Fast-food workers walk out of job

[SuMar]

What a bunch of idiots. Skilled labor workers that work for public works don't get a starting salary that large.

Fast-food workers walk out of job in St. Louis, other cities; want $15 an hour | KMOV.com St. Louis​

 

[auditor0007]

What a bunch of idiots. Skilled labor workers that work for public works don't get a starting salary that large.

Fast-food workers walk out of job in St. Louis, other cities; want $15 an hour | KMOV.com St. Louis​

Minimum wage is too low, specifically in the bigger cities where the cost of living is much higher. That being said, $15 per hour for a minimum wage job is over the top. How about discussing a minimum wage of $9 and possibly $12 in the bigger cities.

 

[Mr. H.]

Back in the 20th century... ought-'71 to be exact... I worked for $1.10/hour at the local Burger Doodle. Sure, I was living at home... but I 15 years old to boot. That money went to help put food on our family's table. My younger brother (I much later discovered) sold weed for the very same purpose. It was a hand to mouth existence. But we did it. Without Obama - who wasn't even not born on U.S. soil yet.

For every fast-food worker that walks, there are 40 applications sitting on file.

Regale in employment, and make the best of it. Add to it, work your way up. Be recognized for your efforts.

Or... sit at home doing jack shit and collect you Obama bucks. And contribute said-same shit to the world around you.

 

[asaratis]

Waiter's pay here is $2.13/hr...been there for years.

 

[Wyatt earp]

the blue states should raise minimum wage up to $25 bucks an hour win win for everyone....

 

[Jackson]

His sign should have read, "I did not finish school and I have no skills. I'm an idiot for being out here instead of doing my job"

He made his bed, now lay in it. Go to school after work, or go through the ranks at the restaurant where you are.

 

[Crackerjaxon]

All work has worth and dignity. I hope they get their money.

 

[Stephanie]

a trained monkey could do these jobs but these people think they are special?..


someone is yanking their chains because they sure look foolish

 

[martybegan]

What a bunch of idiots. Skilled labor workers that work for public works don't get a starting salary that large.

Fast-food workers walk out of job in St. Louis, other cities; want $15 an hour | KMOV.com St. Louis​

Minimum wage is too low, specifically in the bigger cities where the cost of living is much higher. That being said, $15 per hour for a minimum wage job is over the top. How about discussing a minimum wage of $9 and possibly $12 in the bigger cities.

Raising minimum wage raises costs, and then makes other people want to make more money to seperate themselves from the bottom end. Thus costs go up, you get inflation, and the cycle continues.

If fast food workers want a raise, they should try to get promoted or try to learn a skill. Working the counter or the fryer at Mc'D's is not a career, its a stepping stone.

 

[martybegan]

All work has worth and dignity. I hope they get their money.

Working a register at Burger King is not worth $15 an hour.

 

[Katzndogz]

The complaint is they can't support families on minimum wage. Since the jobs are pretty much designed as entry level jobs but not careers, they should be filled by entry level workers without families.

 

[Pennywise]

If you find yourself working in fast food, you should be in high school. If you are over 18, exceptions can be made if you are working your way through college. If you are a full legal adult working in fast food, you do not have marketable skills to be paid anything more than minimum wage.

Everyone has an inflated sense of self-worth, but a true free market will quickly dispel such grandiose myths.

 

[TruthSeeker56]

This is just another case of the entitlement mentality that has been force-fed to people who are too lazy to acquire skills that warrant jobs that pay the money they want.

Sorry, but paying a drive-thru jockey the same pay as a junior accountant or an apprentice electrician or plumber is ABSOLUTE NONSENSE.

 

[High_Gravity]

What a bunch of idiots. Skilled labor workers that work for public works don't get a starting salary that large.

Fast-food workers walk out of job in St. Louis, other cities; want $15 an hour | KMOV.com St. Louis​

Why do fast food workers expect so much money?

 

[martybegan]

What a bunch of idiots. Skilled labor workers that work for public works don't get a starting salary that large.

Fast-food workers walk out of job in St. Louis, other cities; want $15 an hour | KMOV.com St. Louis​

Why do fast food workers expect so much money?

Its not the workers, its the class warfare hucksters that see a nice big profitable corporate target.

If you want $15 an hour go learn how to do a job that pays $15 dollars an hour, or god forbid EVEN MORE!!!

 

[High_Gravity]

Trying to support a family when you work at Long John Silvers might not be the best idea, just saying.

 

[SteadyMercury]

All work has worth and dignity. I hope they get their money.

Agreed, and flipping burgers is work worth minimum wage, with dignity.

Waiter's pay here is $2.13/hr...been there for years.

Yay the award for most irrelevant post of the thread has been awarded on the first page. No more submissions will be accepted, thanks for playing everyone.

 

[patriot66]

Back in the 20th century... ought-'71 to be exact... I worked for $1.10/hour at the local Burger Doodle. Sure, I was living at home... but I 15 years old to boot. That money went to help put food on our family's table. My younger brother (I much later discovered) sold weed for the very same purpose. It was a hand to mouth existence. But we did it. Without Obama - who wasn't even not born on U.S. soil yet.

For every fast-food worker that walks, there are 40 applications sitting on file.

Regale in employment, and make the best of it. Add to it, work your way up. Be recognized for your efforts.

Or... sit at home doing jack shit and collect you Obama bucks. And contribute said-same shit to the world around you.

I agree I make roughly 19 dollars more than that after 24 years and I do skilled labor

 

[thanatos144]

All work has worth and dignity. I hope they get their money.

Working a register at Burger King is not worth $15 an hour.

It is if you can get someone to pay you that.... Thats between the employer and employee not you.

 

[martybegan]

All work has worth and dignity. I hope they get their money.

Working a register at Burger King is not worth $15 an hour.

It is if you can get someone to pay you that.... Thats between the employer and employee not you.

The problem is that minimum wage laws remove the "between the employer and employee" metric and add big daddy government into the equation.