Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Can't nobody do nothing they are supposed to any more.

In two and a half decades of running a business, I've never seen staffing this bad.

It horrendous and is daily crushing our productivity.

Double pay approved for everyone, but I don't want to whip those who actually come to work too bad. I have some working 60-70 hours/week.

I don't know how to improve it.

I order a fair amount of stuff and most often receive exactly what I order. If this is a recurring problem, could it be OPerator error? Sorry if this does not fit the narrative.

GFY! I was pouting and the vernacular fits.

It does not fit. In both instances I have the order form and I can promise I did not order metric threaded nipples, and as for the rifle sites, what good would one be without the other?

Most likely the picker at the DC did not care to check the order pulled. I build those things for Macys and Tractor Supply, and know the turnover rate is astounding.

Children coming out of schools today don't have to perform to pass, they cannot read and basically do not care about anything but their phones and their social media.

Bet that gal could sour milk looking at it. 👏

It's getting really bad.

Nobody has any Fs left to give it seems.

Most started with none.

Fast food again.
Even down to Sheetz hot dogs.
You order food, I swear they grab the makings and throw them at
The container. Not talking about loose lettuce or onion in the bottom,
I'm talking about the burger half off the bun, pickles ever where but on
the sandwich.

Small stuff, but that level of competence seems to be accepted everywhere.
We are becoming China. Everything done half assed.

I walked into my neighborhood Dollar General to grab some dog food, paper towels and coffee creamer yesterday.

I get to the back of the store and see the two girls that work there stocking shelves.
Got the paper towels and was headed for the dog food when some ancient old smuck in the front of the store starts screaming 'does anybody work in this dam store?'.

He was at the checkout counter.

I glance back at the gals stocking shelves, they were just shaking there heads and continued to stock the shelves.

The old smuck at the checkout counter continued to scream.

I got my dog food and made my way up front, the old smuck was still standing there raging, he looked like he was near heart attack level.
I used the self checkout and was out the door in a flash.

As I returned my cart to the store from the parking lot I saw that one of the girls had finally made her way from the back of the store to wait on the old smuck, I also noticed the 'help wanted' sign taped to the door.

Them girls were working alright, they were working thier azzes off.
If it'd been me I'd have left him standing there screaming and waited to see if he'd try to get out the door without paying for his schit and then had him arrested.

As soon as I got out of the parking lot I realized I'd forgotten the coffee creamer, the screaming old smuck had distracted me.

Notta problem, I'd just stop at the Circle K on the way home.

It's always better to pay $7.99 for a tiny bottle of $2.50 coffee creamer anyway.

As I walked into Circle K I noticed they also had a 'help wanted' sign on the door. There's a guy waiting at the register, the only kid working there was mopping up the floor by the soda dispenser.

Looked like one of those 1 gallon Big Gulp cups had exploded on the floor creating a flood of Mt Dew and ice.

I grabbed my coffee creamer and headed for the register, the kid had switched from mopping the floor to putting hotdogs on the little roller things, there was coffee filters and bags of coffee all over the counter around the coffee machine but there was no coffee in a pot.

I took my place in line behind the other customer and waited.

Shortly kid came bounding up to wait on us.
The guy in front of me was buying lottery tickets, he was also cashing in winning lottery tickets.

He was having a difficult time deciding exactly which scratch off tickets he wanted to buy, he must of been a master gambler and had a special strategy to pick out the winners.

After he got it all figured out there was a money discrepancy as to how much his winning tickets had been worth verses the new ones he was attempting to buy, he wasn't as rich as he had thought, he had to put a couple of his new picks back.
The kid was pretty quick on the register at correcting the returned tickets and the gambler was soon on his way.

By the time I paid for my creamer there was a half a dozen more customers in line behind me. There still wasn't any coffee and the kid had left to mop out by the soda dispenser.

These people are working, in fact they are working their azzes off.
They seem a little short handed, they're multi-tasking covering for two jobs on one shift.

Be cool, stay calm.

Patience is a virtue.

About the same here Jeff...

We have ONE fast food... Drive thru only because of short staffing.

Same old ladies that have been there for years... and a couple of young girls.

I tip them every time (mostly) and thanks them...

One grocery store also... it is a madhouse at 7am on the discounted day old meat.

So that must be why the Manager of Wendy's told me her and the peon clerk "don't need your money" and slammed and locked the window. Then when you go to make a complaint online, the website won't actually allow you to do such a thing.

I ordered a Colt 14.5" SOCOM barrel recently from Brownell's. It looked like somebody took chisel and hammer to it. Cosmetic flaws don't bother me, but when I pay that much for a barrel, it doesn't need to have displaced steel. What was worse, I used to get shipping from Brownell's in two business days with the cheapest option. Now to get it within 10 days, I have to pay for the more expensive shipping and half the time it gets to go on a tour of the Midwest before it makes it to my house. One literally made it within a mile of my house, then back to the distributor and then back out of state the opposite direction. It seems these days nobody cares about doing a good job.

The last time there was such a serious shortage of workers, the cotton gin was invented. I predict that this time the solution will be similar, but more widespread.

We tried a new steakhouse down the road here last night. The food was decent, the prices were fair, but I’ll not be going back. The service was simply untenable.

It won’t be open long with all the waitresses standing around in a circle looking at their cell phones giggling.

We still live, mostly, in a bubble where people try to do a good job, but I see issues more at the business to business level than at retail. Businesses have more than they can handle, and the Covidiocy has given everyone an excuse to just mail it in. "We don't have it, supply chain". That's all fine and dandy, but I can get it delivered tomorrow after one google search. "prices are high, COVID". I can find it from a non-stocking distributor for half, screw you and the donkey you rode in on.

Not that I'm pizzed off about it or anything....

I’ll give a little example of something I know about. In a certain time frame (I’m not sure how long exactly) in Texas in 2019 the year before Covid, there were 5400 jury trials. In 2020 during that same time frame, there were 4 in the entire state.

That is a massive backlog that will take years to unravel. Especially since in the case of crime, it’s now way up and we’re adding to the backlog. And in the civil stuff, divorces and contract disputes and everything else are up too. It’s [bleep] nightmarish.

Now add to all those backlogs in every sector of the economy with massive staff shortages. Add that a big part of those shortages come on the top end. And by that I mean that many of the people with the most seniority, the most expertise, and the most experience were the ones who could retire and go home and they did. Even if they are replaced, they really aren’t replaced because no replacement is going to be as good…for years if ever.

Imagine in a company you had the one guy who could always find a supply of something by calling a few guys at some other companies. Well, he went home and the guys at the other companies did too. So, now instead of being able to scrounge up enough of something to fill an order, the company is just schit out of luck until the next slow boat from China gets here.

I don’t think things will ever get back to like they were. The ramifications of what we did to this economy are just too big.

Retired machinist here. At least one whole generation was told to get college, not a trade. We could not find anyone to completely replace me. Wife is seriously disabled forcing my retirement, they found a fairly good cnc guy, but manuals are a mystery to him. And he will not double over into assembly or shipping in a pinch. I loved making things.

I just went for a colonoscopy, nurse was 74, same as me. Surely a nurse would beable to retire. She seemed to be thetype that enjoys serving a need. I learned her age by commenting the doc said this is last time as I will be too old next time due.

fixed it.....

Is it worse because the dude is crippled?


Should we care more? Is it a hate crime?


Sheesh.

Yep.

He was beat up in a car wreck, paralyzed from the waist down. I try to help him out when I can. He can't work and groceries are slim.

He got a 6.5 that he can manage out of his chair.

It did not make it worse, it is just the facts.

Sorry if that does not meet your criteria.