Take This Job & Shove It

The job market is a little nutty.

“We can’t find workers.”

I’ve heard that line a lot.

“I’m never sitting in a cubicle again,” another guy said.

There was a lot of talk about the extra unemployment keeping people right at home.

Then that ended and people stayed away in droves.

So, what’s going on?

People need to eat, right?

A whole bunch of people decided that they could indeed work from home, or that going back to a low-paying gig in a still-raging pandemic.

Construction jobs are open everywhere. No one wants to work at a restaurant or in a grocery store. Nurses are burned out.

Some have started their own businesses. Others are getting by with less. Still others have figured out that day care and getting to work wasn’t worth it.

Wages have been fairly stagnant for decades. People have finally figured it out.

Meanwhile, billionaires earned 70% more since the start of it all.Companies were made whole, but laid off people anyway and then couldn’t get them back.

“Where is everyone?” One guy asked me.

They had enough.

Remember the fight for $15 an hour?

Now that wage is pretty attainable for those jobs and still…

…no one is showing up.

The pandemic led to a whole new way of thinking.

Sitting in an office, surrounded by hundreds of others?

“Nah. Take this job and shove it.”

People are figuring out a new way.

It’s kind of fascinating.

And it ain’t over yet.