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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

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Post by ashtonkem »

hattmall wrote: post #18

It'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.

1) The extended UI has indeed ended in a lot of places, it’s not solved the problem.

2) If you need to hold hunger and homelessness over people’s heads in order to make them work, maybe your system is morally bankrupt?

Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season

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Post by spaetzleesser »

In my mind that's a symptom of rising inequality. On the one hand we are allowing housing, education, health care prices and the incomes of the top x % to rise rapidly but we also expect prices and incomes in other sectors to stay same or only rise a little. That's simply not sustainable.

If you are in the lower income ranks it makes sense to check out of this system and not take these jobs. What's a a job good for if you can't afford to live with the income?

In the long run I think society should accept that lower income people also should benefit from a growing economy and not just the top ranks.

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Post by HarryHirsch »

h2odragon wrote: post #16
SamoyedFurFluff wrote: post #10

Is 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.

We'll probably have to import more servants, the lower classes aren't breeding fast enough anymore.

Let's just mention that the Biden administration undid the Trump restrictions on immigration and instituted the child tax credit.

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Post by djbebs »

underseacables wrote: post #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?

The solution is to not interfere in the market.

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Post by dredmorbius »

SamoyedFurFluff wrote: post #10

Is 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…

Given a near-total lack of search results for numerous terms related to this, most likely not.

Avoidance of such positions for perceived risk seems more likely, as well as low pay and high stress.

Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season

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Post by spaetzleesser »

hmsshagatsea wrote: post #2

Honestly, 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.

Or do the unfathomable: Pay people better.

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Post by BurningFrog »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #13
EMM_386 wrote: post #3

This 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. [1] https://www.tetoncountywy.gov/720/Workforce-Homes

It sounds like a guest worker program.

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Post by [deleted] »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #13
EMM_386 wrote: post #3

This 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. [1] https://www.tetoncountywy.gov/720/Workforce-Homes

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Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season

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Post by spaetzleesser »

"Meanwhile, Barrios told me that his landlord is about to increase the rent on the place where he lives, from $1,100 to $1,600"

How can this rent increase be justified other than with unlimited greed? And the same people are surprised that people don't want to stay in a job with stagnant wages while their costs are rising at incredible opace.

Re: Tahoe's hiring crisis is unraveling small businesses during its busiest season

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Post by andrew_ »

axaxs wrote: post #4

I 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...

Please be more nuanced in your replies when painting with a wide brush. Florida is absolutely exploding right now, and there's so much housing construction here that one can expect to wait for months for contractor availability. I've been in three of the five major FL cities in the past few months and while there are a lot of "help wanted" signs, businesses are open and busier than ever. What's hurting this region is supply chain delays and shortages, which we know are worldwide.
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