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I'm sorry to see people who
I'm sorry to see people who work there lose their jobs.
I'm hearing there are
I'm hearing there are staffing shortages everywhere. Expect more closings as people recognize the risk reward tradeoff in this industry is out of balance.
Workforce decline
A significant part of the food service workforce left town in April when colleges and universities closed down.
$600/week
The fact that someone with a valid unemployment claim gets $600/week also makes it a bad deal to go back to work for a low paying gig like washing dishes. So, you know, staffing shortages due to the fact that employers don't pay livable wages is a more glaring problem now.
We don't value labor in this country very much, which is a bummer.
Okay but math
I hear what you're saying but can you say it a different way than, "People who are getting $600 from the government won't work a job that pays $600 a week."
That's not what he's saying.
He's saying that people who are getting $600 a week in unemployment won't go back to jobs that pay $510 a week, especially when their minimum-wage gig won't provide sick time, health insurance, or PPE in the middle of a pandemic.
Erik G gets it
I think the risk point is too easily glossed over by armchair labor theorists.
A little off
I can tell you the $600/week was on top of the unemployment. So grounds for even less incentive to go back to work.
Turns out
People who get what the government considers the bare minimum to keep people alive, won't work for less than that. What a surprise!
Not for long
The $600 increase runs out soon and it seems unlikely to be extended by the feds.
Magoo sez.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Say it ain’t so. Magoo.
Forget it, Jake
It's Chinatown. Something else will open up.
It’s 800 Boylston Street. Not
It’s 800 Boylston Street. Not like the place was doing a stellar business before the current crisis and had a snowball’s chance of lasting past baseball season anyways (the staff palpably hated anyone who dared enter and expect any level of general civility), but it’s not Chinatown.
It's not Chinatown
It is in Back Bay