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Everyone wants to find a job with attractive benefits. Medical insurance can be frighteningly expensive, if your job does not provide it, and it’s great to know that you can still get paid during your annual January ski trip. However, when it comes to businesses that do not offer benefits and have less than ideal working conditions, they can have a hard time finding workers. Especially in 2022, when unions are on the rise and employees are feeling empowered to speak out about the downsides of their jobs, companies need to adapt to the increased standards of today, or they will be called out.
One restaurant in New Jersey recently came under fire after they posted a sign explaining their increased prices and advertising job openings. The sign was shared by the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United on TikTok, where the video has received 1.4 million views in the last month and sparked many conversations about the working conditions in the restaurant industry. Below, you can read the sign yourself, as well as some responses from viewers, and see some of the other flyers business owners have angrily shared. Then if you’re interested in reading another Bored Panda article featuring employees speaking out about their treatment, check out this piece next.
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This is such a strange thing to be normal practice. Pay your f*****k i n g wait staff USA!!!
The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United is a non-profit organization in the United States that works to “improve restaurant workers’ lives by building worker power and uniting workers of various backgrounds around shared goals and values”. Their website explains their vision as a “society that treats restaurant workers with dignity and respect and an industry that prioritizes racial and gender equity and strives to increase the standard of living for all working-class people”. The restaurant industry is notorious for enabling toxic behavior in the workplace and sweeping abusive work environments under the rug, so ROC United works to “overcome the obstacles racism and sexism place in their way by helping them understand their rights and advocating for political representation through organizing, educating, training, and agitating”.
Please consider paying your workers for the jobs they do.
Don't forget to say that the ice-cream machine is broken!
Signs, signs, everywhere are signs…….this sign was probably made as a joke since it is a lyric from the song Signs.
ROC United is making waves throughout the food service industry in the US by creating several innovative programs, including CHOW, or Colors Hospitality Opportunities for Workers. CHOW offers free, professional training of front and back-of-house skills to employees in seven US cities: New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Michigan, Oakland, and Los Angeles. The program focuses on providing opportunities to people of color, undocumented workers and women, so they have the skills they need to enter the restaurant industry set up for success. Participants are also educated on how to identify and address segregation and sexual harassment in the workplace, so they can protect themselves and others from abusive environments.
Further proof of no moral conscience.
The sign in the original TikTok shared by a diner in New Jersey seems laughable at first glance, but it is only the tip of the iceberg of toxicity. It’s no wonder that their employees quit when management has a mindset like that. Thankfully, organizations like ROC United are working hard to change restaurant culture, and hopefully, working conditions will continue to improve for service industry workers everywhere. Let us know in the comments what you think about the sign in the video or if you have ever worked in a toxic restaurant.
I don't get that they're still using paper checks via snailmail. That's ancient. In fact, electronic payment for salaries/wages was introduced in Germany in 1957.
So the government handouts pay better than your hourly rate? Maybe if you offer a better rate you might get people to start at least.
The sign in the original TikTok shared by a diner in New Jersey seems laughable at first glance, but it is only the tip of the iceberg of toxicity. It’s no wonder that their employees quit when management has a mindset like that. Thankfully, organizations like ROC United are working hard to change restaurant culture, and hopefully, working conditions will continue to improve for service industry workers everywhere. Let us know in the comments what you think about the sign in the video or if you have ever worked in a toxic restaurant.
So now we have Republican restaurants? They better raise the party flag so people don’t have to waste time parking and going up to the door.
I used to work at a McDonald's and my meals were never discounted. Instead, I always got them free if I immediately started my shift after I was done eating.
Aw sh!t. I so want a gold star... maaaaan that sucks /s
Wonder what the “eligibility requirements” are… 🤔
Was this picture taken in 1946?
Yeah, I bet most people are still living large on that $3600 and probably won't need to work for the rest of their lives! /s
The pandemic can't be blamed for everything, I expect you're short staffed because people are finally becoming empowered enough to stand up and say they are paid an absolutely disgusting excuse of a wage and their time and efforts are much better spent elsewhere
Why don’t they just say 7 am - 2pm…..because it would make them look like the unreasonable abusive jerkwads they are?
That rules me out I'm afraid
"Everyone is hiring and businesses are closing" because people are refusing to work for s**t wages! This isn't rocket science, people. If you can't afford to pay your workers a thriving wage, you shouldn't be in business.
Reminds me of the „***Help Wanted*** Cooks and Servers“ letter. // ‚Can I copy your homework‘ - ‚Sure, just change a few things...‘
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A sign like any of these in a restaurant is the quickest way to ensure that I will spend my money somewhere else.
True! And before going somwhere else, I would prob give the owner a piece of my mind.
I have a very hard time NOT taking these personally
Right? Who wants to support a place that would clearly use slave labour if they could.
I bet if you looked up all of these businesses, they would have gotten a lot of PPP loans over the past two years, never tried to actually get more people hired, and blamed it all on Biden and 'bad' workers because they were shitty bosses that don't pay a living wage.
*Cough cough pay a living wage cough cough*
It's more than a living wage, although that is important. It's about the quality of the work environment. People just don't want to put up with horrible management anymore. People look at a job that does pay a living wage but comes with a boss that abuses them and walk away from it when they would have put up with it five years ago. If you treat people right, respect them as human beings, give them a positive and safe environment, and pay them a living wage, you can actually pay them less than the asshat nextdoor that abuses their employees and refuses to provide a safe environment for their workers, and they'll come work for you.
A sign like any of these in a restaurant is the quickest way to ensure that I will spend my money somewhere else.
True! And before going somwhere else, I would prob give the owner a piece of my mind.
I have a very hard time NOT taking these personally
Right? Who wants to support a place that would clearly use slave labour if they could.
I bet if you looked up all of these businesses, they would have gotten a lot of PPP loans over the past two years, never tried to actually get more people hired, and blamed it all on Biden and 'bad' workers because they were shitty bosses that don't pay a living wage.
*Cough cough pay a living wage cough cough*
It's more than a living wage, although that is important. It's about the quality of the work environment. People just don't want to put up with horrible management anymore. People look at a job that does pay a living wage but comes with a boss that abuses them and walk away from it when they would have put up with it five years ago. If you treat people right, respect them as human beings, give them a positive and safe environment, and pay them a living wage, you can actually pay them less than the asshat nextdoor that abuses their employees and refuses to provide a safe environment for their workers, and they'll come work for you.
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