It will never be enough for them.
The me now generation.
After 6 years of Obama they think every friggin thing is free and right now............
I guess they prefer no jobs to lousy ones.
I’m sorry but after having my food delivered at 9pm with a laugh from minority employees is not appetizing. I should have thrown the food in the dumpster 20 feet ahead. Why I even ate the food is I guess I was so hungry in the 1st place. Sorry, all the coupons and freebees won’t bring me back.
And these 15 dollar an hour supporters are doing everything they can to move those automated systems to the front burner. Once the reliability issues are solved and the numbers work out they’re never going to get those jobs back.
As noted long ago:
“More is never enough!”
Why stop at $15.00?
“Two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, I got lotsa numbers” (Chico Marx)
What these idiots don’t seem to get is they wouldn’t qualify for a job if it paid $15 an hour. Someone who is making $12 an hour would qualify for that job and they would be out of a job.
Come on, guys, why sell yourself short? If $15/hr is good, you should strike for $500/hr. You know you’re worth it. (Ahem...and these idiots wonder why they’re making minimum wage.)
N O is a word that they should learn to understand. I was in Europe a few months ago and a fast-food that we went to was pretty much fully automated...I did see humans, but basically our order was handled by “robots”...they may cost a lot, but they don’t get $15.00 per hour to hand you a sandwich.
idjits hastening their own obsolescence.
The day is not far off when fast food places have two employees per shift, mostly for logistics and janitorial: one to load the raw ingredients from the supply trucks into the mini-food-factory and one to take out the trash and keep the place clean.
If you’ve ever watched the TV show “Food Factory”, you can see it’s feasible to automate an entire fast food restaurant. It’s just a matter of economics now, namely, when it will be cheaper and less trouble to mass produce and install fast food restaurant mini-food-factories vs. dealing with the increasing headaches of the increasingly expensive complement of unskilled fast food restaurant labor.
Mandated minimum-wages that are gross distortions of the local labor market merely accelerate the day when unskilled fast-food labor prices itself into complete obsolescence.
Fast food is already too expensive.
And all of the store owners who were victims of this “work protest” should call a press conference and announce that as many of their burger flipper jobs as possible are being totally automated. Surplus employees will be given two weeks’ pay and a free beverage of choice to see them on their way.
Some airline pilots are paid less than that.