"Hey, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. But now... now I'm washing lettuce. Soon I'll be on fries; then the grill. In a year or two, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in."
Posted on 07/28/2013 7:52:27 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
A few words about the McBudget.
Perhaps you’ve heard of it. As fast food workers around the country protest for higher wages, we learn that McDonald’s offers advice to help them live on the wages they make which, while not technically bupkes, do amount to a paycheck you can pretty much have the driver cash for you on the bus ride home. In December, for example, Bloomberg profiled a Chicago man who, after 20 years with the burger giant, earns $8.25 an hour — and doesn’t get 40 hours a week. This, as McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson pulled down, according to the Wall Street Journal, a compensation package worth $13.8 million last year.
Anyway, Mickey D’s isn’t blind to the difficulties of french fry makers and drive-through order takers getting by on not quite bupkes. It partnered with Visa on a showing how to live reasonably well on next to nothing.
The impossibility of doing so has been attested to by everyone from writer Barbara Ehrenreich in her book Nickel and Dimed to noted obstetrician Cliff Huxtable, in that episode of The Cosby Show where he uses Monopoly money to teach young Theo the value of a good income. It has also been attested to by the people trying to do it. But all that notwithstanding, the McBudget insists it can be done.
It envisions monthly take-home pay of $2,060 from working two (!) jobs. Out of that, you pay $600 for rent, $150 for a car note, $100 for insurance (home and auto), $100 for cable and phone, $90 for the electric bill, $20 for health insurance, etc. You save $100 a month and have $750 to play with — if, by “play,” you mean...
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Idiot.
The job is not intended to last 20 years. You do not buy a house, raise a family, and send the kids to college on this job. It's temporary, while you pick up basic work skills, like showing up on time. Then you move on and get something that pays more than $8.25 an hour.
Yo Leonard - Dr. Cliff Huxtable wasn’t real.
Welcome to Obama’s Amerika.
What would LP Jr. do if he couldn’t find something to whine about.
Why would someone still be working at McD’s for 20 years? If you haven’t moved up to manager, there’s no reason to stay. Use the job experience on your résumé, show your work ethic, and move on.
>>In December, for example, Bloomberg profiled a Chicago man who, after 20 years with the burger giant, earns $8.25 an hour — and doesn’t get 40 hours a week.<<
Lesson: sit on your duff, don’t learn a g-d thing, don’t go to school, don’t bother to even watch Jeopardy (or even Wheel). Repeat for 20 years. Then complain that the Man is holding you down.
Welfare and the minimum wage encourages people to live at a subsistence level, which we have learned destroys incentive and upward class mobility. It does for the poor what confiscatory taxation does for the wealthy, pushing both ends of the economic spectrum toward the middle, where the socialist utopia dwells.
Cospicuously absent is any mention of earned income credits and EBT cards and other forms of commonly available state and federal assistance.
And if McDonalds didn’t do this, he’d be griping that they just don’t care about their exploited workers. You can’t win with the perpetually aggrieved.
Fast Food worker pay is their new target.
They want to sell the idea that employers are responsible for supporting their workers, like its child support.
Now all B0 can do is browbeat McD to hire even more part-time workers and to pay them a “Fair” or “livable” wage.
EXACTLY....McD jobs are intended for teenagers working part time....or were, until the Democrats decided they were not. Sucks to be an idiot.
Dude from Chicago is a chump. He needs to get on the dole. Right, Lenny ?
If you want more from others, do more for others. Simple.
I don’t know anyone who has a 90 dollar electric bill these days.
Mine was 54.00 last month. But I live low budget.
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