Thanks for confirming you don’t believe college students don’t deserve to make enough money to live.

The median worker making less than $10/hour is 37. Only 10% of them are under the age of 20.

EVERYONE who is willing to work 40 hours a week deserves a living wage. If your business can’t afford to pay your workers enough to live, then you don’t deserve to run a business.

Anyone who simply says “raise wages” has no understanding of basic economics, or why people are sitting at home instead of having a job.

You do realize that if all businesses paid that much the cost of goods will go up also. Look at what California is paying and what the cost of living is there. And don’t tell me that’s California. If we raise wages here then you can see what the cost of everything else will be.

Fast food work wasn’t meant to be a lifetime job. They are for students that are wanting to work while in school ( high and college).
LET’S GET REAL HERE PEOPLE!!!!

It’s easy to assume that people are staying home because the government gives them free money, but the fact is, you would have to work 2 jobs at these low rates just to maintain the same income AND pay for health/dental insurance. It doesn’t make any sense to refuse to pay a living wage then complain that nobody will work.

…so why are they experiencing a staff shortage? Did everyone decide that they don’t like animals anymore?

People need to earn enough money to pay their bills. If a job isn’t paying a living wage, don’t be surprised when people refuse to work there anymore.

First, the shelter director makes no effort to boost recruitment intensity to attract workers. The reason for this is that the director wastes budget money and then pulls money from other areas of the budget, most likely budgeted employee positions that are not filled. With the CDC mask recommendation lifted, the shelter should continue using inmates to provide manpower as they had prior to COVID.

Second, reduced operating hours is a well-known tactic by animal activists to limit public access to the shelter for the purpose of surrendering animals. This only leads to an increase in abandoned animals, stray animals, and animal attacks against humans. This is evident through health department records that show a significant increase in bites ever since the shelter reduced their hours at the beginning of COVID. The shelter blames everything on COVID simply to avoid conflict with the activists.

Limiting shelter hours puts the shelter in violation of Ponce’s Law, a Florida law that requires shelters to make their facility more accessible to citizens after 5PM so that they can reclaim their animals.

The problem with Escambia County Animal Services is that the director has no real job knowledge when it comes to managing people or providing customer service. This post is Janie Gilley covering for John Robinson’s shortcomings.

I am not sure how hard/easy it would be to implement but it’s just a suggestion.