McDonald's Dollar menu could go up to $1.68!!!

[Eastoff]

First of all it's a bullshit premise.

Walmart costs taxpayers?

It's saving taxpayers.

If their employees didn't have jobs, the taxpayer would have to carry their full weight.

On top of that, you have to look at churn.

Walmart's entry level workers take jobs with the company and leave rather quickly. Walmart has no incentive to pay those workers any more than they have to. If they stick, they do get raises.

Ok, thank you for the response. I genuinely appreciate it.

 

[Denny Crane]

Ok, thank you for the response. I genuinely appreciate it.

If you search the WWW a little, you'll find message boards where people talk about moving between jobs at places like Walmart and Walgreens, etc. The vast majority don't complain about the wages being so low they can't live, but more about the physical nature of the job (lifting boxes) or how it's better to cashier at one place over another.

Some do bitch about the pay.

But hey, when I was in school at the UofI back in the 1970s, the whole town paid minimum wage for any job. $2.50/hour. With 100,000 residents and 150,000 students, the supply of workers drove down the wages. You could bitch about the wages being low, as most people did. It wasn't about taking advantage of people, though.

 

[PapaG]

Neither job was close to minimum wage. Neither was hopelessly permanent. Neither was alongside illegal immigrants, like the example I worked in my 50s. (I'm not talking about minimum wage college jobs before your first desk job. I had 9 of those. They're not hard labor.)

So neither of you showed (per this post's first excerpt) that hard labor minimum wage jobs can be replaced by any desk-sitting monkey in his 40s-60s. I'm the only one here who tried.

I had minimum wage jobs. I reffed 6th grade basketball when I was in HS on Saturday mornings, and I worked on the grounds' crew at my university for minimum wage. When it snowed, we'd get called at 4am to shovel sidewalks in front of all of the buildings, and in the summer, it was 8 hours/day mowing/watering/picking up trash M-F from 7am-3:30pm. It's called learning how to operate in a work environment, hence "entry level". FWIW, McDonald's isn't paying minimum wage in most instances, either, and offers benefits to full-time employees.

 

[Denny Crane]

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_big_mac_miss_by_the_huffingt.php

 

[PapaG]

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_big_mac_miss_by_the_huffingt.php

Leave to the HuffPo to give credence to a term paper by an undergrad. I even saw this bunk was reported on NBC News.

Low Info Voters eat this shit up, though.

 

[PapaG]

HuffPo now admitting an "error" in spreading this bullshit. LIVs won't even know about it, though.

HUFFINGTON POST RETRACTS FALSE CLAIM ABOUT MCDONALD'S WAGES

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/mcdonalds-salaries_n_3672006.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

They really took a bogus paper from a KU undergrad and made it a national story? LMAO!!! Fucking morons!!!