Posted on 12/26/2019 7:39:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
In general, it sucks to get fired. Seldom do I celebrate someone getting their job torched—oftentimes liberal media outlets bring it upon themselves, but it’s still never a good thing, especially around the holidays. And it’s maddening to a certain extent when you know jobs will be lost because Democrats keep peddling trash economic policies. The minimum wage hike is the mecca of all things bad. These jobs aren’t meant to support families, but Democrats seem keen on peddling this policy that will lead to job losses, cut hours, and smaller paychecks. It’s already happened in New York. In Seattle, we all saw this iceberg coming, except those who actually think hiking the minimum wage will lead to an economic boom. They’re idiots. Period. Study after study showed that this phased-in minimum wake hike would cannibalize jobs. USA Today noticed the detrimental aspects of this policy and urged supporters to pump the brakes. The added overhead only leads restaurant owners to close and accelerates the trend toward automation. Robots will eventually do a lot of the work these workers do, especially for fast food chains.
One restaurant worker in Seattle wrote in The Wall Street Journal this month that while she’s progressive, the minimum wage hike in the city led to her losing her job before Christmas. She also implored the far-left, economically illiterate dolts who push this policy to slow down:
This city’s minimum wage is rising to $16.39 an hour on Jan. 1. Instead of receiving a bigger paycheck, I’m left without any pay at all due to the policy change. That’s because the restaurant where I’ve worked for six years is closing as a consequence of the city’s harmful minimum-wage experiment.
I work for Tom Douglas, one of the best-known restaurateurs in Seattle. Mr. Douglas is in many ways responsible for the city’s reputation as a foodie paradise, and he recently celebrated his 30th anniversary in business. He’s a great boss, and his employees tend to stay at the company for a long time.
But being an established chef and a good employer doesn’t save you from the burden of a sharp minimum-wage increase, up 73% from $9.47 in 2015. For large-scale employers like Mr. Douglas, there’s no separate rate for workers who earn tips. In Washington and a handful of other states, tips aren’t counted as income earned on the job. That means restaurateurs are expected to pay servers like me the full minimum wage in addition to our considerable tip income.
When rent is too high, labor costs too much, and customers don’t want to pay $40 for a roast-chicken entree, the only way for many operators to ease the pain is to close.
[…]
I’ve lived in this city for almost 20 years, supporting my family thanks to the full-service-restaurant industry. Today I’m struggling because of a policy meant to help me. I’m proudly progressive in my politics, but my experience shows that progressives should reconsider minimum-wage laws that hurt the very workers they’re trying to protect.
Again, we all saw the signs. And now, Target decided to experiment with this minimum wage hike and it screwed over its workers. One has to just stop taking crazy pills or put down the crack pipe to see that this policy is a total failure. Heck, we even have progressives trashing it.
this idiot got slapped across the jowls by her idiotic beliefs and still won’t hesitate in being a believer.
how stupid.
Been saying these things and more for years. Messing with the law of economics never ends well. The minimum wage was fine the way it was. Minimum wage is for entry level people and those who earn good tips (like $200-$300 a shift). Raising it also has the effect of lowering the income of fixed income people like retired or disabled because the price of everything goes up.
Bad juju all around.
You can’t fix STUPID!!!
If She’s still a progressive, she didn’t learn anything and deserves to go through life destitute and living in a cardboard box.
We had (past tense) two favorite restaurants but found both closed this year. Each had been open for at least 20 years and were always very busy.
The press releases cited 1)new minimum wage, 2) facility rents sky rocketing 3)traffic congestion and 4) down town crime.
We noted this year that Seattle has become a ghost town for tourists except for the bums and vagrants.
When I was in college minimum wage was $2.13 an hour, I was a cocktail waitress OMG I made so much money it was actually absurd, after graduating I made far LESS money in my career than I did as a cocktail waitress!!! I worked 4 nights a week in a fine dining restaurant and ALWAYS made at least $1500.00 a week in tips, I have NEVER understood these wacka doodle waitresses SCREAMING about raising minimum wage I never picked up my paycheck until the manager used to hand me a stack of them telling me they were going to expire if I didn’t deposit them!!!
People in service industries are pushed out by the liberals of their own ilk. Add to that the new minimum wages and high taxes on businesses and you have a perfect closure storm. Seattle is a VERY unfriendly city for small business and their workers.
Minimum wage: anyone _producing_ less than $MinWage/hr of value is prohibited by law from working at all.
I don’t understand why Progressives hate the less productive among us.
Hey, flagburner, six for you.
Abused wife syndrome
In response to the $15 wage, one of the restaurant chains there told its customers to NOT TIP. Their rationale was that their waiters are already paid plenty and they also understand that people factor in the tip when deciding whether to eat out. I think they got ‘shamed’ into retracting that policy.
But, as it is, I often visit places with a $15 (or more) minimum wage - and guess what, I NEVER TIP, and I never will tip people earning $15/hour...after all the tip is now built into the price, just as it is Japan.
It takes skill and charisma to waitress, it’s an art; one in which you excelled. The ones screaming for the hike obviously have none of the above and therefore extorting their employer is the only way to get a raise. And of course they’ll all end up unemployed eventually.
Hang in there, honey, your Progressive betters haven’t begun to truly destroy your prospects for a good life. But if you’ll just keep supporting them...
Don’t you mean you are Stupid, because I bet you’ll go into the booth and vote Democrat. I’m going to go into the booth and vote Trump and vote down the crazy law John Morgan wants, $15 a hour minimum wage...
I made a ton of money during high school and college as a waitress/barmaid/chambermaid in tips. Pay sucked but tips rocked. Especially since tips were under the table (70s and 80s). I was a high school junior pulling in $200 a night during summer at the shore waitressing and as a barmaid. Working 6 hours 4 nights a week at Penn State during college pulling in hundreds of dollars each night. In tax free tips. And we didn’t have to share tips then. We gave a percentage to the bus boys but that was it.
It’s far different now a days. Tips are taxed or perceived tips are taxed and shared so everyone gets the same (at least here).
Everyone has to make a “living wage” so no one does.Socialism at its finest.
Where is here?
Kshama Sawant (/ʃɑːmə sɑːˈwʌnt/; born October 17, 1973)[1][2] is an American politician and economist who serves on the Seattle City Council. She is a member of Socialist Alternative. A former software engineer, Sawant became an economics instructor in Seattle after immigrating to the United States.[3] She ran unsuccessfully for the Washington House of Representatives before winning her seat on the Seattle City Council. She was the first socialist to win a citywide election in Seattle since Anna Louise Strong was elected to the school board in 1916.[4][5].
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kshama_Sawant
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