What a wanker.
Raising those wages actually lowers them because they lose their jobs.
Hey Wanker! You stuck in a teenager’s entry level burger flipper job? Get an education. Get a job. Get a life!
Up your nose with a garden hose SEIU.
The R&D budget for industrial robots just got a raise, too.
Raise a family on a fast food wage? Probably can’t be done, or not done well. Minimum wage entry level positions are just that, a stepping stone to something better - not a career choice. Yeah, that means you may have to wait, put off your family plans until you move on to something better.
A science fiction thread?!
This is from another planet. With no intelligent life.
Why are you trying to raise a family on a fast-food salary?
Is it because you have lost your higher paying job and this is a bridge job?
Then my sympathy.
If you started a family without having gotten married and having a steady job, then what the heck were you thinking?
And why is a lack of planing on your part a concern on my part?
It is a measure of how bad the economy is when people are trying to raise a family in such a professional position, but it may be equally a measure of the ability of large numbers of current High School (or equivalent--or not) graduates.
If burger flipping is as ambitious as today's workforce gets, we're doomed.
These idiots do realize that raising the minimum wage will have an across the board cost effect and their new higher wage will likely have the same, or slightly less buying power right?
Oh wait, they are working a minimum wage job because they are not smart enough to advance up the ladder.
My bad.
When I was a kid I baby sat, worked in a department store for holidays and then part time while in college, the post office during Christmas, my cousins picked berries n the summer. Never did we think these would be our ultimate job. We had better plans that fortunately worked out.
This bimbo author should demand double her pay and then she would need to learn the phrase: “Ya want fries with that?”
Raise their wages.
Then cut their hours.
Ms. Wanker is awfully free with other people’s money. Typical liberal.
I think we should pass a special law that requires any business with a drive through window to pay their employees $50 per hour and contribute 25% to their 401k and provide them with no deductible heath insurance and 6 weeks paid vacation per year and overtime over 29 hours per week.
Additionally the employer must contribute $1500 per year for each employee’s child under the age of 26 for a scholarship fund.
I know I would lose weight under this plan.
Hey Christine, how about putting the blame where it belongs. And that’s with your Lord and Savior Obama. He’s single-handedly destroying virtually every well paying full-time job out there with the ObamaCare debacle.
This putz talks like it is a right to have a full time job.
Well guess what if you only work 24 hours a week at your job you have plenty of time to work a second job or look for a full time better paying job.
If these people want to know why fast food wages haven’t gone up they can blame Obama. It is Obama that has swelled the unemployment rolls and refused to deport low skill illegal immigrants. The reason low skilled jobs pay so little is because there is a huge surplus of low skilled workers.
Obama’s policies have put so many people on the streets looking for work that the fast food industry does not have to compete for workers. The law of supply and demand applies to labor as well as goods.
You may remember back in GW Bush's first term that fast food restaurants in many areas had to pay above minimum wage to get enough workers. Well welcome to the age of Obama when if there were not minimum wage laws fast food workers would be paid less than they are because there is a glut of low skilled labor thanks to Obama’s policies.
As I remember it fast food jobs are historically entry level jobs. Thats why so many high school and college kids work at Mickey Dee’s etc. Then the theory is that after a time you work your way up the ladder or train for a better job somewhere else. Its not supposed to be a career.
If you don't care enough about your own family to improve your skill set such that you'd be worth being paid more, why in the world should anyone else?