What They Mean When They Say No One Wants To Work
No one wants to deal with unacceptable work conditions
Employers used to enjoy to telling applicants that they were a dime a dozen. This was used when a candidate stepped out of line in terms of asking for more pay or better benefits.
They wanted to reduce those candidates down to next to nothing. The goal was to let potential employees know that they held the power. Anyone who challenged the status quo was not welcome in their company.
It wasn’t just employers. Some customers took to being disrespectful and degrading those who they thought were beneath them. These people always did under the guise of the customer is always right. And admitted that they don’t care about basic human decency.
“If they don’t like it or want more money, then they should go get a ‘real’ job.” This taunt was designed to make restaurant service and retail employees feel bad, like failures. Customers and employers believed they were above the people working the front lines.
And it worked a lot of the time. Companies had the money, which meant they also had the power. Customers knew that a well-placed threat of never spending money at a certain place again would get the managers and owners on their side.
