Fast Food Workers Strike

• boonhobo wrote on 2013-08-30 17:06
  Those kind of jobs I agree are not for supporting a family of 4 by yourself, unless you work out your situation with the employer when they interview you. Of course this also makes you undesirable to hire.
  
  You also have to look at it from the employer's view. They have to pay licensing fees, upkeep, utilities, supplies, health benefits, labour laws, fire code, building code, safety committee, etc. Most of which are mandatory. Of course worker and public safety is a must but with all these other rules of regulations, why the fuck would you bother starting a business and putting yourself in that situation with all those headaches? Fuck just work for someone else and let them take all the shit.
  
  In my place of employment I am currently dealing with the government imposed regulations in a small office/warehouse (I am not the employer or manager but hell it's making me have second thoughts of ever starting a company). Because in both the offices and warehouse combined we'd have 20+ people suddenly a bunch of laws are applicable to us.
  
  Did you know you needed to form a committee consisting of 2 people to regulate how equipment is used properly or like how to retrieve items from elevated heights above 3 meters only if you have 20 people walking around a building? Training is $400-$700 per person, and this doesn't include the other training the workers required that should be there by default and the hours lost in human resources. If they jump ship, you've just paid $400-700 to make them even more desirable for hire else where. This can be pretty brutal for small businesses :C.
  
  That person they interviewed was just a bad example I guess what you can take from the article is that, there's a lack of jobs available (too many rules and regulations that get stricter every year makes it very undesirable to open up new opportunities), and most people confusing what they want with want they need.
• Tarvos wrote on 2013-08-31 07:40
  The 15/hr thing is probably just so that when they get to negotiations if they even get to negotiations, they "settle" on a wage just higher than minimum. I doubt they expect to get the 15/hr.
  
  This is going to backfire though. They'll just be replaced very easily by the millions of students with debt who will jump on board because jobs are scarce. Or worse, they give them higher wages, but then they cut people left and right to adjust payroll.
  
  I can't help but feel the workers do deserve more though. the way the higher ups treat people in those positions is terrible. While the work itself is easy and a no brainer, corporate will under staff a location to save payroll, and all of a sudden you have a a miniscule amount of people working a million smaller jobs that just can't be handled because of volume and all the managers who won't break the "one size fits all" rules given by corporate for solutions that would work at the discretion of lower management. On top of that, they'll make you work basically full time hours without full time benefits. On top of that, you'll be forced to sign something limiting/revoking your break time rights, or else you won't get the job at all.
  
  Seriously, fuck big corporations. I understand profit maximization, but look at the cost of that. You treat people like tools. This is coming from someone who believes in hard work and good work ethic. It's not about getting paid more to do less, it's about getting paid respectably in the conditions you're in.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2013-08-31 07:46
  TL;DR every low job in modern world needs a raise.
• SUNFLARE wrote on 2013-08-31 07:59
  Oh Mr Manager Ill gladly take their job If it means work cuz atm Jobs are hard to come By Ty kind sir ill be in Next week :)