Unflavored half and half single servings for coffee go early. The bulk half and half dispensers are usually empty these days. (The flavored side is often still available.) Then coffee lids. Then large coffee cups. Gatorade Zero often goes, and then regular Gatorade. The Power Aide seems to always be available. The open cooler boat with yogurt and sandwiches often runs low or empty.
Vicious cycle of staff shortages everywhere, thus unable to source, produce, deliver and stock at former rates.
EDIT: I'm not joking, the salaries for mostly any position in a bar or a restaurant in Spain tend to be a joke with long hours and shameful conditions. Paying in cash to avoid taxes is a common thing. Doing extra hours without extra compensation as law requires. You don't like it? Ok bye, you're fired, and we'll complain to the news reporter on TV, about how nobody wants to work any more nowadays.
I was making a comfortable wage previously but this year most of my coworkers have left for other jobs and I'm on the way out too since the current job listings are close to double what I make currently. An eye watering amount of money is on the table right now.
But paying more is a zero sum game. To gain developers you have to be draining them from some other company and it will take years for new supply to come in.
Prices are up because you're starting to actually have to compete with major players due to all the remote work normalizing the playing field.
Paying more won't bring senior developers out of the void because there do not exist enough to fill all positions. If all companies expand at the same time they can not possibly all fill their positions no matter what they pay.
Americans got a paltry few thousand dollars. So you certainly agree that if a single payment amounts to more than their shit job then that shit job isn't paying enough.
Many people who made 20-30k/year working full-time, were suddenly making close to 50k/year without having to work for close to 2 years.
and i know that a lot of the deaths have been in older people who may have already been retired, but they are often the childcare providers who enable others to work.
This was a problem that was forecasted by many heterodox shutdown detractors. These "shortages" are caused by our politicians and bureaucrats making terrible decisions unilaterally.
The most convincing piece of evidence for this IMO is that if you compare the states that ended relief funds and bonus unemployment early to try to combat this issue with those that let it keep going, there was no statistically significant difference between the two halves of the USA in terms of hiring shortages.
Though it's ending this week