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

[Jimbobaggins]

I work as a night stocker at a large grocery store in the upper midwest (Though i only deal with general food, not meat or frozen stuff). I havent seen too many missing products, even during the Kellogg's strike we were stilll getting some of their cereal. The worst issues now id say is sweet baby rays BBQ sauce, Gatorade, and cereal. Pasta sauce, mac and cheese, granola bars, and crackers are also pretty low as well.

Staff shortages still are not that bad here either in a town of 50,000 people. I've only seen a Arbys and Godfather's pizza close due to lack of staff. But still tons of hiring signs, lots of fast food places now going for $15 an hour

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[teriyakiburns]

That's what I can't figure out also. I have plenty of experience with being down and out and using public assistance and I don't judge people who need it in the slightest. I also know how overrated a lot of it is. So when I heard "business owners" grumbling that they couldn't hire anyone because welfare had gotten so damn good I was instantly skeptical and did a deep dive to try to figure out what was going on. Nothing. There is not nearly enough extra being given due to "pandemic" to account for people just NOT working AT ALL. There are a lot of extra food stamps, but if you don't have kids or SSI you have to work or prove you are looking for work to get that. In terms of cash assistance, it's been gone for months, since the last stimulus check. Unless you live in a one room shack in South Dakota you were not going to make it more than a month or two at most on what was given. That all dried up ages ago now.

I'd have to assume, unless there's some huge excess mortality that is somehow magically being hidden, that most of these people are staying at home and just loading it all on credit.

 

[Never Scored]

That's what I can't figure out also. I have plenty of experience with being down and out and using public assistance and I don't judge people who need it in the slightest. I also know how overrated a lot of it is. So when I heard "business owners" grumbling that they couldn't hire anyone because welfare had gotten so damn good I was instantly skeptical and did a deep dive to try to figure out what was going on. Nothing. There is not nearly enough extra being given due to "pandemic" to account for people just NOT working AT ALL. There are a lot of extra food stamps, but if you don't have kids or SSI you have to work or prove you are looking for work to get that. In terms of cash assistance, it's been gone for months, since the last stimulus check. Unless you live in a one room shack in South Dakota you were not going to make it more than a month or two at most on what was given. That all dried up ages ago now.

In the US it was more the protections put in place. There was a moratorium on evictions until August 2021, and a moratorium on student loan payments until the end of this month. Those two alone would allow many people in their early 20s to coast along on $200 while racking up another $200-300 in credit card debt a month if they wanted to. I know if I was single, I could easily feed myself on $100-150 every two weeks if I was frugal and have the other $200-250 for utility bills, and maybe eating out once or twice a month or going to a movie. A lot of people would be content just to coast like that for an extended period of time. A single person could easily coast along for years with a few thousand in savings and credit cards if rent and student loan repayments are not an issue.

Up here in Canada there actually was a real problem up until October 2021. The government introduced CERB in the spring of 2020 and replaced it with CRB in September 2020. Using both programs, if your place of work shut down in spring 2020, you could have sat and home and collected $500 (pre taxes) a week from April 2020 to late October 2021. Why would you go work at a Macdonad's for marginally more?

 

[BradCarter]

In the US it was more the protections put in place. There was a moratorium on evictions until August 2021, and a moratorium on student loan payments until the end of this month. Those two alone would allow many people in their early 20s to coast along on $200 while racking up another $200-300 in credit card debt a month if they wanted to. I know if I was single, I could easily feed myself on $100-150 every two weeks if I was frugal and have the other $200-250 for utility bills, and maybe eating out once or twice a month or going to a movie. A lot of people would be content just to coast like that for an extended period of time. A single person could easily coast along for years with a few thousand in savings and credit cards if rent and student loan repayments are not an issue.

Up here in Canada there actually was a real problem up until October 2021. The government introduced CERB in the spring of 2020 and replaced it with CRB in September 2020. Using both programs, if your place of work shut down in spring 2020, you could have sat and home and collected $500 (pre taxes) a week from April 2020 to late October 2021. Why would you go work at a Macdonad's for marginally more?

It's anecdotal but I can confirm the amount of girls I've met on tinder in their early 20s "couch surfing" recently is insane. Reading between the lines they just find guys to buy them dinner and let them crash at their place. It wouldn't surprise me if onlyfans and the like have had a large uptick too

 

[George Lucas]

It’s all the above: welfare, homelessness, credit, and parents still paying for shit when their kid is like 30 years old (not even joking).

 

[jumbomilkers]

Tried Taco Hell again (I really want some goddamn Taco Bell okay?) and it was mobile orders only again, except this time it was around 8 pm. Also the dude at the drive thru was way more rude, like how dare I go to their drive thru window that has no indication it’s closed.

Just went home and ate stuff from my cupboard. If I don’t get some Taco Bell soon I’m going to go nuts. Never get between me and my Taco Bell.

There’s a fucking perfect (and I mean spot on) recipe for the creamy jalapeno sauce they use in the quesadillas. Learning how to make it has eliminated the need for ever going to Taco Bell.

 

[Beavis]

Tried Taco Hell again (I really want some goddamn Taco Bell okay?) and it was mobile orders only again, except this time it was around 8 pm. Also the dude at the drive thru was way more rude, like how dare I go to their drive thru window that has no indication it’s closed.

Just went home and ate stuff from my cupboard. If I don’t get some Taco Bell soon I’m going to go nuts. Never get between me and my Taco Bell.

I just ate at Taco Bell for the first time in years and it’s gotten better. Was able to eat inside and refill my drink three times. I‘m sorry that happened to you.

 

[contradiction of terns]

Nobody's mentioned it yet, but one of the big things I personally suspect has been keeping people at home rather than job-hunting is the child tax credits. Those are ending soon so some of the people who figured that was enough to stay home on will start looking for other options.

Unfortunately a big part of the problem is Boomers retiring, as well as all the people who've died during the pandemic, whether it be from Covid, neckroping, ODing, or what have you. These people aren't coming back no matter what anyone does. The recent cost-of-living adjustment to SSI will keep retirees from feeling the pinch of inflation for a bit longer, and if any Boomers do go back to work it's unlikely to be at a similar job to those they left. Probably more something part time to supplement their SSI.

Workforce participation rate is apparently the lowest it's been since '79. It's really great we trashed our economy over the flu.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

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It seems to be the general consensus that the supply chain issues aren't going anywhere in 2022, so I look forward to another year of following this absolute shitshow.

Hold onto your butts, frens. If they continue to push everything to shut down again due to the wuflu then it's only going to get worse.

How could it recover when more dollars are chasing less goods. This shit is never going to resolve, this is the new normal.

 

[The Ugly One]

Workforce participation rate is apparently the lowest it's been since '79. It's really great we trashed our economy over the flu.

Way to deny the science, motherfucker. COVID-19 is the deadliest disease of all time. 100% of everyone who gets it eventually dies.

 

[The Ugly One]

That's what I can't figure out also. I have plenty of experience with being down and out and using public assistance and I don't judge people who need it in the slightest. I also know how overrated a lot of it is. So when I heard "business owners" grumbling that they couldn't hire anyone because welfare had gotten so damn good I was instantly skeptical and did a deep dive to try to figure out what was going on. Nothing. There is not nearly enough extra being given due to "pandemic" to account for people just NOT working AT ALL. There are a lot of extra food stamps, but if you don't have kids or SSI you have to work or prove you are looking for work to get that. In terms of cash assistance, it's been gone for months, since the last stimulus check. Unless you live in a one room shack in South Dakota you were not going to make it more than a month or two at most on what was given. That all dried up ages ago now.

This has been going on since at least August. I usually check that brand first for basic shit I need but don't care about and it has been a total flop for the entire last quarter of the year.

Unemployment benefits kept getting extended over and over. The extensions ended only recently.

 

[GAY Ted Wheeler]

My guess on the labor shortage, which someone above alluded to, is that a lot of people stopped paying rent when this nonsense started and still aren’t. Given that the civil courts are likely backed up forever in most of these shithole states not having to pay rent or a mortgage for almost two years along with all of the stimulus money and unemployment left these people living high on the dole. Throw in the student loan pause and lots of idiots have had zero payments for almost 24 months.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Fuck this mobile order shit,

It was already fucking terrible before rona. My last year at subway they brought in online ordering and we'd always get slammed with both online and in store orders at the same time and they'd come in on the register. Online had to take priority and thus slowed down the line. Which caused a predictable increase of angry karens and shaneequahs

 

[Trust Me I Know]

Buddy of mine says Omnicron is wreaking havoc with his warehouse. 25% of the workforce is out of commission. According to him, this is happening everywhere. Gonna be an interesting start to the new year.

 

[BradCarter]

It was already fucking terrible before rona. My last year at subway they brought in online ordering and we'd always get slammed with both online and mobile orders at the same time and they'd come in on the register. Online had to take priority and thus slowed down the line. Which caused a predictable increase of angry karens and shaneequahs

Off topic but nobody should use the subway app. It's compromised. I used a unique randomly generated password with it and some cunt managed to log in and put in $100 orders around the country. This was like 2 months ago

 

[DejaThoris]

Buddy of mine says Omnicron is wreaking havoc with his warehouse. 25% of the workforce is out of commission. According to him, this is happening everywhere. Gonna be an interesting start to the new year.

Seeing the same thing in Michigan. Everyone I talk to says that their workplaces are short on staff because so many people are out with Covid.

Ever since this fiasco started, I've only known a few people who have had Covid. But in recent months it feels like suddenly everyone I know either has it or has an immediate family member whose had it.

 

[Rykel22]

I know two coworkers in my dept. (one being my direct superior) were out either 'with' it or just being forced into quarantine due to someone they knew having it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Off topic but nobody should use the subway app. It's compromised. I used a unique randomly generated password with it and some cunt managed to log in and put in $100 orders around the country. This was like 2 months ago

https://kiwifarms.st/forums/internet-technology.101/

 

[888Flux]

Here are the payroll figures for December 2021. That is 440,000 expected, and only 199,000 added.

 

[Billy Beer]

Tesco are out of Mushrooms in my neck of the woods, stock jockeys didn't know when they were coming in. Mushrooms grow in dark damp areas, which is Britain 90% of the year and the norff 100% of the year. How can we be out of mushrooms?