Why do fast food workers/Wal-Mart employees/etc think they deserve $15 an hour?

[Roebuckz]

Just saw a report on the news about McD's employees striking for $15 an hour. Wal-Mart employees have also done the same before. Why do these people think they should make way above the minimum wage to do a monkey's job? If you want a better paycheck, either move up in the company or get another job. Seems like more and more people think they're entitled to better money just cause.

[TerellOwens]

everybody thinks they're underpaid
everybody thinks their boss is under qualified

[namechange]

Most likely because it is impossible to survive on even 15$/hr...

[MJND]

Because people wanting more for themselves is human nature?

[Icanlift]

there is no fkn point... it's their fault they didn't go to Uni (except uni students who need money to pay their fees)

[Galuhksea]

lolwut. min wage in australia is like $20 an hour you'd even get that chit working at mcdonalds.. would not work for $15/hr dafuq

[RespectYourself]

So they can afford to live?

[thewall05]

Because you can't expect the underclass to be educated on the finer points of economic theory, otherwise they wouldn't be the underclass.

[STLmisc]

its the entitlement attitude most McDonalds/WalMart employees have


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[thewall05]

lolwut. min wage in australia is like $20 an hour you'd even get that chit working at mcdonalds.. would not work for $15/hr dafuq

Australia also has a monarch so they aren't exactly brain surgeons.

[SnackzTheGreat]

just went to my local mickey ds for some food (on dat poverty time) and couldnt even go in the lobby. people outside were all protesting.. fukkin lol, im too busy working a 9 dollar an hour job, miscing, going to class, etc to fukin protest

[STLmisc]

lolwut. min wage in australia is like $20 an hour you'd even get that chit working at mcdonalds.. would not work for $15/hr dafuq

housing in Straya also cost twice as much as housing in the US.

Isnt a beer there like 8 bucks?

We are on Happy Hour here at my restaurant, $1.50 domestic 16oz drafts, u merlin?

[lolgreg]

Because they're stupid people.

[Canadas_elite]

I think people deserve to be paid well, but I think people need to put in the work to get educated/learn a trade. However with that being said, circumstances do come up in life that cause your plans to change and you're stuck in a crappy job.

so I really have no opinion

[tapout17]

lolwut. min wage in australia is like $20 an hour you'd even get that chit working at mcdonalds.. would not work for $15/hr dafuq

Not sure if srs. lol

[bezarker]

because 15 an hour fucktards are better than 7.50 an hour fucktards...

[TalonDSM]

No idea, I used to make 9 dollars an hour milking cows at a farm that had 800 cows. I was happy with what I was making

[SmithMachineGuy]

Because they are ignorant and opportunistic liberals use their stupidity to play on people's emotions rather than applying logic and reasoning

[thewall05]

I think people deserve to be paid well, but I think people need to put in the work to get educated/learn a trade. However with that being said, circumstances do come up in life that cause your plans to change and you're stuck in a crappy job.

so I really have no opinion

Yeah but that's why it's a crappy job. What are you going to do for the kid who has a parent that dies of cancer before he's a teenager? Buy him a new parent? No, life is full of chit circumstances. I didn't know we lived in Candyland.

[beto_man8]

lolwut. min wage in australia is like $20 an hour you'd even get that chit working at mcdonalds.. would not work for $15/hr dafuq

Please give us a comparison on cost of life Australia vs US.


BTW, minimum wage in Australia is 16.88

[Sherman60]

They don't realize that if they indeed get a raise and their protests succeed, they will replace 3 of every 4 workers with automated machines and touch-screen ordering devices. BRB getting a 40% raise while laying off 75% of employees, and throwing the economy deeper into the ****ter (however, the aforementioned scenario will never happen) And not for nothing, but the people who work there are at the bottom of society for a reason. Literally every time I go to a fast food place, something is messed up. They are just uneducated laborers who think the world owes them something. It does not, and never will.

[Roebuckz]

Most likely because it is impossible to survive on even 15$/hr...

Nobody should look at flipping burgers as a way to live independently with no compromises. That's the problem. If you want to have your own place, have a car to get to work, buy groceries, pay your utilities, and have extra for pointless sh!t, you better realize that having a job that even kids can get is not the best way to go about it.

[Roebuckz]

So they can afford to live?

Are they only destined to work at McD's?

[wolf1078]

i'm guessing you've never worked in customer service before.

[CanardLaque]

Because those places get busier than anything else.

They should get paid more, don't know about 15 but at least 10.

[emille]

Perhaps if the corporations paid their employees more as opposed to pulling in billions per year, the employees wouldn't need welfare.
I'm not saying that these workers "deserve more money" but someone is going to have to pick up their slack, better the corporations than tax dollars on welfare.


Corporations pay more -> Less people on welfare -> Profit ??

[Roebuckz]

i'm guessing you've never worked in customer service before.

Me? Yes I have. I used to work at Wal-Mart. It's a sh!t job. But you know what I did? I quit and went on to better things.

[OhioStateBucki]

Because they think that money is infinite and everybody can just have more.

This is why the Federal Reserve loves the average American.




OP, they've never gained a grasp of basic economics.

[thewall05]

Perhaps if the corporations paid their employees more as opposed to pulling in billions per year, the employees wouldn't need welfare.
I'm not saying that these workers "deserve more money" but someone is going to have to pick up their slack, better the corporations than tax dollars on welfare.


Corporations pay more -> Less people on welfare -> Profit ??

So you support a maximum wage instead? Well that sums you up enough as a person to me and everyone else. Why work out? Why try to be fit? Shouldn't you be getting fat to make fat people feel less awkward? Should you not be allowed to be less than 10% body fat because other people are over 50%?

[Roebuckz]

Perhaps if the corporations paid their employees more as opposed to pulling in billions per year, the employees wouldn't need welfare.
I'm not saying that these workers "deserve more money" but someone is going to have to pick up their slack, better the corporations than tax dollars on welfare.


Corporations pay more -> Less people on welfare -> Profit ??

Yes, because the extra pay in employee wages wont affect the prices of the products at all, right?