Fast Food workers declare minimum wage "unlivable"

College is too expensive, but who's fault is it when you don't graduate, mostly for screwing up? Not the school, not the govt, not rich people. Thats all on you. Its simple, if you have a family and the only job you qualify for is minimum wage, YOU SCREWED UP. I'm not talking about temporary for a month or 2. I'm talking not qualified to do anything but.

By the way, I don't see people from Chikfila complaining about their salaries or jobs? Why is that? McDonalds can run itself how it sees fit. The govt should stay the ^$*#*(# out.

 

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Until a massive lawsuit in 2008, Walmart was actually paying its workers in mexico in Walmart script. Dont think they, and the rest of the coporate hogs here in America wouldn't try the same thing if they were able too.

 

Today, 5 silver quarters are worth approximately $20.

The minimum wage is fine, its the value of the dollar that is the problem!

Gas was 25 cents a gallon in 1964. It took a worker (on minimum wage) 12 minutes to earn enough money to buy one gallon of gas. Now it takes a worker 30 minutes ($7.25 an hour, $3.60 for a gallon of gas) to earn enough to buy a gallon of gas.

Why? Because the value of the dollar keep dropping.

 

...That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?

 

better to have a minimum wage job and some kind of income coming in than none at all.

thats the problem with people these days, they want to start out at $20/hr or be guaranteed a $700/week salary starting off. Im sorry but eenthough im used to bringing in around $1k a week...because i work 3 jobs....... If it came down to it i would work a freaking Mcdonalds if i couldnt find anything else. Atleast work there until i found something better.

A job is a job, sometimes it sucks and the pay aint great but one must do what they must to get money coming in. Been there and done that, dont care to hear someones complaining about not being able to buy a mercedes when their job is flipping burgers.

 

Try living on min. wage in a large city, like NY, LA, Chicago or Boston.

 

When I walk into the local mickyD's, the people I see working are in their 30's, 40's and 50's, not kids, many have Associate and Bachelor's degrees and formerly had good paying jobs. The good paying jobs are gone, and this is what is left.

 

As long as there are needs, there are jobs. The folks you're seeing in McDonalds lack the ambition to take on greater challenges.

Fifty years ago folks flipped burgers. As a society we've advanced medicine, technology, engineering and more. People want cell phones, smart phones, iPhones, iPads, wireless connectivity, color TV, cable TV, interactive TV, and so many things that didn't exist 50 years ago. And in return they want to offer nothing more than flipping burgers, exactly like their grandfather did. That's unreasonable.​

 

Who says you should be able to? Commute, move, or find a way to be more productive.​

 

I am 34 own a home, a condo I rent, my own business, served in our armed forces, and graduated from college before getting licensed in the professional service industry... and I agree with him.

 

Let's cut your pay to a dime a year.

The idea is to have a system in which everyone earns a decent living. Since people who earn the minimum wage make up a large segment of the population but they don't earn enough to fully participate in the economy it drags everyone else down. If they made more money they would be able to buy more goods and services which would make everyone richer. That's why Henry Ford increased the pay of his workers. He wanted them to be able to buy the cars that they made. In effect, he created his customers by paying them more.

Today's dummies hate poor people in favor of the billionaires. Well guess, what? The billionaires aren't doing squat for the dummies who love them. And they will never become billionaires themselves.

 

Love how people are so selfish that all they think about is money. Love employers who work their employees into the ground and pay them a pittance while they sit back and collect the fruits of their labor.

Loving my recent payrise and my $18 an hour, too.

 

The Soviets made that their goal too. Cuba has it all figured out. So does North Korea.

That's pure BS. Few earn it and very few earn it for long.

Let us know when you get a job working for a poor person.

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Move...?

Well, people are free to think what they want. The example of someone working but not making enough doesn't require anyone else to do anything. I think most of US can relate to that sentiment because most of US have been there and most of US did what it took to place ourselves in the position to acquire more income.

 

I'm sure that 4,400,000 people don't seem like very many people to billionaires.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2010.htm

Now imagine if those 4,400,000 people earned twice the minimum wage. Maybe some would be able to afford a new car. That would help the auto industry. Maybe some could buy their kids new clothes and a decent bed to sleep on. Maybe some could afford to feed their family better food without relying on food shelves and food stamps. Maybe some could afford to go the dentist and get their teeth fixed. But they can't do that now because they simply don't have the money. Now get to work and pay your taxes to support them since you don't think that the billionaires should pay them a living wage.

 

As a prospective employee, one always weighs benefits with money. One might accept a lower wage, for instance, for the chance to 'get in on the ground floor'...OR....maybe to be able to work from home and avoid the cost and hassle of commuting. There are an endless number of options and conditions to be considered and weighed.

Often times those low-wage jobs are a way to get one's 'foot in the door' and create a good work history as a foundation to build on in order to obtain a better, higher paying job. The company has no duty to double the wages of any employee. I have hired many people in the past and I can tell you that a good work history (steady work, decent reviews, etc.) was the bulk of qualifications I was looking for. Every company had their own training program for new employees anyway.

Congratulations!

 

How do you pay the removalists without any money? How do you pay the rent on a house in a new state when you have no money? How do you support yourself while you search for work with no money? How do you pay the bills with no money?

Are you selling money trees?

 

Pack up yourself. You don't have to move to a new state. I once lived with a friend of mine's mother while I helped her around the house. I WALKED to job interviews...and....I got a job and was able to move out with another friend with whom I shared an apartment. Don't accrue more bills than you can pay. There is no such thing as a money tree.

 

Better for some to stay on welfare then work for minimum wage.

I don't know many people who are demanding $20/hr or be guaranteed a $700/week salary starting off. Why is it that I work for only one employer and make almost twice per week what you do? What's wrong with this picture? Its because my employer pays me a living wage, that's why.

I think most "burger flippers" would settle for a Prius instead. Job's shouldn't have to "suck" paying people a living wage with decent benefits goes a long way of making a job very palatable.

 

They need to move to Cuba where everything is provided for everybody.

 

Agreed; everyone should have the right to contract E-coli bacteria.

 

There's this guy that lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC who wants exactly that. He's not only done nothing to help his fellow citizens, he moved 12000 miles away from Kenya to avoid seeing them. He wants all US citizens to live in poverty like his fellow Kenyans.

You're asking this question of the people who want as many babies murdered in the US as possible? Why?

 

In other words, people too stupid to escape working as a burger flipper shouldn't get married, shouldn't have children, should find work closer to home, should move home to someplace cheaper, don't need a phone, learn how to eat with buck teeth, they're young so don't need medical care, anyway, and if they're not young, and they lived their whole life at minimum wage, who's fault is that, anyway?.

They don't need a computer, either. That's what public libraries are for. They should go to charities for donated glasses, but since they clearly can't read, and can't afford a car, they don't really need to see. They certainly don't need TV.

 

You have more of a chance getting sick from a salad....and.....it ain't even cooked!

 

They want to offshore work to maximise profit and provide maximum returns for shareholders, who in general do not actually do any work for the company. Even if there was no minimum wage in the US, it would still be cheaper to manufacture in CHina, and this would not change.