$15 an hr for fast food workers

[RUTHLESS]

Is anyone on here following the news and have anything to say about what is going on. Has the world gone crazy to turn a job into a career for people that have made poor decisions or is this something that needs to be done?

[PaxtonShelby]

Crazy...

[Dan B.]

I've said from the beginning this is a bad idea. Is this for all minimum wage workers?

If so.......my payroll costs will go out of sight.....staff will disappear, services will be cut, bene's will be cut..........

[PaxtonShelby]

How else can these folks afford Obamacare?

[Troll]

So, because you decided to start a family in the 9th grade, now I have to pay $8.00 just for a Big Mac and the price of a #5 supersize will probably be $14.50 to cover all their costs. so, as soon as this happens everyone will figure out they can buy real food at a real restaurant with real waitresses for less than what they pay for the same shitty food and shitty service at MacF*ckYous. then, they will all go out of business and that will be my fault somehow because I paid for school loans until I was 30.

In short, yes Ruthless the world has gone crazy !!!

[u1arunit]

McDonalds and most of the usual fast food chains are hurting bad right now. This would be the nail in the coffin. Way to go America.

[RUTHLESS]

I did some number crunching and I hope the people fighting for the $15 did the same. However I am going to bet some didn't and when it comes tax time they are going to be just a little upset if they get pushed up a bracket.

[u1arunit]

I did some number crunching and I hope the people fighting for the $15 did the same. However I am going to bet some didn't and when it comes tax time they are going to be just a little upset if they get pushed up a bracket.

Not only that, they are going to be asking for Less Hours after they get the bump or they will lose the Government housing and other freebies after they are making too much. It's already happened in other places that have the increased wages. We keep catering to the low lifes here in America it will be all that we have. So very sad....

[Silverhatch]

So, because you decided to start a family in the 9th grade, now I have to pay $8.00 just for a Big Mac and the price of a #5 supersize will probably be $14.50 to cover all their costs. so, as soon as this happens everyone will figure out they can buy real food at a real restaurant with real waitresses for less than what they pay for the same shitty food and shitty service at MacF*ckYous.

You must not have ate there for awhile. I stopped at Wendys and a large size for a double cheeeseburger was nearly $11, before the pay increase. Talk about ripping people off, what do you think that large $1.50 fountain drink cost the fastfood empires? Maybe .15 cents. My problem is this, wallyworld is one of the largest u.s employers, the waltons are 6 of the top ten wealthiest people in the u.s. They're making billions while paying their employees 8$/hr. Those same employees require gov funding that I pay out of my taxes. They in turn, shop with said funding at, you guessed it, walmart. So why not force walmart to pay their employees more so that maybe they might not have to get funded by my pocket and instead by the waltons...They may raise prices putting all the employees in the same situation again, but whats the alternative? Taxpayers subsidizing them? Not everyone decided to start at family in 9th grade, some people are forced to work there because of downsizing, their college career collasped or get this, walmart moved to town and put their mom and pop store out of business because of their cheap prices using slave labor......

[RUTHLESS]

Not only that, they are going to be asking for Less Hours after they get the bump or they will lose the Government housing and other freebies after they are making too much. It's already happened in other places that have the increased wages. We keep catering to the low lifes here in America it will be all that we have. So very sad....

Good point!

[SlowSix]

this wasn't actually passed yet, just an FYI. Seattle has been experimenting with it, and NY state has been talking about implementing it.

[RUTHLESS]

Silverhatch,
Easy fix...stop going to places like Walmart when you can buy the same items from a mom and pop shop and have a better experience. Sure it might cost a little more but your helping the community. That is how it is working in the small town my wife grew up. Her grandparents own a small appliance store and it is doing good with return customers. GET THIS...There is a Walmart just up the road.
Same mind set works if you shopping for a garden tractor. (I just did this so its fresh in my mind.) You can go to a Lowes and get a green tractor with JD sticker slapped on it while being built in china, then complain about JD to everyone you see or you can go to a place that sells the real deal and be happy for years.

[Silverhatch]

I shop at Aldis for just about all food products. The problem is though Walmart employees so many people and pay so little that its a never ending cycle. Imo Walmart is building a fortune by paying their army of employees a below living wage funded by u.s. taxpayers. The Crackdonalds and wendys of the world aren't as bad being they may employ 40 people to a workweek in a town compared to a few hundred that walmart employs per store. If you buy a jd tractor and its subpar to a jd dealer tractor. You bet ill bitch, it was jd that sold out to sell their branded cheap tractors at lowes in the first place.

[thedak]

I go to Walmart about 3 times a year.

Maybe....

[Silverhatch]

McDonalds and most of the usual fast food chains are hurting bad right now. This would be the nail in the coffin. Way to go America.

Because nothing says america like Mcdonalds, Wendys and kfc. Good riddence.

[u1arunit]

If you buy a jd tractor and its subpar to a jd dealer tractor. You bet ill bitch, it was jd that sold out to sell their branded cheap tractors at lowes in the first place.

****ing right, I'd be pissed as well. The name Used To to mean quality for a lot of big brands. You don't see REAL tractors at the big box stores. No stamped steel deck, junk engine, who flung poo parts wearing, look alikes crap at a true tractor store.

[Dan B.]

****ing right, I'd be pissed as well. The name Used To to mean quality for a lot of big brands. You don't see REAL tractors at the big box stores. No stamped steel deck, junk engine, who flung poo parts wearing, look alikes crap at a true tractor store.

Kubota baby!!

[PaxtonShelby]

Big box stores sell a ton of cheaper versions of brand names. The bathroom fixtures we bought from a local store were very well made compared to the junk sold at Lowes or Home Depot. Did they cost more? Yes. Were they worth it? Hell yeah.

[Stangman701]

A minimum wage job is not supposed to be a career. It's something you do as a teenager or maybe something someone does while they get back on their feet after whatever bad situation they found themselves in. If you're flipping burgers at McD's for more than a year or two then I would say you obviously have no ambition in life and deserve to be making minimum wage. If you go to a job like that, show up on time, and perform well then you will be promoted because you will certainly be in the minority. Now obviously being a manager at McDonalds isn't a great job, but... you're getting managerial experience which could hopefully land you a higher paying job somewhere else. It's all about climbing the ladder. Just because you start at the bottom doesn't mean that with enough hard work and determination that you can't make it to the top. THAT is the American dream and it's so sad to see it being watered down by giving these dumb asses $30K/yr to flip burgers. It's the closest thing to communism that this country has ever seen and it's f'n BS... end rant/

[PaxtonShelby]

Amen Ray. Well put!