This is the dumbest story of the year:-No, you do not “deserve” $15 an hour. If you did you would already be earning it.-Entry level fast-food jobs are meant to be just that: Entry level. You gain some experience and pick up some spending money wile you go to school or learn a trade in order to have a career.-These knuckleheads want to DOUBLE their income, just because. Maybe they haven’t noticed that almost Nobody has gotten even a modest raise (while doing the same job) in almost a decade.-If you truly love the fast-food industry and want to make it a career, then do what thousands of other people do: Work hard and get promoted to Asst. Manager and then one day be a GM of a restaurant and make a very comfortable living.-Nobody is going to just “give you” a giant raise. You have to do what 95% of us in the middle-class had to do: Show up on time, work hard, don’t whine, sacrifice and continue to learn new skills.I’d like to see a reporter say THAT to one of these protesters!
Anybody know the percentage of disparity between management and labor income ? Last I heard, it wasover 400%…And why have prices gone sky high andlabor’s wages have remained basically(sp) static?
if you’re gonna double the entry level wages, i want social security doubled too, and your SSA withholding on your check doubled to support it.now, it technically isn’t even Close to minimum wage if you divide $600 a month by 160+ hours. whiners—they are gonna protest their way right out of a job.
The REAL issue should be the relationship between salary and local cost of living. In some parts of the country, $15/hr is slave wages because of the cost of housing etc. In my area, $7.25 is not only enough to “get by”, it’s also as much as a true small employer, 5 employees, not 50, and a slow turnover of product, can afford to pay.
In the real world, all things are relative. In the world of employers AND employees in the U.S., “capitalism” has lost that relativity part of the equation. One side demands profits, the other demands income, and “values” (in many forms, social and economic) don’t matter any more.
When I was making $1 per hour, a new car cost under $3,000, today that’s about $30 K for a car, so a ten-fold increase in minimum wage seems rational by that measure. I do have problem with that $15/hr in much of the country, but not in N.Y. C., or say San Francisco, where COL is very high.
^AND, you have a population base to move enough of your “product”. also BTW, several folks from Mickey D’s etc, have pointed out these are CAREER jobs they’re providing, not just “entry level”, so by that admission, maybe management should kick in a little more for those “skills”??
Grew up around restaurants and as a cook before getting a degree to “get by”. Low pay has always been the norm there, and keeping functioning employees is ALSO a real problem! That chains especially say servers should get by on tips, is also a poor measure, as in some areas tips are really good, and in others, they suck. Needless to say, your server at Burger King or Mickey D’s, isn’t going anywhere on tips at the drive through window!
You can’t make robber barons be better to their serfs. But you can choose not to patronize their establishments, and patronize those who do value their workers as investments. Workers are more loyal and work harder for employers who treat them as something other than expenses. I’m sure many of us have worked in places where turnover was rampant, regardless of wage; there’s a reason. Reward more beneficent employers with your purchases, and punish those who do not by refusing to subsidize them. I do this at every opportunity. It costs me more, but I feel it’s worth it not to send more jobs out of the country.
I myself believe that editorial cartoonists are highly over paid! So I for one will not be signing up for Go Comics pay for email cartoons. Highly over rated and lacking in factual content! Similar to the lack of customer service and value at fast food restaurants.
ConserveGov over 10 years ago
This is the dumbest story of the year:-No, you do not “deserve” $15 an hour. If you did you would already be earning it.-Entry level fast-food jobs are meant to be just that: Entry level. You gain some experience and pick up some spending money wile you go to school or learn a trade in order to have a career.-These knuckleheads want to DOUBLE their income, just because. Maybe they haven’t noticed that almost Nobody has gotten even a modest raise (while doing the same job) in almost a decade.-If you truly love the fast-food industry and want to make it a career, then do what thousands of other people do: Work hard and get promoted to Asst. Manager and then one day be a GM of a restaurant and make a very comfortable living.-Nobody is going to just “give you” a giant raise. You have to do what 95% of us in the middle-class had to do: Show up on time, work hard, don’t whine, sacrifice and continue to learn new skills.I’d like to see a reporter say THAT to one of these protesters!
W͛h͛i͛z͛z͛e͛r͛P͛u͛p͛ over 10 years ago
All the raising the minimum pay to $15 does is raise the cost of a burger by $0.25.
I think human dignity is worth us consumers paying a quarter more.
chipscount over 10 years ago
not enough pay, get two jobs or get an education and move up in the world, just quit yer bitchin
woodwork over 10 years ago
Anybody know the percentage of disparity between management and labor income ? Last I heard, it wasover 400%…And why have prices gone sky high andlabor’s wages have remained basically(sp) static?
MaNoah over 10 years ago
if you’re gonna double the entry level wages, i want social security doubled too, and your SSA withholding on your check doubled to support it.now, it technically isn’t even Close to minimum wage if you divide $600 a month by 160+ hours. whiners—they are gonna protest their way right out of a job.
ggauss Premium Member over 10 years ago
Really? Check out the fast food wages and prices in Australia. You pulled that $2.25 out of where the sun doesn’t shine.
ggauss Premium Member over 10 years ago
See what it did in Australia before making stupid remarks.
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
The REAL issue should be the relationship between salary and local cost of living. In some parts of the country, $15/hr is slave wages because of the cost of housing etc. In my area, $7.25 is not only enough to “get by”, it’s also as much as a true small employer, 5 employees, not 50, and a slow turnover of product, can afford to pay.
In the real world, all things are relative. In the world of employers AND employees in the U.S., “capitalism” has lost that relativity part of the equation. One side demands profits, the other demands income, and “values” (in many forms, social and economic) don’t matter any more.
When I was making $1 per hour, a new car cost under $3,000, today that’s about $30 K for a car, so a ten-fold increase in minimum wage seems rational by that measure. I do have problem with that $15/hr in much of the country, but not in N.Y. C., or say San Francisco, where COL is very high.
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
^AND, you have a population base to move enough of your “product”. also BTW, several folks from Mickey D’s etc, have pointed out these are CAREER jobs they’re providing, not just “entry level”, so by that admission, maybe management should kick in a little more for those “skills”??
Grew up around restaurants and as a cook before getting a degree to “get by”. Low pay has always been the norm there, and keeping functioning employees is ALSO a real problem! That chains especially say servers should get by on tips, is also a poor measure, as in some areas tips are really good, and in others, they suck. Needless to say, your server at Burger King or Mickey D’s, isn’t going anywhere on tips at the drive through window!
I Play One On TV over 10 years ago
You can’t make robber barons be better to their serfs. But you can choose not to patronize their establishments, and patronize those who do value their workers as investments. Workers are more loyal and work harder for employers who treat them as something other than expenses. I’m sure many of us have worked in places where turnover was rampant, regardless of wage; there’s a reason. Reward more beneficent employers with your purchases, and punish those who do not by refusing to subsidize them. I do this at every opportunity. It costs me more, but I feel it’s worth it not to send more jobs out of the country.
worldisacomic over 10 years ago
I myself believe that editorial cartoonists are highly over paid! So I for one will not be signing up for Go Comics pay for email cartoons. Highly over rated and lacking in factual content! Similar to the lack of customer service and value at fast food restaurants.