"Hey, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. But now... now I'm washing lettuce. Soon I'll be on fries; then the grill. In a year or two, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in."
Idiot.
The job is not intended to last 20 years. You do not buy a house, raise a family, and send the kids to college on this job. It's temporary, while you pick up basic work skills, like showing up on time. Then you move on and get something that pays more than $8.25 an hour.
Yo Leonard - Dr. Cliff Huxtable wasn’t real.
Welcome to Obama’s Amerika.
What would LP Jr. do if he couldn’t find something to whine about.
Why would someone still be working at McD’s for 20 years? If you haven’t moved up to manager, there’s no reason to stay. Use the job experience on your résumé, show your work ethic, and move on.
>>In December, for example, Bloomberg profiled a Chicago man who, after 20 years with the burger giant, earns $8.25 an hour — and doesn’t get 40 hours a week.<<
Lesson: sit on your duff, don’t learn a g-d thing, don’t go to school, don’t bother to even watch Jeopardy (or even Wheel). Repeat for 20 years. Then complain that the Man is holding you down.
Welfare and the minimum wage encourages people to live at a subsistence level, which we have learned destroys incentive and upward class mobility. It does for the poor what confiscatory taxation does for the wealthy, pushing both ends of the economic spectrum toward the middle, where the socialist utopia dwells.
Cospicuously absent is any mention of earned income credits and EBT cards and other forms of commonly available state and federal assistance.
And if McDonalds didn’t do this, he’d be griping that they just don’t care about their exploited workers. You can’t win with the perpetually aggrieved.
Fast Food worker pay is their new target.
They want to sell the idea that employers are responsible for supporting their workers, like its child support.
Now all B0 can do is browbeat McD to hire even more part-time workers and to pay them a “Fair” or “livable” wage.
Dude from Chicago is a chump. He needs to get on the dole. Right, Lenny ?
If you want more from others, do more for others. Simple.
I don’t know anyone who has a 90 dollar electric bill these days.
When I was young, McJobs were for McKids to make a few bucks and get some work experience. If you wanted extra money, you covered additional shifts.
Individual Operators and their Managers made a “living wage” as their Jobs were their Careers.
McDonalds Business Model hasn’t changed, the influx of unskilled “immigrants” has taken those low wage entry level Jobs and attached an expectation of compensation that exceeds the skill level required.
Hey, Leonard, those people are free to leave and get a higher paying job. They are free to open their own restaurant and pay themselve high wages too.
The most vexing thing about the article is its condescension!
Wages are the price of labor. Entry level positions for unskilled workers only justify low wages. Those low wages are part of the reason why businesses such as McDonald's can be profitable while selling a modest product. If there was no profit, there would be no product, jobs, or business.
The author, Mr. Pitts, chooses to ignore that reality in his article. But in his life Mr. Pitts apparently made choices to ensure that he did not permanently work at McDonald's-style entry level positions. Despite his real-life behavior, Mr. Pitts believes that everyone deserves endless bundles of money regardless of effort or achievement.
So I have a solution for Mr. Pitts. I will select an entry level employee who is so worthless he should be fired. And then Mr. will give this employee all of his money for the rest of his life.
Should Mr. Pitts not do this, then his article and his life are an insult. Because ultimately, this is exactly the solution his is advocating for us, but never him.
If you make stupid choices you win stupid prizes.