I have always told my staff that if they want a wage increase, do what I do and strive for your next position. Don't expect people to pay you more for doing the same job. Give yourself a raise by striving for that next step in your career.
that doesnt always work, i worked at BK busted my ass, came in early, stayed late, came in on my days off, asked for 6month review raise, they said they cant afford it, so i started to slack, everytime the head manager asked for something, i asked for a raise
I think that the real world , companies want the best from employees but arent willing to pay extra for more effort, Like you said you can work you're arss of and still not move up the ladder. Companies dont give a shit , once you have exhausted yourself they just hire someone new instead.
I don't know what they were paying you, but certainly the job at BK has a range of pay. You are never going to make a lot of money there. You'd probably be better off jumping to another entry level job that actually pays money.
They can only pay so much. That amount is about equal to 1. How much your effort increases their income, and 2. What they could hire someone for, to do the exact same thing you are doing. Wages are a market, like everything else. Taking orders quicker or with more accuracy and producing food quickly and accurately doesn't really create more profit. All that really matters is that they keep satisfying customers. The constraint they are under is how much food is ordered.
Hi. L.A. Sous Chef here. Can attest. The salad guy and the dishwasher have both been terminated. The new salad guy now washes dishes in between orders and doesn't leave until 12 am. We close at 9. Our sauté team now consists of me and our Chef is now the grill cook.
shiestjoo I actually don’t believe in a minimum wage at all. Nobody owes you a job. You have to go out and show you’re worth 15 or more dollars per hour.
nunya business myself I'm sick and tired of hearing these women whine and complain that they can't make enough money at their crappy part time job, meanwhile they're crapping out more and more fatherless babies. We need to stop welfare and start punching women for having kids when they can't afford them because it's no different than child abuse. If you can't afford to have a child then the child will suffer because the parents can't provide.
Forcing companies to pay more for a job that doesn't dictate its value. Also more money doesn't mean more value. When more things go up and less people by these things... Jobs will be cut! Wake up people!
Why would less people buy these things? IF people have more money they can buy more things. Even if prices rise a bit if its not a one to one ratio, which idk if it happens at a one to one ratio or not, then people can still afford to buy more things.
Typical entitlement philosophy. I didn't work for a better education. I am not as qualified as others. I didn't do anything myself to improve my life. But somehow, I deserve what those who worked for what they have.
Not their fault that the others don't fight for increase wages. People should always fight for what they want and don't let other people who like it or not aren't better than ANYONE else dictate what they deserve or don't.
Yes people should fight for what they want. Obviously fighting for a better education or fighting to improve themselves was not what they want. Instead they fight for better wages at fast food restaurants so they don't have to do any real work.
Anthony Harry Maybe if they fought that hard to get an education and improve their job skills to make their labor worth more they'd make more. But instead, you're defending people who don't want to put in the time and effort to improve their job skills and the value of their labor by giving them something they don't deserve.
crucisnh nobody is going to listen to you because youre right. He never came back to defend his reasoning. He is right that you dont let others tell u what youre worth. But we are talking about wages here. Not self worth.
If there is a wage hike to fifteen dollars an hour, there will be repercussions. For fifteen dollars an hour I can hire a family man with children. Someone that I can depend on and will show up for work everyday. Now tell me, why would I want to hire some stupid little drugged up, pimply faced idiot for that money? There will be no more entry level jobs. Sorry kids, but that's the cold hard facts.
That "little skill" is more than a lot of young men can muster. Many of them can't make it to work 5 days a week. That's why nobody is going to pay them anything.
$15 an hour! I used to work on the drilling rigs and risked my life for $14 an hour. I put myself through college on two jobs and became a software developer. It's called "Self Improvement"... and if you give people more than they're worth.. they'll only become arrogant and more ignorant.
not every1 is smart enough to go to college, i worked with people born stupid, im an iron worker, i get stupid people all the time, i find what they can do and have them do that, and they are paid damn good money, 32$/hr
Watch the movie Urban cowboy. Back in the 70's your job started at 15 an hour. Wages have gone down you should be getting 40 an hour. The oil companies make 100's of billions of dollars.
The corporations will simply shift their investments to technology like self service kiosks rather than pay a person 15 dollars an hour to simply take money and place an order. Unemployment will rise due to this shift and justifiably so. You either make your own raise by increasing your skill set, or you will be at the mercy of politicians pan handling for votes on promises they can't keep.
Brett you acting like this wasnt going to happen, the big Corporations used it as an excuse to lay people off, my local food mart, has had self check outs for about 20 yrs now
Apart from “taking money” Up front workers are also generally the ones who do the cleaning. Self service kiosks are the future but the human worker is still going to be a large part of the business. These computers need servicing and there are hundreds of other factors that a “robot” or computer can’t do yet.
Brett O'Berry You are correct. The big corporations will scale down and install Kiosks to take orders and then you go and pick up. The Mom and Pop places will have to cut back on employees, cut down on the hours the employees they have or as a last resort go out of business. This is what happens when Politicians put their nose in where it doesn't belong and 'I am entitled to higher wag if welders get it' attitude. You want a higher wage/salary get the skills that will entitle you to ask for the higher wage/salary.
Apparently, my local McDonald's already has a device that you can order on without ever talking to a live person. It sits right inside next to the main counter.
There is no trickle up effect. People already at $15 aren't going to get a $7.50 increase. Companies can't afford to increase wages like that particularly when they aren't required by law. More over I have been right at that cusp when it happened. I worked for a company for 4 years slowly getting raises a couple dollars over minimum. Then minimum was raised to where I was I didn't get a raise. All the people around me that hadn't been there as long as I had got a raise. But I had to start over at minimum. Thankfully I was ready to move on to a real job and start making real money. But raising the minimum does nothing for those already making more.
Raising the min to 15 will be chaos to a fast food owner who already have people making 12 14 and 17 because they will want more money if the least valuable to the eatery is now making close to their wage. The 12 and 14 an hr are going to want to be paid more than that guy who is at minimum and don't have the skillsets they have.
+ Koloth : GREAT point!!!! It's a pisser when you have worked your way up from meager wages to something a little more substantial, and a NO BODY comes in and receives the same pay for NO extra efforts. Just the government saying to kick it up a notch. Glad you have found yourself a new company to work for. I was an employer for 38-yrs and most of my employee's made far ABOVE minimum wages. I was LUCKY, because I had GREAT employee's. All of my employee's make MORE than $15.00 per hr. They are also VERY SKILLED.
Union worker wages are set by a multiple of minimum wage. Guess what happens when the minimum wage goes up? That's right, all union workers get an automatic raise.
yes of course they want more, if a welder makes 25 per hour he should be getting 45 or more. the one percent have so much its not like they have twice as much as us they have a million times as much as us
What if the business decides to offer that on their own accord? I've seen places offer that years ago in some cities (simply due to inability to get people for less).
i wonder why that is lol. It the same reason why people dont work these jobs cause the low pay. I wonder what would happen if we had no one work these jobs. Were would these highly skilled people get their food from. I think its supply and demand. If their is high demand but the pay is low , people wont work that job. Their are skilled jobs that people get paid stuff all. People say do other jobs instead but if it wasn't for some jobs , other people wouldn't be able to get a good education. Also the people saying that shouldn't get paid 15 dollar a hour are getting paid millions for doing stuff all.
The current craze with the left is raising the minimum wage. The mechanism for that movement is fast food workers. Agitating workers to strike, demanding raises. At the same time the left is complaining that fast food is unhealthy and should be banned. If both of these goals are realized, fast food workers will be paid $15 an hour at restaurants that don't exist.If the minimum wage is raised to $15, Will I (at $16) get a comparable raise. Or will my lifestyle be degraded by the rise in prices to cover the cost of $15 workers?
There is no problem. People are making A LOT more than minimum wage, and $15/hr, and they aren't special. Most of them simply know how to show up to work and do a job.
When I started working back in 2013 I started out making 8.50 an hour. I was able to get an apartment with that. Now I'm a supervisor making 13 an hour. If you're smart with your money you can live off of it. But most problems that people have is ONE they're bad with money and TWO they have kids at young age. You CANT support and not suppose to support a family off of minimum wage.
Market forces as well as skill impact the wage. If there were lots of excess welders and no minimum wage then your 22 an hour could drop dramatically. There's also the local cost of living to take into account. At the same time unskilled retail work could go up to 15 or more without any laws to induce it or even unions. I've seen fast food places offer $15 starting rate years ago in some cities. I was paid $13 an hour plus bonuses as a cashier almost 20 years ago because unemployment was so low they couldn't get anyone where I was living.
More money doesn't mean more value of the dollar, it would only cause an inflation of the dollar. What is needed is a deflation; making the value of money increase, not to water down the value by printing out more bills.
Correct, the business must (1) reduce cost, increase prices. Reduction of hours per employee, reduce number of total employees. Increase price of product or services. Or a combination of both. Price drives demand, higher prices decreases demand. Government plays a round in the stagnation of wages by slowing economy by the spending deficits created by presidents like 0bama. Ten trillion spent in ten years takes that money out of the economy.
Mutlap People at low income who are paid more, spend more because they have had to deprive themselves. This improves the economy. No more minimum wage slavery to illegitimately inflate luxury spending by middle and upper classes.
Very true. It's quite simple to explain why there is an inflationary effect from minimum wage increases. The same amount is produced, but the amount to produce it goes up. This isn't how you grow an economy. An economy only grows when there is an increase in productivity. After all that is what economics is, the use of resources to produce things that people need. The money involved is only a means to facilitate trade.
McDonalds has introduced an automated order taking device - I don't like it! If a "robot" is going to take my order, then a "robot" may have the privilege of eating the meal - I certainly won't!!!!!!!!! Eventually, across the fast food industry, the entire food production process may be automated. I'll go back to an old fashioned restaurant - with real people.
I'd rather a computer took my order and I just paid it. I'm there for the burger, not the chit chat. Either way, the invisible hand of the market is a lot better at setting wages than a handful of lazy idiots who make bad choices.
Do franchise like McDonald have the money to pay? yeah, but do they want to pay that many workers $15? no, they're going to be firing a lot of workers or raise the food price, Small business suffer along with the big ones too,
Considering a franchise McDonald's is privately leased. McDonald's is not the one footing the bill. Instead it is the owner having to come up with a way to pay the employees on profit margins that are getting tighter every year.
They want 15 dollars an breaking but fuck up my order every time I go there. All they have done by demanding 15 an breaking is to speed up the automation that was gonna happen anyway. Why would they pay 15 an breaking when you can have a machine do it for less over time and they don't call off or need benefits
Gregory Everson if you read the comment you will see that I said that. Reading is fundamental. Why do you feel the need to call me stupid? I guess I must be stupid if I'm responding to some random stranger whose opinion is of little interest to me
Automating all of the jobs at a burger joint is nowhere on the horizon. But, creating a ridiculous $15/hr minimum wage will speed it up, but not everything can be automated. Also, someone has to design and maintain the machines.
you believe in capitalism you say, but a person who owns a business and sacrifices to become wealthy and live his/her dream is a greedy fuck. You are a lib and you don't even know it. And those who join the military know that one day maybe, might be their turn to fight even if it is not a just war. Wanting to be rich and have whatever they want is what makes a majority of people get up in the morning and strive for. These people asking for $15/hr to flip a burger are the ones who are really going to suffer in the end when they don't have a job to go back to. It's not meant to be a career, but a stepping stone, and if you are too dumb/lazy to move up then shame on you. And before you say it is not that easy to do better, I supported my mother and younger sister from when I was 15 to 23 all the while going to school and learning a trade. Now I am 39 and I own 5 homes and a couple nice cars all because I broke my ass since I was a child basically. These people have the same opportunities if not more since my family did not receive government subsidies like a majority of these people demanding more money do.
I was reading an article about either Seattle, or maybe San Francisco... There was one employer who supported $15/hr wholeheartedly. What I want to know is: For employERs who CLAIM to support it, WHAT IS PREVENTING YOU FROM PAYING IT WITHOUT ANY MANDATE? Just because "they" ain't doing it, shouldn't stop you...
In the 1960s the U.S. went off the gold standard. At that time minimum wage was $1.25. Five quarters. The value of the silver in those five quarters in today’s world is $17.58. If politicians are sincerely interested in helping low income workers; they would get rid of the Federal Reserve.
For all the people calling for a $15.00/hr minimum wage are against women and minorities. For anyone that is on the bottom rung of the wage ladder is going to be hurt the most. People that have little education or few skills will be let go just as soon as automated systems can be installed. As for fast food places or any business that have low skill jobs will put their workers out on the street just as fast as employers can install automated systems. A shift at McDonalds that has 20 to 30 people with go down to 4 to 6 people instead. The new crew will support the machines and be on hand to take care of special orders or problems. With the last minimum wage increase here in AZ I know of four businesses that have closed their doors that was an increase to $10.00/hr. The people that are protesting for $15.00/hr will find out that the real minimum wage is $0.00/hr.
As seniors and veterans will receive an average of $20 a month increase next year. What happens to them when rents, utilities, food and retail goods rise with the higher average wage increases? They will be at the bottom of the poverty levels along with the homeless.
Rent reflects the housing market and taxes. The only way they can raise rent, is because plenty of people are able and willing to pay it. If your rent is too high for your government benefit, maybe you should move to a less expensive part of town, or part of the country. You certainly don't deserve more benefit dollars because you want to live in Manhattan, rather than Wyoming.
It's easy for so-called "do-gooders" to be generous with other people's money -- they've never run a business or had to make a payroll in their entire lives. And, for the glorified burger-flippers out there, all you're doing is paving the way for machines to come in and do your jobs, machines that won't be demanding higher wages for their low-skilled work, demanding time off, vacation time, health care, bargaining rights, etc., etc., etc. Have fun in the unemployment line, because that where you're headed.
I would raise rents I would raise the cost of everything on my menu I would lower employee hours I'd cut employees I'd work my business myself I would never change my profitline and neither will any other organized business
You must work for McDonald's because Seattle & California did it & business has been great, nobody got laid off, prices didn't go up! So keep spinning your lies but facts matter!!!
its not just $15.00 a hour that is paid by the business, but all the unemployment, workers comp, fica, medicare insurance that has to be match. so that $15.00 a hour turns in to $22.00. That is the part no one is addressing in all the conversations that I have read. The better way to do this is to spiral it all down, instead of spiraling it up.
That literally makes no sense EZ2CRUISE. Wages and all of the other costs to produce what we buy determine the price. How exactly are you going to change any of that? Inflation has been low, meaning normal, and lower, for decades in the United States. And wages are a big part of that cost of production. You can't decrease the cost without also decreasing wages.
Good. Everyone speaks about automation as if its a bad thing. It sucks for the people who lose a job, kind of, but it is ultimately a good thing. It brings goods and services to us at a lower price without taking advantage of laborers the way min wage jobs or globalization does.
@Georgia Amanatides yea but now they have a good excuse to speed up those plans. also alot of places cut things like vision and dental plans keeping only what they are required to have. the thing that sucks is that the little mom and pop shops that are actually pleasant to deal with will be gone.
Most places (voters) are going to laugh at a $15/hr minimum wage and it will never happen. Maybe, when years go by and a lot of inflation has happened, that minimum wage will come to everywhere. It is a ridiculous idea anyhow. 15/hr in rural Wyoming is a HUGE wage, compared to $15/hr in Manhattan. Every market should have their own minimum wage, if they should even have a minimum wage at all. Which really just kills jobs that people might want to do that is not profitable below minimum wage levels.
This just kind of pisses me off because I am a CNA which is one of the hardest jobs to have in our country and I make 950 an hour and yet all these people who don't have any certification question for 15 freaking bucks an hour. People need to wake up and realize that they need to work hard and get an education.
Then move. If you work fast food and live in San Diego, San Francisco, or in Manhattan, you are the one trying to afford an apartment you can't afford. If I invest in ownership of an apartment building, I expect that investment to earn a minimum percentage of what I invested every year. If it does not do so, I am going to invest in something else. That is why the rent is what it is. Apparently the other people there are satisfied with the price, otherwise they would move.
This pulls everyone down. Even people making over $15 an hour now will get pulled down as the buying power of the dollar drops. I find it scary that a lot of people do not understand how this is going to backfire.
My starting pay for building Airplanes was $12.73 an hour. It took 6 years to get to maximum wages. If your flipping burgers for $8.00 an hour advance yourself to become a Manager. Minimum wage is a starting point. If your employer can’t advance you fast enough get a different job.
As a former business owner, there are only 3 possible outcomes. 1 I increase prices 2 I fire workers or 3 my business becomes less or negatively profitable(and I will close and invest elsewhere). In 2 out of three cases the"underpaid" now become the unpaid and in the third there costs go up negating the increase. Additionally, if my skilled works are now earning $20/hr they will demand a similar increase. These factors actually hurt the por and middle class the most.
The pro-increase people always point to McD's as their cash cow enemy. What about the small restaurants? Don't think they're immune from the effects of wage hike. People will tire of a $12 Big Mac, but the small places will be long gone by then, out of business. Then you won't have a choice except to stay home; then McD's will close and open a franchise in a non-$15 location. Wage hikers can't see more than ten seconds into the future.
Perhaps. We could lower the prices of things like rent and tax on gas. Perhaps we could look at the expenses that people have that are driving the 15/hr need. We should also look at industries where the number of next level jobs are decreasing due to electric connectivity and automation. It used to be great to start out a mi imum wage. And work ones way up to a manager. But that oathway is shrinking.
It is still great to do so. High school kids and college kids do it, like they always have. Some people never left the nest, on to that next job. Apparently they think protesting is a better idea, but these people are not numerous in the workforce. Most people just get a better job.
This is all B.S. we need to pay at least $15.00 per hour, we have to pay the bills, the rent, housing, public transportation, food, clothing, uniforms. These employers like McDonalds make Millions of dollars per year, they afford a decent, reasonable pay by employees.
A stupid argument. If the bizzman is forced by the govt to raise the minimum then the workers could buy more and help the economy. Hey, how can the help when they get fired or the eatery goes closes its doors.
This is nuts, these people who were protesting about the wage increase don't understand, automation will just be prioritised, especially with the large corporations, jobs will go and these people will be out of work, I'd rather earn a lower wage, and have work...
When companies must pay more to employees, they either have to cut employees or raise prices. This means either more money in less people’s hands and more unemployed, or less money in everyone’s hands as not they much pay more for things.
My girlfriend is an EMT who worked her ass off to get ger certs and comes home after long shifts where she sees some of the worst things imaginable.....and the idea of these people (not to say they don't work hard, but come on) making equal to or MORE than an EMT B is disgusting.
You start a business to make money and you make it by having a good product and a affordable price kiss dollar menu goodbye with 15 per hr hello 5 dollar menu
ur stupid, if poor people have more money to spend, prices wont go up, why do we have to give rich people more money, trickle down doesnt work, trickle up does,, want to know what tax cuts on the rich do? they make taxes go up on the poor and middle class
Minimum wage, adjusted for inflation, should be over $22 an hour by now. Productivity has raised dramatically since the 90s, yet wages have remained comically stagnant. Instead of passing the increased profits from increased productivity, employers just pocketed the extra money. Which has lead to this breaking point. This wasn't going to last forever. It's not a sustainable economic model. Instead of whining about having to may something closer to a living wage, be happy that you got away with paying employees nothing for so long.
No, trickle down worked well. The average person has way more stuff, and services, and better food, and cars and air conditioning than they did before. An average domestic 1970s car is not equal to an average domestic 2018 car. The 2018 car is a LOT better. And yet, people can still afford it in huge numbers.
I make more than $15.00 and the owners of the company is still making money, I just received a big bonus for helping the owner's company make more money. Owners take care of employees and the employees takes care of the bussines.
Looks like another reason to not go to fast food restaurants. I quit going to them years ago because they simply charge too much. Now they're wanting them to pay more and that's only going to push the prices up again.
Anyone over the age of 30 and still making minimum wage please explain to the rest of us WTF you have been doing your entire life that you're in a position that only pays you the minimum wage. I believe there lies the reason why other people strongly oppose the $15 minimum wage. What have you been doing?
Why don't the government put together a jobs program to help people learn the skills needed to work jobs that automatically start at $15/hr? Then these grown ass adults wouldn't have to compete with a bunch of kids for minimum wage work. Wouldn't that be better than just paying people more to do the same unskilled work?
Objection: Raising the minimum wage will hurt business and reduce employment. “No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act) Objection: $10.10 an hour is too much, maybe $9. “By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of a decent living.” (1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act)
What the $15 people don't know is these restaurants aren't making tons of profits as most of them are individual franchises. Once you increase the bottom workers to $15, all the managers and other making more ALSO need the same percentage increase because managers will complain that they do more work for the same pay as entry level employees. Badly has probably never ran a business before.
you are a special kind of stupid, you dont understand math, if you pay people more they have more to spend, prices dont need to increase nor lay them off, fuck a manager should be busting his ass the most, any1 can do fucking paper work thats the easy part, seen to many managers sit in the office all day doing nothing
These big corporations arnt stupid, they got that way for a reason. If a company has 30 staff on $12 an hour they would just downsize staff to absorb the increase or reduce hours
First of all, these minimum wage jobs aren't meant to be careers. If you want to make more money, get a valuable skill. Yet the proponents of the wage hike claim that corporations are making a ton of money and can afford to pay their employees more. Then why not target the big corporations instead of small business?
The dedicated employee who has been with a company for years and has reached 15 dollars is getting paid the same as someone off the street,now they are having their hours cut to make up for it.so the person who works hard to get ahead gets the same pay great job. You do realize that employee A might produce much more than employee B but they are now making the same.great job people
That situation wouldn't last long. Employee A would not stay there if they didn't see a raise. And with their experience, they'd probably get a better job easily.
My question would be how does this affect franchise establishments. If McDonald's has more than 30 stores, but Joe only has two McDonald franchises does he have to pay the $15, or is he exempt?
I believe, from what I've seen here, or in another video, that they are not exempt. Which is ridiculous. ...obviously, that depends on what law is created. The one I saw made the distinction between "large" and "small" businesses. Which is, as I said, ridiculous. The marginal cost of labor needed to create a burger is just as important for a large business as it is for a small one.
Well then raise the wages to $20 per hour. More money in the hands of the people means a stronger economy... Raise the prices accordingly and your right where you started. Struggling with bigger amounts of Monopoly money. This is about taxable income, the government gets more and then they can spend more.
vf12497439 finally!! Someone who gets who the only one to benefit from a higher minimum wage IS!! THE ENTITY THAT CREATED THE MINIMUM WAGE IN THE FIRST PLACE. THE GOVERNMENT!!!!
And you think the McDonald’s corporation pays its fast food workers? It doesn’t, franchises do, and they’ll replace them or scale down because the franchise owners don’t make much at all, more often they lose money in the first 5 years and are lucky to break even by a decade (if they are still in business)
There are so many people that are not worth $15 an hour. It would not even be worth hiring somebody that has no experience because then you would have to train somebody at $15 an hour
Couldn't be happier. I watch government officials give themselves 50% raises every single year. Time for the poor to get a break. When the rich start paying their fair share in taxes then maybe we can cap minimum wage
Anyone who sincerely thinks that a minimum wage increases the amount of money people as a whole have to spend is a fool. This includes you, if you are a minimum wage supporter. Any minimum wage.
If they get a pay raise for flipping burgers then so should everyone else like Cops, Firefighters, Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, etc. You know the exeptional people that do exeptional jobs. Increasing the minimum wage will raise the cost of everything and you'll be back to square one.
Excuse please? More money? Where from? Not unless the printing presses go wild. Do You know what that MEANS? More paper equals inflation. Your dollar pays less! There is NOTHING there to back that paper currency. Min wage is not for people trying to do a house hold, live in a mansion or drive a Ferrari!
15 an hour is not reasonable. It's greedy. I pay my bills making 9 an hour. It would be awesome to make 15 an hour but If I lose my job cause the company can't pay it, what good is it?
They can't afford it. You have clearly avoided any education involving accounting, investing, and economics. Nevermind that Amazon is nearly putting Walmart out of business already. Kids should work, but it is not for putting food on the table or roofs over their head. If a kid can do the job, why would the pay need to be enough to pay for a single adult, or an adult raising children to make ends meet? AND, why would a business be responsible for YOU making ends meet. They don't owe you that. YOU owe YOU that.
Im sorry but the minimum wage needs to be at a point where a person working full time, 40 hours a week, doesnt need Government benefits any longer. Thats at least $15.00 an hour most of the United States. In my state ,it makes more sense to NOT work if your not in the $20. hr range or better. Thats why there are so many young homeless men hanging on the streets getting high. If we want to change our society back to one that works, we need to follow Germany's model and keep wages higher , to give people an incentive to stay straight and get to work. Its part of being a civilized, first world society. Now at the same time, there is a big need to cut benefits to the bone and make it not worth panhandling etc.
If i have to pay 15hr i will get good workers. Ones who want to work and support a family. Not young kids. Just the hard facts, Hire ppl who are worth your time. Its unskilled labor. But most of the time its too much for the tounger generation. Just cant learn properly. Attention spans in nanoseconds.
Not every business can handle a $1 an hour raise every year and will go belly up ,I own 6 party/liquor stores ,a real estate company ,a construction high end kitchen & bath company and 3 self storage facilities, every business my family owns would collapse of we had to pay a forced wage 90% wage increase ,I would close every storefront the day the wage increase took effect & keep my bank account before I drained my savings & wound up broke 6 months later from paying insane wage hikes, on our self storage facilities I would convert all 3 into key card access & eliminate all except 1 employee who rented locker space for all 3 locations instead of offering personal services like security guards for the premises, I'd be forced to pay off my staff who helps customers pack their storage locker correctly and wrap valuable items for them . Nothing good will come of this except a dramatic increase in unemployment, which is exactly what Obama, Hillary, Bernie, Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings and all democrats want ,they'd rather destroy our economy that see Trump succeed ,which he is doing better than Obama, Clinton or bush did & they can't stand it ,their willing to crush all of us to keep the swamp from being drained so they can keep ripping America off ,not 1 democrat politican has money problems .
All it does is punish with and small businesses. The small businesses can't afford to pay the higher arbitrary minimum wage, and they have to fire people. The big businesses can afford to automate. Just look at the number of self checkouts that your neighborhood Walmart is putting in.
Yes, there needs to be some adjustments upward for minimum wage workers, especially in high cost of living areas. However, $15 is too much for a burger flipper, or similar, unskilled position. When you factor in the loss of certain government handouts/assistance, minimum wage people may actually be worse off. We need a lot more government supported vocational training right after high school so people will never have to experience the minimum wage after age 18 or so.
All these people crying bc fast food workers are getting 15 bucks an hour as if that’s a lot. 15 an hour ain’t jack shit. 7.50 won’t even get you gas to go back and forth to work. 15 is barely entry level money.
