Posted on 10/22/2019 8:32:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pyrrhic victory.
Wait until they see their paycheck when the robots take their job.
Rejoice in your stupidity.
Didn't I hear recently that Target is bringing back Toys R Us as a part of the Target companies?
We tried to tell you! Now live in the mess you made.
“Get woke, go broke” seems to apply here.
And Sears bought KMart.
WTF is the government business to tell business what to pay?????
March to communism, Fast Forward!
Don’t assume that wait staff earns standard minimum wage. There is a seperate, much lower minimum wage for waiters/waitresses. I speak from experience. When I was a waiter, my wage was about $2/hr. Practically nothing. Wait staff are in practical purposes, freelance employees and rely on tips to survive.
They all think they deserve $15 per hour. They just weren’t prepared to do the amount of work required to earn $15 / hour.
Almost any of us could have told them that.
Walmart (The Martian Store) near me just eliminated all manned registers and went to all self check outs.
Retail stores will become internet ordering hubs. Back to the Service Merchandise model but updated.
Minimum wage: if you can’t produce $X/hr of value, you’re not allowed to work at all.
When government interferes with free market transactions, the result is always bad.
Besides, government has no right to set a minimum or maximum hourly rate.
Car wash employees get $15hr to wipe water off your car. They can do 5 cars easily per hr and get average $5 tip per car. $40hr job!
The biggest scams are the cash only ones...plus tip! Haircut, gardener, sprinkler repair, AC repair, painters.
The gift that keeps on giving!
They “passed” it to find out what was in it and we STILL don’t know what’s in it! Little bombs were placed everywhere within oblowmecare.
In certain cities they do...it’s been so mandated.
So they can do without tips.
It is not so in my area so I still tip.
A place I used to work at had the provision if you worked 6 weeks of 36 hours or more you were full time with full time benefits.
My schedule would be 36,36,36,36,34,36.
Mgr instructed the scheduler to do that. Per the union rules of the shop I could have demanded more hours based on my seniority.
That’s just not true.
It’s government that enforces contracts, truth in advertising, product safety, worker safety. Those are all good government interventions.
And government does have the right to set minimum wages. Government defines the rules of the marketplace.
Like most other things, Government is a tool that can be used for good or evil.
If government is stupid, drops the protective tariffs and then raises minimum wage, that’s a recipe for offshoring jobs.
Government needs to weigh the consequences of what it does.
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