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#understaffed — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #understaffed, aggregated by home.social.

  1. The #entertainment industry in North America is facing a reckoning. Three years on from the pandemic that shut most of our workplaces down (in some cases for years, and many individual companies didn't ever come back), facing a loss of traditional revenue streams and an audience that doesn't look or act the same as it used to, we're reaching the expiry date on the rushed (and often exploitative) contracts that got us back to work. After years of being told that we should be grateful to have any #work at all, wildly #understaffed productions, a massive loss of #skilled #labour across all facets of the industry (so, so many either left for other jobs or didn't survive the pandemic years), and #inflation shrinking our already-too-small paycheques, we're seeing #union after union vote to #strike in 2023-24. It's a scary and unstable time, with many of us having already exhausted our savings just to make it through 2020-21 ... but it's so heartening to see my #siblings in unions across the continent being willing to stand up and say "we are worth a living wage and a secure, safe work environment". To see us vote for our long-term benefit, knowing that it will bring short-term hardships. If you know anyone who works in #Film #Television or #LiveEntertainment please show them your support now. The people who make the art you love are in crisis and fighting back.

  2. Despite popularity of #military themed video games and collecting #firearms in the #UnitedStates, ( a country that has more guns than citizens), the US #ArmedForces , #CorrectionalInstitutions & #Police Dept's are unable to find eager and qualified #recruits who want to #opencarry as part of their careers in America's authoritarian armed frontline ranks

    Chronically understaffed #prisons are oft operating with fractions of req'd employees, having low morale guards work 16hr shifts, leading to sloppy mishaps, unchecked #inmate violence, and even escapes

    Cities across the country all claim their police depts are #understaffed with budgeted positions going unfilled for years, as attrition and early retirements further exacerbate #LEO levels despite offering #hiring bonuses.
    nieonline.com/niebang/videooft

    Phoenix can't find new beat cops and mandated SchoolResourceOfficers

    kwch.com/video/2023/07/12/cont

    State of MD thousands shy of proper staffing levels at state's prisons
    marylandmatters.org/2023/04/20

  3. Don't let #studio execs and #streaming #corporations #convince you that this #writer's #strike is going to ruin the #art that you love. The art is nothing without the #artist, and our favorite #artists cannot make our favorite art when their #pay is too low, their #contracts too short, and their writer's rooms #understaffed!!! :af: