Fast Food Strikes

• Rotinaj

  

  Apparently fast food workers are striking across the country in an attempt to raise their minimum wage to......15 FUCKING DOLLARS PER HOUR. This has got to be the dumbest thing ive ever heard.
  http://news.msn.com/us/more-fast-food-strikes-set-for-cities-nationwide
• bases_loaded

  

  What do you expect when the "leaders" of our country push an entitlement mentality?
• Terry_Tate

  

  The dumbest thing I've ever heard is the idiots who think people not buying gas on a certain day will cause prices to drop because the gas companies will panic.
  
  This is up there though.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Bet Sleeper isn't too happy about this.
• Sonofanump

  bases_loaded;1492917 wrote:What do you expect when the "leaders" of our country push an entitlement mentality?

  Yep.
• justincredible

  

  These jackasses do realize that if they get their wish half of them will be let go, right?
• Belly35

  

  WOW! I was wong I thought this Thread was going to be about how Fast Food give somepeople the shits ... it does me I don't eat fast food..
  .... Wait a minute this thread is crap and the idea of $15.00 per hour min wage for fast food worker is bat shit crazy
• Tiernan

  Fire all of them and then bring in a new bus load from Guatemala.
• mucalum49

  

  justincredible;1492940 wrote:These jackasses do realize that if they get their wish half of them will be let go, right?

  Truth, meals would double in price with their wages. There'd be less fast food restaurants to work at. How about developing a skill worth more than minimum wage?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Belly35;1492943 wrote:WOW! I was wong I thought this Thread was going to be about how Fast Food give somepeople the shits ... it does me I don't eat fast food..
  .... Wait a minute this thread is crap and the idea of $15.00 per hour min wage for fast food worker is bat shit crazy

  Obama
• said_aouita

  

  Shaniqua Davis, 20, lives in New York City with her boyfriend, who is unemployed, and their 1-year-old daughter. Davis works at a McDonald's, earning $7.25 an hour.

  ccrunner609;1488895 wrote:I bet I know what race they were

  ...
• cruiser_96

  

  I'm just now hearing and reading about this. WTH!?!?!
  
  Why wouldn't this one thing happen.
  
  Managers fire the folks making the $7.25 and bring in a new crop of people who ARE willing to work for the $7.25???
  
  If one is unwilling to work for a company at a certain wage, a) don't work there, or b) work hard enough and good enough to warrant a raise/promotion.
  
  Or does that kind of reasoning not work anymore?
  
  EDIT: If ANY of these employees buy cigarettes, purchase alcohol, have a cell phone - with monthly plan, or cable TV, they should be forced to walk on their hands while stating, "Look at me. I have to pee."
• WebFire

  cruiser_96;1492976 wrote:I'm just now hearing and reading about this. WTH!?!?!
  
  Why wouldn't this one thing happen.
  
  Managers fire the folks making the $7.25 and bring in a new crop of people who ARE willing to work for the $7.25???
  
  If one is unwilling to work for a company at a certain wage, a) don't work there, or b) work hard enough and good enough to warrant a raise/promotion.
  
  Or does that kind of reasoning not work anymore?
  
  EDIT: If ANY of these employees buy cigarettes, purchase alcohol, have a cell phone - with monthly plan, or cable TV, they should be forced to walk on their hands while stating, "Look at me. I have to pee."

  That reasoning seems to be going away. The fact they are on strike over wages is funny enough. Fire them and hire ones that will work. With unemployment as it is, shouldn't be that hard to find order takers.
• Fly4Fun

  

  Hopefully Americans can lose a little weight during the strike(s).
• TedSheckler

  

  These people want to make a living while working for fast food restaurants. You want to support your 3 kids? Learn a trade.
• queencitybuckeye

  The numbers don't work for a viable business in that industry at anywhere close to that wage level. Unless we are willing to pay at least 20%-25% higher prices with no decrease in transaction counts.
• WebFire

  cruiser_96;1492976 wrote:I'm just now hearing and reading about this. WTH!?!?!
  
  Why wouldn't this one thing happen.
  
  Managers fire the folks making the $7.25 and bring in a new crop of people who ARE willing to work for the $7.25???
  
  If one is unwilling to work for a company at a certain wage, a) don't work there, or b) work hard enough and good enough to warrant a raise/promotion.
  
  Or does that kind of reasoning not work anymore?
  
  EDIT: If ANY of these employees buy cigarettes, purchase alcohol, have a cell phone - with monthly plan, or cable TV, they should be forced to walk on their hands while stating, "Look at me. I have to pee."

  That reasoning seems to be going away. The fact they are on strike over wages is funny enough. Fire them and hire ones that will work. With unemployment as it is, shouldn't be that hard to find order takers.
• queencitybuckeye

  WebFire;1492997 wrote:The fact they are on strike over wages is funny enough.

  The whole concept is silly anyway. An effort to increase egg production by strangling the chicken.
• TedSheckler

  

  There's 28 million small buisness owners in US who have risked their capital to start a buisness. Should they be guaranteed a living wage?
• Heretic

  

  Fast food workers striking would improve the quality of life in this country, since it'd cut down on the shit that people pump into their systems on a regular basis.
  
  So I applaud this and hope that things never get resolved.
• hasbeen

  

  proud to be an american. woo!
• thavoice

  Raw Dawgin' it;1492931 wrote:Bet Sleeper isn't too happy about this.

  Ya think he is opposed to getting himself a raise?
• WebFire

  "They work harder than the billionaires in this city," he said.

  Yeah, I bet they became billionaires by working less than fast food workers. :thumbdown:
• Iliketurtles

  

  Haha I was wondering today when I stopped at McD's to get breakfast the dude who took my order actually sounded intelligent. Get up there to pay and he's in a shirt and tie and I thought damn a bunch of people must have called off. Then went to the next window to get my food and they had a flier that the were doing walk in interviews one day next week to hire people on the spot haha. Guess this explains it.
  
  15 dollars is fucking ridiculious though. I agree with pretty much everything else that had been said though.
• thavoice

  Iliketurtles;1493009 wrote:Haha I was wondering today when I stopped at McD's to get breakfast the dude who took my order actually sounded intelligent. Get up there to pay and he's in a shirt and tie and I thought damn a bunch of people must have called off. Then went to the next window to get my food and they had a flier that the were doing walk in interviews one day next week to hire people on the spot haha. Guess this explains it.
  
  15 dollars is ****ing ridiculious though. I agree with pretty much everything else that had been said though.

  They don't expect to get it to 15 bucks. I know right now many places are short on work due to school back in session so you will see more adults and management