>Understaffed, underpaid, overworked employees have been cutting corners to maintain production demands over the last two years, now rather than restaffing, addressing the temporary fixes, and rewarding those employees they are told "this is the new normal". *Precisely,* you nailed it- and your statement doesn't only apply to the food/agriculture fields. This is happening in *all* fields of work. 2 years of covid bullshit forced a lot good workers out, along with some shit ones. The remaining workers now have to work 3x as hard and essentially know 3+ job titles just to keep the place functioning. This can be done short term, but, this is equal to running a horse into the ground- people burn out, and they burn out way faster under suddenly much harder/different circumstances. Employers must know this, and they should account for it. **MORE AND MORE JOB TITLES ARE BEING COMBINED.** An friend of mine is a recruiter for a temp agency, and he told me that it's harder and harder to get people to stay at their jobs after being contracted, outside of the normal masses of flaky losers who don't want to work. He's told me stories about well-qualified or really skilled/sharp folks getting positions, only to discover in their first few weeks that they are doing far, far more work than was outlined to them in their job description. So they get pissed and try to address it by getting more money, which almost always fails, or they just walk off the job one day mid-work because it sucks so hard. It hasn't been long enough since the throat of the USA (the whole world, really) was slit to see the effects of this on a large scale yet. Given a little more time, a whole lot of horrific shit is going to start happening at **extreme, unusually high** rates. Investigations will reveal "The factory exploded because Worker A had just put in his 3rd 60 hour week of hard labor in a row, covering for two of his peers because they have covid. He fell asleep at the wheel of a forklift and crashed into something and blew up." Or shoddy parts causing catastrophes at higher rates. Massive decrease in the already shitty-service end of industry. Some pockets might have dodged most of this. Unfortunately, it only takes one moron at the DoT to fuck up things for two states at once with one mistake on paperwork or something stupid like that. We're in fucking free fall. The vast majority of people who graduate from college will happily admit to how much they fucking cheated to get their degrees. They'll gleefully admit to it. These are the people who are going to be performing surgery on you if you get into a car wreck and go comatose. These are the people who will fly your planes, test your water supplies, etc..