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by moksly 1728 days ago
You get paid $28 to corona test people.

We’re actually in a shortage of both unskilled and skilled labour, or you could say, we’re in a shortage of people who are willing to work for $22 an hour in general.

It’s actually really hurting a lot of of the service industry. Covid forces their cooks, clerks and waiters into other jobs and none of them are coming back now that we’re done with the pandemic.

Places like McD get around this by using part time students. Which is sort of where the article also gets things wrong, because they don’t get the same benefits a fulltime employee gets, well not exactly at least.