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So, you’ve probably seen the national news story lately of fast food workers across the country demanding their wages be brought up to $15 an hour. Today, they marched from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Downtown Seattle for equal pay rights, or something, and decided to host an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit. I’m going to leave my personal opinion out of this and just let you enjoy the carnage of Redditors tearing these people apart (click to enlarge):
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Brian McGannon
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I’m sitting at my desk sipping bourbon while I read this. No real reason to share that, just felt like it.
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That makes two of us. Cheers!
I’m still drunk from all the office scotch. Damn meeting or else I wouldn’t show up today.
All I can think about is the fact that this is a perfect example of why they call us the participation trophy generation.
I think some one on reddit commented this, but most of the fast food workers are of our parents generation
no, they claimed it, but thats a horseshit fact and the link he provided only claimed that 25% of fast food workers are raising a child. That doesnt mean they are from our parents generations
I had a fun talk with some of the other engineers at work about how we could automate fast food jobs if this happens
So easily. The more minimum wage increases, the more automation projects I get to work
It’s funny because I never got my GED or HS. Yet I still busted my ass in a job I hated to make it to a point where I could make a livable wage.
I started off in retail selling sneakers; low pay shitty hours terrible bosses, but it’s what I could get. I worked in retail for I would say 4 or 5 years before I got promoted to a dept. manager.
After some time I got to be a store Manager that pays some where around 50K a year + bonus so I will end up around 55-60K a year.
I am still pulling shit hours in a shit job that I took over ten years of my life to get into. I work long hours deal with terrible managers and have to understand how to run a business. From dealing with HR issues to P&L reports LP Inventory ect.
Normally this would req. a business degree that I could have gotten in 2 year but instead it took 10 years of work.
Is my job hard? No it’s not but not everyone can do it. Managing millions of dollars in Inventory a staff training ect. That is not something everyone can do but I feel I am paid a fair wage based on my background. I am Lucky to have made it as far as I have.
I worked in fast food for a week and thought I do not want to do this at all. This is not what I want for my life. So I did something about it. I worked long hours I learned all about the products I was selling, I knew everything about every show / sneaker. Learned about health issued related to running pronate vs supinate shin splints everything. When I got promoted stayed with that title for a year or so and took that and got a sales lead Job with computers at Circuit City. I then learned everything I could about computers from motherboards to ram to cpu and gpu. learned about the softwares ect ect . Got promoted stayed with that job for years. Took that Job went into a large Jewelry chain as sales and worked my way up to Store Manager level over years doing the same thing learning about gold silver diamonds and gems and becoming great in sales and a leader.
So it took me over 10 years to raise my pay, sometimes working 50,60,70+ hours a week not including the study time I took to learn my products.
Was it the smart way to do it ? No not by a long shot, but it was the way things played out for my life.
If you want to double your pay, work hard make it happen but its not going to happen from holding signs and doing a Job anyone can do. Take your work get a Job as a prep cook at olive garden or something work your way up stop asking for hand outs . Do not tell me it can’t be done because I did it.
And as you can tell by my poor grammar It doesn’t always take book smarts to get it done. Get off your ass and make something happen stop bitching
You are the American Dream.
Wow I can’t even imagine asking for a 10% raise, let alone a 100% raise… there is a reason you don’t make a “liveable wage”… ANYONE CAN DO YOUR JOB
Jesus, what an all around fucking disaster.
Would they also like fries with that?
Is this surprising? They have no knowledge of the basic concepts of supply and demand.
I mean, let’s be honest. They seem surprised that it’s busy at the same time everyday and that people get mad that it doesn’t change. Just don’t think a basic element of economics is within their grasp.
http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/15/17719586-in-tough-economy-fast-food-workers-grow-old
more than 42% of fast food workers are over 25 and have some sort of college education.
Any fuckhead can get a degree now from Univ of Phoenix. That stat means nothing.
90% of my fast food orders come back incorrect or sloppy. They get $15 an hour when my Subway sandwich doesn’t look shit and the cheese on my McGriddle isn’t melted on the paper more than my actual food.
The best part? If they did increase the wages to $15 an hour 75% of the FF workers would lose their jobs to more skilled, harder working individuals. Go ahead, get your leaders to make fry dropping a $15 an hour gig and watch how quickly you’re unemployed and suckling at the SSA trust funds nipple for your monthly ” I’m too shitty at life to get a new job” check
Exactly. Raise the wages, make it a desirable job, and all these morons will get the boot because competent employees will take their jobs. 90% of McDonald’s workers now don’t speak English and are from the USA. They speak some sort of mix of Ebonics and ruh-tard.