Thousands of workers in food service, hospitality and retail are still making below $15 an hour, including the majority of workers at big-box stores and discount retailers.
A new study finds that majorities of service workers at some of the United States’ biggest name-brand companies — including Dunkin’, Burger King, and Dollar General — are still paid less than $15 an hour, even as CEO pay skyrockets.
jacobinmag.com
That's because they work at Dunkin donuts, dollar general and McDonald's.
Yes they are jobs. But they are jobs a 16 year old can work at with 0 experience, knowledge, insight, education or even ambition. They are unskilled jobs even a highschool student can do.
Want to make more money? Then pay your dues working a job and showing ambition, learn more, do more and even if the job doesn't promote you then you can carry those skills over to a new job that will pay more.
Getting money at a job is like climbing a ladder for 90% of the population. No one is going to carry you up the ladder, you have to climb it yourself.
I started a hotel making 13 bucks an hour 10 years ago as a maintenance man. My boss taught me motors, pump, refrigeration, electricity, how to manage contractors, pool chemistry and more. Now I am a building engineer making 3x as much money with another company because they liked my resume and more importantly I knew what I was saying to them and they like me enough they are sending me to a amonia refrigeratoration school 6 states away and paying the 12000 dollar fee for the school.
Unskilled labor does not deserve skilled labor wages. Want more money? Then ******* earn it. Until then if you want to earn 20 bucks an hour dropping french fries at McDonalds then you're shit out of luck.
