Fast-food strikes widen into social-justice movement

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I was in key west years back. We asked the pothead cab driver where are the local girls hanging out at. He said the Waffle House, they are all there on work release

They haven't had work release employees in years. But many of our employees are in and out of jail.

 

And if you need to buy weed in the south, a Waffle House is automatic. Someone there sells, or their boyfriend in the hotel across the street does.

[Magnificent Bastard 192]

They haven't had work release employees in years. But many of our employees are in and out of jail.

 

And if you need to buy weed in the south, a Waffle House is automatic. Someone there sells, or their boyfriend in the hotel across the street does.

We didn't go. We took our chances with the lesbian tackle football teams that were in town

[Frozenbeernuts 2,332]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/04/15/fast-food-strike-fight-for-15-service-employees-international-union/25787045/

 

 

 

 

Nitwits. all of em.

 

Sure, lets charge $10 for a happy meal, so you stupid focks working at McDonald's can make $15 an hour.

 

Enjoy being laid off in 6 months from McD's going in the tank from no customers.

Why do people even eat there? Their food is nasty garbage.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,332]

 

No. But eventually fast food restaurants with actual "people" at the window will be about as competitive and profitable as Borders book stores.

This goes for a lot of jobs. The future will be interesting as machines do more and more of what a person can.

[Cloaca du jour 2,157]

This goes for a lot of jobs. The future will be interesting as machines do more and more of what a person can.

Like answer phones?

[Baker Boy 1,710]

Seattles $15 minimum wage law is supposed to lift workers out of poverty and move them off public assistance. But there may be a hitch in the plan.

 

Evidence is surfacing that some workers are asking their bosses for fewer hours as their wages rise in a bid to keeps overall income down so they dont lose public subsidies for things like food, child care and rent.

 

Full Life Care, a home nursing nonprofit, told KIRO-TV in Seattle that several workers want to work less.

 

If they cut down their hours to stay on those subsidies because the $15 per hour minimum wage didnt actually help get them out of poverty, all youve done is put a burden on the business and given false hope to a lot of people, said Jason Rantz, host of the Jason Rantz show on 97.3 KIRO-FM.

 

The twist is just one apparent side effect of the controversial -- yet trendsetting -- minimum wage law in Seattle, which is being copied in several other cities despite concerns over prices rising and businesses struggling to keep up.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/22/seattle-sees-fallout-from-15-minimum-wage-as-other-cities-follow-suit/

[Magnificent Bastard 192]

Seattles $15 minimum wage law is supposed to lift workers out of poverty and move them off public assistance. But there may be a hitch in the plan.

 

Evidence is surfacing that some workers are asking their bosses for fewer hours as their wages rise in a bid to keeps overall income down so they dont lose public subsidies for things like food, child care and rent.

 

Full Life Care, a home nursing nonprofit, told KIRO-TV in Seattle that several workers want to work less.

 

If they cut down their hours to stay on those subsidies because the $15 per hour minimum wage didnt actually help get them out of poverty, all youve done is put a burden on the business and given false hope to a lot of people, said Jason Rantz, host of the Jason Rantz show on 97.3 KIRO-FM.

 

The twist is just one apparent side effect of the controversial -- yet trendsetting -- minimum wage law in Seattle, which is being copied in several other cities despite concerns over prices rising and businesses struggling to keep up.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/22/seattle-sees-fallout-from-15-minimum-wage-as-other-cities-follow-suit/

If they are working less hours, won't the company save money? How are they burdened then? Isn't that a goal for companies, less man hours?

[edjr 6,898]

Isn't McDonalds rich enough to have invented a robot to make a focking burger? christ, it's not that hard.

[Mungwater 601]

If they are working less hours, won't the company save money? How are they burdened then? Isn't that a goal for companies, less man hours?

Algebra isn't your strong suit.

[Magnificent Bastard 192]

Algebra isn't your strong suit.

You got that right. But seriously, I don't see how that works, how I get to tell my employer how many hours I want to work. Its usually the other way around.

[Sho Nuff 720]

Didn't phurfur already post that same article in the Seattle thread?

[Mungwater 601]

You got that right. But seriously, I don't see how that works, how I get to tell my employer how many hours I want to work. Its usually the other way around.

It's harder for jobs that aren't really sought after, if you lose headcount, it always leaves the manager in a bind. When I was a construction supervisor, the brick layers always sucked, but half a shitty employee is better than no employee. Had to do whatever you could to keep them coming back.

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

It's harder for jobs that aren't really sought after, if you lose headcount, it always leaves the manager in a bind. When I was a construction supervisor, the brick layers always sucked, but half a shitty employee is better than no employee. Had to do whatever you could to keep them coming back.

Part time employees are welcomed in food service. For one, it helps fill the schedule out. For another, at least where I worked, one of the metrics the manager got bonuses on was people quota, or having enough people for whatever your sales are. Anyone who worked more than 14 hours a week counted.

[Baker Boy 1,710]

CEO who set company minimum wage at $70K, struggles to make ends meet

 

 

The Seattle CEO who raised salaries for all of his employees to a minimum of $70,000 a year, drawing accusations of socialism, now says he has fallen on hard times.

 

Dan Price, the 31-year-old CEO of credit-card processing firm Gravity Payments, told The New York Times that things have gotten so bad for him financially that hes been forced to rent out his own house to make ends meet.

 

Just three months ago, Mr. Price made headlines after he announced he would give all 120 of his employees a minimum salary of $70,000, slashing his own $1 million pay check to pay for it. He made the drastic decision to address the wage gap.

 

Now Mr. Price says the decision has cost him a few customers and two of his most valued employees, who quit after newer, less skilled employees ended up with bigger salary hikes than those who had been working longer for the company.

 

He gave raises to people who have the least skills and are the least equipped to do the job, and the ones who were taking on the most didnt get much of a a bump, said Maisey McMaster, 26, Gravitys financial manager, the Times reported.

 

Ms. McMaster, who has now quit the company, said that when she approached Mr. Price with her concerns about the wage changes, he treated her as if she was being selfish.

 

That really hurt me, she said, the Times reported. I was taking about not only me, but everyone.

 

Grant Moran, 29, also quit after the pay changes were enacted.

 

Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me, he told The Times. It shackles high performers to less motivated team members.

 

Customers who left told The Times they were dismayed by Mr. Prices decision, viewing it as a political statement that could end up leading to more expensive customer fees to pay for the salary increases.

 

Meanwhile, Mr. Prices brother Lucas, who owns 30 percent of the company filed a lawsuit two weeks after the pay raise announcement, accusing his younger brother of taking millions of dollars out of the company while denying him the benefits of minority ownership.

 

With most of his own paycheck and last years $2.2 million in profits being shoveled into the salary increased, Dan Price said, We dont have a margin of error to pay those legal fees, The Times reported.

 

 

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/1/dan-price-seattle-ceo-who-set-company-minimum-wage/