“We're hiring!” was also majorly a huge lie. None of these corporations which gave the appearance of being short-staffed due to “lazy” workers were never desperate, and were in fact passing the blame for their own purposeful lack of employing persons to the workers. They brainwashed the general public into accepting poor customer service, long wait times, and also increased the workload on the skeleton crews that they still employed under the guise of “no one wants to work!”