{"id":902,"date":"2013-09-06T02:02:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2017-06-04T22:58:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T22:58:49","slug":"rant-977-fast-food-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brinkofsanityshow.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Rant #25 – Fast Food Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fast food workers are striking, demanding a $15 an hour minimum wage<\/a>, which is double what the minimum wage currently is. \u00a0Are you kidding me? \u00a0And sites like this<\/a> are making like this is a sane idea. \u00a0I get that the minimum wage should be increased, and I think $10 would be fair but on what planet is flipping burgers worth $15 an hour. \u00a0Here’s an idea, don’t work at a place that was made for high school kids to make beer and cigarette money or red bull and kale chips or whatever the fuck kids are buying these days.<\/p>\n

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It’s not like the wages at McDonalds were a surprise. \u00a0These people applied, interviewed, trained and now work at a place that doesn’t pay enough. \u00a0Did these people go through all that, never once asking or being told what the wage is, get their check and be like ‘holy shit! \u00a0I can’t even afford the free rent in my parents basement, oh well I guess I’ll work here another five years while complaining about it on facebook’. \u00a0These same people could bus tables at a place like Outback or Fridays for more money. \u00a0If they are going to get $15 an hour I want $45 an hour. \u00a0Here’s what’s going to happen if you can get $15 working at McDonalds:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0People are going to say ‘you know what? fuck college and the 100k debt I’ll have when I leave. \u00a0Then they’ll work at McDonalds and now the McDonalds lifers are out of a job because they are replaced by people who are more qualified or,<\/p>\n

2. The price of a big mac, which averages $4.56<\/a> will go up $1.28 to $5.27<\/a> and that’s before you get their shitty fries. \u00a0Feel like paying over $10 for a ‘value’ meal? \u00a0No one does and sales will drop forcing the stores to downsize or,<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Fast food restaurants will figure out that a robot can do the job better and listen when you say I don’t want any god damn pickles on my tiny grade f piece of shit burger and literally replace these people with robots resulting in people actually getting their correct orders…oh and a bunch of homeless ex-fast food workers.<\/p>\n

Here’s some ideas that are better and more realistic than striking for a 100% raise; get a job at an actual restaurant and make actual money, go to school so you can get a higher paying job, or roll down the windows of a car that’s running in a garage and take a long nap.<\/p>\n

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