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WORKING IN AMERICA
Part-Time Jobs Are Punishing
Low pay, bad schedule, low status, and more
Since Covid, the public has gotten schooled in how bad the employment problem is. It happens every time you eat out — you get servers who are new, poorly trained, and pretty bad at their jobs.
It’s painful to watch, and although it’s rarely the fault of the individual waiter or waitress, eating out ain’t what it used to be.
The nouveau dining experience is a post-Covid hellscape.
The only way to make American dining great again is by paying through the nose. Foo-foo restaurants know what they are doing and can hire competitively.
The same goes for flying. It’s objectively gotten worse.
American life has gone downhill, and much of it is due to a simple fact: it’s hard to find good help, and even harder to be good help.
Public-facing jobs suck, and most people don’t want to do them, so they get filled by the desperate, the untrained, the transient, and the resentful. The gig economy has spawned numerous unintended consequences we are all paying for.
The rich dine at out fancy restaurants, and don’t care.
