2000cs wrote

...I also think “tipping culture” will spread and get worse (consumer perspective) as a way to have the consumer pay the employees more...

Once restaurants started adding 3%-4% to the bill to "cover increased costs," I started deducting that same percentage from my tip.

A step in the right direction finally.

ezaircon4jc wrote

Minimum wage jobs are ENTRY, NON-SKILLED positions. No one is supposed to live on minimum wage. I've said it before, if one is at minimum wage for more than 6 months, they're pretty much a loser. As long as one puts in the effort and does a good job, they will get a six-month bump. Fast food isn't supposed to be a career either; unless one moves into management. Your local FF jobs are supposed to be for teenagers working their first job (or maybe retired peeps just looking to keep busy), not someone raising a family.

This logic does not work in our current state. We cannot have a society without people fullfilling min wage job permanently. I used to have this narrow minded view but then I grew and realised how wrong I was.

If find yourself working in fast food place and you’re not a teenager and still living under your parent’s roof, you should be saying to yourself what the hell did you do wrong in your life. Those jobs that pay minimum wage were meant for anyone to provide a living wage. Those are starter jobs to get experience and teach you to do something better in life.

I personally never did those kinds of jobs when I was teenager. I was always was able to find jobs that paid more, but those jobs required you to work hard real manual labor. One job I had was working in lumber yard loading contractors trucks, another was working on golf course taking care of greens and stuff, I also worked in the warehouse of moving company unloading and loading trucks.

I understand not everyone has skills, however, if you want to make a good living there are plenty of jobs that do not require a degree of specific skills that pay really well, but you have have to work. One example you can become a truck driver, most companies will train you and the starting wage is $55k, however, it’s not an easy work. There are 10 of thousands of truck driver jobs.

clutchdj wrote

Smoke in mirrors. Unions and politicians. They are in bed with each other, and will soon, if not already govern every major city. They do not care about employees and their wages. That is on the surface with all of the emotion. They care about political advancement and the unions with their dues. The dollar just shrinks in the long run, for everyone.

Wtf are you guys talking about? Unions are great and are the only thing truly protecting workers. Wtaf am I reading. Y'all have been missled so hard by propaganda and shit. Or you're business owners that refuse to pay your employees properly.

I need to stop reading this thread, I'm loosing faith in humanity while wasting my time. Adios.

TheMidnightNarwhal wrote

Wtf are you guys talking about? Unions are great and are the only thing truly protecting workers. Wtaf am I reading. Y'all have been missled so hard by propaganda and shit. Or you're business owners that refuse to pay your employees properly.

I need to stop reading this thread, I'm loosing faith in humanity while wasting my time. Adios.

Whoa, lots of drama there. You prob should stop reading this thread. I mean you said it yourself. “We cannot have a society without people fullfilling min wage job permanently.”

Maestro wrote

If find yourself working in fast food place and you’re not a teenager and still living under your parent’s roof, you should be saying to yourself what the hell did you do wrong in your life. Those jobs that pay minimum wage were meant for anyone to provide a living wage. Those are starter jobs to get experience and teach you to do something better in life.

I personally never did those kinds of jobs when I was teenager. I was always was able to find jobs that paid more, but those jobs required you to work hard real manual labor. One job I had was working in lumber yard loading contractors trucks, another was working on golf course taking care of greens and stuff, I also worked in the warehouse of moving company unloading and loading trucks.

I understand not everyone has skills, however, if you want to make a good living there are plenty of jobs that do not require a degree of specific skills that pay really well, but you have have to work. One example you can become a truck driver, most companies will train you and the starting wage is $55k, however, it’s not an easy work. There are 10 of thousands of truck driver jobs.

The worst trainees I had were college grads. They were very limited in their creativity. It takes a pretty unique set of skills and mentality to be a controller. Not everyone can handle the stress. Personally, it was just a voice on the other end of the radio and I had no emotional attachment to it and no matter what happened, I got to go home at the end of my shift; though there was a possibility of paperwork. I would say trucking also requires a certain skill-set. It's more than just driving.

Minimum wage increases, as was said before, also increases the wages of those higher up the wage ladder. If Joe fry cook gets an extra $4 than so should I. After all, I have seniority over Joe.

Unions are past their time (I've been in more than one). They do nothing but protect the incompetent and line the pockets of the officials. Like said before, higher wages=higher union dues. Next step is to unionize FF workers. The SEIU is just looking for more income.

Like I said before, if one is at minimum wage for more than 6 months, they are a loser.

Maestro wrote

If find yourself working in fast food place and you’re not a teenager and still living under your parent’s roof, you should be saying to yourself what the hell did you do wrong in your life. Those jobs that pay minimum wage were meant for anyone to provide a living wage. Those are starter jobs to get experience and teach you to do something better in life.

I personally never did those kinds of jobs when I was teenager. I was always was able to find jobs that paid more, but those jobs required you to work hard real manual labor. One job I had was working in lumber yard loading contractors trucks, another was working on golf course taking care of greens and stuff, I also worked in the warehouse of moving company unloading and loading trucks.

I understand not everyone has skills, however, if you want to make a good living there are plenty of jobs that do not require a degree of specific skills that pay really well, but you have have to work. One example you can become a truck driver, most companies will train you and the starting wage is $55k, however, it’s not an easy work. There are 10 of thousands of truck driver jobs.

I agree, but the majority (in my experience, in CA) of fast food workers I see are in their 30s-50s, which suggests that is their 'career.' So my point is that there is a large number of unskilled worker unable or unwilling to upskill. If we eliminate the available work (which a wage hike like this inevitably does, covered already in one of the first posts), then these people will just need to be paid by all of us (unemployment and welfare).

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin

I'm always in two minds with this. As a former employer of entry level folks I can see the need to temper wages as the costs are real to employers but coming from Australia, where entry level jobs have always, always paid a TON more than the USA, they seem to make it work just fine.

Newsom's Restaurant Pays $16 an Hour Despite Law Crippling Fast Food Chains with $20 Minimum Wage
However, this only applies to fast food restaurants -- not, say, high-end restaurants and wineries owned by posh individuals like, oh, say, Gavin Newsom. But surely those employees are making over $20 an hour already, right?
Yet again, Newsom is leading by anti-example, according to the Post.
"PlumpJack Cafe in Olympic Valley -- which is among a group of eateries owned by a company Newsom founded in 1992 -- is hiring a part-time busser who 'will aim to assist the food server … to ensure guest satisfaction during all aspects of the dining experience,' according to a ZipRecruiter posting," the outlet reported on Thursday.
"The job listing states the salary for the busser is $16 an hour plus tips."
https://www.westernjournal.com/newsoms-restaurant-pays-16-hour-despite-law-crippling-fast-food-chains-20-minimum-wage/

Alfisti wrote

I'm always in two minds with this. As a former employer of entry level folks I can see the need to temper wages as the costs are real to employers but coming from Australia, where entry level jobs have always, always paid a TON more than the USA, they seem to make it work just fine.

How though? You’re the second person brining up some other country. I have no personal experience with how it works in other countries but the math is the math.

If you raise wages you either have to increase prices, cut somewhere else or lower profits and I’m willing to bet most big corporations will not do the latter.

Maybe Australia uses special math, but if that’s the case why stop at $20/hour? If raising labor costs has no negative effects why not keep going? I’m sure there are plenty of places you can’t live in for $20/hour. Why not $30 or $50 or $480/hour so everyone can become a millionaire in a year.

So minimum wage aside, the actual argument for minimum wage is a "living wage"...

I live near San Francisco. They did a study on what a livable wage was for San Francisco. The result?

$50+/hour or a $100,000 salary... to afford food and rent and occasionally eat out and take a small vacation.

And we actually have politicians out here (Barbara Lee) who is pushing for a $50 "living wage" because "businesses can afford it."

dreamingat30fps wrote

How though? You’re the second person brining up some other country. I have no personal experience with how it works in other countries but the math is the math.

If you raise wages you either have to increase prices, cut somewhere else or lower profits and I’m willing to bet most big corporations will not do the latter.

Maybe Australia uses special math, but if that’s the case why stop at $20/hour? If raising labor costs has no negative effects why not keep going? I’m sure there are plenty of places you can’t live in for $20/hour. Why not $30 or $50 or $480/hour so everyone can become a millionaire in a year.

I don't think folks are saying it has no effect but look, the Australian economy has been amongst the worlds best for 25 years now and income inequality, whilst worsening, is nowhere near as stark as it is in the USA. Issues like crime and homelessness are not even close to the US figures. Not all this is related to minimum wage but I think at times you guys down there get a bit closed minded on the way other societies function.

All I know is, I go home pretty often and i see ads for $30 an hr for grocery clerks, yes the cost of living is higher than the USA but it seems to work with at least the same success as the US low min wage theory in a broad sense.

Cartoon of the day.

LuxoM3 wrote

So minimum wage aside, the actual argument for minimum wage is a "living wage"...

I live near San Francisco. They did a study on what a livable wage was for San Francisco. The result?

$50+/hour or a $100,000 salary... to afford food and rent and occasionally eat out and take a small vacation.

And we actually have politicians out here (Barbara Lee) who is pushing for a $50 "living wage" because "businesses can afford it."

And of course this is a static analysis. The dynamic is once a “living wage” is achieved, all wages rise and prices inflate. So housing once again becomes unaffordable for those at the bottom. The dynamic effects are not uniform; some do better and some worse. But raising the minimum wage does not improve affordability after the economy adjusts.

Lady Jane wrote

Cartoon of the day.

I like the Wimpy reference on the left side in the picture: “Gladly pay us Tuesday for a hamburger today”. LOL

the_abe wrote

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-cost-denmark/

This piece may be interesting; don't know if you can read all of it without a subscription, though:

Our Big Mac Index

https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index

https://babylonbee.com/news/california-starbucks-struggling-to-find-robot-workers-with-enough-tats-and-piercing-to-work-registers


https://babylonbee.com/news/mexican-robots-surge-across-southern-border-to-take-new-fast-food-jobs

It's great to see workers getting paid more, they truly deserve it. But I guess we should brace ourselves for a bit pricier burgers and fries...

Gemini562 wrote

It's great to see workers getting paid more, they truly deserve it. But I guess we should brace ourselves for a bit pricier burgers and fries...

Ever worked fast food? Doesn't get much more unskilled than that. Maybe a janitor...