to college and become anything worthwhile if you could earn $20 hr at a fast food joint?
I need a job, I need to build a new bike…
no problem your food suck’s anyway
If funny how some managers say “We don’t have enough people, is the pandemic nobody wants to work” Yeah! that too but before the pandemic employees didn’t last at their work.,because companies like Walmart, Amazon, McDonald, Burger King etc, have managers treating bad the employees, very rude.I don’t understand how they put managers without training them on how to treat employees…Do your own investigation when you go shopping to these companies and watch the managers how rude they are and how they behave with the employees even in front of customers… Big bosses or Ceo just getting the big 💲💰 they don’t care and don’t investigate what’s going on the bottom of the ship… They should have a meeting one on one with employees to find out what’s going on and for sure they going to be surprise oh! yes… some employees don’t even complaint afraid of retaliation, some others call human resources but they don’t do nothing so their employees quit and go to other companies. Sometimes managers are good friends with their dioerviy that if you complaint they don’t listen or take retaliation. I know what I’m talking about I know people who work and worked for those companies. All the stories I heard is unbelievable… What happen at the end?🧐🙄 The companies are the one loosing money because of not enough staff they can give a good customer service or the shelf are empty etc . Big companies like Walmart also put too much pressure and give to much work to one employee… Too much stress…for the low pay 💲💰 Those companies knowing that employees working for them for so many years quit they don’t even ask Why you quiting? They don’t care they don’t value employee…
So it turns out people are done with slave wages where the possibility of death is on the table. Welcome to the KNOW YOUR WORTH GENERATION!
But now the McDonald’s is closed at 9. No, this won’t do at all.
Hopefully at a dentist office
Pay workers a fair living wage why work if you can’t live.
I hope all low quality fast food junk goes completely extinct. Thanks to something called the internet, you can have higher quality food just as fast by ordering online, and companies can use advanced modeling to predict demand. I like the cloud kitchen model. Luckily though, I won’t be here for any of this. The rapture is soon and Jesus will judge and destroy this world. Cya
Promise a paid vacation and a 25 cent raise every year you stay with the company and watch everyone get cheerful. I would.
I think the bigger picture is working at a company temporary to learn a new skill like money management, the business industry to one day own the ladder.
im so proud of them 😊
No pandemic is the reason; the managers are the problem the way they treat employees and Ceo don’t care! They swimming in money💲💰💲💲
Wow! People actually realizing they have a brain and can make choices . What a news story NBC
One can live on a diet of burgers, not so much on telephone calls and e-mails. Employees quitting critically essential industries due to workplace or job dissatisfaction, is worrisome. Since it’s natural for everyone to desire upward mobility, more convenient job descriptions & better treatment from employers, essential industries should try their best to attract, encourage and incentivize long term stays.
Neoliberals watching workers quit and thinking immediately of their next NBC, Harvard writer produced, condescending pilot
Me too
this is bad
Food service is HARD WORK. DEMAND RESPECT!!!
Funny these same corporations and multimillionaires are the same people who claim Biden won the election, I wonder why?
0:13 you telling me this fuckup works at Burger King for a living 😂
Welcome to america
Power to the people
What pandemic there not one
I’m impressed they spelled inconvenience correctly…
I got let go from my job last June, a few months before our wedding. I was absolutely miserable going to work, to sit in my office for 9.5 hours everyday, to be talked down to everyday, and often sat in my office thinking “ is this really it? This is what life is supposed to be? 50 hours a week spent miserable? Not talking to new people, seeing new places, and making memories that matter, striving for goals I want to achieve?”
It was the BEST thing that ever happened to me.
I took my side business to new heights, which has been great success.
I got licensed as a Home Inspector, and started working with my dad, growing the business together.
I am 100 percent self employed now. I make my own hours. I make as much money as I want to hustle for, with no cap in pay. I love what I do. Im proud of what I do now. I get to meet new people and see new places, Every. Single. Day.
I would have still been at that job, because I felt I “couldnt” quit. Even though my wife would tell me it is not worth my happiness. We will work it out. I dont like seeing you so upset.
Things always work out for the better. There is a bigger plan out there for everyone. I was fortunate to have such an amazing wife and hardworking capabilities.
If you are not happy with what you are doing everyday, you can change that. You do not “have to” work there. You can do anything you want, because being happy is worth more than any paycheck. I can PROMISE you that.
Good for them 😉
Ain’t No Body Dying For These Jobs ?!!! (Corona-Virus)
$15 per hour minimum wage !!! (problem solved)
You ever think some of these people are only worth what their skills are worth?? A high school dropout is not worth $15 a hr.
Good employer need to treat part time workers better. No benefits and now people are tired being treated like crap. Employees being lied too… Employee rather take pay cut with being treated better and with additional benefits. The greed makes employers assooo
We as a nation deserve better
📈 🚀
Amen no one should get pay less then 20 dollars no more shall we be the less pay under dogs no more stand up to the corruption #no more corruption
Yall forget Burger King is a high school job wtf were you thinking of getting 30hr ?
Enjoy, your new job.
News Flash… Burger King was never supposed to be a “living wage” job. It’s a place to gain work experience, and learn how to be responsible. Evidently, mission failed.
You still dont get to exploit workers. Times change
People are just finding better jobs, with a better pay… or simply a place where there services are being appreciated.
If employers treated us workers how they treat those customers, the workforce would be a better place.
Ashley, good for you!👏👏👏👏
I have a different point of view. I have a job that is normally a good job but because my company can’t hire enough people or retain people, we are severely understaffed and I am being forced to do my job and another department’s job and take calls all day. So…even though I get paid well, I am now contemplating quitting because I no longer want to be used to fix issues my company can’t or won’t address. Isn’t it great?
It’s the Quality of the environment at work and pay. Nobody can work 7.50$ for 40hr and be happy. It’s because the United States doesn’t keep up with inflation wage. All over the world their wages are based on there economies inflation index wage average. So I’m America the real wage is 21$ to 30$ per hour that is minimum wage. Why do you think some individuals have 3 jobs to keep a roof over there heads. Corporations can afford to pay their employees great wages but they want all the profits to themselves. Now look they’re begging 🙏 for people to work from them. That is true capitalism not socialism where government subsidize there employees like Walmart. True capitalism is when a company isn’t fair enough with there employees and customer. They go out of business and dissolve and a better company comes and does better what is what we are suppose to have in America
October is a National Strike month, pass it on.
I quit in April 🙋🏽♀️☺️
Sometimes half a loaf is better than none.
In NY everyone that didn’t recieve their unemployment during the pandemic finally just got it. SO MANY PEOPLE JUST GOT $10K+
Uber eats is good if you have a good car 100 Monday tru Friday for 2 weeks you can make 1000 dollars alot more then my job paid thats for sure and its alot less stressful then a day to day job.
They can’t take been treated and paid poorly anymore.
Just quit your job & have the government pay you every month. Nothing wrong could happen with that right… right? 🤯🤯
Pay more money, and treat them better
White people…
No problem there are a bunch of students that’ll take those jobs and the cycle continues on lol. Everyone wants to criticize these businesses but they were never really made for just grown people
Expect this phenomenon to accelerate. The work conditions in these places is getting worse. The revolving door of new employees has already accelerated. Un-trained personnel are basically sand bags. The understaffed conditions make it difficult to train new hires. The people strong enough to tough it out take on the lions share of the burden and they are burning out.
It is time to adapt or die corporate America. The proletariat are not going to support you any more.
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If we keep quitting they will be forced to pay more to encourage applicants keep it up!
The loo kio
People have choices now to either be free of the grind or create their own.
FYI when you quit, you are NOT eligible for unemployment.
Dont start a company if you cant afford to pay your staff sustainable wages.People need to start rethinking econ 101, where not only are you providing a service , you are creating an avenue of revenue were people have to again, sustain themselves and feed their families off of. But they know this, they just dont care untill they were forced to.
This could be a good thing. People will start eating healthy again.
I worked at a fast food place several years ago. Management came in one day and said no one working there should be smoking marijuana during their time off, because they don’t pay enough for them to have that habit. 🤣
People are incredibly rude to fast food workers. Nobody makes enough for that let alone the one slapping that burger together for ya.
Go “WOKE” gone *BROKE”.
“Why am I not getting paid well to do menial tasks that require zero education, skill, or physical effort?”
They shouldn’t get any free money then.
I am so proud of this community, the revolution has just begun.. hopefully it will be a wakeup call for these greedy corporations to actually make changes and bettering the work pay and conditions
Record number of EMPLOYERS still treating their employees like trash.
Do you hear that sound? It’s the sound of the robots marching in…
NBC news: We all quit and make more money from home or doing news on YT and speech is not limited and can engage viewers.
This happens to all MSM slowly subvertly.
Lmfao you employees are going to learn why its called a boss. Enjoy you 5 mins of empowerment followed by a smack in the face of reality
If you can’t afford to pay people a livable wage, you can expect a high turnover rate. Common sense. People aren’t going to commit to working for minimum wage.
If we ALL create an enormous underground economy, we can cut them out of existence.
From the very beginning of this pandemic it was a huge source of fear about all the bad things that would happen during a shutdown, but I knew long-term that people would begin to examine themselves and make changes that would not necessarily benefit Big Business. I like to think of this pandemic as a reboot for many people on many levels including homeschooling, achieving sobriety, escaping a predatory abuser, learning something that can enhance the job you’ll be going back to, escaping slave wages and creating businesses on a shoestring, as well as getting an apartment clean, or a yard clean, or projects you’ve waited for that opportunity to finish. Nothing but good has come from this pandemic. That’s my honest opinion. If I had been a young mother during this, most of my dreams could have been realized while I still had energy to enjoy their fruits.
returning to office full time :/
Good for them. Way to go. Let the rich owners work.
Try going a week feeding your kids without fast food. … bet you’ll appreciate so called non essential, low paying workers then!