There are lots of unemployed people in Oakland, dreaming of having one of those increasingly rare jobs — “Man, if I got me one of those minimum wage jobs, I would rush out and get me the fanciest phone evuh! An iPhone6! Maybe a 7 or a 8!”
For Alicia Donaldson at McDonald’s, she’s already seeing shorter shifts.
“I do think it’s because of the pay that they’re cutting hours,” she says.
Smart kid. She better save for when she’s unemployed.
Hope folks enjoy their $15 small fries and $20 small hamburgers in Oakland.
Eighteen-year-old Alicia Donaldson works at a busy McDonald’s in East Oakland. Her job is more complicated than anyone might think.
“When you do the grill and the chicken by yourself, it’s not easy,” she admits. “You have to put down the meat on the grill, and then put chicken in the grease. People get burned a lot.”
Yeah boy, that’s a lot more complicated than wiring a breaker box or welding pipes.
I bet you could only find 200 million people capable of doing that whole grilled chicken thing. Most of them who aren’t paralyzed, comatose, or amputees anyway.
Well, there’s always the Obamaphone..
No, it is NOT harder than we think.
Many of us worked similar jobs in our youth, for a lot less money. It was a stepping stone to learn scheduling, budgeting, and personal responsibility.
Those jobs then were a way for a high school student to make some spending money. If you wanted a career, you worked your way up to manager. If not, you still worked hard, got some experience, and moved on.
Welcome to the ‘new normal’ - where entry level jobs are now dead end careers...
Just two weeks ago in “CBS SF Bay Area.” Liberals “help” a few, destroy many others, and declare victory. Same old broken record, over, and over, and over...
Minimum Wage Hike Hits Oakland Chinatown Shop, Restaurant Owners Hard
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Some shop owners in Oakland’s Chinatown say business is down, and they are struggling to stay afloat after the city’s minimum wage increased to over $12-an-hour, making it the highest in the country.
Chinatown restaurant Vien Huong owner Daniel Tran has been trying to look at the glass as half-full, but has had to raise his prices and slash hours for his workers.
“As you can see I’m the only one working,” Huong told KPIX 5.
According to leaders at the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, nearly a dozen restaurants and grocery shops that were already closed won’t reopen because of the minimum wage hike that went into effect this month.
Her job is more complicated than anyone might think.
“When you do the grill and the chicken by yourself, it’s not easy,” she admits. “You have to put down the meat on the grill, and then put chicken in the grease. People get burned a lot.”
Wow. That is complicated. No wonder they hire only rocket scientists for this job.
“For Alicia Donaldson at McDonald’s, she’s already seeing shorter shifts.”
So shes back where she started. Only now her job is hanging by a thread.
An 18 year old is not a kid! At 18 I was called up for the draft during the Vietnam War. I ended up enlisting in the US Air Force and was sent to Texas for basic training. A job that was 24 hours a day for 7 days of the week. I likely earned about 31 cents an hour (during basic)........... When I rotated back to the States in 73 I got hired as a Correctional Officer at our County Prison at $2.65 an hour. Sorry you are such a whiney ass but sometime life is a little rough...
Oh, right, there's fewer jobs too.
Well, on the positive side, your PelosiCare insurance premium subsidies won't be going down, so you, umm, might be able to keep more of that money?
Bah, there's no positive side, is there? The costs for the business are going up, staff is being reduced, number of hours a week are being reduced, and those few who had been given more salary as a reward for harder work are finding others are raised to their level without putting in the dedication they did, nullifying all that hard work.
Betcha those people have seen their hours increase though.
In Seattle the restaurants are closing.
This was the impressive deductive reasoning!
I didn’t know making a grilled chicken was so complicated. I feel guilty now. My shop rate is $85 per hour on regular machine works and $150 for certified aircraft parts. I will gladly swap making chicken patties full time for the same rates while this, soon to be unemployed, girl does my simple minded job.
Close your shop. Move to a free state.
At the new rate she´ll soon be replaced by a college grad.
What a load.
“You have to put down the meat on the grill, and then put chicken in the grease. People get burned a lot”
Awww-poor thing-plenty of 18 year old young women-myself included-did that and more every day when fixing dinner, sometimes while balancing a baby on one hip-after getting home from college classes-and we had part-time jobs to pay for college, rent and food-not smart phones. That is what real women did, and we considered ourselves equals to men-I guess now women have to be weak to be equal...
Would Alicia care for some cheese with that whine?