Connecting w/ bar & restaurant workers of all kinds 2 talk Covid, working life, & how folks are making it better! 💪
Recording convos w/ peeps around the country, get in touch if you have a story!
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Mood as I head to work this holiday week as my income (not yet at pre-pandemic levels) depends on ppl crowding into a bar where 90% of them will be unmasked 90% of the time during the nth wave of COVID and our gov’t basically shrugs and sends student loan emails . #happyholidays
Just saw the #whitelotus finale and real mad at myself for letting this podcast fade out because I'd love to have a discussion about its #serviceindustry heroes.
Armond, I salute you.
Our work is to save lives.
Whether it’s Afghanistan, Haiti, Lebanon, or communities facing extreme hardship worldwide—one thing we could do to save lives RIGHT NOW is become a country that welcomes more refugees with open arms.
Refugees must be welcome here.
The fall of Kabul finally lured me back on to Twitter. Nice to have a break from COVID & climate anxiety and go back to good old ��greatest purveyors of violence in the world”-type angst. Glad to spend my day off here. Back to service industry in flames tomorrow. #makemineadouble
As vaccinations continue to roll out, as safety guidelines are relaxed, as it feels like there's some sort of return to "business as usual", let us not forget that even after receiving a second shot there are tens of thousands of workers struggling to regain what was lost.
“We are so sick and tired of restaurant owners assuming we want a handout. We want to work, but we also want to be treated like human beings. We haven’t been for way too long”
#saverestaurantworkers
Complain all you want about worker shortages. Restaurant workers that were laid off within days of the first Covid lockdowns owe the restaurant owners that laid them off NOTHING.
The footprint of a bona fide labor shortage is *rising wages*. Employers who truly face shortages of workers will respond by bidding up wages to attract those workers, and employers whose workers are being poached will raise wages to retain their workers, and so on. 8/
There are certainly a lot of anecdotal reports right now of employers not being able to find the workers they need, particularly in restaurants. But unemployment is still very elevated—particularly among restaurant workers. What’s going on? 1/
It's not a gaffe, it's a hidden article of faith in the liberal worldview: black people and people of color are valuable because of the oppression they suffer, not because of their inherent humanity