[von949]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

Some of us do not want to slave over a hot stove standing on our feet all day, no matter what it pays. I did that as a teenager, and I will be damned to do it at 38 years old.

You would rather starve than work a deep fryer?

[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by von949

You would rather starve than work a deep fryer?

I was a fry cook, grill, and cashier at Jack in the Box back in 1991. It was hell. As bad as my back is now, I could not physically do any job that I had to stand for long periods of time.

[von949]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

I was a fry cook, grill, and cashier at Jack in the Box back in 1991. It was hell. As bad as my back is now, I could not physically do any job that I had to stand for long periods of time.

I understand your current health but if your back was not an issue, then you would consider it? Or do you feel that because of working that type of job back in the day, your health is the way it is today?

[Trader Joe99]

Originally Posted by von949

You would rather starve than work a deep fryer?

Maybe businesses, especially fast food ones, should start paying livable wages then no one would be resistant working those jobs. This country is turning into Mexico. Disparity beetween the haves and have not's is at all time high. Good jobs are hard to find, most new jobs are low pay and service jobs.
We don't have any real recovery going on.....we are just printing money and trying to manipulate our way out of this mess.

Look at the so called housing recovery.
How in your right mind can you call it "Housing recovery" when home ownership is at the all time low???
Investors and speculators buying homes, banks manipulating inventory is called housing recovery.
Only in America.

[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by von949

I understand your current health but if your back was not an issue, then you would consider it? Or do you feel that because of working that type of job back in the day, your health is the way it is today?

My back is really bad and is the result of being rear ended many times by uninsured illegal aliens back when I was a delivery driver, not because of fast food. I only did fast food from 16-18 years old. Honestly, I could do much easier jobs for the same or more pay, so no, I would not ever do fast food again even if I could.

[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by Trader Joe99

Good jobs are hard to find, most new jobs are low pay and service jobs.
We don't have any real recovery going on.....we are just printing money and trying to manipulate our way out of this mess.

Agreed, and now they are trying to get rid of the service jobs. They are not going to stop until this country is totally gutted.

This wonderful little piece came out Tuesday:

The Robot Reality: Service Jobs Are Next to Go

[von949]

Originally Posted by Trader Joe99

Maybe businesses, especially fast food ones, should start paying livable wages then no one would be resistant working those jobs.

If all burger flippers made $20.00 an hour then a Big Mac would cost $15. A value meal probably about $20-30. The 99 cents menue would change to the $5 menu.

Apply that to Subway workers and the $5 foot long special would be the $20 foot long special.

And just think of all the businesses that would close down because of the increased min wage.

[brucerby]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

I know of hundreds of open positions in the kitchens around Las Vegas. Literally hundreds. Apparently, nobody wants to work. Because the casinos cannot fill these positions. The place where I work is desperate for cooks. Nobody even applies -- everyone knows it's just about the hardest kitchen in Las Vegas.

I have a feeling it's a case of, "I'm a framing carpenter. I've always been a framing carpenter. And that's ALL I'm ever going to do.".....

Agree, I think this accounts for much of current unemployment.

What I would call, "Occupational Rigidity".

People see themselves doing ONE type of work, and cannot adjust, even temporarily,
to another job skill just to get a check. I'm not talking about going from being a framer
to being a physician, of course, but there are many occupations that don't require
tons of training and can pay decent.

Another possibility most will exclude is sales. Yet I and many others have made an excellent
living in sales. These are often jobs that many turn their noses up at, but they often have
few barriers to entry and if you're good at it, you can do very well...

[von949]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

Agreed, and now they are trying to get rid of the service jobs. They are not going to stop until this country is totally gutted.

This wonderful little piece came out Tuesday:

The Robot Reality: Service Jobs Are Next to Go

What about the people needed to sell the robot, maintain the robot, fix the robot, program the robot, upgrade the robot...

It is happening every where.

A Store Without a Checkout Counter? JCPenney Presses on with Retail Revolution | TIME.com

Will consumers embrace a cash-less, cashier-less, checkout counter-less store? Investors seem to like the idea. After Johnson’s statements made news, JCPenney’s stock jumped to over $21 per share, after trading for around $19 early on Wednesday.

[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by von949

What about the people needed to sell the robot, maintain the robot, fix the robot, program the robot, upgrade the robot...

It is happening every where.

A Store Without a Checkout Counter? JCPenney Presses on with Retail Revolution | TIME.com

The problem is that the people needed to build and maintain the robots is much less than would be needed to do the work the robot is doing. A robot can work 24 hours a day unlike us. It creates more unemployment. Case in point. I was in my local Vons (Maryland Pkwy and Twain) recently, and I told the cashier that they really need to get the self checkouts like Albertson's and Smith's. I rarely go there unless there is a really good sale because every time I have to wait in a big line, no matter what time I go. The cashier got mad saying she would most likely lose her job. I felt bad as I know how bad it was for me when I lost my job. 4 self checkouts only need 1 cashier, so 3 lose their jobs.