Posted on 12/01/2016 2:51:29 AM PST by expat_panama
Mr. Rensi is the former president and CEO of McDonald’s USA.
McDonald’s restaurant employees rally after walking off the job to demand a $15 per hour wage and union rights during nationwide ‘Fight for $15 Day of Disruption’ protests on November 29, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)
As the labor union-backed Fight for $15 begins yet another nationwide strike on November 29, I have a simple message for the protest organizers and the reporters covering them: I told you so.
It brings me no joy to write these words. The push for a $15 starter wage has negatively impacted the career prospects of employees...
...start with automation. In 2013...
...this month, McDonald’s announced the nationwide roll-out of touchscreen self-service kiosks. In a video the company released to showcase the new customer experience, it’s striking to see employees who once would have managed a cash register now reduced to monitoring a customer’s choices at an iPad-style kiosk.
It’s not just McDonald’s that has embraced job-replacing technology. Numerous restaurant chains (both quick service and full service) have...
...not all businesses have the capital necessary to shift from full-service to self-service...
...out-of-state labor groups who funded these initiatives aren’t shedding tears over the consequences. Like their Soviet-era predecessors who foolishly thought they could centrally manage prices and business operations...
...money has bought the union a lot of protesters and media coverage. You can expect more of it on November 29. But the real faces of the Fight for $15 are the young people and small business owners who have had their futures compromised. Those faces are not happy ones.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
[the woman kicks the computer, and it sprays a fast-acting tranquilizer in her face] This should help you calm down. Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl’s Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Jr. Carl’s Jr... “____ You, I’m Eating!
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File this one under the “Overreach” heading.
Karma’s a bitch, and she ain’t playing.
And that is what we like about the Italians!
That’s awesome!
That movie Idiocracy was probably written by liberals to make fun of dumb ‘rednecks’ and describe the world as it would be if us rednecks were to take over.
What’s hilarious is that DEMOCRAT liberal policies push us toward that world every day. They are literally creating elements of idiocracy all over the place and they are too dumb to realize it.
That’s what I was thinking. I might start eating out again. Right now I consider it too dangerous.
"I Learned More at McDonalds than at College"
This really applies, because...these minimum wage jobs are meant to do for someone EXACTLY what they do for this girl in the video. They aren't meant to be worked at for live or support a family from. They are meant to teach you about work...customer service...working as a team...being on time...being presentable...being accountable...and teaching you how to take and give orders/instruction.
For those who are interested, there are dozens and dozens of really well produced, short, informative videos here that frame all manner of issues and historical questions from a conservative perspective (or explain why the liberal perspective is flawed).
It isn't really a "university", but Dennis Prager should be a professor. These videos are short (often less than five minutes) and feature people from across the conservative spectrum from Dennis Prager himself, Steven Crowder, Amity Shales, Heather Macdonald, Bjom Lomberg, Larry Elder, Victor Davis Hansen, and so on. Brilliant, informative, entertaining!
And free, but...I am going to contribute...:)
I’d prefer a touch screen ordering system.
When I can get a hamburger perfectly constructed and cooked by automated robots, and not by surly, entitled, lackadaisical, petri dishes demanding artisan wages, I might start shopping at fast-food restaurants again.
I’m looking forward to the first fully-automated fast food place. Where the only employee is the on-site janitor, and the occasional repair technician.
Bring on McSwiney’s (fully-automated place from the Stainless Steel Rat books. . . described in the 1960s. . .)
I am going to add the link to the Prager video to the essay.
Ms Legaspi gets it.
I drag the essay out every once and a while to make the point. Not that one should avoid college and education, but that a job at McDonalds can be a teaching experience that opens the door to experiencing on a small scale the myriad of possible directions one can go.
Imagine being able to order at a fast-food restaurant in your own native language, whether it's English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. Many sushi restaurants in Japan where you order by touchscreen already implemented this in the major cities (Tokyo and Osaka especially), where the touchscreen can switch between Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean.
Hopefully, the brighter McDonald’s employees might recognize what is happening...and get some tech training to service these bots.
Double win...a skill AND higher pay.
I have been a McDonald’s patron since the beginning. I have been a frequent user of the drive-thru.
We all know about the quality (term used loosely) of the speakers.
We have two McDonald’s in my area. One is close by my home, which is where I usually go.
Recently, I went to the other and at the drive-thru I was SHOCKED! They had installed a new drive-thru kiosk that made it sound as if the order taker was standing right outside my car window. It was amazing.
So after all these years, they finally get it right, only to get replaced by a robot.
Not only that, but the scam of “Corporate Taxes” the tax-and-spenders use to raise revenue for them to pi$$ away on boondoggles or as handouts to cronies. Corporations do not PAY taxes! Any taxes laid on them by gubmint winds up in the prices of their products.
You know, I love that McDonalds is teaching these fools a lesson in economics. When these kiosks get to my area, I might have to patronize them once in a while, help make the point.
there should be no minimum wage, business owners should set their own wages for workers based on whatever they see fit.It’s there business they should be able to run it as they want. people have the choice to apply for work there or not.
I think too many people are stuck in the mindset they have to work for som done else. SO many people who claim unemployed or underemployed likely have skills or knowhow that they could likely make their own work. Clean a house, change some one’s oil, run errands for home bound or elderly, so many ideas of making money.
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