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Originally Posted by 6oclockshadow
People were getting up to $1200 a week for over a year in unemployment benefits up until September 3 to stay home. And then the rent/mortgage moratoriums, utility bill moratoriums, child tax credits.....it goes on.
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Most of the jobs that arent foodservice were $39k and above. Those benefits werent keeping the dock worker or the trucker from delivering your washing machine or your house from being built.
I know a bunch of food service people and its a couple of things. One, most were YOUNG and could go back home to figure things out. A lot changed careers during covid because they didnt want to wait for foodservice to come back to full strength. And these arent buger flippers, most were younger women working in nicer places so they weren't making minimum wage. Good money, but they didnt want the instability that is that industry right now. You dont know if youre going to have a good shift or not.
Of the couple dozen or so I know only a few went back into the service industry (LOL one went to Only Fans...), the rest went corporate. Upper 20s so I think it just hastened the "time to get a big girl job" thought process.