There isn't a shortage of truck drivers -- they just don't want to drive for mega carriers anymore

[liberalmuse]

1. I actually ran into a Qnut in the wild last week.

I was mentioning how a lot of people at my work are going to new companies. She then responded with, "No one wants to work anymore." and said her brother was having a hard time keeping help. I said maybe if employers paid more and offered good yearly cost of living raises on top of merit raises, they wouldn't have problems hiring - case in point, the place where my daughter works is a bar and they took care of their employees during lockdown. They pay a great wage, give excellent bonuses and are very flexible and have never had an issue hiring or with people leaving unless they move out of the area. The q-lady then happened to mention off hand that her sister in law started taking tips and cutting pay and is shitty to the employees. Jesus, do these people completely lack the ability to make a direct correlation between cause and effect? She said some other horrible q-nut things and I countered or changed the subject. It's one thing reading about their insanity online, but it's quite another hearing someone next to you spout this garbage. It was pretty shocking and sad.