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Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
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Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#12Perhaps consider paying people more.
You can tell who knows nothing about restaurant margins...
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#13This is becoming a problem in many areas, and I can't imagine that the push for remote work is going to help the situation any. Unless you are living with parents, or with multiple roommates, the housing market in these cities will price you out. We have this same scenario taking place in the area I live, and NIMBY/zoning laws prevent affordable housing from being developed. I've been to town hall meetings where peop…
> NIMBY/zoning laws prevent affordable housing from being developed
Jackson Hole reserves some housing for those who work full time for an employer in Teton County [1]. This strikes me as a reasonable balance between wanting to control housing stock and maintaining access to cheap labour.
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#14I know this article is about Tahoe and paints a rather bleak picture...but this is nationwide. I traveled most of the east coast over the past few months, and every single city's service sectors are begging for employees. I've never seen so many fastfood places closed. And not like, boarded up, but appearing operational but having zero employees. And most weren't high cost of living areas...
There was a marked drop-off in fast-food having rolling staffing brown-outs once school ended. High school kids flocking to the $15-$18 per hour jobs at Dunkin Donuts and McDonalds and Dairy Queen that had been sitting unfilled for months.
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#15“ Those who beat the real estate curve and bought property for their employees to live in before home prices skyrocketed are faring much better on the hiring front than their comrades.”
So we are returning to factory towns? It seems the only solution is the cap rental prices, which traditionally doesn’t work.
Maybe the city should be buying at the housing and providing it?
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#16Is it possible a reason behind the lack of people is also that a ton of our essential workers (aka service people) have died during the pandemic? Seriously, line cooks was one of the most fatal job positions during this time…
Yes, the drifts of corpses in the less wealthy areas of town have been so vexing this last year. We'll probably have to import more servants, the lower classes aren't breeding fast enough anymore.
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#17Honestly, I think this is good for Tahoe in the long run. The NIMBYs who constantly block development are getting a taste of their own medicine. When they’re finally fed up with the low staff and poor service they’ll see the need for affordable housing.
When the elephants fight the grass gets trampled.
when two elephant make love or war it is the grass that suffers
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#18It's not going to change until the UI benefits and eviction moratoriums end. What person is going to go and work all day for less money?? Seriously, if you don't work right now you are getting UI, Food Stamps, and you don't have to pay rent. It literally doesn't not make economic sense to work right now for many people.
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#19I know this article is about Tahoe and paints a rather bleak picture...but this is nationwide. I traveled most of the east coast over the past few months, and every single city's service sectors are begging for employees. I've never seen so many fastfood places closed. And not like, boarded up, but appearing operational but having zero employees. And most weren't high cost of living areas...
I took a weekend trip to Ocean Shores Washington last weekend, and…the restaurants were all packed and wanting of long waits due to lack of servers and cooks. Resorts towns have been hit really hard, but this might also have to do with them laying off all of their staff at the start of the pandemic. Did they just expect these people to wait around?
No? They expected to have a chance at surviving as a business. And many didn't.
Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season
#20“ Those who beat the real estate curve and bought property for their employees to live in before home prices skyrocketed are faring much better on the hiring front than their comrades.” So we are returning to factory towns? It seems the only solution is the cap rental prices, which traditionally doesn’t work. Maybe the city should be buying at the housing and providing it?
> Maybe the city should be buying at the housing and providing it?
We do this in New York. It’s pork for politicians.