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I try to hit up McDonald's while the owner is there


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38 minutes ago, Mini_Ghost said:

when the owner isn't there they have problems getting the food right

That shows you that they know what they're doing, but are too sorry to do their damn job, while unsupervised.

These are the same folks who are bitching about minimum wage being raised.

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21 minutes ago, midnight said:

That shows you that they know what they're doing, but are too sorry to do their damn job, while unsupervised.

These are the same folks who are bitching about minimum wage being raised.

Well it's kind of a chicken/egg thing....I'm not gonna do a bangup job for 8 bucks either

 

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1 minute ago, Buddyroe360 said:

Well it's kind of a chicken/egg thing....I'm not gonna do a bangup job for 8 bucks either

 

Lol

Naive little 17 year old me worked her ass off. No wonder some were hating.

Front counter i sanitized the ice cream machine, mopped the dining room, cleaned the table. I refused to clean the bathroom. I counted down the drawers at nite and helped balance shit. Fixed broken office shit like the printer and fax machine. Got promoted to full time morning shift back drive thru and given a raise after i graduated Lol oh boy them were the days!

This nasty white girl who loved black dudes hated my guts...she was the Micky Ds Queen when i showed up. Well she somehow found out i was making more $ than her...well..lets say..they made us work different shifts after that so we never had to face each other lolol

 

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47 minutes ago, midnight said:

That shows you that they know what they're doing, but are too sorry to do their damn job, while unsupervised.

These are the same folks who are bitching about minimum wage being raised.

I can actually see both sides of the minimum wage argument so I'm hesitant to say anything about it

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7 minutes ago, tsar4 said:

They'll do better when they get $15/hr.

everyone should get a 90% raise. think of all the stuff you could buy with that extra cash just dropping into your bank account! things like a better work ethic.

which, oddly enough, requires precisely $15/hr to maintain.

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6 minutes ago, Mini_Ghost said:

I can actually see both sides of the minimum wage argument so I'm hesitant to say anything about it

I mean, I can see both sides too. 

It's hard to care about a job that's paying only that much, but at the same time, are they gonna do it better if they are making more money?

I don't know. I have worked with folks making more than 15 an hour, and weren't worth a shit. 

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1 minute ago, midnight said:

I mean, I can see both sides too. 

It's hard to care about a job that's paying only that much, but at the same time, are they gonna do it better if they are making more money?

I don't know. I have worked with folks making more than 15 an hour, and weren't worth a shit. 

also around here minimum wage don't really fly they got to compete with the mines and oil rigs for working stiffs. so even shit jobs pay 10 an hour most of the time

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37 minutes ago, Buddyroe360 said:

Well it's kind of a chicken/egg thing....I'm not gonna do a bangup job for 8 bucks either

 

It is a complicated subject. I understand folks not wanting to bust their ass for 8 bucks an hour, but at the same time, I have worked with folks who make 15 an hour, and they didn't give a shit either. 

If corporations are made to pay their employees a minimum wage of 15 an hour, then the prices are going to go up on everything. A company isn't going to lose money. The employees will. Even with a raise, across the board, everything is going to go up to accommodate that salary increase. Then the employees will be back in the same boat, not giving a shit. 

That's the only way I see that playing out. I think the people deserve a raise, but without repercussions. At the same time, if this could happen, then the employees should be expected to at least pretend to give a shit.

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26 minutes ago, midnight said:

I mean, I can see both sides too. 

It's hard to care about a job that's paying only that much, but at the same time, are they gonna do it better if they are making more money?

I don't know. I have worked with folks making more than 15 an hour, and weren't worth a shit. 

The trick here is when McDee's or whatever starts paying 15 bucks an hour, then the hiring phase has to extend past "this guy showed up for the interview."......At a 15/hr wage, you can weed out people who just want one check or want to sit on their ass....So the FIRST thing to do would be to filter supervisors that want quality employees vs Supervisors wanting to cover a shift so they can go home

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44 minutes ago, Buddyroe360 said:

The trick here is when McDee's or whatever starts paying 15 bucks an hour, then the hiring phase has to extend past "this guy showed up for the interview."......At a 15/hr wage, you can weed out people who just want one check or want to sit on their ass....So the FIRST thing to do would be to filter supervisors that want quality employees vs Supervisors wanting to cover a shift so they can go home

Yes. This is a very good concept. 

An employee is only going to be as efficient as their supervisor. 

If the boss doesn't care, why should the people under him/her?

It can work, but only if it is done like you suggested.

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Just now, Naraku4656 said:

it's just that the burgers there are like $7. for like 2 dollars more i can go to a bar and get a much better burger. the only time i really go there is when i get a hard craving for it or i'm on a long drive

yeah I could go to a bar and eat for my order. but I crave them :D

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5 minutes ago, Naraku4656 said:

i haven't been to mcdicks in a while. i used to like them but as i got older the taste kind of went away

I was gonna call u a food nazi but then i remembered last week i got nuggets and they tasted like cardboard 

Thats a hard thing for me to say

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4 minutes ago, fuggstop said:

I was gonna call u a food nazi but then i remembered last week i got nuggets and they tasted like cardboard 

Thats a hard thing for me to say

i feel like once they tried being healthy they stopped being good. like i'm talking super size long time ago they were legit. even though i never did super size

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apparently my brain is failing me, i wasn't alive for styrofoam containers there
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10 hours ago, midnight said:

It is a complicated subject. I understand folks not wanting to bust their ass for 8 bucks an hour, but at the same time, I have worked with folks who make 15 an hour, and they didn't give a shit either. 

If corporations are made to pay their employees a minimum wage of 15 an hour, then the prices are going to go up on everything. A company isn't going to lose money. The employees will. Even with a raise, across the board, everything is going to go up to accommodate that salary increase. Then the employees will be back in the same boat, not giving a shit. 

That's the only way I see that playing out. I think the people deserve a raise, but without repercussions. At the same time, if this could happen, then the employees should be expected to at least pretend to give a shit.

This is the same kind of argument that they use against unions, and what it boils down to is a threat by the companies in order to secure our compliance. 

But they have room to lose some and still make profits. Most companies, even with the havoc of the last few weeks, have been making record profits for years (starting under the Obama administration). Wage growth hasn't grown to match. That money didn't disappear. Those at the top keep sucking up more of it. And they will until we return to the gilded era. Or worse.

A liveable minimum wage prevents that. Or at least slows it. That was what the minimum wage was intended to do. 

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12 hours ago, fuggstop said:

No they wont. Not when their leaders arent pushing them or training them to perform. They have no idea wtf they are doing and no one guides them.

I was given significant independence when I edited NIH, NSF, and NASA grants in grad school. If I didn't get paid at least fifteen an hour for making sure the science faculty of my university knew how to write a sentence (a lot of them didn't), I would have probably just blew the job off.  But fifteen was a lot, so I worked hard.

Hell, even when I taught kindergarten and first grade in a hagwon in South Korea, making the same wage as people who worked 30 hours a week while I worked 60, I still worked my ass off because I was making 2000 a month not including living wages. That's the most money I've seen from a job ever.

Theres also this: A lot of people are simply worn down by being talked down to by the same people who request their services, because we live in a society that sees certain employment as inferior, despite the fact that it makes a small fraction of people VERY VERY rich, and feeds millions of people on a daily basis--a basic human need! If that isnt respected with an income that doesn't cover the employee's own basic needs, how can we demand so much of their work ethic? How can we berate them for asking for more when more only covers the standard?

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4 hours ago, KimopoBotar said:

This is the same kind of argument that they use against unions, and what it boils down to is a threat by the companies in order to secure our compliance. 

But they have room to lose some and still make profits. Most companies, even with the havoc of the last few weeks, have been making record profits for years (starting under the Obama administration). Wage growth hasn't grown to match. That money didn't disappear. Those at the top keep sucking up more of it. And they will until we return to the gilded era. Or worse.

A liveable minimum wage prevents that. Or at least slows it. That was what the minimum wage was intended to do. 

The trouble is getting the companies to part with a little extra. The rich don't want to give up any money. Even if the minimum wage is raised, the big corporations will find a way to get that money back, via price increases on everything. We remain lower-middle class for a reason. The 1% controls everything. It is sad to think that a company like McDonald's is a multi-billion dollar company, and most of their employees can't afford to live. People are working for, in my state, $7.25 an hour, just to help make more money, not for themselves, but for more rich bastards. My state is boasting about unemployment being the lowest it's been in years, due to so many jobs being filled. Those jobs are minimum wage jobs. There are Dollar General's being thrown up all over the place down here, and $7.25 an hour is what they start at. That's not much to boast about. But, if Abrams wins our governor's race, she wants to increase the minimum wage. I just hope we don't see price increases on everything, which will put everyone back in the same boat they were in. Buddy said it best. It has to work the way he mentioned, or it won't work.

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4 hours ago, Bouvre said:

I was given significant independence when I edited NIH, NSF, and NASA grants in grad school. If I didn't get paid at least fifteen an hour for making sure the science faculty of my university knew how to write a sentence (a lot of them didn't), I would have probably just blew the job off.  But fifteen was a lot, so I worked hard.

Hell, even when I taught kindergarten and first grade in a hagwon in South Korea, making the same wage as people who worked 30 hours a week while I worked 60, I still worked my ass off because I was making 2000 a month not including living wages. That's the most money I've seen from a job ever.

Theres also this: A lot of people are simply worn down by being talked down to by the same people who request their services, because we live in a society that sees certain employment as inferior, despite the fact that it makes a small fraction of people VERY VERY rich, and feeds millions of people on a daily basis--a basic human need! If that isnt respected with an income that doesn't cover the employee's own basic needs, how can we demand so much of their work ethic? How can we berate them for asking for more when more only covers the standard?

I was berated maybe once by this crazy man who never came back. So there was no constant belittling for me.

There sure is at the job im at now but i make ok money here

 

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8 hours ago, Bouvre said:

I was given significant independence when I edited NIH, NSF, and NASA grants in grad school. If I didn't get paid at least fifteen an hour for making sure the science faculty of my university knew how to write a sentence (a lot of them didn't), I would have probably just blew the job off.  But fifteen was a lot, so I worked hard.

Hell, even when I taught kindergarten and first grade in a hagwon in South Korea, making the same wage as people who worked 30 hours a week while I worked 60, I still worked my ass off because I was making 2000 a month not including living wages. That's the most money I've seen from a job ever.

Theres also this: A lot of people are simply worn down by being talked down to by the same people who request their services, because we live in a society that sees certain employment as inferior, despite the fact that it makes a small fraction of people VERY VERY rich, and feeds millions of people on a daily basis--a basic human need! If that isnt respected with an income that doesn't cover the employee's own basic needs, how can we demand so much of their work ethic? How can we berate them for asking for more when more only covers the standard?

I do not berate such workers because I'd be one of them if it wasn't for my disability checks and Lord Nanna commands me not to berate them

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