Fast-food strikes aim at 100 cities

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20131202&id=17155773


here we go again....

 

Don't eat much fast food anyway and sure wouldn't even consider it at a higher price....

I'm guessing investor owners will look else where to invest if prices force lower profits. I sure would. And I just don't see the general population paying much or very much more than their already paying for shitty service, with shitty food on orders that, at least in my experience, are hardly ever correct anyway.

The bright side is we the people will end up supporting even more people in more ways if these people get their way...sarcasm should be noted.

 

Fast food workers striking = LoL

 

You know Larry you might think "LOL" but, with their skill set they may be hard to replace. I mean if they actually were to strike & walk off the job how long do you think it would take to replace them???

On a related note, I remember interviewing 3 times (yes, 3 f'ing times) for a job at Hardee's before I was old enough to have a drivers license. After the third interview and not hearing back from them in about a week, I called the general manager (he interviewed me all three times) and thanked him for his time and told him I was still interested in the job. He told me "you are not Hardee's kind of people". I was pretty discouraged at the time and it took me at least 2 or 3 minutes to figure out that he had just paid me a pretty good compliment.

 

Fast food is the leading cause of cancer and obesity. People need to understand that fast food isn't a replacement for real food. They use the WORST quality ingredients and there is little, if any, health benefits to eating fast food. Eat a fucking salad.

 

Joe
That GM probably figured you'd have his job in a short time

 

yup, they should strike their out of a job...

http://econfuture.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/could-fast-food-automation-replace-low-wage-workers/

 

The thing that gets me is there are cops and firefighters that don't make much over minimum wage, at that new minimum wage they're considering would put fast food wages with my salary! Hell at 15 bucks an hour I might as well quit my job and work fast food, atleast then I won't hafta go to college or deal with as much stress, physicals and mental!



Rant over

 

I for one would pay a bit more for a burger if I knew the people making it got a living wage.... who knows maybe they would have improved product and service if they saw that customers were willing to pay more.

 

I keep hearing this term "living wage" and (one of the few time in my life) I'm serious in saying I'd like to know what that really is...you know defined maybe even based on geographic area.

Cause I'm thinking 2 married people making minimum wage at $7.25 an hour each are grossing a total of $30,160 a year or about $2,513.33 a month or I'm guessing especially if they have kids they'd be getting public assistance (does that mean "we the people" are subsidizing private sector business) and are paying zero income taxes.

Now I doubt each parent are actually working in the fast food industry so one may be earning more...??? Maybe? If not, is it their choice. I mean why am I not working fast food? Could it be I decided to do something different? Is it your problem if I decided to work at fast food?

 

A Living wage is dependent on the area, true, but there are very few places you can survive off minimum wage. even Mcd's admits their workers need a second job to get by. I just think maybe everyones life would get better if more people could afford to live well.

 

I have to laugh a little at some of this, though yes, it is sad to a point. You have to realize that while yes, Not a lot of people should eat fast food, it is bad for you, yada yada yada, If they increase the minimum wage to $10.50 per hour, then EVERY job has to pay that minimum from food service to factory line workers and all other manual labor job. What happens? To compensate the companies will do the easiest thing: Increase prices o their products! (You don't REALLY think that they will absorb the cost do you?) So prices go up and guess what, the minimum wage people will STILL be in the same boat: Not enough pay to cover the increase in cost of everything else that they have to buy because the prices just went up. It is a vicious circle.

 

if the dems have their way fast food will be taxed so high none of us will be able to afford it.

 

Right, I know I worked one full time job and two part time jobs (at the same time) for a few years and even took 6 to 9 credit hours while doing it...

I do agree that people's lives would be better if everyone could live well but, "utopian" societies are proven failures for several reason not the least of which, IMO, it removes incentive for improvement.

 

I can be a circle, but that's where the benefits of inflation help out. The real development of wealth for most is in owning a home or business, or getting a degree. If I work for 7.24 and borrow 10000 bucks, then wages go up to 10 per hour, I don't suddenly owe more than 10k. It helps people pay things off. stagnant wages are a huge issue and most of these companies pay better in other nations and still turn profit every year.

 

Its not "Utopian" to think that people should have a decent wage, Its social darwinism to suggest that the lowest rung on the ladder must suffer for others to succeed.

I personally find it embarrassing when I look at the way we treat the working poor in this country.

 

I think it'd take a week tops to replace the strikers

and I don't even make $15 working for my university's biology department... Making solutions and shit

 

I'm not sure everything Darwin suggested is wrong. Don't take that the wrong way...what I'm saying is there is a boat load of opportunity in this country regardless of our "hard times" and people just don't take advantage of it...it's the "you can lead the horse to water but, you can't make him drink" thing man.

What makes the poor different then the not poor? Granted certain people limitation either physical or psychological but beyond that, why the difference?

I've been lucky and been able to spend extended periods in several countries and with the exception of Western Europe the poor in the US do not compare to the poor in other countries. I wouldn't be embarrassed from that angle.

So where would the money to provide these poor people a better (if non-utopian) income?