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09-26-2022, 03:24 AM
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Minimum wage blues
Recently, California passed a law creating a board with the power to set the minimum wage for non-unionized fast-food worker. They're authorized to go as high as $22/hour. ( Management-biased description of legisltion here .
I walked to the local grocery store this morning to pick up some apples, celery, and cauliflower for tonight's Rosh Hashanah dinner. Outside the store, someone was collecting signatures on a petition to get an initiative on the ballot to prevent the new law from taking effect. ("Fast food workers need to EARN $22/hr--they shouldn't have it handed to them.") I told him that it was ridiculous to expect someone to live in San Diego County on the current minimum wage, and that $22 seemed more than fair--I'd happily pay more for my fast food if it was going to help someone earn a living wage. (Frankly, I'd be embarrassed to be collecting signatures on that petition.)
The guy just sat there.
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09-26-2022, 04:55 AM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
Most of our grandkids cut there teeth on fast food jobs. And I know that most of them earned every penny they got.
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09-26-2022, 05:40 AM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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09-26-2022, 09:04 AM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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Originally Posted by ShottleBop
Recently, California passed a law creating a board with the power to set
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... passed a law creating a committee with the authority to convene a board to prepare a report on the feasibility of enacting the power to set ...
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09-26-2022, 09:05 AM
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Solipsist
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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Originally Posted by ShottleBop
Outside the store, someone was collecting signatures on a petition to get an initiative on the ballot to prevent the new law from taking effect. ("Fast food workers need to EARN $22/hr--they shouldn't have it handed to them.") I told him that it was ridiculous to expect someone to live in San Diego County on the current minimum wage, and that $22 seemed more than fair--I'd happily pay more for my fast food if it was going to help someone earn a living wage. (Frankly, I'd be embarrassed to be collecting signatures on that petition.)
The guy just sat there.
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Did he expect signatures just to be handed to him?
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09-26-2022, 10:42 AM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I worked in several different fast food places in my teens and early 20s and I've never worked harder. I've had jobs that were more physically demanding and jobs that were more intellectually demanding, but the pace of work in fast food made it far and away the most stressful.
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09-26-2022, 04:50 PM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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Originally Posted by ShottleBop
Recently, California passed a law creating a board with the power to set the minimum wage for non-unionized fast-food worker. They're authorized to go as high as $22/hour. ( Management-biased description of legisltion here .
I walked to the local grocery store this morning to pick up some apples, celery, and cauliflower for tonight's Rosh Hashanah dinner. Outside the store, someone was collecting signatures on a petition to get an initiative on the ballot to prevent the new law from taking effect. ("Fast food workers need to EARN $22/hr--they shouldn't have it handed to them.") I told him that it was ridiculous to expect someone to live in San Diego County on the current minimum wage, and that $22 seemed more than fair--I'd happily pay more for my fast food if it was going to help someone earn a living wage. (Frankly, I'd be embarrassed to be collecting signatures on that petition.)
The guy just sat there.
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You're willing to pay more for fast food, which has become atrociously expensive, and sacrifice quality and service? I mean I know it's fast food, but lately it hasn't been that fast. And paying like 12 bucks for meal deal for one person is insane. I'm going to a local pub tonight for burger night and we're paying 5.99 for a burger and fries served to us and is a lot better quality than fast food. What did you expect the guy to do? Argue? He knew he wasn't getting your signature so he probably decided not to say anything.
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09-26-2022, 04:50 PM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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Originally Posted by viscousmemories
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I worked in several different fast food places in my teens and early 20s and I've never worked harder. I've had jobs that were more physically demanding and jobs that were more intellectually demanding, but the pace of work in fast food made it far and away the most stressful.
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I bet you learned how to multi task with very few mistakes.
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09-27-2022, 02:31 AM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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Originally Posted by Miss Shelby
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShottleBop
Recently, California passed a law creating a board with the power to set the minimum wage for non-unionized fast-food worker. They're authorized to go as high as $22/hour. ( Management-biased description of legisltion here .
I walked to the local grocery store this morning to pick up some apples, celery, and cauliflower for tonight's Rosh Hashanah dinner. Outside the store, someone was collecting signatures on a petition to get an initiative on the ballot to prevent the new law from taking effect. ("Fast food workers need to EARN $22/hr--they shouldn't have it handed to them.") I told him that it was ridiculous to expect someone to live in San Diego County on the current minimum wage, and that $22 seemed more than fair--I'd happily pay more for my fast food if it was going to help someone earn a living wage. (Frankly, I'd be embarrassed to be collecting signatures on that petition.)
The guy just sat there.
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You're willing to pay more for fast food, which has become atrociously expensive, and sacrifice quality and service?
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1. Where did anyone say that?
2. Can you explain your theory of how paying fast food workers more would make the quality and service decline? If you're being paid enough that you really want to keep that job, and enough that you know your employer could easily attract someone to replace you, would you do a better job or a worse job?
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09-27-2022, 02:43 AM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
Everyone knows that workers paid so little they qualify for social assistance or require subsidization by the worker's parents isn't real socialism.
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09-27-2022, 12:07 PM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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I bet you learned how to multi task with very few mistakes.
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No, that's not a thing.
https://www.themuse.com/advice/the-s...f-multitasking
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09-27-2022, 02:42 PM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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09-27-2022, 04:47 PM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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"Fast food workers need to EARN $22/hr--they shouldn't have it handed to them."
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Smart money sez that an hour into a fast food jerb shift you'd find Signature Collection Boy on the bathroom floor in the fetal position whimpering like a two-year-old with a skinned knee.
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10-01-2022, 04:41 PM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Shelby
Quote:
Originally Posted by ShottleBop
Recently, California passed a law creating a board with the power to set the minimum wage for non-unionized fast-food worker. They're authorized to go as high as $22/hour. ( Management-biased description of legisltion here .
I walked to the local grocery store this morning to pick up some apples, celery, and cauliflower for tonight's Rosh Hashanah dinner. Outside the store, someone was collecting signatures on a petition to get an initiative on the ballot to prevent the new law from taking effect. ("Fast food workers need to EARN $22/hr--they shouldn't have it handed to them.") I told him that it was ridiculous to expect someone to live in San Diego County on the current minimum wage, and that $22 seemed more than fair--I'd happily pay more for my fast food if it was going to help someone earn a living wage. (Frankly, I'd be embarrassed to be collecting signatures on that petition.)
The guy just sat there.
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You're willing to pay more for fast food, which has become atrociously expensive, and sacrifice quality and service? I mean I know it's fast food, but lately it hasn't been that fast. And paying like 12 bucks for meal deal for one person is insane. I'm going to a local pub tonight for burger night and we're paying 5.99 for a burger and fries served to us and is a lot better quality than fast food. What did you expect the guy to do? Argue? He knew he wasn't getting your signature so he probably decided not to say anything.
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So go to your local pub and buy your burger there. It's not like you're forced to buy food at a fast-food place.
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10-01-2022, 11:52 PM
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Rambling Old Fart
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Re: Minimum wage blues
I don't eat much fast food. When I do it is because I want it fast, not necessarily cheap.
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10-02-2022, 01:43 AM
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Re: Minimum wage blues
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