Hi, I have seen it in Arizona at fast food as well as some restaurants. It happens even at recreation and aquatic centers for they have trouble keeping life guards so they can’t offer swim lessons for the public every month they told me here in Glendale, AZ. No one wants to work it seems. Many are on unemployment and getting 650.00 month or more for food stamps. I have seen this here.
If this is what is happening, I am not doubting you, Arizona needs to reevaluate what they are doing. Providing some Assistance on a case by case evaluation might be necessary, able bodied people need to be culled and forced back into the job market. It may sound cruel to some, it’s Not, with plentiful jobs at good wages there’s no reason not to work.
Brah, we are “Neighbor Islands”, not “outer islands”. The outer islands to Hawaii are the Marshalls, the Philippines and Japan. Everything else is just neighbors. Aloha.
Drove by Dark Horse coffee in Koloa today. It was open. Good news that Ono Burgers in Anahola is open again. Service was slow with at least a 45 minute wait to get your food order. I am hopeful this will improve as they get over startup issues.
Aloha Rob+Jeff re: Comments by Richard C about a new workforce in Hawaii. It’s not easy to get across the border to the U.S.A. Even for refugees from Ukraine. Keep the jobs and housing for the people who have been born and live there. Any transplant from here should have a job,housing, set up beforehand so as not to be a drain on their resources.
That must be the new approach to business that I had believed was finally being deported. Several businesses in my area took your approach and have been forced into receivership after being raided by the INS. Seems that hiring Illegals does have ramifications and is Illegal. Good luck with that approach, will wait for your name to become reoccurring in the News following the raids and deportation of your favored new employees.
If businesses must close on short notice please have someone at least update the FB page and or website. Most important to post a notice,(even handwritten) on the door for those that regularly show up. It is common good business practice to do so. You will not even realize just how many people and loyal customers will not return if this is not so. Consideration is Very important in these times of unpredictable change.
Aloha Rob+Jeff.Per Richard C’s comments on Central and South American people coming to fill the jobs in Hawaii, in looking at my latest edition of Hana Hou, I see no flights to Hawaii from there. With strict border control here on the mainland, how does he think these people are going to get there. There’s a housing shortage already for locals, where would they live? I am hopeful that the businesses can pick up again and life can return to a better situation for all of us. Mahalo for your great reporting on the latest news from there. I appreciate you both.
-i think the author realizes that these folks will get to the West Coast and from there Hawaii,eventually.
My kids were those kids,perhaps considered “ nerds” that worked through their high school years in Hawaii,benefitting financially-head start. I am happy to see high school employees at Target,the wage is good
I wish more parents in Hawaii would encourage their kids to work through High School-it would help with the labor shortage ,teaches life:workplace values;and gives them a financial start
Working through High School helps in so many ways. I did and know many others that did too. It instills Values, Respect, Responsibility and many other Beneficial Experiences, it also helps teach responsible financial handling. More Parents need to encourage their children to take part time work.
Rob, Jeff – I previously posted that’s there’s another possible situation playing out. My wife & I were on Kauai the first 2 weeks of May and were aware of several last-minute, no notice restaurant closings ( and reservations cancelled) because staff were sick with and/or tested positive with COVID. Merrimens In Poipu had this happen for example.
Yes, we were in Maui Dec. 2021 & a few of our favorites were either gone (Da Kitchen) or the reservations (Star Noodle) were months out, unless we tried returning after 8:00 p.m.
I’m a small business owner and this is the time of great opportunity. It’s sad that we’re going to lose some of our old favorites, but new favorites will soon appear.
Also our new work force is streaming across our southern border soon they will be doing the jobs that American’s and now Mexicans refuse to do.
That’s right educated undocumented young Mexicans from our last border crisis are not going to work as cooks, field laborers or traditional jobs that their parents and grand parents performed.
Look for our new central & south American friends to soon ease our labor shortage in the 48 states followed by a migration of these individuals to the Hawaiian islands.
We have experienced the same stituation.
Stores were closing for COVID. Now just closing not enough help.
Hi, I have seen it in Arizona at fast food as well as some restaurants. It happens even at recreation and aquatic centers for they have trouble keeping life guards so they can’t offer swim lessons for the public every month they told me here in Glendale, AZ. No one wants to work it seems. Many are on unemployment and getting 650.00 month or more for food stamps. I have seen this here.
If this is what is happening, I am not doubting you, Arizona needs to reevaluate what they are doing. Providing some Assistance on a case by case evaluation might be necessary, able bodied people need to be culled and forced back into the job market. It may sound cruel to some, it’s Not, with plentiful jobs at good wages there’s no reason not to work.
Brah, we are “Neighbor Islands”, not “outer islands”. The outer islands to Hawaii are the Marshalls, the Philippines and Japan. Everything else is just neighbors. Aloha.
Drove by Dark Horse coffee in Koloa today. It was open. Good news that Ono Burgers in Anahola is open again. Service was slow with at least a 45 minute wait to get your food order. I am hopeful this will improve as they get over startup issues.
Aloha Rob+Jeff re: Comments by Richard C about a new workforce in Hawaii. It’s not easy to get across the border to the U.S.A. Even for refugees from Ukraine. Keep the jobs and housing for the people who have been born and live there. Any transplant from here should have a job,housing, set up beforehand so as not to be a drain on their resources.
Absolutely. Just common sense.
That must be the new approach to business that I had believed was finally being deported. Several businesses in my area took your approach and have been forced into receivership after being raided by the INS. Seems that hiring Illegals does have ramifications and is Illegal. Good luck with that approach, will wait for your name to become reoccurring in the News following the raids and deportation of your favored new employees.
Ernie can you please list the businesses in your area that were raided by the INS.
That would be a neat trick considering the INS was dissolved in 2003.
If businesses must close on short notice please have someone at least update the FB page and or website. Most important to post a notice,(even handwritten) on the door for those that regularly show up. It is common good business practice to do so. You will not even realize just how many people and loyal customers will not return if this is not so. Consideration is Very important in these times of unpredictable change.
Aloha Rob+Jeff.Per Richard C’s comments on Central and South American people coming to fill the jobs in Hawaii, in looking at my latest edition of Hana Hou, I see no flights to Hawaii from there. With strict border control here on the mainland, how does he think these people are going to get there. There’s a housing shortage already for locals, where would they live? I am hopeful that the businesses can pick up again and life can return to a better situation for all of us. Mahalo for your great reporting on the latest news from there. I appreciate you both.
-i think the author realizes that these folks will get to the West Coast and from there Hawaii,eventually.
My kids were those kids,perhaps considered “ nerds” that worked through their high school years in Hawaii,benefitting financially-head start. I am happy to see high school employees at Target,the wage is good
I wish more parents in Hawaii would encourage their kids to work through High School-it would help with the labor shortage ,teaches life:workplace values;and gives them a financial start
Working through High School helps in so many ways. I did and know many others that did too. It instills Values, Respect, Responsibility and many other Beneficial Experiences, it also helps teach responsible financial handling. More Parents need to encourage their children to take part time work.
Rob, Jeff – I previously posted that’s there’s another possible situation playing out. My wife & I were on Kauai the first 2 weeks of May and were aware of several last-minute, no notice restaurant closings ( and reservations cancelled) because staff were sick with and/or tested positive with COVID. Merrimens In Poipu had this happen for example.
“Strict border control here on the mainland”?
Which border would you be talking about?
Yes, we were in Maui Dec. 2021 & a few of our favorites were either gone (Da Kitchen) or the reservations (Star Noodle) were months out, unless we tried returning after 8:00 p.m.
I’m a small business owner and this is the time of great opportunity. It’s sad that we’re going to lose some of our old favorites, but new favorites will soon appear.
Also our new work force is streaming across our southern border soon they will be doing the jobs that American’s and now Mexicans refuse to do.
That’s right educated undocumented young Mexicans from our last border crisis are not going to work as cooks, field laborers or traditional jobs that their parents and grand parents performed.
Look for our new central & south American friends to soon ease our labor shortage in the 48 states followed by a migration of these individuals to the Hawaiian islands.
Sadly that may be the case in the future.