Friday, July 16, 2021

Help Desperately Wanted

 Cerami's announced on Facebook:



56 comments:

Anonymous said...

no mention of how much they are willing to pay
As I have said many times before
Pay up or SHUT DOWN

guess they chose the latter
now instead of earning leas profit, the owner will earn no profit.

Anonymous said...

dominos can't deliver today b/c no drivers. the welfare state is a rousing success. until the couch sitters get hungry

Anonymous said...

Jason's Deli has closed. Jackson, the new Detroit/Chicago...

I now can read discussions on NextDoor penned from NE Jackson. That area is doomed, in addition to the rest of Jackson. Burglaries, gunfire, car thefts, very visible street drug dealing, homeless in your yard and porch; 9-1-1 calls not answered; it goes on and on.

Anonymous said...

They left off the only important factor to potential employees, What’s the pay? If they pay decent, they will find decent workers. I guess now that Mississippi has officially stopped the extra unemployment payments, business owners will have to find a new excuse for their inability to attract workers to their crappy jobs. My guess is critical race theory will be to blame.

Anonymous said...

I thought this labor problem was going to be solved as soon as Tater cut off unemployment.

Anonymous said...

Blame Fauci . Maybe he will come and help.

Anonymous said...

$2.13 an hour + tips and no benefits? no thanks

Anonymous said...

Perhaps we should allow more LEGAL immigrants?

If I'm building a community/country - I'll take the guy that's willing to walk here from Honduras while caring for young child- all so that he can perform manual labor here and send $100/week to his wife back home.

These are the people that we need to welcome in this country.

Anonymous said...

Don’t you love the narrow-minded views of those who have never excelled in life. To them, a business starts and stops with what they get paid. Anything else is just a shrug and a grin. Rising food costs (shrug), forced to shutdown last year (shrug), competing against free money from the government (shrug and grin), supply chain shortages (confused). Same mindset that riots and steals from businesses because ______.

These positions will be filled. Should be filled by teenagers starting out but these are the days of select sports, camps and activities galore. So we’re left with the dregs of society that have no skills, character or motivation to do anything between their filings for unemployment.

They’re only concern is minimum wage because they don’t plan on ever doing anything more than the minimum in life.

Anonymous said...

to 2.21...................screw you. the cerami family has been providing employment and opportunity in this area since before you were crapping in you hands and rubbing it in your hair.

Anonymous said...

walmart, costco, kroger, mcdonalds, burger king offer benefits...

no benefits=no workers

Anonymous said...

It is almost as if conservatives never have solutions that actually work in the real world!

Anonymous said...

Amen to 3:18. Too much bigoted rhetoric aimed at people who just want a chance to work jobs our people won't take.

Anonymous said...

@3:37 - well I guess we should all go sign up and work for free. How many dishes are you planning to wash voluntarily for these wonderful people. Think my landlord will accept my gratitude as payment? Who needs healthcare these days anyways? It sounds to me like you are probably a communist or a proponent of slavery and that just isn’t the answer. Next…

Anonymous said...

Looks like a bunch of goofy libs on here this afternoon who've never written (and never will) write a pay check in their lives and haven't a clue about how capitalism works but they seem to be very much into socialism.

Anonymous said...

@3:33 - so you don’t think people work to earn money? Maybe the owner should just take a loss and give away all their food also since money doesn’t matter. What world are these idiot living in that they don’t think pay matters. Dumbass

Anonymous said...

If an employer can only survive with child labor, they shouldn’t be in business. The government gave out plenty of free money to restaurants to make up for COVID. Remember Roger Wicker praising the bill he voted against? Got any more excuses for their lack of ability to compete in a free market now that the unemployment benefits were removed by our governor?

Anonymous said...

Big corps will save us! Trickle down!

Anonymous said...

@ 3:43. Again, I cannot understand why liberals are so mad all the time. $15 and hour plus benefits for entry level jobs. Great Idea. in 2 years as things roll up the money they make will equate to not a living wage again. Houses will cost twice as much, services, food, etc, etc will all go up proportionately. You will have entry level jobs paying $45k a year and benefits and they will still not be a living wage due to the increase across the board.
secondly, I was in Denver the other day. I was at a McDonalds and there were 3 employees. There were 5 kiosks and a pick up window. the 3 employees were cooking and serving the drive through and the pick up window. They were all making $15 per hour with benefits i'm sure but there were 3 of them not 10 making 8-10 per hour. Your push for a "living wage" at a entry level (16 year old jobs) will simply result in huge unemployment and business closures resulting in more unemployment and more business closures (round and round) Your entry level jobs will be eliminated one by one. Why in the world would you think you should work at a fast food joint and make enough money to support a family and pay for lodging, food, insurance, cars, etc etc? Here is how it works and the only way it works. You start at a entry level job when you are depending on others for help. You work hard and show up and become valuable to not only your employer but maybe others who would give you more to work for them. and then you keep working harder and keep moving up and then you get to the living wage.
I assume your liberal solution is this. Everyone born goes to college and everyone graduates and everyone become a high paid person at age 22-23. Yeah, there is a need for 320 million college graduates. The only way to achieve this is to lower the standards for college and make a college degree the equivalent of a high school degree. Then everyone gets one of those and the people who need real education have to get masters and doctorates. see, with wages as well as education you don't improve the country by making sure everyone gets the same minimum. But I'm sure your professor explained it in such a way it made good sense because they likely never worked in the real world. SMH.

Anonymous said...

2:21 is an idiot. Likely never will understand economics at a basic level. The restaurant works on a razor thin profit margin most cases. This is why so many go out of business. You pay an entry level waiter or busboy or cook $15-20 per hour and benefits your 3 cheese ravioli just went from $12 to $20 and your tea just went from $2.50 to $4 and so on. people can't afford it and they quit coming. The restaurant shuts down and no one makes anything. In your SJW world that sounds like victory for the little guy. This happens enough and you live in a third world country.

Anonymous said...

2:24 PM
My wife and I left last year in May. I don't think we could have gotten out any sooner. We noticed a marked decline even before Jason's left. I mostly attribute it to poor city leadership.

3:43 PM
The liberals solution is to throw more money at the problem. How well did that work out for JPS?

And to these idiots about pay. This isn't skilled work. Button punching isn't skilled work.

Anonymous said...

4:32 should teach a class.

Well said.

So few understand that basic concept.

Bravo.

Anonymous said...

The Democrats outsmart the Republicans every time. They used the pandemic to create a welfare state. Now they are allowing open borders to provide cheap labor to corporations. The half of the population that doesn’t pay taxes no longer have to work. Free college, healthcare, basic income to live, the other half of us just continue to pay.

Anonymous said...

listen to all of the brilliant conservative economists! Especially the ones willing to import the third world as cheap labor because service industry jobs are one job that they cant export to China!

Got some bad news for you but the labor you are importing isn’t going to vote for your kids to be president. They will vote for their AOC!

Anonymous said...

2:21- Pay up? What is this, a heist?

People want $15 an hour for taking orders and running food. What a lazy joke.

Anonymous said...

@4:42
The facebook post clearly states they are seeking “qualified” help.
And by your metric, landlords aren’t skilled labor either.
They shouldn’t get paid very much either.

Anonymous said...

“being a waiter isn’t skilled labor”
Yeah it is. We have the skill and patience to put up with your ugly, passive aggressive, demanding asses and only out the minimum amount of bodily fluids in your food. Too many of you come into a restaurant and immediately think you get to treat us like shit. Just because we serve food doesn’t mean we are paid to fulfill your plantation master/slave fantasies.

One more thing, we always remember bad tippers! You get extra spit bitches!

Anonymous said...

@4:38
You really seem to misunderstand economics. The owner can always take a haircut. But you never mention that part. It’s always “the food is going to cost $20 an ounce” but you never talk about the lifestyle of these restaurant owners. There is one w see often here who loves to write articles about his luxurious lifestyle.

Micah Gober said...

I'm consider myself the dregs of society. The reason why I have no skill because of Madison County Education didn't teach me any skills. They said get your Liberal arts degree and you'll go places. What a lie. My character and motivation has been beaten out of me. I now watching other people succeed and I'm stuck at the bottom.

Anonymous said...

The big companies start at $15 an hour now and some like Amazon in Canton offer full benefits from day one. Workers are making the choice to go for the higher paying jobs as they should.

Anonymous said...

" now that Mississippi has officially stopped the extra unemployment payments "

And thank the Lord they did ... if not ... the local labor market would be worse than it already is.


Anonymous said...

I never understood why all these people complaining about rising prices caused by a dollar or two rise of minimum wage pay don’t think that CEO’s making 100 million a year plus stock options aren’t an issue. Do you hate poor people that much that you don’t even see it?

Anonymous said...

Funny how all these folks are shouting free money is the problem, if you take out the 20 highest unemployment counties in Mississippi ( ain’t that may people or jobs) Mississippi is basically at full employment and certainly less pre pandemic unemployment levels in the top 62. It’s all on the states website. People are in better shape today than they were 2 years ago. No need for multiple jobs, places like this restaurant can’t compete.

Anonymous said...

2:21 is SO pathetic. The lack of proper grammar, punctuation and the DEMAND to "pay up or shut down", shows their stupidity. Wages and benefits are things usually discussed at a face to face job interview. Of course that requires one to get off the couch, bathe, arrive timely with reliable transportation, dress neatly and present a pleasant personality.
Something tells me 2:21 expects them to kiss her/his azz and pay them $15/hr, full benefits while she/he carries a nasty, snarly-lip attitude the whole workday.

Anonymous said...

Either you pay them more and food cost goes up and you have to charge more. Let’s just pay a flat amount and no tipping and see if the waiters like that. The reason the are paid $2 is because they get the tips.

Anonymous said...

Cerami's ate at the PPP buffett twice - once for $115,000 and a second feeding for $81,000. It is not surprising they cannot find workers.

Want employees? said...

Quit paying shit wages

Anonymous said...

Imagine that, a failed business model. Welcome to the workforce Cerami family.

Anonymous said...

Pre Covid normally full on weekends, only been there twice. Now not enough staff for service. Something changed. Waiter, busboy, dishwasher in smaller local place are not careers but what were your first jobs.

Anonymous said...

Well, how is it that McD can pay living wages in Denmark - and the world is still spinning?

I don’t have any sympathy with these restaurant owners, pay more and stop whining. That’s the economy, someone offers a better deal.

That'sMisterDeplorableToYou said...

Waiting tables in a busy restaurant can be a great job for college kids or a stay-at-home parent while the kids are in school. When I waited tables way back in the early 90s, it was rare that I didn't leave a 5-hour dinner shift with $80 to $100 or more in my pocket. A weekend double shift often saw me with $300 - $400. It's not something you'd be after as the primary breadwinner for a family, but it's not as bad as $2.13 / hour sounds.

@2:32 It'll take a while for all that money to go dry, but it will.

Anonymous said...

4:32 and 4:57 for the wins

Anonymous said...

I know guys who have waited tables for 30 plus years….

It’s not for everyone but some can make it work.

We have to have a better appreciation for labor

Anonymous said...

welcome to the free market economy. you've wanted it for years.

can't pay 20 an hour? tough. someone will and take all your workers.

high schoolers can get 10-15 an hour at mcdonalds and burger king.

why work for 2 bucks and crappy tips?

Anonymous said...

Best thing all these employers could do is get together and decide what to pay their workers.

That could keep the employers willing to pay more from stealing the workers from the employers who can't or won't pay more.

Unions are an unpopular thing with free market people, so make sure to not call it a union for employers. They could call it Our Little Thing for the Job Makers.

Anonymous said...

@ 11:43. Who gives crappy tips?

Anonymous said...

12:49 It's well documeted.

Anonymous said...

I lived in Italy for seven years. Tipping servers is not the norm there, and in most of the world. The servers in Italy are paid decent wages with benefits. Tipping here mostly benefits the employer, backed by the IRS.

Anonymous said...

All you whining liberals bitching about pay and minimum wage and tip pay...where were you in the past fifteen years when no business was desperate for help? Now that your boy Biden has promised something for nothing, on a monthly basis, you clowns are content to sit on your asses. It won't last. Wait for it.

Anonymous said...

@8:18 I'm curious how you know this. I filed several times for my business & was never awarded any a plate at the buffet.

Anonymous said...

12:26 that's an antitrust violation and could result in 10 years in the Iron Bars Hotel.

Anonymous said...

It’s a part time job with flexible hours at a restaurant. If you want $15 an hour go to Amazon, just be ready to start work at 7:00 am and finish at 4. Can some of you get up that early? I know, that’s not fair is it. Oh and some of you may need to work on Sundays or at night from 9-5.
That’s life, if you don’t like it find something else. But if your 17 and your first job it’s a start. I started out cutting yards, a soda jerk, hauling materials and stocking shelves. Now I make $275,000 a year and don’t feel guilty about any of it as I worked my way up.

Anonymous said...

1:49...If you can't spell documented, who does it for you?

Disgusted said...

5:18 I was basically raised around the restaurant industry and learned to tip well (minimum 20% and more for excellent service) and never concerned with a waiter spitting in my food, I find it appalling that you would spit in your customers food. Even if you thought you were looked down upon or thought you were mistreated it is a cowardly chicken shi* way to make yourself feel better. Do you realize you speak of passive aggressive behavior from your customers but you are guilty of exhibiting that exact behavior. Please reconsider your nasty Neanderthal reactions to someone who may simply be having a bad day, you never know what someone is going through. Try filling their soul with kindness and leaving a good impression on them. If they return, they will remember your good hearted nature and probably reward you. At minimum, you will not go home ashamed of yourself from deep inside. That is if you have a conscience but I question that. You’ve been acting like a nasty self centered little bit*#!

Anonymous said...

9:03 PM There are several databases that list everyone in the country who received a PPP loan

Anonymous said...

12:09 - No it's not. It's no more illegal than forty HR Directors belonging to a group that meets monthly and also runs annual salary/benefits surveys and attempts to sort of stay in line with the community standard (of course there are always the two renegades - One that pays much more and the one that pays much less. You might want to call it a reverse cartel of sorts. But it's certainly NOT illegal.

It's for no other purpose than maintaining stability in the labor market.



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