Posted on 12/06/2019 2:05:55 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
In the mid nineties, federal welfare programs began requiring some work, I noticed the change to adults working in MCDonalds, etc. This happened when Clinton signed welfare reform when he was trying to get re-elected.
So what does the boyfriend do? Why can’t he give her a car? And why are they staying at his parents if they charge at least one 40-hour-a-week worker’s paycheck just for the privilege?
We know. If she we’re an immigrant she’d find a way to work 60 hours a week for a few months to save up some cash. She and her boyfrienc could probably find another similarly strapped couple to share a cheap apartment closer to her work if such issues are really widespread. And how cold can it be walking to the bus in NC? I am walking to trains up here in CT and NY in December.
All that said, yes, it is the uniparty’s massive influx of cheap immigrant labor expressly to push down the wages of low skill workers such as she clearly is. $15/hr in NC will just up the automation in McDonald’s and hospital kitchens—if thwre is a shortage of illegals.
The question is who should determine how much an employee is worth: her employer or the nanny state.
Guess which one I choose.
I remember those times. In 93 my firm went from 250 engineers to 40 in about two months. All firms dried up. I ended up being a short order cook at 3 different restaurants. Mon thru Fri 8am to 6pm at one, then 7pm to 2am at another. On Sat and Sun cooked 11am thru 8pm at the third restaurant. I did this for 1year 4months straight. Not one day off. Sometimes you have no choice. I’m sure there are many on FR with similar stories. “Life’s a bitch. Then you die. “:-D
It’s hard finding work as a senior. I’ve been looking for a while but spent a whole month trying for a great job that I jumped through hoops to get only to lose out in the end (won’t do that again). I have an interview for restaurant dishwasher next week and I’m hoping I get it. I’m applying to a lot of jobs, but only a few even give a call back. I’ve worked in HR, so I know this is an age issue even though they use “other” reasons.
She votes. I am for increasing the min wage to $15. Get this ridiculous issue off the table and stop looking like jerks to the lower echelon voter.
She likely voted for Obama. Who through ObamaCare is directly responsible for her inability to get a fulltime job. You want a $15 minimum wage? I guess you also want to pay $11.50 or more for Big Mac value meal.
And keep in mind that she will lose her Mickey D job if do gooders like you get your wish. She wil be replaced by a kiosk.
Uh, no—just look at any city that has gone to a $15 minimum—lots of restaurant jobs were lost.
Sounds like my experience at McDonald’s, around 1972. The head manager was 21, and one of the assistant managers was 23. I was a swing manager at 17, and I don’t think any of the cooks or cashiers was over 21. It was fun while it lasted, and then I moved on.
Good Damn Question.
Lets See. That $349.00 13 inch Color TV?
You’d have to shell out $2,586.00 for it today.
Maybe she should spend more time improving her job skills instead of hanging out with her union homies.
Yup. If you take on responsibilities you’re honor bound to take them serious.
I crawled in attacks dragging romex for an electrician friend. Painted houses for another friend, and went to a pharmaceutical plant 1000 miles away to do calibration and validation of electronic equipment in a new section of a plant (my old job but working for a validation contractor )
Yup. Life can be a b!tch
Are you a leftist hack writer, forced to advance the agenda of misery against real news of record low unemployment, real wage increases, and the Trump boom?
Lazy charges of the endless isms getting no traction? No mass shooting or foreign war? Trot out the Single Working Mom story!
As long as there’s one whiny 30-year-old out there who’s made so many bad decisions that they’re still tossing fries, “capitalism has failed.”(tm)
fast food jobs are permenent jobs. Perhaps in 1965 they werent but they are now
Grillmen, managers and supervisors and tech people as well as franchise office people all have permenent jobs. So do the cleaning help.
There is a whole slice of life that are hardworking, clean, respectable people who live in trailerparks, and apartments and work hard and do their best. And Mickyds is their best. I am glad there are fast food places to employ these folks. They are like family for these folks.
I don’t go to McDs very often, but recently stopped at one in Kansas while on a trip, just to get some coffee. It was the nicest one I’ve ever been to, and I’d say half the people working there were 50 to 60+ years old.
She can be replace.
https://kwhs.wharton.upenn.edu/2015/08/robots-advance-automation-in-burger-flipping-and-beyond/
The worst though was under Jimmy Carter. I will never forget how that fool tried to destroy America. The snowflakes of today don’t realize how good they have it. God Bless Trump.
You win the cigar!!!
In NY she would still qualify for Medicaid which is free, cadillac health insurance.
I currently work 2 full time jobs and manage a rental property. When preggers for my first kid I biked 14 miles one way to a sweatshop industrial laundry job. I was going through a divorce and had no clue about food stamps, welfare, etc. Had no car until in my mid twenties and then it was a hoopty (married at 18)
There were times I lived in my car with my two kids. Pretty sure the “rent” at her boyfriend’s mom’s house is insignificant.
Sorry but I made it out of poverty through sheer determination and hard work.
At $15-hr. Her cashier job will be the first to go. Replaced by a kiosk.
Amen. When I was 29, I had my Masters degree (in Creative Writing, no less...) and was working in corporate communications for Fidelity Investments. I was making mid thirties (this was, sadly, over 20 years ago) and shared an apartment with a friend. I really had, and still have, no sympathy for someone who just wanders through life with no plan and no marketable skills. I don’t eat fast food, and I certainly won’t eat it if the $15/min wage is ever passed. It’s not my job to subsidize bad behavior.
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