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  1. #1
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    Default workers today and inflation

    well, some of you know we don't currently have a kitchen due to the remodel. making due with a lot of frozen and cooking stuff at 'rent's' house and freezing. weekends tho we have been eating some takeout.
    decided last night to order Dickeys BBQ and have it delivered. 30 minute wait. good to go. food on their website never moved past being packed up. text message that it was delivered 40 minutes after ordering. no delivery driver ever showed up. called doordash as that's apparently who they use to claim refund and they told me they have to call Dickeys and put me on eternal hold. after 10 minutes I gave up and called Dickeys. girl stated it's up to doordash since they gave food to the "dasher". both pointing the finger at each other. finally got manager at Dickeys and he stated he would process refund in 3-5 days since we ordered off their website....
    people just don't care anymore..

    half hour later, neighbor rings doorbell and is holding a sack of food. stated they delivered and he was ringing all the doorbells trying to find owner.
    "dasher" delivered to wrong house. people just don't care anymore.

    bag was still sealed. we opened up even though we had other food already ordered. bbq was cold and soggy. so in the trash it went. not before snapping this pic of the $9.95 sausage. maybe 4 bites for $10. not sure if this is inflation or a poor restaurant but no way in heck this should be $10.
    not sure if this is inflation or worker just not caring what they are sending out anymore..

    crazy world right now....
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    Dickeys sucks, except their fried okra. Never had a good experience with them in many a city. They just don’t have a good rep anywhere.

    The price of bbq is going through the roof because off meat prices, and there is a shortage of Post oak (tree and labor shortages), the preferred wood of pit smokers. Pit BBQ is going to get very spendy soon. Pellets are even going up significantly. I know because I just had to buy some for our grill as that’s been our primary cooking method for the last 2 months.

    I feel your pain. I file complaint after complaint in between door dash and Uber eats. They need a way to make it easier to pinpoint the problem on the delivery person, the vendor, or the app and corporate.


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    And don’t get me started on construction labor. FFS I’ve never seen such sloppy work as in the last 2 years.

    And to complain further, I was on my front lawn talking to my neighbor when I watched the garbage truck bypass my garbage can, and pick up my neighbors 5 ft away. I yelled, screamed, and tried to get the drivers attention, but he just kept going down the block.


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    Oh man, $10 for that?????? Sad, just sad! Hope you get the remodel done quick.
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    So many people just don't want to work or take pride in whatever they want to do. As person who hires technical people (when i can find them) i have seen such a decline in work ethic in the last 3 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jason1975 View Post
    So many people just don't want to work or take pride in whatever they want to do. As person who hires technical people (when i can find them) i have seen such a decline in work ethic in the last 3 years.
    And that becomes trickle down effect because your performers see what little others have to do to succeed and begin the slip. Or worse, the performers get overloaded carrying the others and then go through burnout and move on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Holdmybeer View Post
    And that becomes trickle down effect because your performers see what little others have to do to succeed and begin the slip. Or worse, the performers get overloaded carrying the others and then go through burnout and move on.
    Very very true statement

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    Two of my boys got jobs at Pizza Hut this past summer. The first one really enjoyed it and had a good manager for the first couple weeks so the second one hired on as well. Then one night, my older son was there and the shift manager forgot to change the timeline online for when pizza would be done and got overwhelmed, had a breakdown, and hid in the bathroom. When he came out, he told those on shift that whoever had worked there the longest would now be the manager, since he was quitting and walking off. My son, with 3-weeks of experience told the other kid (2-weeks) that they would just have to buckle down and get busy, but at the same time, he managed to get the manager to stay and finish out the day. He did well there until leaving for school.

    Second son was fine with things until summer ended and the good manager quit and he had a shift manager decide that it was more important to sit at a table and mess with his phone than work. He changed the website so it would no longer accept orders and started answering the phone with "we're slammed," before hanging up the phone. My son was demoralized and upset about it because he wanted to do an honest day's work. We told him he was welcome to quit since school was starting.

    Looking at this one restaurant, it made me realize how much responsibility is placed on people who aren't capable or aren't willing to do the job. You can't get better people because they don't want to work in lousy low-pay high-stress environments. Meanwhile, based on what my boys were telling me, the franchise was barely able to make their rent payments, but as part of a larger operation had paid for a long-term lease in order to prevent another franchisee from coming into the market so they simply had to anchor a location, regardless of the damage it does to the national brand. It all seems so screwed up.


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    I have a home care company and it has been down right demoralizing the past 2 years. It is always hard finding good people, but lately it has been almost impossible. The demands that people are making to come back to work are outrageous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by scotthons View Post
    I have a home care company and it has been down right demoralizing the past 2 years. It is always hard finding good people, but lately it has been almost impossible. The demands that people are making to come back to work are outrageous.
    What kind of homecare?

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