Posted on 08/22/2017 2:52:15 AM PDT by Cronos
Once a customer has barked their order into the microphone at the Popeyes drive-thru on Prospect Avenue, Kansas City, the clock starts. Staff have a company-mandated 180 seconds to take the order, cook the order, bag the order and deliver it to the drive-thru window.
The restaurant is on “short shift” at the moment, which means it has about half the usual staff, so Fran Marion often has to do all those jobs herself. On the day we met, she estimates she processed 187 orders – roughly one every two minutes. Those orders grossed about $950 for the company. Marion went home with $76.
Despite working six days a week, Marion, 37, a single mother of two, can’t make ends meet on the $9.50 an hour she gets at Popeyes (no apostrophe – founder Al Copeland joked he was too poor to afford one). A fast food worker for 22 years, Marion has almost always had a second job. Until recently, she had been working 9am-4pm at Popeyes, without a break, then crossing town to a janitorial job at Bartle Hall, the convention center, where she would work from 5pm- to 1.30am for $11 an hour. She didn’t take breaks there either, although they were allowed.
..More than that, she likes working in fast food. “I love it. I’m good at it. Just like Martin Luther King said, ‘If you are going to be a road sweeper, be the best damn sweeper there is’,” she says. “I don’t know. It’s just this society is all messed up.”
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So babydaddy gets off scot free, no child support? That's on him. And she's incapable of or unwilling to gain skills that would make her value high enough to make ends meet? That's on her
Yes, Because he can speak truths that if spoken by me would be hate speech.
TRUTH- it's the new HATE SPEECH.
I think if I were the Popeyes manager or franchise owner and saw this, I would have her union rep in my office and the EO on the phone and talk about her next opportunities in life, and it wouldn’t be at Popeyes.
Chris Rock is not important.
You forgot to factor in the increase in Social Security deductions paid for by the company, which is based on gross wages. And she's not the only person, I presume, who would get this increase to $15 / hour; all the employees would.
Unless you’re in management, Fast Food was never meant to be a career.
And guess what happens then? Most likely she'll be making $0 an hour, because she'll be laid off.
The biggest gap we have is the ambition gap.
Some people just flat out don’t aspire to be anything.
You are correct she should definitely a manager at Popeyes now something is wrong with this story!!!
They don't tell them the immediately lower the quality of men they will attract when they have some other guys kid. Actually kids because now we are seeing these women walk around with 3 and 4 kids fathered by 3 and 4 different guys.
They also don't tell them, that even without the kids, their shelf life is limited. The guy is wired to want the girl with the best, youngest, most fertile eggs.
These girls are being told, "Hey, have a brood of kids by several guys and you can STILL be primo on the sexual market into your 40s"
Reality is telling them something very different.
Important? No. Useful? Sometimes. He can say what needs to be said, to those who need to hear it.
Exactly!
That was the pre-PC Chris Rock, before the Hollywood Mafia got to him.
They now have a robotic bartender on cruise ships and from what I hear people line up just to have it make you a drink.
However, it doesn’t tell any jokes, yet.
Like some kind of resource for wit and wisdom for people who sorely lack it.
We have to ask what fraction of this story is actually true?
In about eight months, I turned down at least three offers to get promoted to assistant manager.
As you stated, a little hard work and application, and you can move up very quickly in the ranks, and pay for management in retail is nothing to sneeze at.
Exactly!
Higher minimum wages add to all the other government mandates that make human labor uncompetitive with automation.
Have worked with a number of manufacturing processes where the flexibility of human labor and other advantages offset the cost savings and high throughput of automation solutions.
Every few were evaluate and automation always lost out - until now. We are now converting to automation and not because of significant changes on the automation side of the equation.
It all has to do with the Obama era labor policies and regulations
The economy is starting to recover and my concern is that higher minimum wages are going to be the final nail in the coffin to kill many jobs as manufacturers look to add capacity.
employer will weigh the enormous costs of hiring and training new workers under the new labor realities and opt to invest in automation solutions simply because the government has made human labor undesirable and uncompetitive.
This will make job creation slower in this economic recovery.
You really see this in the fast food industry . I am stunned at how quickly companies like McDonalds has responded to high minimum wage laws with what are clearly automation and labor saving solutions that are phasing in at the same rate as the increases in minimum wages.
When we finally hit the magic $15, we will find that there will be far fewer minimum wage jobs than there are now
She was part of a huge demonstration for the $15 wage call. This whole article is a union ploy.
Her kids are teenagers already. Let’s guess.....
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