Donald Burns and a co-host debate whether the labor crisis is real or overstated. They argue that generational complaints about work ethic are cyclical, and that hiring problems may stem from other causes than a true shortage of workers.
And you mentioned this earlier, too, about, you know, hiring warm bodies and stuff like that with labor. Everyone always says there's a labor crisis. You know, there's no people out there. I want to work. You really think there's a labor crisis? What do you think the real problem is?
No, first thing is, of course. No, I really don't. Did every generation complain about the generation that's coming up? It feels like that's. Yeah, that's always.
My grandfather complained about, you know, about, you know, my parents. And then my parents complained about my grandparents, and then my grandfather. My parents complained about us being like, you know, you spoiled little entitled kids. Like, you know. And then now we do it, too. We do it to every. Every generation thinks their generation had it worse. Was that old joke. I walked uphill to school both ways in the snow, barefoot.
That's just a bad rap. And I think that's all the time everybody's complaining about somebody. So we have to adapt with the generation. If a kid's walking up, he'll school both ways in the snow, barefoot. Right now. Well, he's probably not in tune with really what's going on. Why would he just jump in his car, turn the heater on, drive like, yeah, really?
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
