nosuchreality
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What raising wages created a flood of a 1000 applicants. Surprise surprise.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/10/worker-shortage-raising-wages/
The owners of Klavon?s Ice Cream Parlor had hit a wall.
For months, the 98-year-old confectionary in Pittsburgh couldn?t find applicants for the open positions it needed to fill ahead of warmer weather and, hopefully, sunnier times for the business after a rough year.
The job posting for scoopers ? $7.25 an hour plus tips ? did not produce a single application between January and March.
So owner Jacob Hanchar decided to more than double the starting wage to $15 an hour, plus tips, ?just to see what would happen.?
The shop was suddenly flooded with applications. More than 1,000 piled in over the course of a week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/10/worker-shortage-raising-wages/