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My solution is this. Since minimum wage jobs are just for teens to earn spending money, no companies that offer minimum wage jobs should be open during school hours.
My solution is this. Since minimum wage jobs are just for teens to earn spending money, no companies that offer minimum wage jobs should be open during school hours.
What about the college students taking night courses and the people working minimum wage jobs as second jobs?
How about the unskilled wife or husband who are bringing in extra income into their homes?
Let me guess, you don't believe such people exist?
I went to Wal-Mart and Hardees this morning. I tried to get some deli meat at Wally World, and the clerk was very surly. Only one line was open, backed up with customers, and the cashier there was also very unfriendly. The Hardees was unclean and I ordered a chicken biscuit, and ended up with sausage. If these people can't do better than this, why do they deserve a raise?
I am a salaried manager and I put my time to sale to say least. I watch hourly workers and they are what we call "Clock Watchers". They do exactly what they are told even though it may be the wrong choice in taking care of the customer.
Hourly just want to collect a check and many (there are good ones too, but few) feel entitled to over above the value they bring to the company.
That's the problem.
When management talks to what extra value a hour brings in, these same employees get hostile. They want more money and do not want to earn it.
My solution is this. Since minimum wage jobs are just for teens to earn spending money, no companies that offer minimum wage jobs should be open during school hours.
minimum wage is for ANY one who wants to do that job, for that dollar amount.
If you are in competition with a no-tallent teen for a job. . your going to be f'd on the salary scale
so teens have nothing to do with it.
If I offer minimum wage for a job, and enough people say yes, we got a deal and the business runs
When management talks to what extra value a hour brings in, these same employees get hostile. They want more money and do not want to earn it.
Uhhhh...I can read a profit statement, sales and profits are up, dollar per basket is up, stock is up. We're making buyouts left and right. Yet the squeeze to do more with less is still strong. Corporations are talking out of both sides of their mouths.
Upper management still gets their multimillion in bonuses and a 4% raise, middle management bonuses have been reduced, and frontline gets less than a 2% raise across the board, not merit based, and not if their wages have been capped. Oh and hours have been cut, again, so that even with that measly $.15 raise many employees make less now than they did last year, and as an added bonus the cut in hours means that two people are now doing the work of three or four people. Insurance has gone up again too, to the extent that many won't be able to afford it at all. A lot of them will wind up using the ER for their ailments, and won't the taxpayers enjoy that!
You really want to talk about how they don't want to earn what they make?
I went to Wal-Mart and Hardees this morning. I tried to get some deli meat at Wally World, and the clerk was very surly. Only one line was open, backed up with customers, and the cashier there was also very unfriendly. The Hardees was unclean and I ordered a chicken biscuit, and ended up with sausage. If these people can't do better than this, why do they deserve a raise?
Are they union workers. Walmart isn't. So you get whatever.
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