Posted on 02/28/2019 8:35:47 PM PST by blueplum
The corporate takeover of 10 Sonic drive-ins around the Columbus, Ohio, area got off to a bumpy start after workers at three of the hamburger chain's restaurants walked off the job en masse and caused a local stir with their parting sentiments.
"Due to terrible management the whole store has quit," reads an expletive-laced goodbye note taped to a window of the Sonic restaurant in Circleville, where another handwritten sign read, "Thank you, next,"...
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“At the local McDonald’s the employees don’t even deserve the standard minimum wage. They literally get my order wrong one out of five times.”
Playing Burger King Bingo was one of the highlights of going there
You don't 'beg' for workers you offer more money to get workers. It's called supply and demand.
Yes, the Free Republic attack on the hated minimum wage worker is well underway. The Republicans are called the stupid party FOR A GOOD REASON.
Love to see how they manage that at a Sonic.
Old school members of the Repulsive Party need to get used to the idea that the party is now the party of mostly wage earners and blue collar workers so my advice is to take the silver spoon out of your < deleted >.
LOL!
Waiting to see if your employer is going to mess with you is most definitely NOT smart.
I stuck around after the rumors started flying about a former employer. 26 days later I showed up for work and the site had a stop work order, and the company tools had vanished.
30 years later, I am still owed that month’s wages, court order to pay doesn’t matter.
Once burned twice shy: I’d book too were I one of those kids.
My comment was in reference to Starsucks, not Sonics.
I live near a sonic, but I don’t see the appeal. I expected chicks on roller skates. But its more like an old drive in theatre with no movie playing. You cant sit inside, there is no inside.
I wish In-N-Out would expand to my area, but I haven’t seen them since leaving CA.
In-N-Out is good. Fast food in general is rapidly pricing me out of the market, though. No chain-store burger is worth 6 or 7 dollars.
Similar. I like the concept of what Sonic is, but my actual experience at the restaurants is always lacking. So I quit going.
And right on cue, the location in NW Davenport shuttered a few months later.
Service and quality for a fair price will always win the day. Any of the three lacking and you fail.
You can only mechanize so much before people start not eating there because eating there ultimately works against their interests.
That’s the thing about automation and labor - There is an ‘automation saturation point’ at which the number of people sidelined by automation reduces the demand for the good you produce.
A Ford Truck costs $55,000 new. That’s a stupid price, and ultimately unsustainable. A new phone can cost as much as $1800. Also stupid. Housing market is starting to feel it now as well.
I recommend you take your entitlement mindset to /r/politics.
No, people that work for wages are not entitled. Entitled people are the CoC, globalist and Free Traitors™ that want to set wages by flooding the USA with cheap labor thru both legal and illegal immigration and then have the nerve to complain about the minimum wage.
My takeaway from this is that the economy just might be reaching a better place for lower income workers. If they can leave and find a better job for wages and work conditions, good for them!
That's terrific. But not if the market is rigged downward because of invader labor.
Well Mike the wages aren't high enough are they? Do you even under stand supply and demand as an economic theory?
The price P of a product is determined by a balance between production at each price (supply S) and the desires of those with purchasing power at each price (demand D). The diagram shows a positive shift in demand from D1 to D2, resulting in an increase in price (P) and quantity sold (Q) of the product. In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market. It postulates that, holding all else equal, in a competitive market, the unit price for a particular good, or other traded item such as labor or liquid financial assets, will vary until it settles at a point where the quantity demanded (at the current price) will equal the quantity supplied (at the current price), resulting in an economic equilibrium for price and quantity transacted. However, this model does not hold in cases with positive feedback which can lead to an economic bubble as in the housing market in the early 21st century that led to the subprime mortgage crisis.
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