Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[Nate Higgers]

At my local Burger King yesterday, only 4 or 5 people showed up for work and none showed up for the afternoon shift. The people that were working were trying to do everything while people were getting pissed off at them, they apparently said fuck it and walked out. Similar thing happened this morning at the local Dunkin Donuts, only 1 employee showed up.

I’ve been grabbing breakfast at my neighborhood McDonald’s for the last 2-3 months because I’m getting lazy. I noticed that in the last two or three weeks, they’ve closed one of the ordering window lanes so now everyone is bottlenecked at one lane. I don’t get upset at the McWagies when I get to the windows because I realize they’ve got shit jobs just like me and I’m there buying their shit food because I’m lazy, but it’s gotten to the point where what used to be a 5-7 minute long overall visit (from when I order to when I drive off) now takes 10 to sometimes 20 minutes. And that’s even if there’s not many cars in front of me.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

6 people, 12 gallons, so 2 gallons per week per person, so more than a quart a day? That's still a fuckload of milk, crimony.

to be fair the kids were varsity athletes too, think about all the gatorade you drank as a kid and replace it with milk. i know i'd chug the larger monsters at least once a day back then, thats a quart right?

I visited several home depot's in the upper Midwest in the last month.

Xmas stuff got set up really early at all of them because the Halloween sections were small and everything was here n gone very quickly.

Super sucks because I hate Christmas.

They're redic expensive and the only folks I know who have them are rich restauranteur foodie types unforch

Edited to add:
Yeah gp is a great corporate place to work if you're not in the factory, but in an auditor position and then truly in the know about stuff where the factory workers know something is up but they can't say.

Xmas stuff is always up super early for HD, thats because they plan it out years ahead of time, it also takes up a shitload of floorspace, they rarely have it up this late, same with the BF bullshit in the middle of aisles

At my local Burger King yesterday, only 4 or 5 people showed up for work and none showed up for the afternoon shift. The people that were working were trying to do everything while people were getting pissed off at them, they apparently said fuck it and walked out. Similar thing happened this morning at the local Dunkin Donuts, only 1 employee showed up.

so these franchise owners know they're willing to spend $60 an hr in wages, but instead of having 2 super reliable people they just get 6 flunkies?

and mind you its been well established the last year and a half 1-3 super competant people could do the work of 6 burger flippers. I'm just saying it might work, especially in places like California where overtime hits at 60 hours

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I already plan on getting a grain drill so I can plant winter livestock forage. Harvesting a patch for human consumption is mostly nerd behavior.

Assuming you want a no-till drill, the cheapest way to get into one for a long time was to buy a worn out 1590 and rebuild it. With the way parts have been the last year, that's probably not the best idea.

Truck stop has everything except zero diet doctor pepper. I'm dooming right now.

I haven't seen a cherry dr pepper in two weeks.

Fueled up today and noticed somebody removed most of this 'I Did That' sticker. I miss sub $2 diesel.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

Assuming you want a no-till drill, the cheapest way to get into one for a long time was to buy a worn out 1590 and rebuild it. With the way parts have been the last year, that's probably not the best idea.

I haven't seen a cherry dr pepper in two weeks.

Fueled up today and noticed somebody removed most of this 'I Did That' sticker. I miss sub $2 diesel.
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I’m so old I remember back when diesel was cheaper than gasoline.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I’m so old I remember back when diesel was cheaper than gasoline.

It was cheaper than gasoline 18 months ago. I can remember when offroad was 50¢/gal.

 

[Lorne Armstrong]

It was cheaper than gasoline 18 months ago. I can remember when offroad was 50¢/gal.

I haven’t seen diesel cheaper than gas in my part of the country in over 20 years, maybe it’s just where I live. Diesel was always the cheaper option, until one day it wasn’t. Like a switch flipped at every gas station in the state. I’m not talking red diesel, I’m talking highway diesel.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Diesel was always the cheaper option, until one day it wasn’t.

Ultra-low Sulfur Diesel and gulf coast refineries exporting non-ULSD to South America.

When red was 50¢ the road tax was 42¢ and 6¢ for sales tax. Back then, almost half the cost of on-road was tax and now its less than 15%.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

Little update here: I got hungry and had to go to Rite Aid since all of the grocery stores close at 9 PM now. No more Slim Jims, no more macaroni & cheese in any capacity (including that overpriced Annie's organic shit), no pasta, half of the snack aisle was empty, and the soup aisle was a wasteland with a few or so cans sporadically shelved and deliberately placed up front to look less bare. Some dairy products, and some frozen pizzas, albeit no more Hot Pockets. Plenty of soda and Gatorade, though.

Again, just minor disruptions. This is a place I go to often, and noticed they haven't had Slim Jims since the summer, as I typically gnaw of them when I drive my car. I haven't seen Slim Jims at any stores lately, frankly.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

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Do you remember reading or hearing an anecdote from the 70s of some social worker talking to a kid in the ghetto and asking him where m.ilk comes from, and the kid just says, "the store"? And the social worker presses him like no, where does the store get it from? And the kid just cannot get past that, he cannot comprehend a world outside his ghetto, a world with cows and fields. And this story got told a lot to illustrate how tragic it was to insulate kids in these limited environments, and how much they needed field trips or at least TV shows that exposed them to the broader world.

For a while now I have gotten a strong sense that our leaders and elite are that ghetto kid. They really and truly do not understand that m.ilk comes from cows. They truly just think that it's at the store and at worst, if the store runs out, a truck unloads more. Yeah in theory they get that there's more to it than that. But they don't care to look into it or really think it matters THAT much.

I’ve been grabbing breakfast at my neighborhood McDonald’s for the last 2-3 months because I’m getting lazy. I noticed that in the last two or three weeks, they’ve closed one of the ordering window lanes so now everyone is bottlenecked at one lane. I don’t get upset at the McWagies when I get to the windows because I realize they’ve got shit jobs just like me and I’m there buying their shit food because I’m lazy, but it’s gotten to the point where what used to be a 5-7 minute long overall visit (from when I order to when I drive off) now takes 10 to sometimes 20 minutes. And that’s even if there’s not many cars in front of me.

The McD's here are noticeably understaffed with the newest shift supervisors being very unprofessional 18 year olds, lording over miserable 14 year olds. I don't say that to be unkind. It's just obvious that they are out of their depth because they do things like berate the employees for small things in front of customers. Things can't hold up like that for long.

 

[Ponzo]

Austria is shutting down electricity nationwide for a whole day in November as a "preparation" for citizen to get used to blackouts that they predict will ravage europe in the coming years.

Austrian minister warns of possible power outage across Europe

Possible power outage across Europe warns Austrian Defence Minister

www.euroweeklynews.com

Austria prepares its citizens for a possible large-scale blackout - Spain's News

Rosalia SanchezCONTINUE Correspondent in Berlin Updated:10/25/2021 19: 49h Keep Stock up on fuel, candles, batteries,...

spainsnews.com

 

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Austria is shutting down electricity nationwide for a whole day in November as a "preparation" for citizen to get used to blackouts that they predict will ravage europe in the coming years.

Austrian minister warns of possible power outage across Europe

Possible power outage across Europe warns Austrian Defence Minister

www.euroweeklynews.com

Austria prepares its citizens for a possible large-scale blackout - Spain's News

Rosalia SanchezCONTINUE Correspondent in Berlin Updated:10/25/2021 19: 49h Keep Stock up on fuel, candles, batteries,...

spainsnews.com

I mean that's what you get when you switch large amounts of your energy grid to renewables on a notoriously cloudy continent, expect it to work just because a 100 MW solar plant will always match consumption (who needs the lights on at night anyway), and then supplement it with natural gas imported from the country who NATO compels you to hate because reasons.

It's California levels of stupidity in energy policy, but absolutely none of the elites will ever have to worry about that. In the event they ever did, they'll just call up Uncle Sam and demand the glowies manufacture another crisis with Russia on taxpayer dime. But I do agree they should transition away from the use of coal, they should be burning politicians instead as fuel. If you can make a candle out of a Jew, you can make a candle out of these fatcats.

 

[Ponzo]

I mean that's what you get when you switch large amounts of your energy grid to renewables on a notoriously cloudy continent, expect it to work just because a 100 MW solar plant will always match consumption (who needs the lights on at night anyway), and then supplement it with natural gas imported from the country who NATO compels you to hate because reasons.

It's California levels of stupidity in energy policy, but absolutely none of the elites will ever have to worry about that. In the event they ever did, they'll just call up Uncle Sam and demand the glowies manufacture another crisis with Russia on taxpayer dime. But I do agree they should transition away from the use of coal, they should be burning politicians instead as fuel. If you can make a candle out of a Jew, you can make a candle out of these fatcats.

I think when it came to electricity we did not have to rely on other countries and made enough for our own use. We have some dope water plants that produce up to 350mw

No idea whats up. that blackout shit never happened before here in Austria in the 34 years im alive.

 

[Kramer on the phone]

I think when it came to electricity we did not have to rely on other countries and made enough for our own use. We have some dope water plants that produce up to 350mw

No idea whats up. that blackout shit never happened before here in Austria in the 34 years im alive.

and yet its completely illegal to even question the fact that the best austrian had such a fantastic energy policy they could fight a 2 front war and burn 6 million bodies and not have a single supply line issue or blackout.

In fact if i were you i'd bring it up constantly, and then when people question it call them holohoax deniers.

 

[Overly Serious]

Things are so bad for so little visible reason, that I'm now starting to consider seriously the theory that all of this is engineered simply to collapse the Middle Class and push society to a more controlled model.

Lord knows there's enough incentive for the ultra-wealthy if they thought they could get away with it (and they're arrogant enough).

 

[Sped Xing]

Things are so bad for so little visible reason, that I'm now starting to consider seriously the theory that all of this is engineered simply to collapse the Middle Class and push society to a more controlled model.

Lord knows there's enough incentive for the ultra-wealthy if they thought they could get away with it (and they're arrogant enough).

We're talking about a class of people who expect us to line up for cage work so they can send the "lucky" ones one-way to a frozen hell halfway to Jupiter.

Of course they think they can destroy the yeomanry.

 

[Nate Higgers]

We're talking about a class of people who expect us to line up for cage work so they can send the "lucky" ones one-way to a frozen hell halfway to Jupiter.

Of course they think they can destroy the yeomanry.

A NEW LIFE AWAITS YOU IN THE OFF-WORLD COLONIES. THE CHANCE TO BEGIN AGAIN IN A GOLDEN LAND OF OPPORTUNITY AND ADVENTURE

 

[Aqua Panda]

Got gas in Northern Virginia today and came across the Biden "I did this" sticker half pulled off. For a place as far left leaning as NOVA to have it means the general population is getting salty.

Gas has jumped like 80 cents in the last month from this same pump. Absolutely brutal and will be $4 a gallon soon. (And if you remember $4.50+ from 2008, you're about to see some serious shit.)

 

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and yet its completely illegal to even question the fact that the best austrian had such a fantastic energy policy they could fight a 2 front war and burn 6 million bodies and not have a single supply line issue or blackout.

In fact if i were you i'd bring it up constantly, and then when people question it call them holohoax deniers.

>Austrian corporal
>no supply line issues
LMAO dude did Shlomo taking your gf rot your brain or something?

Things are so bad for so little visible reason, that I'm now starting to consider seriously the theory that all of this is engineered simply to collapse the Middle Class and push society to a more controlled model.

Lord knows there's enough incentive for the ultra-wealthy if they thought they could get away with it (and they're arrogant enough).

It is. The middle class (along with the few disaffected elites) typically provides the bulk of the organization and leadership for every single revolution in history. Without middle class leadership, you have a peasant uprising which lacks leadership and is easily crushed. Therefore, if you destroy the middle class, you make it far more easy to establish total control over the population, especially in this day and age with the technology the elites have available to them.

 

[Mepsi Pax]

Do you remember reading or hearing an anecdote from the 70s of some social worker talking to a kid in the ghetto and asking him where m.ilk comes from, and the kid just says, "the store"? And the social worker presses him like no, where does the store get it from? And the kid just cannot get past that, he cannot comprehend a world outside his ghetto, a world with cows and fields. And this story got told a lot to illustrate how tragic it was to insulate kids in these limited environments, and how much they needed field trips or at least TV shows that exposed them to the broader world.

For a while now I have gotten a strong sense that our leaders and elite are that ghetto kid. They really and truly do not understand that m.ilk comes from cows. They truly just think that it's at the store and at worst, if the store runs out, a truck unloads more. Yeah in theory they get that there's more to it than that. But they don't care to look into it or really think it matters THAT much.

Really this is caused by the abstraction that results from specialization and massive enterprise. It's not so much an elites vs. proles thing as it is a theory vs. praxis issue. Someone with tons of education who is a specialist may know a whole lot more theory than an illiterate black, but they have no practical experience outside of whatever niche (usually not a production one) that they're in.

In my own experience, theory-focused approaches always encounter practical roadblocks. Those barriers may be as simple as laying some money on the table (and I believe most 'management' types firmly believe that's how everything works), but in most cases it's more like money plus time plus logistics, and in some it gets a lot more complicated and the entire endeavor may fail or have to be restructured.

Think about the average trajectory that white collars or college educated people in general take. They start off as dumb kids just like everyone else, are crammed full of theory for twenty years, and then enter into the (abstracted) numbers and handshakes side of industry. Rich kids especially aren't gonna work dirty labor jobs, their practical experience will usually go no farther than playing sports.

To people with this trajectory, everything is a number. When they "overcome practical limitations" it's by way of paying and talking someone else into doing it, usually through several layers of intermediaries. After a lifetime of this, buoyed every higher into the fiscal stratosphere off the backs of labor, they are so isolated from the process of actually baking bread that they can't even conceive that there's more to it than simply planting a dollar (and that dollar comes out of thin air a printer).

 

[Henry V]

An extra 1.2 Trillion dollars for pumping the inflation. A bipartisan deal lmao. I don't think the traditional swamp GOP are gonna do shit, if you didn't already abandon worshipping them you should now. Keep your faith in the GOP Governors.