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04-04-2024, 09:20 PM | #23 |
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Once restaurants started adding 3%-4% to the bill to "cover increased costs," I started deducting that same percentage from my tip.
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04-04-2024, 09:27 PM | #24 |
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A step in the right direction finally.
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If find yourself working in fast food place and you’re not a teenager and still living under your parent’s roof, you should be saying to yourself what the hell did you do wrong in your life. Those jobs that pay minimum wage were meant for anyone to provide a living wage. Those are starter jobs to get experience and teach you to do something better in life.
I personally never did those kinds of jobs when I was teenager. I was always was able to find jobs that paid more, but those jobs required you to work hard real manual labor. One job I had was working in lumber yard loading contractors trucks, another was working on golf course taking care of greens and stuff, I also worked in the warehouse of moving company unloading and loading trucks. I understand not everyone has skills, however, if you want to make a good living there are plenty of jobs that do not require a degree of specific skills that pay really well, but you have have to work. One example you can become a truck driver, most companies will train you and the starting wage is $55k, however, it’s not an easy work. There are 10 of thousands of truck driver jobs. |
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Minimum wage increases, as was said before, also increases the wages of those higher up the wage ladder. If Joe fry cook gets an extra $4 than so should I. After all, I have seniority over Joe. Unions are past their time (I've been in more than one). They do nothing but protect the incompetent and line the pockets of the officials. Like said before, higher wages=higher union dues. Next step is to unionize FF workers. The SEIU is just looking for more income. Like I said before, if one is at minimum wage for more than 6 months, they are a loser. |
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I'm always in two minds with this. As a former employer of entry level folks I can see the need to temper wages as the costs are real to employers but coming from Australia, where entry level jobs have always, always paid a TON more than the USA, they seem to make it work just fine.
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Newsom's Restaurant Pays $16 an Hour Despite Law Crippling Fast Food Chains with $20 Minimum Wage
However, this only applies to fast food restaurants -- not, say, high-end restaurants and wineries owned by posh individuals like, oh, say, Gavin Newsom. But surely those employees are making over $20 an hour already, right? Yet again, Newsom is leading by anti-example, according to the Post. "PlumpJack Cafe in Olympic Valley -- which is among a group of eateries owned by a company Newsom founded in 1992 -- is hiring a part-time busser who 'will aim to assist the food server … to ensure guest satisfaction during all aspects of the dining experience,' according to a ZipRecruiter posting," the outlet reported on Thursday. "The job listing states the salary for the busser is $16 an hour plus tips." https://www.westernjournal.com/newso...-minimum-wage/ |
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If you raise wages you either have to increase prices, cut somewhere else or lower profits and I’m willing to bet most big corporations will not do the latter. Maybe Australia uses special math, but if that’s the case why stop at $20/hour? If raising labor costs has no negative effects why not keep going? I’m sure there are plenty of places you can’t live in for $20/hour. Why not $30 or $50 or $480/hour so everyone can become a millionaire in a year. |
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So minimum wage aside, the actual argument for minimum wage is a "living wage"...
I live near San Francisco. They did a study on what a livable wage was for San Francisco. The result? $50+/hour or a $100,000 salary... to afford food and rent and occasionally eat out and take a small vacation. And we actually have politicians out here (Barbara Lee) who is pushing for a $50 "living wage" because "businesses can afford it."
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All I know is, I go home pretty often and i see ads for $30 an hr for grocery clerks, yes the cost of living is higher than the USA but it seems to work with at least the same success as the US low min wage theory in a broad sense. |
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