I’ve worked at McDonald’s for 10 years and still make $7.35 an hour (employer, careers)
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NOWHERE. I don't get where they are getting this from either. I even RE-READ the article a SECOND time to see if something else was there that I didn't catch, but um....NO. Not even an INFERENCE that she was on the dole or not with the father of her children.
Yup... I read it THREE times, to see if I was missing something! People just love to make ASSumptions, don't they?
Wow. There's some brutal stuff in this thread. Can any of you who are barking about her 4 kids point to anything in the article that indicates that she's on welfare or collecting food stamps or that her children all have different fathers? I can't seem to find any of that in the article.
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All I know is taking care of 4 kids, working full time at any job, and applying herself to the task of trying to better conditions for herself and her co-workers must be totally exhausting. I dont know where she would find the time for schooling too, lol.
Im wondering what is wrong with trying to get a liveable wage for the work you do? All work is noble.
Rich people hate paying taxes, dont they? Maybe their tax burden could be lowered a bit IF this poor woman and her family could get the basics of daily life from her job.
I think she has a lot to be proud of, including her proactive stance toward the conditions of food service workers at large.
Delisline said she and her four girls live with her mother, but the family still has difficulty paying utilities and the mortgage while providing for her children. She said she has not been to a doctor in two years and does not get paid if she stays home sick.
If she hasn't been in a doctor in two years because she can't afford it, she's not on welfare.
This concerns me. It's hard enough as it is, and having been laid off before, what do you do when you keep working and then get laid off at 45, or 50, or 60? And nobody wants you? Then what?
You can avoid certain things by getting degrees or being a top performer or whatever people throw out there, but you can't avoid getting old (other than dying). If you're 55 and are the one without a chair in employment musical chairs...
You live on your savings and take freelance work or cobble together part-time jobs beneath your intelligence until you're 62. And then you file for your Social Security in desperation, knowing it will mean you have less for the rest of your life. But by then you've already sold your nice house and are used to driving the car you bought ten years ago. And you thank God you aren't in the group of people who will inevitably be told they have to be 70 before they can collect.
Wow. There's some brutal stuff in this thread. Can any of you who are barking about her 4 kids point to anything in the article that indicates that she's on welfare or collecting food stamps or that her children all have different fathers? I can't seem to find any of that in the article.
I can't either. There seem to be an awful lot of judgmental people here who who are replying to a story they've made up rather than the one in front of them. All to justify their outrage, which in most cases is highly exaggerated.
I also wish people would educate themselves about cell phones before they jump on every person they see talking on one. Most young people today don't even HAVE landlines. And the cell phone they are talking on might well be one of many of a group plan that costs the individual user far less than a landline does.
I can't either. There seem to be an awful lot of judgmental people here who who are replying to a story they've made up rather than the one in front of them. All to justify their outrage, which in most cases is highly exaggerated.
I also wish people would educate themselves about cell phones before they jump on every person they see talking on one. Most young people today don't even HAVE landlines. And the cell phone they are talking on might well be one of many of a group plan that costs the individual user far less than a landline does.
They ALWAYS bring up low income people having cellphones, especially iphones as though they have no family or friends that can gift one to them.
The people in this forum even cry when they see them with a REGULAR flip phone. They really, really, really and I mean absolutely HATE seeing low income people on cell phones of ANY type.
I don't get it. Why? You're working, living a decent life, but yet you are cringing with hate and envy seeing poor people:
- eating at McDonalds
- working at McDonalds
- talking on a cellphone and give them DEATH RAYS when you see it's a smartphone
- wearing clean clothes
- smiling or laughing with their friends and family
- not looking sad or upset, because they're low income.
They'll deny it, but 90% of the posts in here are in regards to her children, supposed welfare that she's getting, if her children all come from one man or several, if she's getting free birth control or not, etc.
They're upset with this woman for DARING to WANT to make more than $7 an hour flipping burgers. If they could fill out a petition to have her strung up and lashed like they do in the middle east, they would have created it within seconds of reading this article.
Honestly you choose your job and worth. She doesn't have to work at McDonalds. I worked at McDonalds for 1 single day and decided I didn't belong there. I said to myself I can do better and will find better. ANYTHING was better than that. I wrote down what wanted in a job. Spoke into existence I had it. And that's exactly what happened in a little over a month. I found a great paying job that payed double what I was getting at McDonald's. You choose what you deserve.
So you mean if I write down that I want in my bank account, it would be spoken into existence?
Where's my pen with paper!?
Lmfao!!!!!!
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