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If the Mississippi Department of Employment Security would get their shit together and return to the long-ago process of requiring legitimate job search, that would put a dent in this problem. All they do now is process and record the flow of money. Every claimant and applicant knows the system better than the agency employees.

And...their main competition for labor is bloated gov't unemployment checks. So there's that. But hey, we woke !

As it should be

Sorry boomers but the current labor market demands a higher wage than you seem to be willing to pay. I don’t have to let you get rich off me for minimum wage. Thankfully the government isn’t forcing us to settle for shitty wages any longer. Pay up or shut down.

3:35 - That's the 'end-around' approach to raising the minimum wage. If President Harris sends everybody an $800 check every week, the only way for an employer to compete with that is to offer an hourly wage of $25.00 plus benefits plus a seat at the management decision table (union membership).

There's more than one way to skin a business.

I recall my grandfather still complaining about Roosevelt's WPA in the late 1950s. He farmed all his life and when the WPA came into the state paying a livable wage in livable working conditions he had to dig a little deeper to pay for field work. The expression "Two coming, two going, two shitting and two hoeing" was his opinion of the situation. It's a real shame to be forced to pay a living wage.

Nice job posting this after it's over.

If you’re just ambitious enough to take a government check and not try to do and be the best you can, then there’s no hope in your future anyway. The will to work and do better for yourself and family is a dying sentiment in this country. That’s why immigrants, legal and illegal, continue to come to this country and thrive. They want to do better for themselves, our youth, not so much. All they can do is play on the internet and call everyone who challenges them names like “boomer”. Reminds me of another sector of our society.

5:05 is thankful to the government... Thank you government for permanently closing 40% of small businesses. Thank you government for deciding to ramp up audits of small business by 50% in 2021. Thank you government for printing over $40,000 per taxpayer (so far) for covid spending. What would we do without out our sweet government.
America will never be great again.

Suck that teat, 5:05. It eventually runs dry.

Well, anyone get's a free bowl of soft serve if they even show up, along with a twenty dollar gift card of some sort.
(Plus an extra two hundred bucks if one can last 90 days ... if hired).

But I do have one legit question.

Jeff, can you explain the specific job description of an ice cream scooper ?

It’s not the unemployment checks. It’s those giant stimulus checks. They ain’t coming back to work for at least 6 weeks.

Maybe it pays enough for Bobby Sue and I to get out of this single-wide in Brandon.

Does Jeff pay more than the $2.13 wages that tipped employees make under federal and Mississippi law?

If you hired the world’s brightest minds to come up with a plan to crash the US economy via hyper inflation, they couldn’t do much better than what we’re doing now.

@ 5:05 - The market should dictate wages, not the government. Nobody owes you a living. Develop a talent (labor) and market it. I should pay you what your labor is worth to my business and not a damned dime more.

If you offer nothing more than minimum wage talent, that's what you ought to be paid. And minimum wage should be whatever your talent is worth to me. If it's not agreeable with you, move in on down the road.

You were obviously raised to believe you have marketable value. Prove it.

they should just do like all the other successful restaurants in Jackson and hire illegals.
Anyone else notice how all of the buffets in the metro have Hispanics working in the kitchen?

@5:23pm

"Two coming, two going, two shitting and two hoeing" was his opinion of the situation."

Could you explain his meaning for us non-farmers?

Unfortunately this is the downward direction the liberals are sending America.

what happened to the staff that worked at the restaurant in Fondren?

5:05 - Obviously, the government doesn't 'force us' to work at all, and has no business mandating wages. If there were laws forcing the able bodied to work, imagine how much better off this country would be. Meanwhile, youngsters like you can ride in the wagon and sip your lattes.

Hi 5:05, you will always either be un-employed or working for someone else. You will never be the boss.

Hey no problem, Americans get paid to sit their fat selves on the couch. Our friends from south of the border will gladly take that ‘oppressive’ job you won’t touch for minimum wage, your majesty. I’m sure you have better jobs you could take with your impressive skill set, if you weren’t content to stay on the couch and collect welfare, oops, I mean, stimulus.

But lo, everyone gets paid $15 an hour? And not replaced by robots either? Great news! Now your burger costs $20. Want fries? That’ll be $5 more.

Enjoy out new awesome economy! It’ll be fun!

Resort towns are really feeling this. Restaurants in OBA are offering a $500 signing bonus for DISHWASHERS right now. Just silly.

Minimum wage is $7.25 per hour----Any of you posters on here going to work for that? If you work for tips its $2.13 per hour. Try paying rent,utilities,food and gas for $7.25 per hour.

@9:12am - “...laws forcing the able bodied to work...” Sure sounds a lot like slavery and fascism. You sure you want to go that route, bubba?

4:52...except the high end mexican restaurant...if you look back in the kitchen, they are mostly asian. Go figure.

5:23 here. That cliche meant that the workers at the WPA were so poorly supervised that they took every opportunity to not work. And once a worker became accustomed to WPA working conditions if he went to a farm to work it would be necessary to hire 8 men to do the work of 2 because there would be 2 coming.......... And it would be difficult to profitably make a cotton crop in that situation dontchknow.

It seemed to make perfect sense to me many years ago. I suspect you needed no explanation.

@9:53 am, you are right. The current minimum wage is a travesty.

Turns out, when you pay people to sit at home, you get more people sitting at home.

Turns out, when you pay a livable wage, you find employees.

It is difficult for some to grasp the concept that if one doesn't like 'minimum wage' then they should seek out a SKILL that will pay them more. Until one recognizes this concept and applies the talents they were blessed with...they will be forever disillusioned.

10:17 - Bubba here. Why not have a law mandating that the able bodied work....instead of 50 state laws (and new federal laws) that pay them for not doing so? Your government has made it real easy to draw cash while not working. What's your problem with the converse, Bubette?

By the way, Bubba again here, my notion is not comparable to slavery, a time during which no wage was paid for working. Unlike you and your buds at Starbucks, I advocate employment for all, in exchange for an agreed upon wage. Everybody who is able to work should roll out, get dressed and head to work. Period.

@9:53a- My question to you is why are you still making $7.25 an hour if you’ve worked long enough to rent your own place? I’m 100% serious. Every job has potential for raises, most being performance-based. If you show up for work and do GOOD work, you won’t be making $7.25 an hour for more than a year. And if you’d apply yourself AT ALL, you’d be on a management track in no time.

The reality is that the only people stuck at $7.25 for years are those that have ZERO work ethic, aren’t trainable, likely job hop, and make TERRIBLE personal choices. Go take your sob story somewhere else!!

Thank you at 2:20 that’s a typical spit cup carrying redneck post that has no connection to reality in today’s world 7.25 an hour is a ridiculous wage to pay—You boomers have lost touch with reality this is 2021 not 1956.

"except the high end mexican restaurant...if you look back in the kitchen, they are mostly asian."

Same with low end Mexican restaurants.

Some of the best Mexican fast food I've had was prepared and cooked by Vietnamese.


On the other hand, some of the best Chinese/Cantonese take-out I've had came from a hard working family from Guatemala.

So you're right.

Go figure !

Where are these places that pay minimum wage with no periodic increases? Name three of them. Thanks.

@5:04p- I’m definitely not a redneck and I definitely don’t dip and/or spit. I’m a business-owning woman with common sense and a strong work ethic.

You’re the ill-informed person here. Minimum wage is not DESIGNED to be a long-term wage. Again, any person with any kind of work ethic or any self-discipline won’t make minimum wage for long at all. HOWEVER, bottom-feeders with no work ethic or drive that continually make poor choices and blame everyone else for said poor choices, will be stuck in the cycle of no skill, no education, and earning minimum wage. If you’re delusional enough to think $15/hour fixes ANY of these problems, you’re not very bright and understand ZERO about the true root of this problem.

Everyone bitching about a "living wage" for jobs needs to be reminded of something. Minimum wage jobs are minimum skill jobs. They are entry level jobs. Wanna make more money? Learn more skills. Actually give a damn and do the job you applied for.

"Minimum wage is not DESIGNED to be a long-term wage"

BINGO!

I have long argued that we need to change the terminology to make it clear that what some foolishly call a "minimum wage" should instead be clearly labelled an "entry level" wage. When I got my first job way back when I had basically no useful skills, so I got the lowest legal wage. I learned skills, changed occupations, and make real good money today. That initial salary is not supposed to be permanent - it is an entry-level salary for people with no real skills.

If you are still making it after a few years ask yourself - "why haven't I picked up any skills someone is willing to pay me more money for?

At 6:05 pm Congratulations you have quoted Rush Limbaugh’s talking points to the letter now that he is gone maybe you can return to real world economics. You don’t own a business or you would know the businesses only hire part time. Part time work at 7:25 is a disaster, open your eyes to what is happening around you and don’t post senseless tripe unless you know what you are talking about. A grocery bagger working part time making 7:25 an hour has zero chance of improving his status in life iand his monetary problems will become yours in increased crime and theft— take the blinders off.

Very well said 6:05.

Unfortunately, today ( and during the last 30 years) our kids are being/have been brainwashed with a focus on goofy crap like "gender identity".

I doubt the public schools even mention the word economics anymore.

Although I never did the classic lemonade-stand thing, when I was 10 years old, a buddy and I didn't properly rake some pine straw from a neighbor's yard ... that we had been hired to do.
We had been promised five dollars in 1972 money (which was a lot to any kid back then).
But we only "half ass " took it seriously.

The result ?
We received about .70 cents instead of the grand sum of $5.00.

Why ? .... because we didn't do the job for which we were hired.

(Best lesson I ever learned).

@7:04p- You are so exhausting!! I absolutely own a business. Do you really believe every business has the same structure as a grocery store? You continue to display your lack of knowledge with your comments.

A grocery bagger making minimum wage SHOULD BE a part-time teen or student NOT a full-time, self-sufficient adult.

Now, if that adult has made horrific choices that land him NO OPTION but to bag groceries part-time, then I guarantee that IF he showed up to work eager to work every shift and showed a desire to move up in the company, he could be a cashier and eventually a manager in NO TIME. However, if he shows up with a chip on his shoulder and bitches and moans about minimum wage for a task that uses no brain cells he will likely be fired or quit because he has ZERO work ethic.

You take YOUR blinders off. He wouldn’t be anyone’s problem but his own if he had any pride, self-worth, work ethic, and desire to better himself. This generation of young people want their problems/mistakes fixed TODAY. Life isn’t fair and doesn’t work that way. Folks believe they are entitled to COMFORTS in life. Ironically, the same people bitching and moaning about minimum wage ALWAYS have nicer phones, nails, hair, cars, and food than me. In the functioning adult world, it’s called PRIORITIES.

Also @7:04p- Why wouldn’t you encourage your grocery bagging pal to learn a trade or skill? There’s TONS of opportunity for grants and assistance. JPS has programs. Hell, Hinds is offering free classes this summer! No, instead, you’d rather try to act like you understand owning and running a business.

The reality is your pal that is stuck bagging groceries likely won’t stick with any program that involves any kind of time commitment or hard work... yet, it’s the grocery stores fault he can’t get more hours and earn more than minimum wage. Your desire for a “quick fix” isn’t a fix at all. And, the fact that it doesn’t register in your brain says everything the world needs to know about you and your argument for a $15/hour minimum wage.

7:04, a grocery bagger working part time can be going to school so that he can improve his earning potential.

7:04 is a troll. Anyone who actually owns a business would never pay an employee $7.25 if they really wanted to keep them. Too hard to find a qualified replacement.

Where are these 'grocery baggers'? If my groceries are bagged at all, it's by the cashier. The trend for years has been to not only get me to scan my own items, but to bag them. It's been ten years since I saw anybody standing at the end of the checkout actually bagging groceries.

Tell me where these 'minimum wage' jobs are. Name some.

Nope!
Pay up or shut down, simple as that.
Power to the workers!

6:02 - You keep chiming in. Perhaps you can tell us where these minimum wage jobs are. They're like the jobs that pay men more than women - non-existent.

Disregard 6:02s comments. This is clearly a troll. Otherwise it would be someone so ignorant as to the real world economics that it is hard to believe.

@6:02, "Power to the workers?" You have no leg to stand on.. Pay up or shut down? Who The F**K do you expect to pay for your fast food when it averages $20 for a combo? That's what raising minimum wage will do. I worked for minimum wage the whole time I attended college and you know what.. I learned a skill-set so I no longer had to work minimum wage.. You sound like the rest of the entitled Democrats.. Who is paying for your internet?

$20 fast food combos is the biggest lie sold for upping minimum wage. Minimum wage does need to be raised, but I don't know if $15 is the right number.

Before you guys jump on me, I am all for every abled-bodied person needs to be working. However, I think $7.25 is insulting.

And the REAL price of a Big Mac in Seattle is...... Surprise

https://www.thedailymeal.com/news/eat/here-s-how-much-big-mac-would-cost-under-15-hour-minimum-wage/073115

Me and my unemployed pals like seeing y'all so pressed about not having enough bodies to run your businesses.

Do it yourself, like you keep saying. Show some initiative and do it yourself or admit you don't want to, can't do it all, and need other people.

Power to the workers!

I dare each and everyone of you to try going home smelling like grease everyday.