MAN SAYS “SORRY WE ARE SHORT-STAFFED” IS A LIE TO GET PEOPLE TO ACCEPT POOR SERVICE

Prove me wrong – “Sorry, we’re short staffed” was always a malicious corporate strategy to blame the workers rather than themselves

“We’re hiring!” was also majorly a huge lie. None of these corporations which gave the appearance of being short-staffed due to “lazy” workers were never desperate, and were in fact passing the blame for their own purposeful lack of employing persons to the workers.

They brainwashed the general public into accepting poor customer service, long wait times, and also increased the workload on the skeleton crews that they still employed under the guise of “no one wants to work!”

Netizens’ comments

1. Meanwhile, most workers are doing the jobs of two or more people. If a worker is able to bust ass and get things done once, it’ll be expected of them in perpetuity. And other workers being hired on will be compared to this unreasonable and unsustainable output. But hey, managers will oftentimes get a bonus for keeping their budget low by not replacing lowly workers. Business owners, managers, and shareholders get richer. Laborers get overworked, ruined bodies, and decreased quality of life; especially once burn-out occurs.
   A personal favorite while stuck on hold on the phone: “Due to short-staffing wait times are longer than usual.” Yeah, that’s by design. The worker trying to manage phone call volumes takes the brunt of the callers’ frustrations in the form of verbal insults. This customer behavior is excused by higher-ups because, well, they’re short-staffed and it’s to be expected.
2. It’s always been an excuse. I usually read this as “we refuse to fully staff our store.”
3. Haha I just made a call to apologize to someone my org owes documents too and said this knowing full well we haven’t had the staff we needed for months and they still haven’t posted the positions. Plus the manager of that department is so awful she can’t keep anyone for more than a year anyways so the ‘shortage’ is just going to keep happening.
4. Supply and demand apparently only applies to their products not workers.
5. It’s not malicious, it’s marketing. Capitalism is malicious.