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No amount for food? I'ld love to live someplace where food was free. Can anyone tell me where that city is?
Afghanistan and Iraq. While I was there I watched plenty of families grow their own crops and raised their own livestock. Never saw any stores outside of the major cities. If there was a store it operated under the barter system since the local currency is so inflated.
It is just advice or a recommendation from an employer that knows that their wages are pretty difficult to raise a family on.
Of course they know. How could they not?
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I am sure that this isn't "news" to a McDonald's employee. If this was breaking news to them, then maybe that was the point of this "budgeting tool".
Really? I interpret this little service as a slap in the face for McDonald's staff. "Whaddya mean? We pay you enough to live on. Look! All you need to do is freeze, starve, and find $20 health insurance! Buck up, little soldiers!"
Really? I interpret this little service as a slap in the face for McDonald's staff. "Whaddya mean? We pay you enough to live on. Look! All you need to do is freeze, starve, and find $20 health insurance! Buck up, little soldiers!"
I don't think there are too many people out there that work at McDonalds with the intentions of bettering their lives or living comfortably. They know exactly what they are getting into. There are no surprises on payday.
"Holy crap! I didn't know my check was going to be this low".
Back in the mid 90s I was trying to get a Job at McDonalds(never did) while still in high school. My goal was to have some extra spending money, car parts money, taking a girl on a date money and hanging out with the fellas money.
As a teen, I already knew that McD wasn't a good career move. But it was great while living at home with parents. What's different now?
Back in the mid 90s I was trying to get a Job at McDonalds(never did) while still in high school. My goal was to have some extra spending money, car parts money, taking a girl on a date money and hanging out with the fellas money.
As a teen, I already knew that McD wasn't a good career move. But it was great while living at home with parents. What's different now?
Who do you think runs these places when kids are in school? I did flip burgers at Wendy's when I was a kid, and back then the adult staff was generally either management or retirees or housewives earning a little pin money. But that was 25 years ago. The economy is more service-oriented now.
I agree, I'm sure employees know how little they're paid. As I said, it's a slap in the employees' faces for McDonald's to say "Nah, look, it's really easy to survive flipping burgers!"
Why else would they do something like this? And with such an absurd budget? Who do they think they're kidding?
We shouldn't reward companies for actively corrupting our labor pool by offering only part-time work, in a scurrilous attempt to evade reasonable regulations regarding benefits for full-time workers.
McDonald's type places were never meant to be the single source of income for a family.
McDonald's and the like hire part-time workers because that is all MOST of their workers CAN/want to work; students, mothers, retired folks, etc.. It is much easier to schedule around many part time workers.
Here, during the school year students are limited on the amount of hours they can work a day and/or week, and the times they can work.
This part-time workers at "fast-food" is NOTHING new and has NOTHING to do with Obamacare.
Minimum wage is livable provided you live in a low COL area. My one friend (socially retarded weirdo with no friends or family) has been working at a local 7 eleven for 20 years and earns no more than $9 an hour. Rents half a house and owns a car (necessary for where I live).
My other friend (another social outcast) has been working at Mickey D's for 15+ years and lived in a rented motel room.
I assume McDonald's will make sure to schedule its employees in such a way to accommodate their second job, right? Of course not.
Classic modern corporate BS. Get rid of as many jobs as possible, pay slave wages, pocket the profits, and pass the cost of maintaining a functioning society on to somebody else.
Afghanistan and Iraq. While I was there I watched plenty of families grow their own crops and raised their own livestock. Never saw any stores outside of the major cities. If there was a store it operated under the barter system since the local currency is so inflated.
I assume McDonald's will make sure to schedule its employees in such a way to accommodate their second job, right? Of course not.
Classic modern corporate BS. Get rid of as many jobs as possible, pay slave wages, pocket the profits, and pass the cost of maintaining a functioning society on to somebody else.
Sure they will, they do it for students all the time, they have workers that can work A hours and others that can work B hours, etc. ...
We shouldn't reward companies for actively corrupting our labor pool by offering only part-time work, in a scurrilous attempt to evade reasonable regulations regarding benefits for full-time workers.
I would love to see a law passed and vigorously enforced granting every non-exempt employee the right to claim the hours of any other employee with lower seniority, up to and including the hours that would make the senior employee a full-time worker with full-time worker benefits. Part-time positions should exist only when there aren't workers available to work full-time - they shouldn't exist to give a business the power to shift additional burdens onto the social safety net. There is nothing inherently better for the company, except in terms of evading reasonable regulations regarding benefits for full-time workers, from using part-time workers instead of full-time workers, when the latter are available.
Not possible. This country is run by corp America and lobbyists. But you are right.
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