Now that more and more people are getting vaccinated, the COVID restrictions are lifting up and businesses are opening up their doors again.
But weirdly enough, they can’t find employees to work there. Economists observe a labor shortage even though so many people became jobless, but the numbers show that there are more open positions than people willing to enter them.
So businesses have to become creative and unique so that people will want to go to them. However, a deli in Florida failed miserably, putting up a sign showing what wage each position should expect, except the positions were vague descriptions not saying much to a prospective employee.
If fact, the hiring sign has drawn swift backlash after calling minimum wage workers “mediocre” people.
Now, the hiring notice for the Jason’s Deli location in Melbourne, Florida, went viral after a Twitter user posted a photo of it, writing “Saw this at a deli in town, this realllllly doesn’t sit right with me.”
The sign then outlines the qualifications for workers depending on how much money they are going to earn per hour if they’re hired to work at the deli.
For example, someone paid nine dollars per hour could be on their “first job” and is “willing to learn.”
- $10 per hour is paid to someone with “some experience” who is “efficient” at work.
- $11 per hour is offered to someone who is “reliable” and a “multi-tasker.”
- $12 per hour is paid to an employee who is “better than most” and “brings zero drama” while “working like two people.”
- $13 per hour is offered to someone who is quoted as “supervisory material.”
- $14 per hour is given to an employee who is “never, ever late, cares as the owner does,” and always “brings positivity to the environment.”
- $15 per hour is given to someone who “outshines and outperforms the owner” while they do “all of the above” on the other job levels.
The sign was posted on social media and immediately drew criticism.
“This wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment thing. Someone took a great deal of time and care to write out this travesty. Bet they were laughing to themselves the whole time, too. Shows how they really think of their employees,” one Facebook user wrote.
“Why is ‘works like 2 people’ not 18/hr?” a Redditor inquired.
Word got back to the corporate offices of Jason’s Deli, which contacted the manager, who promptly removed the sign.
“The manager of our Melbourne, FL location recently posted a sign intended to attract prospective applications through the potential for upward movement through our Career Path,” Jason’s Deli president and COO Ragan Edgerly said in a statement on Facebook. “The sign communicated that message in an inappropriate manner that does not accurately reflect the hiring practices of Jason’s Deli.”
We don’t fault anyone for making minimum wage, and definitely wouldn’t dub them mediocre – in fact, isn’t the business mediocre if all it can pay its employees is $8.65 an hour? That’s lame compensation if you ask us.
Regardless, we hope corporate told that heartless person in charge that they can take their substandard wages and shove them – and their deli sandwiches – where the sun doesn’t shine.
Source: AWM
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