Restaurant Heir Whose Business Is Booming Complains About Employees Expecting More Money
The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent quarantine has revealed a lot of things. For some, it’s just knowing where your family, friends, or neighbors stand when it comes to vaccines and science. And for others, it’s knowing the disturbing values that someone holds and the lengths they’re willing to go to in order to hold them in an ever-changing world. Jasper Mirabile, the owner of Jasper’s Italian Restaurant and Marco Polo’s Italian Market in Kansas City, just so happens to fall into the latter category.
In a Dumb Fux & Friends segment, Mirabile bemoaned the changing conditions of employment in the United States, primarily in the restaurant sector. He was worried about not having enough employees and employees expecting more money (the horror) when, by his own admission, business at his restaurants is up “22% over 2019,” and he looked down upon restaurants using Paycheck Protection Program money for signing bonuses as an incentive to bring employees back or to their restaurants in the first place. And honestly, the privilege is showing from top to bottom when it comes to this business owner.
First of all, people aren’t just sitting on their couches and waiting for a handout, like host Steve Douchey said. What people are realizing is that they don’t have to work a grueling job that barely pays them a living wage. Instead, they can work from home in a new industry, start a business of their own, or work on their education as a means of getting a better job in the future. And this narrative that people are just sitting around instead of working shows how ignorant Mirabile is.
Secondly, businesses offering more money for these positions isn’t some sort of evil that needs to be watched carefully, like Fox & Friends wants you to believe. It’s paying employees a fair wage for the hard work they do that makes the business’s existence possible at all. It’s making sure employees don’t have to stretch themselves thin over multiple jobs to pay the rent, put food on their table, and provide for their family. And it’s about setting a standard where these employees won’t get taken advantage of anymore.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/restaurant-heir-whose-business-is-booming-complains-about-employees-expecting-more-money/ar-AAM4eVK
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