Posted on 04/01/2015 1:02:20 PM PDT by Olog-hai
McDonald’s says it’s raising pay for workers at its company-owned U.S. restaurants, making it the latest employer to sweeten worker incentives in an improving economy. […]
The change comes as McDonald’s faces protests over pay and labor practices at its restaurants. […]
Starting in July, the company says wages will be a dollar more than the local minimum wage. …
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It’s only at company owned stores, which is about 10%. They are the best stores though, worst ones to work in because they follow ALL the annoying rules.
Now what will lefties complain about?
This is the market at work. Sometimes it’s cheaper to raise wages than to keep retraining your workforce.
$10.00 to flip a burger, look at me, turn around and look at the price board, then tap the console to order my food, is too high a salary for a job a trained monkey can do.
Not according to their employer apparently, and that’s the group that set the rate. And it’s a much harder job than you think.
In the days before ‘the feel-good-G.E.D. days’, McDonald’s was the place where high school drop-outs who couldn’t make it were hired.
McDonald’s is a fast food industry, where anyone with half a brain would excel, unless the boss hired illegal wetbacks, citing that American kids were too lazy, or too inattentive, or not having been taught that it is they who sink or swim, not the company.
None of which are reasons to not give them a raise. Again, it’s the company’s money, they can spend it as they choose.
Sure, it’s the company’s money, and sure, the company can spend it as the company should, driven by the figures on the Profit and Loss statements, only.
When A company decides to err on the side of social impact, instead of dollars and cents, it is a decision not made in the best interest of acquiring the best employees, and emulating the hiring practices of the public s4ector, instead, with the same results of employees and work performed.
In the “old days” (meaning in this case the 90s), we traveled a lot with young kids.
McDonalds, for whatever shortcomings the food had, was always a safe bet relative to cleanliness.
I believe that’s the real problem they have today, and where they need to spend the money.
They might be looking to err on the side of a desperately long over due image overhaul. As it sits McD is a place with cheap labor making cheap products that aren’t cost competitive with places making better products in generally more pleasant environment and paying their employees more. They’re still making good money, but sales have been trending down for a long time. At some point they’re going to need to figure out how to not be the bottom feeder of their industry, couple this with the return of the angus burger and maybe they’re on that path.
A lot of time they use the corporate stores as a lab, they don’t really care if the corporate stores turn a profit because they make enough off the franchise fees and supplies to make all the money. That let’s them use their own stores to experiment with methods, products and employee plans. Paying more can results in better employees, improved customer experience and higher employee retention. The retention aspect alone can actually make higher wages lower your employee costs. Back when I was there (late 80s, early 90s) 300% annual turnover was the norm, in my stores that meant 120 new people a year. Multiply that by the $300 the O&T said training somebody cost (again, 20+ years ago) and turnover gets to be an expensive hobby. It doesn’t take much reduction of turnover for $10/hr to pay for itself.
dear discostu,
that’s all very nice, but in the instance, lost in between 2013 and 2014, I had a hankering for a big mac and a cup of coffee. that cost me six bucks for the big mac, a dollar and change for a coffee, and then the usual state and local usurpations, er, taxes.
mcd’s is on my ‘b.t.d.t. list’.
Which makes my point. Why is it McDs pays their employees less than their competition, has a lower quality of food than their competition, AND has pretty much the same prices as the competition? Clearly they’re doing something wrong, time for a change. Not sure salary is where I’d start the process, but it is something they need to fix. When you pay the least you get the least.
If you read my response, I made the change.
I cook my own bacon-onion-burgers, use the hacked copyrighted menu for their once mysterious ‘special sauce’, muenster cheese slices and other things in that sandwich, on home-made sourdough seeded buns.
Which has nothing to do with whether or not it’s OK, possibly even a very good idea, for McD to increase their wages.
I would rather those in technical fields, whose pay grades would be encroached upon by over-paid burger flippers now at the same pay grade as that technical person, receive the pay raise. They’ve earned it.
Nobody is having their pay encroached upon. The wages of a McD employee have no impact on my software QA wages. And if there’s anybody in tech making $10 an hour it’s your first tier script following support guys, whose jobs are actually probably easier since they get to sit while deciding if the customer said one of the 10 common questions to which to give the written response, and if they didn’t forward the call. And since we don’t work for the same company there’s no either/or on who gets the raise.
dear discostu,
Ya know, im plum tired of yo’ ya-but, ya-but, ya-but!
Burger flippers, and that whole scene, as i learned it, was always A STARTER JOB, period, to be held by some snot-nosed, pimple-faced dude/dudette, still in high school, or maybe the first year of college, if your daddy did not instill the American long-time standard before ‘0bama the Least’ work ethic by the time you graduated from high school.
Now, a lot of those jobs are held by ‘senyor manwell lahbor’, or ‘junkikwa imphatandallthat’, or those poor souls that are born mentally challenged and work real hard for what they do, and the social programs they are associated with.
None of the above, are outstanding reasons for making my mcd burger cost more.
so, i will not entertain any more of your ya-buts, and any more that come to your mind, should remain right there where that ya- exits.
“None of the above, are outstanding reasons for making my mcd burger cost more.”
I believe I read in one your earlier posts that you no longer eat at McDs.
Good for you and now STFU and let McDs run their company the way see fit or buy your own and then you can set the wages lol.
I didn’t ya-but anything. I’m pointing out that you are, quite simply, and repeatedly, wrong.
It is a starter job. Which doesn’t mean they can’t make $10/hr. That really isn’t much money. It wasn’t much when I got out of FF and was paid a bit more than that, and 20 years later it hasn’t turned into more. The fact is most FF places, especially the fast casual places that are eating McD’s lunch, mostly pay more than that already. All McD’s is doing is experimenting with being wage competitive in their own industry, and not very competitive.
Skipping all your pointless Tom Wolfe imitations.
As I’ve pointed out in multiple ways this won’t necessarily make their product cost more. Higher wages can reduce turnover which reduces overall labor costs. And their competitors are already paying more than this and not costing much more, so clearly it can be done.
Once again, no ya-buts. Simply pointing out the blatant errors in your assumptions. And it’s telling that you’ve reduced yourself to throwing insults. Ad hominems are a tool for people who know the facts and logic don’t back them. So since we both know you’re wrong you might as well leave.
Here is my response, dated from 2003!!!!
(which means your wage argument is way old and tired, dude)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101247794
dear snarky,
here is a video from 2003, as an answer ... and yes, my own bacon-wrapped burgers, that are not and never shall be haylal taste very good:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101247794
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