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It's why people buy coffee at Starbucks despite costing 3x at a convenience store.
I had my first Starbucks Monday and I wanted my money back....There was noway that I could drink that c r a p.....America has been sold a bill of goods when it come to Starbucks coffee!!!
$15.00 an hour at McDonalds and they can't even get the order right half the time, I think not!
If you want to eat a hamburger at least eat a real one......
so what happens when the "harder working pedro", whos slinging mud in construction for $9 an hour decides to take "screwing off all day Sha'nique's" job for $15 an hour ?
sha'nique gets set home, houses/new business's dont get built, because new mud slingers cost $20 an hour.
I had my first Starbucks Monday and I wanted my money back....There was noway that I could drink that c r a p.....America has been sold a bill of goods when it come to Starbucks coffee!!!
$15.00 an hour at McDonalds and they can't even get the order right half the time, I think not!
If you want to eat a hamburger at least eat a real one......
what do you drink thats so much better than Charbucks ?
Well, look at the stock chart for MCD, going back to when most stocks tanked in 2008,2009. MCD didn't skip a beat. During tough economic times more people seem to frequent fast food(cheap food).
I think it says something about the state of our current economy that people are starting to look at McDonalds as a career opportunity.
If things keep going like they are, you will be wishing they would cut the minimum wage so you can afford to eat.
Who in their right mind would pay more for the same exact product?
The poll is ridiculous and you are missing the point that the workers believe they should be paid more.If the owners don't agree, well just fire them if they are so replaceable.
PLUS These people are working for a living. They are not asking for a handout from you. They're asking for a raise from their employer.
What are the qualifications for that kind of work? Reasonably smart, and able to show up on time for your shift. That's about it.
If the starting wage is minimum wage, raises from that point would be based on merit. Someone showing some leadership ability may aspire to become a shift manager (or whatever ... I don't know the hierarchy of these places). I have no idea what the top pay bracket might be for someone who doesn't care to do anything but "clerk;" i.e., take orders.
This isn't the kind of business that requires skills that command high rates of pay. It just isn't. Period. And that's why they aren't going to be successful in their demand for $15/hr. I would be very surprised if anything changes.
Which of these two identical, side-by-side McDonalds with equal quality food, service etc. would you make a habit of patronizing?
(a) The one with "normal" McDonalds prices and wages
(b) The one where each food item and drink cost $.50 to $1.00 more than "normal", and paid $15.00/hr?
You didn't think the wages that today's "strikers" are demanding, were going to come for free, did you?
It wouldn't matter to me. I'd go to the one closest to my home.
Maybe, the employee's of that McDonalds that paid $15 per hr would stick around meaning there'd be less turnover, which means less training which means a more efficient and faster service, thus increasing the number customers and possibly customer satisfaction.
Either way for me, it wouldn't matter.
But of course the conservative position on all labor disputes is that workers must get less.
The issue for conservatives is that conservatives don't feel that those people SHOULD earn $15 per hr.
conservative ideology is very hierarchal, and the idea that lowly fast food workers would think they deserve $15 per hr for their lowly jobs is heresy to conservatives. This is what the debate is about.
We forget American history, many of the good paying blue collar jobs had crappy wages and were crappy jobs, those jobs were made into good jobs with good wages and benefits.
Now there is conflicting data about what raising the minimum wage to $15 could do to especially smaller businesses hiring practices that is up for debate.
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