Retail, hospitality and travel industry workers have been treated like shit for years, especially during the pandemic. Now they have had enough and quit and nobody wants to replace them. Is minimum wage worth being yelled at by angry customers all day with no support from your company?
Are the margins on these business really so thin that they can’t just raise the pay? Pay more and I promise staff will appear
For all the moaning in that article, not once does it mention the pay and benefits on offer to recruit staff.
This country can longer hide under the ruse of the low unemployment figures.
Have you tried paying better? Of course you haven’t.
Pay more then you bellend, it’s actually not that difficult, pay more = more staff, more staff = more customers, more customers = more profit.
Fuck off with your sob stories
Anyone else getting really irritated with the “woe is me” articles about short staffing that don’t mention pay at all or only in passing?
Business owners annoyed they can’t exploit Eastern Europeans.
I work in security, and we can’t get a relief officers to cover holidays. So we cover each other’s holidays. So effectively we work 60-72h /w. No one wants to work random days and nights through the year for 10.93.
We work for outsourcing company, they are the worst thing for working people. They take 35% of our pay.
Ironically, I find hotels purposely hire as little as possible or only provide part-time roles and then stretch these employees across various departments. As a result, these employees are over worked and unsatisfied and end up quitting.. however, had they hired a full team to appropriately fulfil the needs in the first place, they’d still have a good amount of employees around.
Wouldn’t hurt to not treat service workers so badly either, lol.
Pay your staff a decent wage. It’s not rocket science. Pay a decent wage, people will want to work there.
Perhaps you should be willing to train staff instead of limiting the applications to people with experience
It’s awful down here in Cornwall too.
There are loads of jobs in hospitality that need filling down here on the peninsular. Loads of pubs, cafes and hotels are saying they can’t get staff and are looking to close.
I guess if they paid a living wage and offered had a full time contract to their staff that wouldn’t be the case. Hey ho. Never mind.
Pre-Brexit the number of young Spaniards working in UK hospitality was astounding. I can well imagine the whole industry crashing now that we’ve “taken back control of our borders”. Seems the Somalian, Syrian, and Afghan refugees are no replacement.
Put your prices up and offer better pay.
Either you’ll have more staff due to the better pay or less guests due to the higher prices.
Either way, the problem is solved.
Raise wages problem solved. Your welcome.
I don’t care, if he voted brexit then he shot himself in the foot multiple times and didn’t care about the economic consequences at all ( some of these people that voted brexit are so careless) and now they’re crying wolf because Europeans are no longer coming to work for their nonsense anymore #Tough #HardKnockLife get used to it brexit voters.
I find it really irritating when employers go on the news and do this without providing context about pay, hours, benefits or security.
Particularly when it comes to farms. I have a friend who is a farm manager, they hire Eastern Europeans on 0 hour contracts to prepare crops and they only get paid based on the success of the crop. If the crop fails they get paid nothing. So the owner of the farm he works at went on the news and then complained that they can’t hire anyone because no one wants the job apart from Eastern Europeans but don’t provide any context about the post whatsoever. And if you knew the terms of employment anyone else would instantly think no shit why on earth would anyone do that job? Who on earth wants to stay in a caravan for 6 months, work incredibly hard and maybe not even get paid at the end of it. All so some rich landowner fuck can make a massive profit at no financial risk to themselves whatsoever.
Sick of these employers going on the news with no context about the post, about the pay or benefits, just so everyone can rally around them and say “iTs BreXiT” when if the outraged people knew the level of exploitation in place they would be disgusted.
It is a brexit and pay issue. Having worked in restaurants and pubs in London, you are paid less then a living wage most places, it’s non-stop and as much as management can imo, if they can get one person doing three peoples workload they do for minimum wage. It’s antisocial hours, often no-tips (for BOH at least) and why would you do it for 9.50ph, 13hrs, finishing at 1am etc when you could go work at Tesco for a living wage and more job benefits.
I worked in a restaurant as a KP for a well-known-sweary Chefs chain in central london. £8.90ph, 10am-1/2am but they said ‘oh with tips though it’ll be more like £10ph’. I live in London; so not a living wage and tips should be a bonus not wage replacement. Concluded; ‘there’s better ways to make money/this isn’t worth my health’.
10/10 for compo face.
What a tit, he’d rather lose perfectly good business than pay a fair wage
Good. Then your operation – which you have built on shitty wages and even shittier working conditions for staff – will deservedly go bust.
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Retail, hospitality and travel industry workers have been treated like shit for years, especially during the pandemic. Now they have had enough and quit and nobody wants to replace them. Is minimum wage worth being yelled at by angry customers all day with no support from your company?
Are the margins on these business really so thin that they can’t just raise the pay? Pay more and I promise staff will appear
For all the moaning in that article, not once does it mention the pay and benefits on offer to recruit staff.
This country can longer hide under the ruse of the low unemployment figures.
Have you tried paying better? Of course you haven’t.
Pay more then you bellend, it’s actually not that difficult, pay more = more staff, more staff = more customers, more customers = more profit.
Fuck off with your sob stories
Anyone else getting really irritated with the “woe is me” articles about short staffing that don’t mention pay at all or only in passing?
Business owners annoyed they can’t exploit Eastern Europeans.
You have problems with staff – [think of the poor PM](https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/vsqeav/boris_johnson_six_more_ministers_quit_at_once_as/if30fyu/).
I work in security, and we can’t get a relief officers to cover holidays. So we cover each other’s holidays. So effectively we work 60-72h /w. No one wants to work random days and nights through the year for 10.93.
We work for outsourcing company, they are the worst thing for working people. They take 35% of our pay.
Ironically, I find hotels purposely hire as little as possible or only provide part-time roles and then stretch these employees across various departments. As a result, these employees are over worked and unsatisfied and end up quitting.. however, had they hired a full team to appropriately fulfil the needs in the first place, they’d still have a good amount of employees around.
Wouldn’t hurt to not treat service workers so badly either, lol.
Pay your staff a decent wage. It’s not rocket science. Pay a decent wage, people will want to work there.
Perhaps you should be willing to train staff instead of limiting the applications to people with experience
It’s awful down here in Cornwall too.
There are loads of jobs in hospitality that need filling down here on the peninsular. Loads of pubs, cafes and hotels are saying they can’t get staff and are looking to close.
I guess if they paid a living wage and offered had a full time contract to their staff that wouldn’t be the case. Hey ho. Never mind.
Pre-Brexit the number of young Spaniards working in UK hospitality was astounding. I can well imagine the whole industry crashing now that we’ve “taken back control of our borders”. Seems the Somalian, Syrian, and Afghan refugees are no replacement.
Put your prices up and offer better pay.
Either you’ll have more staff due to the better pay or less guests due to the higher prices.
Either way, the problem is solved.
Raise wages problem solved. Your welcome.
I don’t care, if he voted brexit then he shot himself in the foot multiple times and didn’t care about the economic consequences at all ( some of these people that voted brexit are so careless) and now they’re crying wolf because Europeans are no longer coming to work for their nonsense anymore #Tough #HardKnockLife get used to it brexit voters.
I find it really irritating when employers go on the news and do this without providing context about pay, hours, benefits or security.
Particularly when it comes to farms. I have a friend who is a farm manager, they hire Eastern Europeans on 0 hour contracts to prepare crops and they only get paid based on the success of the crop. If the crop fails they get paid nothing. So the owner of the farm he works at went on the news and then complained that they can’t hire anyone because no one wants the job apart from Eastern Europeans but don’t provide any context about the post whatsoever. And if you knew the terms of employment anyone else would instantly think no shit why on earth would anyone do that job? Who on earth wants to stay in a caravan for 6 months, work incredibly hard and maybe not even get paid at the end of it. All so some rich landowner fuck can make a massive profit at no financial risk to themselves whatsoever.
Sick of these employers going on the news with no context about the post, about the pay or benefits, just so everyone can rally around them and say “iTs BreXiT” when if the outraged people knew the level of exploitation in place they would be disgusted.
It is a brexit and pay issue. Having worked in restaurants and pubs in London, you are paid less then a living wage most places, it’s non-stop and as much as management can imo, if they can get one person doing three peoples workload they do for minimum wage. It’s antisocial hours, often no-tips (for BOH at least) and why would you do it for 9.50ph, 13hrs, finishing at 1am etc when you could go work at Tesco for a living wage and more job benefits.
I worked in a restaurant as a KP for a well-known-sweary Chefs chain in central london. £8.90ph, 10am-1/2am but they said ‘oh with tips though it’ll be more like £10ph’. I live in London; so not a living wage and tips should be a bonus not wage replacement. Concluded; ‘there’s better ways to make money/this isn’t worth my health’.
10/10 for compo face.
What a tit, he’d rather lose perfectly good business than pay a fair wage
Good. Then your operation – which you have built on shitty wages and even shittier working conditions for staff – will deservedly go bust.