Posted on 02/11/2020 8:09:41 PM PST by grundle
Recently, McDonald’s employees have been going on strike to try to get paid $15 an hour. Associated Press reports:
Shaniqua Davis, 20, lives in the Bronx with her boyfriend, who is unemployed, and their 1-year-old daughter. Davis has worked at a McDonald’s a few blocks from her apartment for the past three months, earning $7.25 an hour. Her schedule varies, but she never gets close to 40 hours a week. “Forty? Never. They refuse to let you get to that (many) hours.”
Her weekly paycheck is $150 or much lower. “One of my paychecks, I only got $71 on there. So I wasn’t able to do much with that. My daughter needs stuff, I need to get stuff for my apartment,” said Davis, who plans to take part in the strike Thursday.
She pays the rent with public assistance but struggles to afford food, diapers, subway and taxi fares, cable TV and other expenses with her paycheck.
“It’s really hard,” she said. “If I didn’t have public assistance to help me out, I think I would have been out on the street already with the money I make at McDonald’s.”
So, Shaniqua Davis says that it’s “really hard” to take care of a baby on what McDonald’s pays.
She’s right.
So why did she try to do such a thing in the first place?
Why did she choose to become an unmarried teenage mother?
Whatever her reasons were, it’s not McDonald’s fault.
Of course you can’t raise a family on what McDonald’s pays its cashiers. But that kind of job was never intended to be for people who are trying to raise a family. Instead, that kind of job is supposed to be for a teenager trying to get money to pay for the prom, or for a student who is working their way through college.
And what is this nonsense of having a baby out of wedlock, and then being surprised as how hard it is? Of course it’s hard. That’s why the institution of marriage has existed, in every society, all over the world, for thousands of years.
The article also says that Ms. Davis “struggles” to pay for her cable TV. This just shows how much things have changed in this country. In the past, being poor meant that you couldn’t get 2,000 calories per day, or that you didn’t have indoor plumbing, or that your roof leaked. But now, being poor means that you have difficulty paying for cable TV. My, how things have changed.
Ms. Davis and the other strikers want to get paid $15 an hour, but they don’t want to acquire the education and job skills that would justify such a salary. McDonald’s already pays some of its employees more than $15 an hour, such as its accountants, lawyers, and computer programmers. Those employees didn’t get those higher wages by going on strike. Instead, they got those higher wages by putting in the time and effort to acquire the education and job skills that justify those higher wages. Ms. Davis and the other strikers want higher wages, but they don’t want to provide anything in exchange for the extra pay.
What would happen if the government did require McDonald’s to pay all of its employees $15 an hour? One possibility is that McDonald’s would only hire people who had a college degree. If that were to be the case, Ms. Davis would end up getting paid nothing. Another possibility is that McDonald’s would replace its human workers with robots and self-serve checkouts. And again, if that were to be the case, Ms. Davis would end up getting paid nothing.
Actually a good number of counter people also earn over $15 an hour but they have the job skills for it.
Sounds like she does not and has no interest in acquiring them.
Who forces her to work at McDonalds?
This is the problem with many women in the workforce.
They expect their job to be their de facto husbank. And the welfare they get from other workers’ earnings.
AP photos aren’t allowed on FR. You may want to hit
the abuse button and asked the mods to pull it.
Holy cow. ..my grand kids have toys like that. One is called a See And Say. ....
Wonder how they handle cash? This is very depressing to know this. Shouldn’t have asked.
I agree. Robots won’t spit in your food if they see you wearing Trump swag.
>>>Pictures...of the food. Someone orders 3 Big Macs? Press Big Mac button 3 times.<<<
Close, but no cigar. We use touch screen Point Of Sale machines, which are actually a computer terminal, with a cash drawer. It is directly networked to Corporate, as well as the in-house office computer.
There MIGHT be a pic, but most are captions; when touched, then the keypad is used to enter how many, the tender, etc. There are about 4 layers of sub-screens, as well. In addition, they are the time clock, among other miscellaneous functions.
It is not for the workers’, nor even mainly the business owner’s benefit, but Corporate’s: makes it MUCH harder to fudge the monthly franchise percentage-fee due them. It also helps Corporate manage their warehouse stocking needs.
It also allows them (and the owner) to have instant data access to what is selling, during which hours, for better inventory & labor cost controls; and gives near instant feedback on advertising & promotions.
Example, If 25 orders contained chicken nuggets, at 2 oz per order, then what happened to the other 3 pounds of nuggets that were in the freezer yesterday?
Same day/time period this week & last week, while a new promotion was advertised on the weekend, can be compared for effect in near real time.
Those registers are not because the cashiers are stupid, at least not where I’ve been working part time the last 5 years...we don’t keep the stupid ones, any more than we do the lazy or rude ones.
We (and Corporate) can even bring up stats on orders during any particular time period that includes number of orders, average price per order; man hours, gross receipts, and average labor cost/order; and an overall efficiency percentage. Also included are stats on drive-through, including time spent stopped at the menu board before an order is taken; how long they’re at the window; and how long it took to actually make the order.
Don’t disparage the cash register because it “has pictures instead of cash-keys”.
I don’t know what’s going on with cashiers these days but I’ve pretty much stopped giving the proper amount of change in order to get dollar bills back. Something about that blows their minds.
Hmmmmmmmmm
Food she needs , throw out the lazy boyfriend and she wont have to feed him also.
diapers she doesn’t need to buy, purchase some cloth diapers and wash them...
subway she doesn’t need her job is just a few blocks from her apartment...
Taxis she doesn’t need who spends money on taxis ??? where is she going ???
TV cable she doesn’t need cancel that...
other expenses What ???
get used baby clothes from family, friends, a charity or make them...a 1 yo doesn’t need fancy stuff...
she doesn’t need braids or her feet done...etc...
you have to be able to count to 3...
Yo baby daddy don’t got no job and yo ass got pregnant at 20. Yo a dumb ass bitch.
Don’t forget attempting to raise a kid as a single mom on minimum wage in one of the most expensive places to live on the planet.
CC
Sounds fancy. The old registers were as I had described. How likely is it the McD’s in Shaniqua’s Bronx neighborhood has the latest upgrades?
Sign up for postmates or similar service and make $80 per day not week on bycicle in Manhattan.
She could cut cable TV and use just a regular outside antenna. Plenty of channels in the Bronx area. JMHO.
Or cut on lottery tickets to start with.
And how much does she spend on her hair and how much is her boyfriends sneakers. How much public assistance is she getting because she is not married and there is no responsibility on her boyfriend who lives with her and IS the father of her kid. This is a prime example of rat policies
cable TV? Probably cell phones, too? Unemployed boyfriend living in the apartment?
Right there are three things that could be changed almost immediately, and save good money that could be applied to diapers, food, subway fares and so forth.
Lousy decision making for a long time, it appears...
Right. And it looks like the story has been pulled.
If she’s paying rent with public assistance (HUD money) having a layabout bum boyfriend living in the unit is a no no.
They are = they’re.
Sheesh.
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