Posted on 12/01/2013 3:12:04 PM PST by dynachrome
Backers of the movement for higher pay point to studies saying that the average age of fast-food workers is 29 and that more than one-fourth are parents raising children.
Simon Rojas, who earns $8.07 an hour working at a McDonald’s in South Central Los Angeles, said he would join Thursday’s one-day strike. “It’s very difficult to live off $8.07 an hour,” said Mr. Rojas, 23, noting that he is often assigned just 20 or 25 hours of work a week. “I have to live with my parents. I would like to be able to afford a car and an apartment.”
Mr. Rojas said he had studied for a pharmacy technician’s certificate, but he had been unable to save the $100 needed to apply for a license.
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These guys are just setting up the day when fast food restaurants will have automated service that doesn’t require human labor at all.
Nah, more that he’s probably a lazy whiner. They’ll call you in every day if you work hard.
>>Nah, more that he’s probably a lazy whiner. They’ll call you in every day if you work hard.
Problem is, anyone working more than 30hrs becomes fulltime under Obamacare.
Tell ‘um - “Go ahead and strike. If it ain’t open when I drive by I’ll go someplace else. Do it enough and your minimum wage job will be gone.”
Yeah my nephew is like that. He’s become their go to guy at the Pizza Hut he works for. He and the manager are the only two full time employees in the place.
Dishwasher and Porter working at a hospital in 1972. $1.76 an hour - time and a half for Holidays.
Joined the Army in 1974 and never looked back.
You loser.
I worked at McD and Taco Bell in college and I was 15.
Yeah, I rented a room with a family. Great place and I still saved money every month.
Enough to blow $2,300 on an engagement ring.
I did end up tossing that thing off the pier in Santa Cruz after catching that witch cheating on me but, I bought that thing cash working through college.
I later realized I could live better if I got a real job and could get more chicks because I had an awesome place and money to have a good time with.
Set your sights higher chump.
Fast food is not a career unless you want to work toward being the manager of a store or an owner.
Truth is, your souz chef days are numbered anyway. The whole process of cooking is going to be automated soon and your going to be as obsolete as Atari gamers competing against BOxers.
$8.07 an hour? you putz.
How dare you teach, by example, mediocrity and stinking thinking.
You are short changing your kid. for what? Your social justice ego?
Lame azz Moron. I pay for your bare existence and a hamburger is not worth more than a couple bucks. Partucularly since I throw awAy what ever that while wrapping that encases it. I think they call it it bread or a a bun but, I can’t stand the taste .
Riddle me this bozo; “Why is it that Costco sells a. Foot long hot dog and a large Coke for what? I think a buck-fitty and have been for I don’t know how many years.
Those people working at Costco make more than you. Ever ask why?
Ever ask “How can I get a job that pays more and has benefits? What would I have to do work at Costco?”
The jobs aren’t that much different, in terms of difficulty or skill.
But, there is a key difference between your awesome low paying job and an earned position at Costco: You work your butt off everday providing excellent customer service and asking people “How can I help you today “
You don’t want to distinguish yourself through any sort of excellence. you need a buzzer to tell you what to do next.
So pavlov is your master and you don’t really have to work through the exercise of your self directed mind.
So, make my hamburger cost as much as one from Mortons . And i will just stop by Mortons and grab an awesome burger.
You will be out of a job, since there will be less need for the products you were making no longer have value to support the price point your delusional wage dictates.
Ass hat
I imagine its a rolling average over time. I know when I was at Walgreens the kids would have their avg weekly hours printed on the pay stub. They could go over and nothing would change, but the millisecond they went under their coverage was dropped.
But like you said, the rules are evolving due to O’care as we speak.
You just know he has an IPhone with a fancy case and awesome headphones.
Fast food joints have never been big on full time work anyway. I applied at one back in the 80s and they told me that they would start me at 20 hours and I went to work in a shop.
Or human error.
I better check the validity of my meds.
The fast food joints needs to introduce their employees to kiosks - no hourly wages, no benefits, no complaining.
Only downside is that users have to be somewhat literate. Three is a reason McDonalds has a lavishly illustrated menu...
I’m sure your nephew works like a dog. He’ll eventually go on and compare every job to this one, and they’ll all be easier. I’m grateful for my time at McD’s. That education was just as important as the one I got in college.
if your career goal is to eventually be head burger flipper.. Please press 1 ..
They probably are all screaming for more hours but management wants to keep them part-time.
too much ambition is suspcious
:p
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