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Economy
'I had to take off my $800 sneakers and cut my own grass': Mass labor shortage in the exclusive Hamptons leaves the rich to cut their own lawns, do their own laundry and even paint their own nails
2021-07-10
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Mass labor shortage has left the privileged residents of the Hamptons fending for themselves

  • As real estate skyrockets, summer workers are having difficulty finding rentals for the season, leaving restaurants and shops shorthanded

  • Other factors include a sweeping ban on J-1 work visas in 2020 and reluctance for hospitality staff to re-enter the industry after the pandemic

  • According to a Joblist survey, hospitality jobs are unpopular, with 38% of former hospitality workers saying they're not considering returning

  • In addition, residents have had to lower their beauty standards due to salons being shorthanded, having to go without a visit to their local salon

  • 'Everyone's going for the natural look this year. If you see unpainted nails, you know they just can't get an appointment,' one resident told Vanity Fair
Posted by:Skidmark

#14  Not Beeâ„¢ -- oh, well, down 1$
Posted by: magpie   2021-07-10 23:29  

#13  Hamptons Lawnmower
Posted by: Blinky Shith9357   2021-07-10 17:19  

#12  Our church had a volunteer work day once. The minister showed up wearing blue jeans with polished leather loafers instead of work boots or running shoes or just about anything less casual. That, I thought, was a serious fashion faux pas. In fact, it gave me the impression that the man is unaccustomed to sweating or getting his hands dirty.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-07-10 14:33  

#11  Been mowing lawns since I was a kid. First my dad's and then my own. Scooping the poop and raking the leaves too. Raking the leaves is tedious but I still do it. Actually pulling weeds by the roots. Now that's hard work and tough on the butt muscles.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-07-10 14:26  

#10  Good. Don't need yard slaves then.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-07-10 13:26  

#9  "I woke up in the morning,
Both cars were gone.
I felt so low-down,
I threw my drink across the lawn."
-- poorly remembered snippet from a Martin Mull concert
Posted by: SteveS   2021-07-10 12:42  

#8  ...they have internet access for how-to vids.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-07-10 11:35  

#7  Lost a dollar.

Didn't even think they knew how to turn the machine on.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-07-10 11:17  

#6  Just wait until the woke people in the Hamptons discover that laundry involves separating white things from colored. The racism! The horror!
Posted by: Tom   2021-07-10 11:16  

#5  the horror
Posted by: 746   2021-07-10 10:26  

#4  And so the start, by the usual suspects, to repeal the 13th Amendment.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-07-10 07:48  

#3  Down $1
Posted by: Big Tojo4371   2021-07-10 07:03  

#2  Just and an example for the Rich...

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
or do real work against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? Yes, of course,
To launder, to clean, to wash a Bentley, to sweep
and more; and by a sweep to say we work our backend off. Oh, the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that my flesh is heir to, 'tis a revelation
about the washers of the dish. To cook, to clean, and remain serene. Oh my bed, to sleep, perchance to dream, Oy, where's the rub ?

Its in the former gardener's medicine cabinet.
Posted by: Jomp Ebbinemble8193   2021-07-10 04:22  

#1  Bee? Not Bee.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-10 03:16  

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