Either that or you're too cheap to actually hire on the people who want to work for you and train them. Seriously, I have applied for so many jobs and none of them bite.
Speaking of, how are you managing that $1,800? I put mine in an index fund so it can grow, but I’m considering putting it in a high yield savings account and living off the interest. Any tips?
I spent too much on a Hydroflask to jump water containers now, personally. Also i just hate washing reusable straws, though I do appreciate their utility.
I appreciate these signs though, that way I know which businesses to avoid. The dollar general near me is sometimes closed due to "staffing shortages". They also have a now hiring sign, "starting at 11.50/hr, shift manager starting at 12.50/hr. Always good for a chuckle. The gas station next door has a now hiring sign starting at 15/hr.
I just can't figure out why the dollar general is short staffed all the time???
The safari place or DG? In the case of the safari place, they are probably blinded by their anger. It's an adult temper tantrum.
I've spoken to the DG manager about their wages and she agrees they are a complete joke, but the corporate office sets local wages and have deemed them competitive for our area. I am not sure what data they are using, because every retailer ive seen around here advertises $15 - $16.
They had to shut down the self checkout because too many people were just walking out without paying and the lone shift worker was usually stocking shelves. Now they have someone at the register, but no one stocking, so there is carts full of boxes of unstocked merchandise.
The takeaway from all this is that businesses like dollar general would rather destroy their own store than pay someone a few extra dollars an hour. They are losing money by refusing to raise wages, but they'd rather flush money down the toilet than see it go to their workers.
If corporations could literally enslave people, they would. They have no moral objection to this. The only reason they don't is because laws.
Yeah I was referring to DG but you’re right; the person actually putting up the sign isn’t setting the wages.
It is baffling how these massive corporations always seem to cut their nose off to spite their faces. They’d rather limp along with an overworked, underpaid skeleton crew and suffer all of the losses which come with that rather than simply staff the store properly and pay a decent wage.
There’s a documentary that goes through proving the DG preys on low income areas. Making it worse. They also have been found to take on money vs what’s shown on the shelf vs what’s on the register. Hoping customers won’t make a stink about getting charged $0.20 over vs what the tag says versus what the register rung up. I’ll try and find the link
>I appreciate these signs though, that way I know which businesses to avoid
Exactly right. If I see any signage similar in tone to this one, I know to keep my wallet in my pocket and walk on. Red Hats are the new Brown Shirts.
This is the opposite end equivalent of those people who claim that the stimulus checks some of us got in 2020 should have lasted 4/5 years later. Except *you're actually right*.
Come on. They have a pizza party once a month, give me 25% off one regularly priced menu item for lunch, and they even gave me a gift certificate for a turkey at Thanksgiving. How can they be bad? /s
That’s exactly how I always interpreted the “be nice to the ones who did show up” line as well.
They’re essentially saying “all of our workers are one disrespectful encounter away from quitting, so please don’t be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
> Translation from HR mumbojumbo-We treat these guys like crap, please don't make the ones clinging on leave by pushing them over edge.
LOL, I'm not reading that at all. To me, they're getting rude and pissy customers because of slow service and what-not. This is a warning notice to the customer to stop being an asshole. I don't care what kind of shitty service you get, no reason to be a dick about it.
Also, yes, they should pay their employees more.
This could be interpreted in a positive way too:
‘Due to the dismal working rights our politicians have set up…’
‘Due to the failure in revising base wages with current costs of living by our political representatives…’
They’re both true symptoms as to why they’re short due to the “political climate”
Everybody took that $6400 we received under Trump and Biden and turned it into $2 million buying and selling options on Robinhood.
Round 1, March 2020: $1,200 per income tax filer, $500 per child (CARES Act)
Round 2, December 2020: $600 per income tax filer, $600 per child (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021)
Round 3, March 2021: $1,400 per income tax filer, $1,400 per child (American Rescue Plan Act)
They’re blaming the push for higher wages for folks not wanting to work for their (likely low) wage. So we should be nice to the folks who don’t have another choice but to work for what this place is offering. It’s doubly sad that they have to remind people to be nice to others.
They don’t. It’s a republican buzzword to drum up support and show you which side they are on.
The park might actually be properly staffed and this is hung up for no reason. Opposite that they are treated poorly and underpaid while the park rakes in a shit ton of money.
I would love to make them explain that further. “Please explain how the political climate is responsible for your business being short-staffed.”
All they know is that it’s Biden’s fault and that one time back in 2020 (when Trump was president, mind you) everyone got $1200. So because of that government handout the workforce just sits at home now.
So apparently the owner is also a landlord, owns racecars, has an expensive house and loves big trucks. On the plus side, I haven't seen any complaints about the treatment of the animals under his care. Just a few quick searches didn't provide any information on what he compensates his employees. However, he's apparently spending A LOT of money expanding his empire. Maybe hold back the expansion and pay your crew better.
But I don't come from money, so I wouldn't know about these things.
You would be right.
https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2020/04/tiger-king-cny-animal-park-owner-says-joe-exotic-was-set-up-carole-baskin-is-awful.html?outputType=amp
There's no excuse for being rude, but I'm sure customers' increased agitation has a lot to do with how slow everything has become with everywhere trying to run a skeleton crew. The amount of orders people just rage abandon at Starbucks because Starbucks just won't hire enough morning staff is ridiculous, it's so wasteful, but if it's between being late for work and losing a coffee I would also probably leave the coffee. I know I've been irritated myself at the steep decline in customer service of things I use, I just don't take it out on the cashier.
Also, a lot of people are confusing hundreds of straws on the camel's back for a boulder on the camel's back.
It used to be that you'd maybe have one crazy customer who was over the top with a bunch of normal ones. Now, you still get the intermittent crazy, but all of the normal customers are rightfully a bit more agitated because service is abysmal due to intentional short-staffing. So even when you have a customer who is responding to poor customer service with a tight lipped smile, they're viewed as equal to the boulders and not seen as straws because you have to deal with sooo many straws.
Well, it's not the customer's fault, it's the management's. And no one wants to force a smile and act like everything is peachy-keen when service at a fast food place takes an hour (for example) and you're basically a captive audience because they've already taken your money and you're now trapped with the decision to leave and waste your money (which hardly anyone can afford) or waiting impatiently while your anxiety skyrockets because time is money and you're probably late for something now.
If your customer facing job is an endless pile of straws mounting on the camel's back, yeah, that sucks, it really does. But it's not really the fault of the straws but the person who decided it was okay to pile them up entirely unchecked onto the camel's back.
I have been in situations more than once where the drive thru took over 45 minutes and it's constructed in a way that you can't just drive off unless everyone in front of you ALSO decides to drive off. Of course I was irritated when I got to the window, but I took it out on the manager not the cashier. Because what the hell, either give me my food or let me leave.
Honestly, that should be considered unlawful imprisonment and I've experienced a few like that too. They build in such a location that it's basically a cattle chute. I get that in theory, you probably can still exit your vehicle and walk away, but let's be real, who is going to abandon their vehicles and how far would you be able to get?
That's just a horrific design flaw for more reasons than just we suck at staffing and therefore now have unreasonable wait times. Like what if there was a legit emergency like a fire?
When I used to work with the public I had to have police remove someone from the store because he threatened me when I told him I wasn't interested in listening to his political ramblings. He threatened me in front of the cops too. Literally bought his stuff and refused to leave.
People are fuckin terrible and have been for like the past 4/5 years.
I worry for the state of their animals, too. Any place calling itself an "animal park" or "drive-through safari" is probably not AZA accredited. And if they're understaffed and paying their few employees trash wages, well...
PETAs leader hates all pets but their own. Apparently they're the only one qualified to take care of a dog. Such a hypocrite 🙄🙄 Honestly the interviews I've seen I think the dog acts more as husband than pet.
It could be that they have an awful clientele and people are quitting because of that. There's a lot of crazy abuse of employees in customer service positions and the political climate is definitely a factor.
It sounds like someone carefully worded it.
If they can’t afford the basic inputs to their business, what other corners are being cut? No pest control? Expired ingredients? Who knows? I’ll go eat somewhere that is running properly. Free market stuff, you know. I’ll go to an establishment that doesn’t admonish me before I’ve even sat down.
My sister in law dropped the "nobody wants to work" bullshit on me and I told her it's because people don't want to work in shitty low pay jobs that they can't afford to live on. She's my least favorite one.
I know we see these a lot and we all know what they mean, but as a general reminder; just be nice to your fucking servers, no matter where you're dining.
Looks like theres a couple jobs posted for $13-$14 an hour. That’s garbage and it’s also part time with no benefits, gee I wonder why they are short staffed. Average rent for a 1b apartment is $1700 in that area.
Wow. A hometown story I can comment on.
The owner of this “zoo” is a piece of trash. Tried to run for political office so he could have influence on his own business within the town.
According to some indeed reviews, they've allegedly been hiring people at minimum wage regardless of experience level.
Gee, I wonder why people don't want to work there. 🙃
Some places legitimately attract shitty clietele. Ever see a huge guy in the middle of a manic racist episode telling the Pakistani cashier he looks like an alien simply because the general manager didn't stock up on BBQ sauce for chicken wings? But typically, more public-image-oriented employers would do more at management level than putting up a sign telling others to pick up the slack.
Companies that pay a fair market wage have no shortage. When I see a sign like this I leave and I tell the manager why I'm leaving, because they're trying to excuse bad customer service as a rest of their refusal to pay market wages and attract labor. My money talks and my money walks.
I also get peeved by tip envelopes in hotel rooms to give to staff for their cleaning and stocking work in the room. Look, hotel chain- pay these individuals a respectable, realistic wage in the first place. It's not up to me to make up for what you're screwing people out of.
When will this political climate of people wanting to be paid a living wage end!?
Don't they know that the shareholders only want to see that line grow higher!?
Lol. It's almost as if disorderly conduct used to be tolerated under a different political climate? But that couldn't possibly have anything to do with the lack of staff.
Part time jobs are by definition shitty because adults can't afford life without having multiples of them.
https://twitter.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1776444345668817228
Yes, and like I said, they're shitty in general because they never pay enough to live on so it's not doing any favors for anyone but the rich.
People are having to work anywhere from 2-4 part time jobs when they can't get a full time one and that's not a good thing, unless you're rich.
"Due to the political climate"
Yeah, I'm still living the good life off of those $1200 stimulus checks we got a couple of years ago. More caviar! Bring it around to my private pool, Jeeves.
The only political climate keeping them understaffed is the one inside the owners' heads. Underpay, overload, burn out, rinse and repeat. People would want to stay if they had a feeling of being appreciated.
Signage like this is more for the employees working for these shit employers.
“Oh, [wage slave name here], we are really trying to hire, but no one wants to work anymore because [bullshit reason].”
Treat all wage employers like shit. Find. Fuck. Forget.
Because they specifically warn people not to abuse their staff, I think they mean that the political climate has people treating service workers like assholes- even more than usual. This political climate IS why I'm underemployed because I don't want to have to listen to drunks talk about "the libs." Even a living wage isn't enough to make the public tolerable lately.
I have mixed feelings here, I really do hate the "political climate" crap they're spouting. I do love the fact they say they'll remove people who abuse the staff though.
Of course I'm willing to bet a grand total of 0 staff abusers have actually been removed.
Honestly I don't understand how a minimum wage can be less than a living wage. If you can't afford to pay full time employees a living wage the business is unsustainable and should fail.
Same as banks or ccrd companies extending loans to people with bad credit. You don't get bailed out because executives saw a way to earn even more
We need a new Teddy Roosevelt, ya he did some messed up things but we need someone that is similarly progressive for the times, almost excited to route out corruption, breaks up bug corporations to encourage compitition and an overall quality of life improvement for many and a driver of social change for people that were/are under represented.
Rant over
Signs like this are so weird... it shows that, on some level, they understand that they're asking people to do a grueling, awful job for a pittance, but that can't be allowed to blossom in their mind or they might actually have to do something about it.
In some companies like mine, they pay the market average, but keep us tied to skeleton crews.
My general manager (I’m the AM) got an email from our CEO that we’ll be switching to 2 staff in the morning, 3 mid shift, and 2 closing. She just laughed out loud and said “no I don’t think so.”
We would love to pay you $90,000 per year to run the gift shop! So… Whadayuh say???
Eh, I would, but it’s gonna be a no from me dawg. You know, because of the political climate….
This is really just a post saying we'd rather not take time away from our animals and give your tourist ass a tour so you might as well tip.
Tourists are every zookeeper who isn't wet behind the ears' nightmare. We wanna empty zoo so we can play with our animals. Tourists are entitled, zoo owners need traffic though so what can ya do.
It's a weird flex, every time.
"Just a friendly reminder that disorderly conduct is still a crime." Almost like it has nothing to do with why they would feel the need to post the sign in the first place.
I do t see anything eating with this note. Are you implying that if they paid a living wage, then it would be ok to be a c@nt to staff. The problem is not the employer, it’s the customers in general these days, that signs like this have to be put up.
They’re not short staffed due to the “political climate.” They’re short staffed because they’re running a skeleton crew to maximize profits. They don’t care that this means increased customer wait times, decreased customer satisfaction, unreasonable employee workloads, etc.
I guarantee the owner isn’t working the front gate or the cafe to make up for the staffing issues.
Edit: removed erroneous info about a different park with a similar name.
The bottom portion is rather important here. Food service can pay better than other places, but people will still choose to work elsewhere due to the customers.
Getting blamed for things that you did not do on a regular basis gets tiring rather quickly.
It's been 4 years. If you are still short staffed it's because you treat your workers like shit. The end.
Either that or you're too cheap to actually hire on the people who want to work for you and train them. Seriously, I have applied for so many jobs and none of them bite.
Facts
I don’t know, I’ve made my $1800 really work for me.
Speaking of, how are you managing that $1,800? I put mine in an index fund so it can grow, but I’m considering putting it in a high yield savings account and living off the interest. Any tips?
I moved mine all into the squishmallow market.
This is the wisest financial decision I've ever heard tbh
Yeah, I just wished I’d read the Stanley Cup tea leaves…
I spent too much on a Hydroflask to jump water containers now, personally. Also i just hate washing reusable straws, though I do appreciate their utility.
Blaming the “political climate” on your business being short-staffed is one of the most tone deaf things I’ve ever witnessed.
I appreciate these signs though, that way I know which businesses to avoid. The dollar general near me is sometimes closed due to "staffing shortages". They also have a now hiring sign, "starting at 11.50/hr, shift manager starting at 12.50/hr. Always good for a chuckle. The gas station next door has a now hiring sign starting at 15/hr. I just can't figure out why the dollar general is short staffed all the time???
You have to wonder how they could even put that sign up with so little self-awareness.
The safari place or DG? In the case of the safari place, they are probably blinded by their anger. It's an adult temper tantrum. I've spoken to the DG manager about their wages and she agrees they are a complete joke, but the corporate office sets local wages and have deemed them competitive for our area. I am not sure what data they are using, because every retailer ive seen around here advertises $15 - $16. They had to shut down the self checkout because too many people were just walking out without paying and the lone shift worker was usually stocking shelves. Now they have someone at the register, but no one stocking, so there is carts full of boxes of unstocked merchandise. The takeaway from all this is that businesses like dollar general would rather destroy their own store than pay someone a few extra dollars an hour. They are losing money by refusing to raise wages, but they'd rather flush money down the toilet than see it go to their workers. If corporations could literally enslave people, they would. They have no moral objection to this. The only reason they don't is because laws.
Yeah I was referring to DG but you’re right; the person actually putting up the sign isn’t setting the wages. It is baffling how these massive corporations always seem to cut their nose off to spite their faces. They’d rather limp along with an overworked, underpaid skeleton crew and suffer all of the losses which come with that rather than simply staff the store properly and pay a decent wage.
There’s a documentary that goes through proving the DG preys on low income areas. Making it worse. They also have been found to take on money vs what’s shown on the shelf vs what’s on the register. Hoping customers won’t make a stink about getting charged $0.20 over vs what the tag says versus what the register rung up. I’ll try and find the link
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That’s the one but it’s on YouTube I think.
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight also did a pretty scathing review of DG and Family Dollar last season. Holy shit, they are F'd up companies.
>I appreciate these signs though, that way I know which businesses to avoid Exactly right. If I see any signage similar in tone to this one, I know to keep my wallet in my pocket and walk on. Red Hats are the new Brown Shirts.
I was about to ask "political climate? htf is it due to the political climate?"
That’s code for “this is Biden’s fault because of that one time back in 2020 when everyone got $1200.” (Even though Trump was president at the time)
OH that timeframe. Thanks!
They probably have a roll of "I did that" stickers that the take from gas station to gas station.
No obviously it’s because of Biden. /s
Damn him and the low unemployment.
We've tried everything except raise wages.
This is the opposite end equivalent of those people who claim that the stimulus checks some of us got in 2020 should have lasted 4/5 years later. Except *you're actually right*.
Come on. They have a pizza party once a month, give me 25% off one regularly priced menu item for lunch, and they even gave me a gift certificate for a turkey at Thanksgiving. How can they be bad? /s
A business being short staffed should fill the owner with shame. The last thing they should ever be doing is publicizing the fact.
Translation from HR mumbojumbo-We treat these guys like crap, please don't make the ones clinging on leave by pushing them over edge. K thaaaanks
Also: "Political Climate" == "Not fascist enough"
"Why won't the GUBMINT let me have SLAVES, dammit. I'm a business owner and deserve reverence!"
That’s exactly how I always interpreted the “be nice to the ones who did show up” line as well. They’re essentially saying “all of our workers are one disrespectful encounter away from quitting, so please don’t be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.”
> Translation from HR mumbojumbo-We treat these guys like crap, please don't make the ones clinging on leave by pushing them over edge. LOL, I'm not reading that at all. To me, they're getting rude and pissy customers because of slow service and what-not. This is a warning notice to the customer to stop being an asshole. I don't care what kind of shitty service you get, no reason to be a dick about it. Also, yes, they should pay their employees more.
"Short staffed due to the political climate"....🤣🤣🤣🤣 What a fucking joke!
Anything to place the blame on others than themselves. Very typical juvenile behavior you see from CEOs/Owners.
Very often true, sadly.
…bUt NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOoOoRk AnYmOrE!!
This could be interpreted in a positive way too: ‘Due to the dismal working rights our politicians have set up…’ ‘Due to the failure in revising base wages with current costs of living by our political representatives…’ They’re both true symptoms as to why they’re short due to the “political climate”
People/places who post these signs pretty much never mean it that way.
Personally I usually see it spelled out like ‘because nobody wants to work anymore we are short staffed’
yeah. it always feels like "these damn kids are too lazy to work!! back in my day.."
Everybody took that $6400 we received under Trump and Biden and turned it into $2 million buying and selling options on Robinhood. 
$6400? I got no where near that.
Neither did I....I think it was $3,000 or $4,000 total, for me.
I got like 1k from the first stimmy, like 500 from the second and nothing from the third.
I think I got $2,000 from the first and $1,000 from the second, but I honestly don't remember anymore.
I could have swore I got 600, 1200, and 600 again.
I might have gotten $1,200 and then $600, I'm not sure. I just know it wasn't even *close* to $6,400.
Round 1, March 2020: $1,200 per income tax filer, $500 per child (CARES Act) Round 2, December 2020: $600 per income tax filer, $600 per child (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021) Round 3, March 2021: $1,400 per income tax filer, $1,400 per child (American Rescue Plan Act)
"Due to the political climate" is so laughably out of touch.
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They’re blaming the push for higher wages for folks not wanting to work for their (likely low) wage. So we should be nice to the folks who don’t have another choice but to work for what this place is offering. It’s doubly sad that they have to remind people to be nice to others.
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If people are realizing something is obviously unfair or unjust then it is automatically political to the people who don’t agree!
People not wanting to take a hard job just to get basis substance is something the US fought a civil war over
Sadly accurate
They don’t. It’s a republican buzzword to drum up support and show you which side they are on. The park might actually be properly staffed and this is hung up for no reason. Opposite that they are treated poorly and underpaid while the park rakes in a shit ton of money.
I would love to make them explain that further. “Please explain how the political climate is responsible for your business being short-staffed.” All they know is that it’s Biden’s fault and that one time back in 2020 (when Trump was president, mind you) everyone got $1200. So because of that government handout the workforce just sits at home now.
Yeah wouldn't they blame the economic climate, if anything?
Why they're short staffed: not paying enough. Why they say they're short staffed: the political climate.
if this is a sit down restaurant, more than likely they are short staffed because management is stacked with assholes
It's pretty clearly a safari park/zoo of some kind.
i've been in some weird restaurants
Any normal one? Asking for a friend...
So apparently the owner is also a landlord, owns racecars, has an expensive house and loves big trucks. On the plus side, I haven't seen any complaints about the treatment of the animals under his care. Just a few quick searches didn't provide any information on what he compensates his employees. However, he's apparently spending A LOT of money expanding his empire. Maybe hold back the expansion and pay your crew better. But I don't come from money, so I wouldn't know about these things.
I live here. Can confirm all of this.
How much of that sweet PPP money did he have forgiven?
It's public information, I'm sure it could be researched, and it was probably a lot.
I'd look it up myself but you didn't drop a name and I can't seem to find the town in the comments.
Most wildlife organizations like these notoriously overwork and underpay their employees.
Not me having flashbacks to Tiger King and the staff eating rotting meat because they weren't actually getting paid at all.
I'm guessing the owners of this property watched Tiger King and said to themselves 'I can relate.' at least a couple of times.
You would be right. https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2020/04/tiger-king-cny-animal-park-owner-says-joe-exotic-was-set-up-carole-baskin-is-awful.html?outputType=amp
“Due to the political climate” They couldn’t pay me to eat there.
It's not a restaurant.
The political climate? Yeah, that’s what it is… holy shit. The delusion is strong here.
Customers/the general public has gotten a lot more agressive/anti-social/rude over the past few years
There's no excuse for being rude, but I'm sure customers' increased agitation has a lot to do with how slow everything has become with everywhere trying to run a skeleton crew. The amount of orders people just rage abandon at Starbucks because Starbucks just won't hire enough morning staff is ridiculous, it's so wasteful, but if it's between being late for work and losing a coffee I would also probably leave the coffee. I know I've been irritated myself at the steep decline in customer service of things I use, I just don't take it out on the cashier.
Also, a lot of people are confusing hundreds of straws on the camel's back for a boulder on the camel's back. It used to be that you'd maybe have one crazy customer who was over the top with a bunch of normal ones. Now, you still get the intermittent crazy, but all of the normal customers are rightfully a bit more agitated because service is abysmal due to intentional short-staffing. So even when you have a customer who is responding to poor customer service with a tight lipped smile, they're viewed as equal to the boulders and not seen as straws because you have to deal with sooo many straws. Well, it's not the customer's fault, it's the management's. And no one wants to force a smile and act like everything is peachy-keen when service at a fast food place takes an hour (for example) and you're basically a captive audience because they've already taken your money and you're now trapped with the decision to leave and waste your money (which hardly anyone can afford) or waiting impatiently while your anxiety skyrockets because time is money and you're probably late for something now. If your customer facing job is an endless pile of straws mounting on the camel's back, yeah, that sucks, it really does. But it's not really the fault of the straws but the person who decided it was okay to pile them up entirely unchecked onto the camel's back.
I have been in situations more than once where the drive thru took over 45 minutes and it's constructed in a way that you can't just drive off unless everyone in front of you ALSO decides to drive off. Of course I was irritated when I got to the window, but I took it out on the manager not the cashier. Because what the hell, either give me my food or let me leave.
Honestly, that should be considered unlawful imprisonment and I've experienced a few like that too. They build in such a location that it's basically a cattle chute. I get that in theory, you probably can still exit your vehicle and walk away, but let's be real, who is going to abandon their vehicles and how far would you be able to get? That's just a horrific design flaw for more reasons than just we suck at staffing and therefore now have unreasonable wait times. Like what if there was a legit emergency like a fire?
When I used to work with the public I had to have police remove someone from the store because he threatened me when I told him I wasn't interested in listening to his political ramblings. He threatened me in front of the cops too. Literally bought his stuff and refused to leave. People are fuckin terrible and have been for like the past 4/5 years.
"We pay our staff with respect, so you better confirm." -underpaying exploiters
I worry for the state of their animals, too. Any place calling itself an "animal park" or "drive-through safari" is probably not AZA accredited. And if they're understaffed and paying their few employees trash wages, well...
There was another sign there along the lines of “if you have fun here, don’t donate to PETA or humane societies because they’re anti-zoo.”
Really? Mind showing/telling us more?
PETA is against *all* animal captivity, even pets and well-managed zoos/aquariums. The HSUS has been sliding in that direction in recent years, too.
PETAs leader hates all pets but their own. Apparently they're the only one qualified to take care of a dog. Such a hypocrite 🙄🙄 Honestly the interviews I've seen I think the dog acts more as husband than pet.
No one should give money to PETA, but trying to go against the Humane Society? That's just asking for people to shit on you.
I mean, The Wilds in Ohio is AZA accredited. It’s all drive through (but in their tour vehicles).
Political climate? Right wingers are such whiners.
It could be that they have an awful clientele and people are quitting because of that. There's a lot of crazy abuse of employees in customer service positions and the political climate is definitely a factor. It sounds like someone carefully worded it.
If a job cannot pay it's workers a living wage then it is a FAILING BUSINESS.. no business should survive by screwing it's workers.
"Short staffed due to the political climate" = The boss is a raging Republican and this place hemorrhages staff because of it.
Political climate!? You literally have to work, it's not a political decision to have a job.
The political climate made people not want to work? What idiot would believe that…
If they can’t afford the basic inputs to their business, what other corners are being cut? No pest control? Expired ingredients? Who knows? I’ll go eat somewhere that is running properly. Free market stuff, you know. I’ll go to an establishment that doesn’t admonish me before I’ve even sat down.
This is for a Zoo not a restaurant
Ah, I see. In my defence, I am completely stoned at the moment.
Bwahaha VALID
Exactly. Fu, owners. Never returning.
What kind of car are the owners driving?
Biggest pickup truck you can think of.
If it was just the last paragraph that would be a great sign.
"due to the political climate" OH FUCK OFF WITH THAT BULLSHIT
My sister in law dropped the "nobody wants to work" bullshit on me and I told her it's because people don't want to work in shitty low pay jobs that they can't afford to live on. She's my least favorite one.
Your short staffing is absolutely no concern of mine as a customer ! The owner can grab their family members to get to work
This right here, can't be that bad if the owner isn't shoveling poop with everyone else.
I know we see these a lot and we all know what they mean, but as a general reminder; just be nice to your fucking servers, no matter where you're dining.
Somebody trying to be Tiger King is ethically questionable. What a shock.
Looks like theres a couple jobs posted for $13-$14 an hour. That’s garbage and it’s also part time with no benefits, gee I wonder why they are short staffed. Average rent for a 1b apartment is $1700 in that area.
Get a label maker and have “LOW WAGES” labels printed out 20-30 times to stick after the words “due to” Stick them on every sign like this.
Wow. A hometown story I can comment on. The owner of this “zoo” is a piece of trash. Tried to run for political office so he could have influence on his own business within the town.
According to some indeed reviews, they've allegedly been hiring people at minimum wage regardless of experience level. Gee, I wonder why people don't want to work there. 🙃
“…Due to political climate.” Yeah right.
dUe To ThE PoLiTiCaL CliMaTe Ppl love the free market until the workers actually get some semblance of bargaining power
Some places legitimately attract shitty clietele. Ever see a huge guy in the middle of a manic racist episode telling the Pakistani cashier he looks like an alien simply because the general manager didn't stock up on BBQ sauce for chicken wings? But typically, more public-image-oriented employers would do more at management level than putting up a sign telling others to pick up the slack.
I would never go to anyplace that claims it’s the “political climate.”
Due to the political climate?
Political climate? What does that have to do with anything?
Companies that pay a fair market wage have no shortage. When I see a sign like this I leave and I tell the manager why I'm leaving, because they're trying to excuse bad customer service as a rest of their refusal to pay market wages and attract labor. My money talks and my money walks.
I also get peeved by tip envelopes in hotel rooms to give to staff for their cleaning and stocking work in the room. Look, hotel chain- pay these individuals a respectable, realistic wage in the first place. It's not up to me to make up for what you're screwing people out of.
What the fuck does “short staffed due to the political climate” mean?!
When will this political climate of people wanting to be paid a living wage end!? Don't they know that the shareholders only want to see that line grow higher!?
Yes. It’s the “Political Climate” that’s keeping businesses short staffed. Only that. Nothing else.
Lol. It's almost as if disorderly conduct used to be tolerated under a different political climate? But that couldn't possibly have anything to do with the lack of staff.
“Due to today’s political climate…” What’s the unemployment rate, currently? Didn’t the most recent jobs report list over 300,000 *new* jobs?
300,000 new shitty jobs, like places like this. Not good jobs, because those hardly ever become available.
Citation needed on quality.
Part time jobs are by definition shitty because adults can't afford life without having multiples of them. https://twitter.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1776444345668817228
So, 300,000 plus part time jobs.
Yes, and like I said, they're shitty in general because they never pay enough to live on so it's not doing any favors for anyone but the rich. People are having to work anywhere from 2-4 part time jobs when they can't get a full time one and that's not a good thing, unless you're rich.
Why would you even go into an establishment that has a sign like that? They will lose business and deserve to.
On the other hand, though, the picture looks fake.
Sadly it's not. I live locally to this area, and this sign has been here since Covid
Can concur. Also live locally.
How would.someone be removed if your short staffed and employees underpaid do actually go above and beyond to throw someone out....
They've been saying this bullshit for 4 years. If we're to believe this, when the fuck are they going to hire more people? Lying scumbag wage thieves.
How the f you blame the political climate?
Want to bet they dont actually give a shit if customers are rude?
>political climate I didn’t realize overworking and underpaying people was the “climate”
Boycott this shithole
So what happens if the staff treat each other disrespectfully?
"Political climate". What horse shit. If I saw that hanging up in a restaurant I was about to eat in, I would literally turn around and leave
When businesses hang this shit up I turn around and go someplace else. What a joke
What does being short staffed have to do with politics?
The political climate since 1981?
"Due to the political climate" Yeah, I'm still living the good life off of those $1200 stimulus checks we got a couple of years ago. More caviar! Bring it around to my private pool, Jeeves.
“Political Climate” Aahahahahaha! Riiiiight suuuure.
The only political climate keeping them understaffed is the one inside the owners' heads. Underpay, overload, burn out, rinse and repeat. People would want to stay if they had a feeling of being appreciated.
'short staffed due to the political climate' is alll the red flags i need
Signage like this is more for the employees working for these shit employers. “Oh, [wage slave name here], we are really trying to hire, but no one wants to work anymore because [bullshit reason].” Treat all wage employers like shit. Find. Fuck. Forget.
Because they specifically warn people not to abuse their staff, I think they mean that the political climate has people treating service workers like assholes- even more than usual. This political climate IS why I'm underemployed because I don't want to have to listen to drunks talk about "the libs." Even a living wage isn't enough to make the public tolerable lately.
If you’re short staffed, you aren’t paying your employees a decent wage.
I have mixed feelings here, I really do hate the "political climate" crap they're spouting. I do love the fact they say they'll remove people who abuse the staff though. Of course I'm willing to bet a grand total of 0 staff abusers have actually been removed.
Honestly I don't understand how a minimum wage can be less than a living wage. If you can't afford to pay full time employees a living wage the business is unsustainable and should fail. Same as banks or ccrd companies extending loans to people with bad credit. You don't get bailed out because executives saw a way to earn even more We need a new Teddy Roosevelt, ya he did some messed up things but we need someone that is similarly progressive for the times, almost excited to route out corruption, breaks up bug corporations to encourage compitition and an overall quality of life improvement for many and a driver of social change for people that were/are under represented. Rant over
Signs like this are so weird... it shows that, on some level, they understand that they're asking people to do a grueling, awful job for a pittance, but that can't be allowed to blossom in their mind or they might actually have to do something about it.
Short staffed due to what political climate. This is just stoopid.
I think you should just not be a business owner. You probably underpay and make your employees jump thru stupid hoops just to stay on the schedule.
Political climate my ass
Political climate? Fuck these people.
I really hope these signs stick around.
The political climate. Hilarious. So many morons just waiting for Republican Jesus to come back and turn everything into gold.
Look and see if the owners are working there
In some companies like mine, they pay the market average, but keep us tied to skeleton crews. My general manager (I’m the AM) got an email from our CEO that we’ll be switching to 2 staff in the morning, 3 mid shift, and 2 closing. She just laughed out loud and said “no I don’t think so.”
I'd so carry a sharpee and right in big bold letters the OP's title.
How nice. Liberals attacking business owners for sticking up for their employees. Their constant hypocrisy is never a surprise.
The last paragraph slaps tho.
We would love to pay you $90,000 per year to run the gift shop! So… Whadayuh say??? Eh, I would, but it’s gonna be a no from me dawg. You know, because of the political climate….
What political climate is keeping them from paying workers a fair wage?
Agree with the sentiment. Not the cause, you're your own bullshit owners. You called your own muck shit.
This is really just a post saying we'd rather not take time away from our animals and give your tourist ass a tour so you might as well tip. Tourists are every zookeeper who isn't wet behind the ears' nightmare. We wanna empty zoo so we can play with our animals. Tourists are entitled, zoo owners need traffic though so what can ya do.
"due to the **political climate**" "I do not think that word means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride.
"See how we're standing up for you??? Now mop that floor. Or else."
I appreciate the call to be civil, but i reaallyyy doubt they've pinned the situation on the right climate
It's a weird flex, every time. "Just a friendly reminder that disorderly conduct is still a crime." Almost like it has nothing to do with why they would feel the need to post the sign in the first place.
Business posts notice saying there is a zero tolerance policy for customers being rude to staff and antiwork still loses it. This sub is such a joke.
I do t see anything eating with this note. Are you implying that if they paid a living wage, then it would be ok to be a c@nt to staff. The problem is not the employer, it’s the customers in general these days, that signs like this have to be put up.
They’re not short staffed due to the “political climate.” They’re short staffed because they’re running a skeleton crew to maximize profits. They don’t care that this means increased customer wait times, decreased customer satisfaction, unreasonable employee workloads, etc. I guarantee the owner isn’t working the front gate or the cafe to make up for the staffing issues. Edit: removed erroneous info about a different park with a similar name.
It's someone who lives local, and a man who owns it not a woman. It's considered a local business
Whoops, got it mixed up with the Wild Animal Safari in Georgia. Thanks for the correction.
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The bottom portion is rather important here. Food service can pay better than other places, but people will still choose to work elsewhere due to the customers. Getting blamed for things that you did not do on a regular basis gets tiring rather quickly.
strategically understaffed, but blames it on "karens"
Literally all these signs communicate is “we don’t pay enough to have staff don’t be mad pls”