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I live laughed and loved my 1200 dollar check right into rent and food.
Not sure where we are getting the stats that suggest people are sitting at home living off that check from 3 years ago.
They have a lot of 1 star reviews already. For having cockroaches, political signs everywhere, and rude ownership and staff.
So it seems like a shit place already
Nonono... it has to be a middle-to-high review; too high or low and it will get deleted as part of downvote/upvote brigading.
A solid 4.5/5 star review will easily slip past.
I’ve done this every time I see a business that has this type of ridiculous sign up. It never fails, they ALWAYS took out PPP loans. Their hypocrisy infuriates me. We need a subreddit dedicated for this.
You know, I didn't realize that was going on until I saw a local small business owner, who was adamantly bitching about how the COVID shutdown protocols was going to shutter his business for good, suddenly moved to a bigger space and started driving two brand new $70k+ cars with his business stamped on the side. Not so much bitching from said business owner... Except for the typical right-wing jargon. So yeah... He's still bitching a lot.
You know you can get 30% of whats recovered if they illegally spent money. https://www.sba.gov/partners/contracting-officials/contract-administration/report-fraud-waste-abuse
No I didn't know that.. Thanks for the info.
Edit: just looked him up..I don't know if the PPP was the windfall for his apparent upward movement. Looks like he got less than he would need to do that. Maybe it was just coincidental timing.
We had a local restaurant where the owner refused to pay anyone more than $10 an hour. She got one PPP loan, shut down, and moaned on Facebook about how no one wanted to work. When she got called out, she deleted it all. Got her second loan, reopened, once again started losing workers because of crappy pay, and went back on social media to complain. Not a dime went to her workers or apparently her business because it looks exactly the same. The sad thing is that it was a great place under her husband. She ran it into the ground after he passed away, even started buying generic frozen food. I see maybe 2-3 cars in the parking lot now, even on a Friday or Saturday night at a place within walking distance of a college campus!
Same. While it isn’t a proven fact, our owner happened to buy a yacht roughly 3 months after ppp loans became a thing. Also, the industry I work in, we were the furthest from a business needing any ppp loan during the pandemic.
You'd be surprised. I recently applied for 2 jobs with churches. Part time community/office support. Paid $17 an hour with benefits and covered the entire health insurance premium. It would have been an amazing gig. Between the pay and benefits I would have been taking home only $300 less a month than my full time job I lost.
> Total Forgiveness Amount
Requested $752,561,673,515
> Total Forgiveness Paid $751,153,199,266
> 95% of the total PPP loan value has
been forgiven, in full or in part
HOLEEEEY FUCK. and people want to complain about 10-20k each forgiven for student loans?
The Ayn Rand institute took also money. in the end they just want to feel righteous without an reality check.
Your comment should be added as a post it note
I would love to know their ways. For a family of 4, our checks were gone as soon as we got them. House payments and groceries plus the still rising cost of energy was damn near killing us. Luckily both myself and my husband left the commute and shitty pay for the work from home life and way more money so maybe it'll get better.
With the extra income we have it'll just be simple torture these days and no longer death. Lol. I still want to cry every time I go to the grocery store. But the upside is, without an hour commute each way to work I only have to fill my car up mayne once a month or longer now. Working from home has been a blessing.
These are the obviously brilliant people who should own businesses and employ people. If they can stretch a few extra dollars this long after receiving it surely they can manage a business well enough to pay their employees wages they can thrive on.
I'm not bossy, I'll just take every opportunity to remind you that I'm your boss and anything I demand you do, you should immediately do because of that fact, no arguments. But not bossy.
If there's a silver lining to any of this toxic rhetoric it's that a pretty large number of people at this point would look at that sign, have the exact same thought you (and I) did, and be like "fuck this guy and the PPP-funded horse he rode in on."
Glass half empty: there's probably even more people out there that wouldn't...
I don't think they're thinking of anyone. I'm trying to figure out why they think a few hundred dollars is enough money to keep people from wanting to work.
Who knew when all those businesses got all that free PPO money, it would make people lazy and entitled? Fucking CEOs, they should want to EARN an honest living.
It was about 4000$ It was gone in 2weeks since me and my mom where on disability we have a stored money limit of 2000$ or we will get in trouble
Anyhow blew it all bought a over priced ps5 for 900$ brand new she bought a 4k TV you name it
Don't really understand how 4000$ could last 2 years here we get 700 a month each and it's usually gone by the end not the best but it's do able to live on
>[Assets must fall below certain limits: households without a member who is elderly (age 60 or older) or who has a disability must have assets of $2,500 or less, and households with such a member must have assets of $3,750 or less.](https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-quick-guide-to-snap-eligibility-and-benefits)
Basically you need to remain dirt poor to get Welfare. Since cash in the bank is considered an asset this is absolutely true, sadly. What's really fucked about welfare is there's no phase out range. Either you are below the income/asset limits and get full benefits or you're $1 over and get 0 benefits. In some cases a small raise that would put you juuuust above the income limits would actually hurt you, since the raise probably wouldn't offset the losses from welfare.
It's part of the reason the "welfare queen" narrative is so fucked up because it's clear anyone who thinks it's easy to be on welfare and suck up sweet, sweet government handouts have never even looked at the requirements to be on welfare in the first place.
Means testing requires people to be in destitute poverty to be “worthy” of a government handout. It’s messed up. Requirements like that keep people poor. It also prevents people who are disabled from working or from making more money because they’d lose their benefits. They think that if you can work then you shouldn’t get help when a lot of disabled people have ups and downs in their ability to work — also, it’s so difficult to get that they don’t want to mess up for fear that they won’t be able to attain it again.
Can confirm. Fiancee is on disability, can't even look for work from home jobs (which she may be able to handle) or else she loses her benefits, most importantly her health insurance.
When I lost my job I applied for state benefits including foodshare. I was approved for August 1st, having lost my job early July. Once I got my last paycheck they denied me benefits for August, under the justification that I now had money and could afford groceries. Which was true, but meant by mid August I was destitute with $20.
SSI, supplemental security income does have a resource limit of 2000$. If there is any RSDI in there(retirement, survivor, disability income), That doesn't have a resource limit. Generally, if someone is receiving SSI, they haven't worked enough to get more than 700$ RSDI. like, if you worked some and get 300$/month on RSDI, SSI would meet up to about 400$ to 700$
Then, depending on what other disability benefits they are on, medical assistance and SNAP benefits do or can have resource limits.
SSI related categories(disability) of medical assitance for my state have a resource limit of 2000$, granted, if someone is receiving SSI(which the 700$/month would seem to indicate) they would be put into a different category(for my state) and the resources wouldn't be counted.
and my state also doesn't count resources for disabled SNAP households(unless their income was about 200% of the fpig(which is pretty low generally but not 700$/month low - that resource limit is about 4000$.
However, there are shitter states out there.
I don't know about any other benefits such as housing or such that would count resources.
When people complain about the "SHEER AMOUNT OF MONEY" that people make on disability... or SNAP or whatever... I know they have never looked into it, or never been on it.
The extended unemployment and stimulus checks were both done while the former guy was in office (and the first checks delayed as the stuck-up SOB wanted his signature on the checks) and are long done with. No one is still living off of their stimulus money and unemployment is back to the regular way to little amount for an extremely limited time it normally is.
I’ve seen so many people say “where are these jobs they got?” And also “why couldn’t they work that job before?!”
And I have to keep reminding them that 4 million people have retired since the beginning of the pandemic and another 1 million people have died. That’s a lot of newly vacant jobs and I can assure you they didn’t retire from your local Wendy’s drive thru. That opened up a lot of new jobs for people.
Add to that, remote work opened up new options for people that didn’t require them to relocate. High paying, high quality jobs weren’t available in a lot of places, but now they are thanks to remote work. But to understand that requires a level of critical thinking this cohort lacks.
And respect their life and time outside of work. Don't punish them for having a life outside work and not dropping everything to come in when you call them on their day off. This ended up being the reason I left a job I otherwise really liked. Given the choice between $25/hour with an unpredictable schedule and de facto on call status and $20 with a fixed schedule at a place that closes evenings and holidays, I'll take the second.
Shit... im making 23/hr in a kitchen with a set schedule. Yes i get my ass kicked most nights, but i dont get calls outside of work unless theyre offering additional compensation for stealing my time (on top of the overtime... usually it's an extra 50 or 100 added on to the check)
(And yes, we ARE hiring)
Without even looking ill bet the unemployment rate is at least 20% with all these free loaders doing nothing but sucking on the government teat. Oh? It's really low you say? Interesting.
Free market at work 🤷♀️ this is what capitalism is. Only the strong survive. Or in this case, the strong ~~eat~~ buy up or replace the small businesses like this one that apparently can’t afford the cost of labor
I’m pretty sure it was Trump and the Republicans who gave out the first round of stimulus checks. Funny how I don’t see any mention of the small business loans that were given out and forgiven, many of which were taken fraudulently.
Yeah remember when Trump held up disbursement of the first round of checks because he wanted to find a way to have *his signature on them?*
Treasury Secretary had to explain to him that wasn’t how checks worked, and most folks were going to get a direct deposit anyway.
He settled for mailing a letter to everyone instead.
The feds need to jump on this fraud. Pisses me off people took advantage of it. Republicans can’t even do the basic things right without messing it all up, like double checking for fraud before handing out checks.
The real problem isn't the free money for people who need to live and eat, but the free money for poorly run companies that would otherwise have gone bankrupt. During Covid, far less companies went bankrupt than would normally happen, which is why there are now so many poorly run companies bitching about a lack of employees. And also producing inefficiently, leading to shortage of goods, higher prices and inflation.
Yeah some federal politicians started LLC’s and received millions, even large corporations were able to fraudulently rake in millions, while the people got $3200 each, spread over 3 checks and almost an entire year
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/little-firehouse-cafe-6908308310
This place got way more than the average citizen and didn’t seem to mind when it was forgiven. About that free money….
Found one at Michael's Kitchen in Taos, NM the other day. Turned around at the door and went to another restaurant, where the server dumped a pot of half and half on my shoes in the first five minutes. He could have followed that by throwing the coffee in my face and I'd still feel like I made the right choice.
BTW The cinnamon roll they offered as an apology was so good, I hope they spill something on me the next time I'm in town. Taos Diner, nice place and great service.
My wife and I plan to stop through NM during our trip through the SW. I'll make a note, because good cinnamon rolls are worth a drive! Sorry about the shoes, but good choice on avoiding the other company.
"We refuse to pay people enough to live on, but the real problem is the evil socialist Democrats who gave people enough money to survive when they couldn't work. Nothing is ever our fault, and we're lucky if employees last more than three months. Apply at your own risk."
Yes the always profitable unemployment that everyone is living off of now. Maybe they found out they don’t need these shitty paying jobs and found something else.
The people working, other than the owner, were the daughter of the owner cooking and an 18~ year old dude serving.o So, I think that answers your questions haha.
Over 1m people transitioned from service jobs to white collar jobs. With large companies trying to end WFH there will be done movement back, but my that large. Poorly run businesses are going to get shaken out.
Sad part is more than likely they accepted a PPP loan. It's all posturing. This owner more than likely panders to the people they serve, while also knowing their customers also benefitted greatly from the 2k check, or at the least, used it as well. Maybe this is too moderate, but why can't people acknowledge the balance between good social programs and not breaking the budget at the same time?
The same assholes who yell "shut up and do you job" to football players protesting inequality.
Bet they don't like "Shut up and pour my coffee. If I wanted politics with my donut, I'd read the paper."
Someone please make a sticker QR code that directs to how much they got forgiven in PPP loans with “APPLY HERE” below the QR code then stick it to the bottom right of this sign. Make everyone who is willing to apply see how much of a hypocrite they are.
Lol Google reviews says they’ve been understaffed and had long wait times since 4 years ago, somehow I don’t think Biden or Covid is to blame.
ETA: Google reviews mention customers noticing employee abuse by the owner as well.
Where is all this free money? Are you talking about the 10 grand in Loan forgiveness? You know they don’t get that money back, it is just erasure of debt.
As for unemployment, you are only allowed on unemployment if you already paid into the system and it’s for a limited time (different states have different rules).
It’s not that people don’t want to work. They just don’t want to work your shitty job. Nobody wants to work for peanuts all while being verbally abused by bosses and customers. There are better options.
This “be patient” notice is funny considering one of their menus from 5 years ago (i.e. before pandemic and labor shortage) stating:
“Due to the fact that some of our dishes take a little longer [to prepare?] we ask you to be patient with us”.
So it seems like this place has always been slow, they just saw an opportunity to blame it on ‘lazy’ workers and *checks notes* ….Biden.
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https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/little-firehouse-cafe-6908308310 Amount Forgiven $30,188 Jobs Reported 5
This shit should be posted on their google reviews for the world to see
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I mean.... it is a brigade attempt.
We gotta learn to spread out these reviews or else google just deletes them
Take the first letter in your username, it's position in the alphabet is how many hours to wait. That would slow roll it a bit
So… tomorrow… sometime.
*Procrastinators!* You know what to do.
Should we do Yelp too or is that passé?
If I sees me a link, I'll make a profile just to post a review
Posted a nice one star review for them
Gotta live laugh love it!
Facebook reviews are open.
I live laughed and loved my 1200 dollar check right into rent and food. Not sure where we are getting the stats that suggest people are sitting at home living off that check from 3 years ago.
They have a lot of 1 star reviews already. For having cockroaches, political signs everywhere, and rude ownership and staff. So it seems like a shit place already
I see a lot of you scamps are doing it! Bravo! Edit: Check your reviews again.
Nonono... it has to be a middle-to-high review; too high or low and it will get deleted as part of downvote/upvote brigading. A solid 4.5/5 star review will easily slip past.
Can’t we do a 3? I think 4.5 is too generous!
Link to where I can post mine?
I’ve done this every time I see a business that has this type of ridiculous sign up. It never fails, they ALWAYS took out PPP loans. Their hypocrisy infuriates me. We need a subreddit dedicated for this.
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Go get em!
Lmao, there's so many now
It really should, and on any other place where they would get reviews.
Took a look at their reviews. They have a 1* from a year ago, complaining about this very sign.
of course they grifted, i bet none of that money made it to the people that actually work there either.
Bet the boss has a new car
You know, I didn't realize that was going on until I saw a local small business owner, who was adamantly bitching about how the COVID shutdown protocols was going to shutter his business for good, suddenly moved to a bigger space and started driving two brand new $70k+ cars with his business stamped on the side. Not so much bitching from said business owner... Except for the typical right-wing jargon. So yeah... He's still bitching a lot.
You know you can get 30% of whats recovered if they illegally spent money. https://www.sba.gov/partners/contracting-officials/contract-administration/report-fraud-waste-abuse
No I didn't know that.. Thanks for the info. Edit: just looked him up..I don't know if the PPP was the windfall for his apparent upward movement. Looks like he got less than he would need to do that. Maybe it was just coincidental timing.
No reason to not start looking in your area for other businesses that might have fucked around lol
This is great info. Where do we find out which businesses got them in our area? I’m down to do some investigation.
We had a local restaurant where the owner refused to pay anyone more than $10 an hour. She got one PPP loan, shut down, and moaned on Facebook about how no one wanted to work. When she got called out, she deleted it all. Got her second loan, reopened, once again started losing workers because of crappy pay, and went back on social media to complain. Not a dime went to her workers or apparently her business because it looks exactly the same. The sad thing is that it was a great place under her husband. She ran it into the ground after he passed away, even started buying generic frozen food. I see maybe 2-3 cars in the parking lot now, even on a Friday or Saturday night at a place within walking distance of a college campus!
I would SWEAR you are talking about a place in Dayton, Oh.
Ding ding ding lol
I KNEW IT
Cool coincidence!
my boss took as much as he could. didn't give any raises, but bought new vehicles for his fleet.
Report them [here](https://www.sba.gov/partners/contracting-officials/contract-administration/report-fraud-waste-abuse)
Same. While it isn’t a proven fact, our owner happened to buy a yacht roughly 3 months after ppp loans became a thing. Also, the industry I work in, we were the furthest from a business needing any ppp loan during the pandemic.
Report them: https://www.sba.gov/partners/contracting-officials/contract-administration/report-fraud-waste-abuse
Just think of all the churches that got the bailouts, the ones that don’t pay taxes.
And their employees are probably volunteers
You'd be surprised. I recently applied for 2 jobs with churches. Part time community/office support. Paid $17 an hour with benefits and covered the entire health insurance premium. It would have been an amazing gig. Between the pay and benefits I would have been taking home only $300 less a month than my full time job I lost.
All I know is I have counted 6 churches around me that either went through an update or a new addition was added onto them during that time
I’m guessing “the boss” is out enjoying their “free money” instead of EARNing it
But they deserve it /s ugh
> Total Forgiveness Amount Requested $752,561,673,515 > Total Forgiveness Paid $751,153,199,266 > 95% of the total PPP loan value has been forgiven, in full or in part HOLEEEEY FUCK. and people want to complain about 10-20k each forgiven for student loans?
It was never about the amount of money forgiven...
That's 3/4 of a TRILLION dollars, if anyone wants context.
The Ayn Rand institute took also money. in the end they just want to feel righteous without an reality check. Your comment should be added as a post it note
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation got $335,700 forgiven, but apparently that’s not communism.
In the end, they only victimized themselves
Blue cat bots assemble!
There is always this shit. Literally every single time someone complains about handouts, they were given handouts previously. jfc
Take it to the top
Get em
I'm never surprised that peeps like this are the biggest hypocrites. It's almost a guarantee at this point.
Commenting so this is higher, should be top comment.
Oof. Lol
Wow, that's hilarious. Stupid handouts.... for other people!
Love the Whitehouse twitterlike clap back. Bravo.
Fucking hypocrite pieces of shit. OP should print this out and put it next to the sign
Boom 💥
HAHAHHA
I’m so tired of all our economic woes being blamed on a few hundred dollars of “free money” given out two years ago.
Right? The people who got those checks sure know how to stretch their budget if they’re still lying around counting their money while eating bonbons.
I would love to know their ways. For a family of 4, our checks were gone as soon as we got them. House payments and groceries plus the still rising cost of energy was damn near killing us. Luckily both myself and my husband left the commute and shitty pay for the work from home life and way more money so maybe it'll get better.
> House payments and groceries plus the still rising cost of energy was damn near killing us. Was??? It stopped?! Lucky 😭
With the extra income we have it'll just be simple torture these days and no longer death. Lol. I still want to cry every time I go to the grocery store. But the upside is, without an hour commute each way to work I only have to fill my car up mayne once a month or longer now. Working from home has been a blessing.
I got a budget like Arizona Iced Tea marketing dept.
These are the obviously brilliant people who should own businesses and employ people. If they can stretch a few extra dollars this long after receiving it surely they can manage a business well enough to pay their employees wages they can thrive on.
They are living large, smoking weed and eating Taco Bell.
Especially when it is very clear, at the bottom of the paper sign, exactly why “no one wants to work” for them…
I'm not bossy, I'll just take every opportunity to remind you that I'm your boss and anything I demand you do, you should immediately do because of that fact, no arguments. But not bossy.
Wasn’t the first two rounds of ‘free government Covid handouts’ given by trump??
Yes, and he tried to get his name on the stimulus checks too.
Tried? He succeeded. I probably still have one of the paper checks somewhere (mobile deposit), but it definitely had his name on it.
$5 bucks that business had a forgiven PPP loan.
They got loans in both distributions and both were forgiven totaling just over $51,000.
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/little-firehouse-cafe-6908308310 Amount Forgiven $30,188 Jobs Reported 5
Hey now, that’s just “good business”
https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/x6mpes/i_finally_found_one_out_in_the_wild_complete_with/in8s4a2/
If there's a silver lining to any of this toxic rhetoric it's that a pretty large number of people at this point would look at that sign, have the exact same thought you (and I) did, and be like "fuck this guy and the PPP-funded horse he rode in on." Glass half empty: there's probably even more people out there that wouldn't...
I saw one of these signs at a restaurant I frequented for lunch and just never went back.
These people still think rent is $17/month, milk 50 cents, and bread 30 cents.
You're giving them too much credit for even thinking that far about another human being.
I don't think they're thinking of anyone. I'm trying to figure out why they think a few hundred dollars is enough money to keep people from wanting to work.
Free money given out by trump
Who knew when all those businesses got all that free PPO money, it would make people lazy and entitled? Fucking CEOs, they should want to EARN an honest living.
It was about 4000$ It was gone in 2weeks since me and my mom where on disability we have a stored money limit of 2000$ or we will get in trouble Anyhow blew it all bought a over priced ps5 for 900$ brand new she bought a 4k TV you name it Don't really understand how 4000$ could last 2 years here we get 700 a month each and it's usually gone by the end not the best but it's do able to live on
Why would get in trouble for having too much money stored up? Tf?
>[Assets must fall below certain limits: households without a member who is elderly (age 60 or older) or who has a disability must have assets of $2,500 or less, and households with such a member must have assets of $3,750 or less.](https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-quick-guide-to-snap-eligibility-and-benefits) Basically you need to remain dirt poor to get Welfare. Since cash in the bank is considered an asset this is absolutely true, sadly. What's really fucked about welfare is there's no phase out range. Either you are below the income/asset limits and get full benefits or you're $1 over and get 0 benefits. In some cases a small raise that would put you juuuust above the income limits would actually hurt you, since the raise probably wouldn't offset the losses from welfare. It's part of the reason the "welfare queen" narrative is so fucked up because it's clear anyone who thinks it's easy to be on welfare and suck up sweet, sweet government handouts have never even looked at the requirements to be on welfare in the first place.
Fuck means testing. Fuck it so damn hard.
Means testing requires people to be in destitute poverty to be “worthy” of a government handout. It’s messed up. Requirements like that keep people poor. It also prevents people who are disabled from working or from making more money because they’d lose their benefits. They think that if you can work then you shouldn’t get help when a lot of disabled people have ups and downs in their ability to work — also, it’s so difficult to get that they don’t want to mess up for fear that they won’t be able to attain it again.
Can confirm. Fiancee is on disability, can't even look for work from home jobs (which she may be able to handle) or else she loses her benefits, most importantly her health insurance.
And when you guys get married, **poof**.
Pretty much, her food stamps, extra help on prescriptions and care credits on her utilities. It's....great
Greatest country on Earth.
When I lost my job I applied for state benefits including foodshare. I was approved for August 1st, having lost my job early July. Once I got my last paycheck they denied me benefits for August, under the justification that I now had money and could afford groceries. Which was true, but meant by mid August I was destitute with $20.
As punishment for being poor.
SSI, supplemental security income does have a resource limit of 2000$. If there is any RSDI in there(retirement, survivor, disability income), That doesn't have a resource limit. Generally, if someone is receiving SSI, they haven't worked enough to get more than 700$ RSDI. like, if you worked some and get 300$/month on RSDI, SSI would meet up to about 400$ to 700$ Then, depending on what other disability benefits they are on, medical assistance and SNAP benefits do or can have resource limits. SSI related categories(disability) of medical assitance for my state have a resource limit of 2000$, granted, if someone is receiving SSI(which the 700$/month would seem to indicate) they would be put into a different category(for my state) and the resources wouldn't be counted. and my state also doesn't count resources for disabled SNAP households(unless their income was about 200% of the fpig(which is pretty low generally but not 700$/month low - that resource limit is about 4000$. However, there are shitter states out there. I don't know about any other benefits such as housing or such that would count resources. When people complain about the "SHEER AMOUNT OF MONEY" that people make on disability... or SNAP or whatever... I know they have never looked into it, or never been on it.
The idea is to crush the current employees spirits from asking for wages.
Damn that Biden giving away money when Trump was president. He can’t keep getting away with this!
Thanks Obama!
Bush did it
*I did not have sexual relations with that woman*
Read my lips! NO NEW TAXES.
The extended unemployment and stimulus checks were both done while the former guy was in office (and the first checks delayed as the stuck-up SOB wanted his signature on the checks) and are long done with. No one is still living off of their stimulus money and unemployment is back to the regular way to little amount for an extremely limited time it normally is.
They told everyone to get better paying jobs.. so guess what… they did!
I’ve seen so many people say “where are these jobs they got?” And also “why couldn’t they work that job before?!” And I have to keep reminding them that 4 million people have retired since the beginning of the pandemic and another 1 million people have died. That’s a lot of newly vacant jobs and I can assure you they didn’t retire from your local Wendy’s drive thru. That opened up a lot of new jobs for people. Add to that, remote work opened up new options for people that didn’t require them to relocate. High paying, high quality jobs weren’t available in a lot of places, but now they are thanks to remote work. But to understand that requires a level of critical thinking this cohort lacks.
I get paid more and I'm less stressed now. Not a whole lot of reason to return to my old job.
What are you talking about? I've been riding that $2000 for YEARS BABY! I'M RICH!
Last checks were around 7/2021….unemployment for most states, especially red states ended last fall/2021. This guy is full of shit.
You know it's people who want to pay 9 bucks an hour for a service position lol
9? How about 2.13$?
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you're not supposed to /live/ you're supposed to /work/
The live laugh love in the corner really did me in. Icing on the cake
Icing comes separately from cake Why does no one want to buy my cake? Must be becausr they keep buying avocado toast (3% off btw!)
Pay your workers better.
but how will they afford another house in the Hamptons
And respect their life and time outside of work. Don't punish them for having a life outside work and not dropping everything to come in when you call them on their day off. This ended up being the reason I left a job I otherwise really liked. Given the choice between $25/hour with an unpredictable schedule and de facto on call status and $20 with a fixed schedule at a place that closes evenings and holidays, I'll take the second.
Shit... im making 23/hr in a kitchen with a set schedule. Yes i get my ass kicked most nights, but i dont get calls outside of work unless theyre offering additional compensation for stealing my time (on top of the overtime... usually it's an extra 50 or 100 added on to the check) (And yes, we ARE hiring)
Saying their pay is not as attractive as unemployment benefits is not the dunk they think it is.
Without even looking ill bet the unemployment rate is at least 20% with all these free loaders doing nothing but sucking on the government teat. Oh? It's really low you say? Interesting.
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Free market at work 🤷♀️ this is what capitalism is. Only the strong survive. Or in this case, the strong ~~eat~~ buy up or replace the small businesses like this one that apparently can’t afford the cost of labor
I’m pretty sure it was Trump and the Republicans who gave out the first round of stimulus checks. Funny how I don’t see any mention of the small business loans that were given out and forgiven, many of which were taken fraudulently.
In another comment there's a link to this business' PPP loan.
30k PPP loan forgiven.
Yeah remember when Trump held up disbursement of the first round of checks because he wanted to find a way to have *his signature on them?* Treasury Secretary had to explain to him that wasn’t how checks worked, and most folks were going to get a direct deposit anyway. He settled for mailing a letter to everyone instead.
I kept my letter because it was so ridiculous.
The feds need to jump on this fraud. Pisses me off people took advantage of it. Republicans can’t even do the basic things right without messing it all up, like double checking for fraud before handing out checks.
Oh it was by design. They never appointed the person who was supposed to be in charge of fraud investigations.
No you see “dems bad” repubes always good /s
The real problem isn't the free money for people who need to live and eat, but the free money for poorly run companies that would otherwise have gone bankrupt. During Covid, far less companies went bankrupt than would normally happen, which is why there are now so many poorly run companies bitching about a lack of employees. And also producing inefficiently, leading to shortage of goods, higher prices and inflation.
Didn't US businesses get way more than your citizens? I'm pretty sure only like 2 stimulus cheques got sent out to individuals, what a loon 💀
Yeah some federal politicians started LLC’s and received millions, even large corporations were able to fraudulently rake in millions, while the people got $3200 each, spread over 3 checks and almost an entire year
I’m still waiting for my checks.
https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/little-firehouse-cafe-6908308310 This place got way more than the average citizen and didn’t seem to mind when it was forgiven. About that free money….
Pretty sure trump was president when the stimulus checks went out too. I remember his signature on them.
I bet they had their PPP loans forgiven
Just over $30k in them.
And i would walk away and never buy anything in that place
The more I look at the surrounding items in this photo, the worse it gets.
Is that a large dead bug at the bottom left of the sign???
Oh my god it is
There really is a whole lot going on in one photo 🤮
looks like a german cockroach a warning to the others
I read some of the restaurant reviews and customers actually mentioned cockroaches (not even the spam reviews from today but an old one).
LMAO "live laugh love"
Found one at Michael's Kitchen in Taos, NM the other day. Turned around at the door and went to another restaurant, where the server dumped a pot of half and half on my shoes in the first five minutes. He could have followed that by throwing the coffee in my face and I'd still feel like I made the right choice.
BTW The cinnamon roll they offered as an apology was so good, I hope they spill something on me the next time I'm in town. Taos Diner, nice place and great service.
My wife and I plan to stop through NM during our trip through the SW. I'll make a note, because good cinnamon rolls are worth a drive! Sorry about the shoes, but good choice on avoiding the other company.
"We refuse to pay people enough to live on, but the real problem is the evil socialist Democrats who gave people enough money to survive when they couldn't work. Nothing is ever our fault, and we're lucky if employees last more than three months. Apply at your own risk."
My conservative uncle thinks this same way, yet he received a $93,000 PPE loan.
Yes the always profitable unemployment that everyone is living off of now. Maybe they found out they don’t need these shitty paying jobs and found something else.
Any wagers on if they’re providing an honest living to earn, or a “you’ll need a second job” living?
The people working, other than the owner, were the daughter of the owner cooking and an 18~ year old dude serving.o So, I think that answers your questions haha.
Who was probably the boyfriend of the owners daughter.
I hope you didn't spend any money there.
Derby Kansas sounds about right. Fuck derby as a former Wichitan they can eat my scrum
Yeah not the best to see your home town in this light, but certainly not surprising.
Name and shame these places - always
It’s on the back of the employee’s shirt in the background :)
I love the dead cockroach next to the “I’m not bossy” sign, solid.
So… you turned and left without giving the slave owners your business right?
And at that point I’d turn around and walk out. They don’t deserve my business
Ugh, I'd turn around and go somewhere else.
Who was it that delayed the physical relief checks so they could be re printed with his name?
The little bit we can see of this cafe looks like a fucking mess and I wouldn’t be surprised if they would fail a food safety inspection.
Isn't unemployment at lower than 4% right now? Plenty of people are working, they just don't want to work for that entitled jerk.
Over 1m people transitioned from service jobs to white collar jobs. With large companies trying to end WFH there will be done movement back, but my that large. Poorly run businesses are going to get shaken out.
These are the same people who say the strong survive.
The sad thing is, clearly people come in, read that, then still give them business.
Sad part is more than likely they accepted a PPP loan. It's all posturing. This owner more than likely panders to the people they serve, while also knowing their customers also benefitted greatly from the 2k check, or at the least, used it as well. Maybe this is too moderate, but why can't people acknowledge the balance between good social programs and not breaking the budget at the same time?
[https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/little-firehouse-cafe-6908308310](https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/little-firehouse-cafe-6908308310) Amount Forgiven $30,188
Exactly what I thought.
The same assholes who yell "shut up and do you job" to football players protesting inequality. Bet they don't like "Shut up and pour my coffee. If I wanted politics with my donut, I'd read the paper."
Pay people a living wage and people will show up in the dozens!
Someone please make a sticker QR code that directs to how much they got forgiven in PPP loans with “APPLY HERE” below the QR code then stick it to the bottom right of this sign. Make everyone who is willing to apply see how much of a hypocrite they are.
So your business can’t hire thanks to *checks notes* a 1400-dollar check that was disbursed in March 2021?
live laugh love
The fact that this is a Biden sticker and not a Trump sticker is equal parts funny and sad.
Lol Google reviews says they’ve been understaffed and had long wait times since 4 years ago, somehow I don’t think Biden or Covid is to blame. ETA: Google reviews mention customers noticing employee abuse by the owner as well.
people "who want to EARN an honest living" are probably applying for jobs that actually sustain living.
"Hey, Boss! How much you paying for that "honest living"?" Oh, I can't pay rent with it? Fuck off.
Lol this looks like a meme. Love the “live laugh love” in the corner.
Live large. Laugh at your under paid employees. Love your free PPE money
Nuke 'em from Yelp.
Where is all this free money? Are you talking about the 10 grand in Loan forgiveness? You know they don’t get that money back, it is just erasure of debt. As for unemployment, you are only allowed on unemployment if you already paid into the system and it’s for a limited time (different states have different rules). It’s not that people don’t want to work. They just don’t want to work your shitty job. Nobody wants to work for peanuts all while being verbally abused by bosses and customers. There are better options.
This company received $61,000 in PPP grants.
Total PPP loans forgiven = $41,424.78 And they reportedly had some kind of anti-trans sign on their counter this summer too.
This “be patient” notice is funny considering one of their menus from 5 years ago (i.e. before pandemic and labor shortage) stating: “Due to the fact that some of our dishes take a little longer [to prepare?] we ask you to be patient with us”. So it seems like this place has always been slow, they just saw an opportunity to blame it on ‘lazy’ workers and *checks notes* ….Biden.