Mr Jiffy - Charleston Mississippi

[Leeshouldveflanked]

My dad is 77 years old, has Macular Degeneration, Emphysema, COPD and struggles to live by himself … so I drive an hour and half to Charleston, to pay his bills, mow, take him groceries … he can’t see to cook… I always stop at the Mr Jiffy on Sundays to get him a plate lunch and a few extra pieces of cornbread so he can have milk and bread during the week… I go by today and the Mr Jiffy is shut down, no workers..

 

[HotMop]

When is Mississippi ending the federal unemployment stimulus?

 

[HamSammich]

The man that owns that Jiffy also owns all of the ones in Batesville, MS as well.

he has shut all of his stores down on Sunday now.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

My dad is 77 years old, has Macular Degeneration, Emphysema, COPD and struggles to live by himself … so I drive an hour and half to Charleston, to pay his bills, mow, take him groceries … he can’t see to cook… I always stop at the Mr Jiffy on Sundays to get him a plate lunch and a few extra pieces of cornbread so he can have milk and bread during the week… I go by today and the Mr Jiffy is shut down, no workers..

Sorry this part of you and your Dad's experience has ended. I know what that is like. You are a good son and man to take care of your Dad at this stage in his life.

 

[aTotal360]

First world problems here, but we can't even get lifeguards for our community pool. All the kids are waiting on the next run of Biden Bucks and are anticipating getting $300/month on top of that. To be fair, I blame the parents for not instilling work ethic into their children.

My family raised me to believe everyone should contribute to their community. No matter how big or small the contribution is. Now it's all about gaming the system.

 

[RocketDawg]

Thought they ended the same time Alabama and several other states did. I guess not.

 

[WrapItDog]

Thought they ended the same time Alabama and several other states did. I guess not.

Reeves informed the Department of Employment Security to direct the Biden Administration that Mississippi will be opting out of the additional federal unemployment benefits as early as federal law allows – June 12, 2021

 

[Mobile Bay]

Alabama hasn't ended it yet. IIRC there is one more week to go. Then all these lazy *** bums will have to get a job.

 

[HotMop]

First world problems here, but we can't even get lifeguards for our community pool. All the kids are waiting on the next run of Biden Bucks and are anticipating getting $300/month on top of that. To be fair, I blame the parents for not instilling work ethic into their children.

My family raised me to believe everyone should contribute to their community. No matter how big or small the contribution is. Now it's all about gaming the system.

My 15yo can get any number of jobs for $15-$20 an hour, his *** is getting a job as soon as his driver ed summer courses are over. Places all around me are closed on Sunday and Monday during peak season due to lack of workers.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

First world problems here, but we can't even get lifeguards for our community pool. All the kids are waiting on the next run of Biden Bucks and are anticipating getting $300/month on top of that. To be fair, I blame the parents for not instilling work ethic into their children.

My family raised me to believe everyone should contribute to their community. No matter how big or small the contribution is. Now it's all about gaming the system.

Hell, if i iwas a kid, I'd be tempted to lifeguard for free for a line on all the young (and older) ladies.

 

[CoastTrash]

Perhaps we should allow more legal immigrants?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

There are several establishments in Desoto County hanging on by a thread and are having to close several days a week because they don’t have enough people to make work shifts.

 

[Dawgtruc]

Alabama hasn't ended it yet. IIRC there is one more week to go. Then all these lazy *** bums will have to get a job.

How dare you disparage the blessings of expanded unemployment payments and stimulus.
17 a damn job*

 

[Seinfeld]

Heck, I spent three years making around $40/hr at that age doing residential lawn maintenance. It was hard as hell during summer months considering that I didn't even know what a self-propelled mower was at the time, but there has never been a shortage of money making opportunities out there.

The hard part is finding workers that actually want to... well, work

 

[SheltonChoked]

What if it's not "lazy people not working" but that they all got better jobs....

The Workforce participation rate (number of people working vs the population) is the same as pre pandemic in MS...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LBSSA28

 

[57stratdawg]

There is a lot of money in worker’s pockets right now. Assuming you stayed employed, workers likely saved cash on vacations, restaurants, gas, clothing, entertainment, travel, etc. in 2020. Plus, there are very real supply chain constraints right now which might be delaying a large purchase such as a car, fridge, etc. That’s not even touching on the 2020 PPP, direct stimulus, etc.

The good thing is that the economy has added several million jobs YTD 2021. As we see supply chains reopen, we should see some of these savings shrink as cash flows back into hard hit industries. As an employer you’ve either got to wait out that process or get creative with offerings to prospective employees.

If a business is folding in June 2021, it’s likely the result of a series of missteps along the way, not some single isolated event.

 

[HamSammich]

Rumor mill about the Jiffy stores.

Owners wife begged him for years to close his stores on Sunday to guarantee family time for all employees (ala Chick Fil A). He refused however on her death bed she once again pleaded for him to reconsider. After she passed he decided to honor her request.

 

[johnson86-1]

Workforce participation includes people that are unemployed as long as they claim to be looking for a job. Our unemployment rate is “only” 6.2%, which isn’t that much higher than before the pandemic, but it shouldn’t be that high with this many open jobs. Get below 5% unemployment, and you can at least argue that’s frictional unemployment and employers that can’t find workers just aren’t offering a competitive wage. But as of now, we have a lot of people claiming to not be able to find jobs while employers are begging for employees. Certainly a good number of those unemployed were making service sector wages before they started unemployment.

there are other things going on besides just over generous unemployment, presumably including having a lot of hospitality workers finding work they like better when their employers were shut down or had their operations restricted. But we’re certainly making it really hard on a lot of businesses that we will want to employ these workers when their unemployment runs out.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Heck, I spent three years making around $40/hr at that age doing residential lawn maintenance. It was hard as hell during summer months considering that I didn't even know what a self-propelled mower was at the time, but there has never been a shortage of money making opportunities out there.

The hard part is finding workers that actually want to... well, work

I did the same one summer. I ran the push mower and weedeater while my buddy ran his small rider. We worked early, then late, and avoided the heat eating French fries at the local diners. I made more money than I did the next summer driving to the next town to work in a shoe factory once you took away gas, food, and misc. car expenses, plus the business we could have added the next year. My buddy spent the summer in Guard trainings so I could have taken it over. Wish I had stayed with it so I would have had money at JC. Jobs were scarce **** in the late 70's and early 80's.

 

[msstatelp1]

It's simple economics. You want more workers, pay more money. People are not having to take just any job because of the demand so they can pick the one they think is best leaving undesirable jobs unfilled.

 

[RocketDawg]

Well - the giveaway isn't going to last forever, and once they're over the employers will likely do their best to not hire those who stayed at home without a very good reason (like childcare). You can't expect to make brain surgeon rates at the McDonald's drivethru.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Even simpler economics. Labor cost too much and your business doesn't make any money.....so you close it and people are out of jobs.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

That’s a little too simplified.

 

[msstatelp1]

Fedex is offering up to $19.50/hr at some locations so they are trying. Meanwhile, if minimum wage had kept up with inflation, it would be $11.53 now. In 2020 CEO pay rose 29% while worker pay stagnated. If a company can afford to give it's CEO millions but can't give it's workers pay raises, then it's on the company when they can't get workers.

 

[RocketDawg]

Nobody would have a job without the CEO because there would be no company. Makes more sense to criticize the pay of professional athletes.

 

[Dawgtruc]

It's simple economics. You want more workers, pay more money. People are not having to take just any job because of the demand so they can pick the one they think is best leaving undesirable jobs unfilled.

That's a great plan, in theory, but the costs to the consumer go up exponentially to even come close to turning a profit, unless there is something that would subsidize the company to cover the overhead. I'm sure it would be the end of most businesses that aren't part of a chain.

 

[Grevlin]

Rumor mill about the Jiffy stores.

Owners wife begged him for years to close his stores on Sunday to guarantee family time for all employees (ala Chick Fil A). He refused however on her death bed she once again pleaded for him to reconsider. After she passed he decided to honor her request.

The rumor is wrong. I've known the family since college days with the daughter who works for him. His wife died suddenly of a heart attack several years ago and was alone when she died. The closures are recent and due to the worker shortage.

 

[msstatelp1]

Nobody would have a job without the CEO because there would be no company. Makes more sense to criticize the pay of professional athletes.

So why do CEOs that bankrupt companies get huge bonuses before anyone else is paid?

 

[maroonmadman]

Hell, if i iwas a kid, I'd be tempted to lifeguard for free for a line on all the young (and older) ladies.

Best job I ever had in my life was back in the early 70's, paying a paltry $2.00 an hour, was as a lifeguard at our local golf course swimming pool. It had perks not included in the paycheck.

 

[ababyatemydingo]

So why do CEOs that bankrupt companies get huge bonuses before anyone else is paid?

You might want to sit this one out. You're making yourself look like an uneducated moron. Go take an economics course, comrade.

 

[WilCoDawg]

It’s like when the government taxes a company more. The company doesn’t pay that tax, the consumers do when the cost increase is passed on to them.

 

[WilCoDawg]

You’re confusing business owners with CEOs. They’re not the same. And if someone wants to make more money, they need to do the jobs that pay more. Flipping burgers isn’t a high-skill job that is going to make one rich.

 

[ababyatemydingo]

It’s like when the government taxes a company more. The company doesn’t pay that tax, the consumers do when the cost increase is passed on to them.

Exactly the same with wage increases. it won't cost the company one dime more. the consumer will pay for those wage increases, in the form of higher prices for goods and services. so, all you're doing is taxing the lower and middle class more, when you ask for jacked up wages for unskilled jobs.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

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[johnson86-1]

Fedex is offering up to $19.50/hr at some locations so they are trying. Meanwhile, if minimum wage had kept up with inflation, it would be $11.53 now. In 2020 CEO pay rose 29% while worker pay stagnated. If a company can afford to give it's CEO millions but can't give it's workers pay raises, then it's on the company when they can't get workers.

Minimum wage is still more or less zero.

And most companies that pay their CEOs millions have thousands if not tens of thousands of workers. While I am sympathetic to the idea that CEOs are often overpaid, reducing their pay wouldn't move the needle much on worker compensation in most instances, and even if it would, that's really between the owners and the CEOs. In any company of any decent size, there are presumably lots of places those companies could cut costs and be more efficient. But that's more or less a non-sequitur when you are talking about governments paying people that are choosing not to work.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

If you were 16 and could make more on stimulus, while using your summer to just hang out with friends, would you work to make less? I'd like to think that I'd still be out there mowing yards, like i was, but I also know that teenage me was pretty myopic.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

What if it was called "entry-level wage" instead of "minimum wage", thus accurately reflecting what it is. I've worked fast food. With about one ounce of ambition you can be in management. With some integrity and basic business skills that can be learned by progressing through management, you can work your way up. And when I was working fast food (admittedly approximately a nuclear half-life ago) there were not enough people even attempting to move past entry level. You could pretty quickly find yourself in a position to earn enough to support a family. I saw it happen.

 

[Seinfeld]

In 2020 CEO pay rose 29% while worker pay stagnated. If a company can afford to give it's CEO millions but can't give it's workers pay raises, then it's on the company when they can't get workers.

Out of curiosity, where is that number coming from? For all I know, it may be true, but it just seems beyond unfathomable considering what U.S. businesses encountered last year. Our CEO and executive VPs took a 50% paycut while most other workers took 5 weeks unpaid for the year.

Again, it may be true, but it sounds like some random line that someone overheard at dinner party and then decided it must be true across the board

 

[msstatelp1]

The 29% was quoted from The Guardian which Iis a center-left newspaper from Great Britian but even the WSJ has reported CEO pay rose in 2020.

https://www.hrdive.com/news/wsj-ceo...-despite-pay-upsets-for-other-workers/599290/

 

[Drebin]

The 29% was quoted from The Guardian which Iis a center-left newspaper from Great Britian but even the WSJ has reported CEO pay rose in 2020.

https://www.hrdive.com/news/wsj-ceo...-despite-pay-upsets-for-other-workers/599290/

I'd like to see the data points. We all know that CEO pay rose for places like Amazon. I'm sure companies that benefited from the shutdown have seen increased revenue and executive pay. But making that assertion as a blanket statement is absurd and inflammatory to small and medium sized business owners that are struggling.