This Is Why Stagnant Working Class Wages Are Unsustainable..

[mrklean]

Thompson also noted that in the U.S., fast-casual restaurants now appear to be performing a bit better as customers with a little more to spend skew toward those chains. However, McDonald’s main customer base “isn’t faring quite as well in the current economy.” And that’s made competition with rivals such as Burger King and Wendy’s all the more fierce. All three chains have been aggressively promoting their value menus in the fight for customers.

The excuse is that prices should drop as a result. Maybe if we wait another hundred years it might happen. Until then, we can expect more trimming of the labor costs. "Sorry Marcus but you aren't buying enough of our shït and we have to let you go to maintain profits."

[kalm]

Wages don't create demand, silly. Low wages and tax cuts do.

[CID1990]

Klean and Klam

sitting in a tree

(philosophical giants)

F U C K I N G

[CAA Flagship]

Klean and Klam

sitting in a tree

(philosophical giants)

F U C K I N G

[Ibanez]

Thompson also noted that in the U.S., fast-casual restaurants now appear to be performing a bit better as customers with a little more to spend skew toward those chains. However, McDonald’s main customer base “isn’t faring quite as well in the current economy.” And that’s made competition with rivals such as Burger King and Wendy’s all the more fierce. All three chains have been aggressively promoting their value menus in the fight for customers.

The excuse is that prices should drop as a result. Maybe if we wait another hundred years it might happen. Until then, we can expect more trimming of the labor costs. "Sorry Marcus but you aren't buying enough of our shït and we have to let you go to maintain profits."

Fast food jobs were never meant to be for a mother of 3.

[kalm]

Klean and Klam

sitting in a tree

(philosophical giants)

F U C K I N G

I wish I had a clever retort for this...but I got nothin'

Spoiler: show

[kalm]

Thompson also noted that in the U.S., fast-casual restaurants now appear to be performing a bit better as customers with a little more to spend skew toward those chains. However, McDonald’s main customer base “isn’t faring quite as well in the current economy.” And that’s made competition with rivals such as Burger King and Wendy’s all the more fierce. All three chains have been aggressively promoting their value menus in the fight for customers.

The excuse is that prices should drop as a result. Maybe if we wait another hundred years it might happen. Until then, we can expect more trimming of the labor costs. "Sorry Marcus but you aren't buying enough of our shït and we have to let you go to maintain profits."

Fast food jobs were never meant to be for a mother of 3.

This. And I imagine Walmart and McDonalds were never meant to be our largest employers either.

[HI54UNI]

Klean and Klam

sitting in a tree

(philosophical giants)

F U C K I N G

You are on a roll lately!

[CID1990]

Klean and Klam

sitting in a tree

(philosophical giants)

F U C K I N G

I wish I had a clever retort for this...but I got nothin'

Spoiler: show

I have to admit it was a moment of creative clarity for me

[Chizzang]

Klean and Klam

sitting in a tree

(philosophical giants)

F U C K I N G

You are on a roll lately!

I keep trying to tell you people "He's funny"
and mostly CID1990 comes through
Then a religious thread gets rolling and he ruins it buy getting all apologetic, defensive and grumpy

[YoUDeeMan]

You are on a roll lately!

I keep trying to tell you people "He's funny"
and mostly CID1990 comes through
Then a religious thread gets rolling and he ruins it buy getting all apologetic, defensive and grumpy

Wait...who ruins threads?

[YoUDeeMan]

Thompson also noted that in the U.S., fast-casual restaurants now appear to be performing a bit better as customers with a little more to spend skew toward those chains. However, McDonald’s main customer base “isn’t faring quite as well in the current economy.” And that’s made competition with rivals such as Burger King and Wendy’s all the more fierce. All three chains have been aggressively promoting their value menus in the fight for customers.

The excuse is that prices should drop as a result. Maybe if we wait another hundred years it might happen. Until then, we can expect more trimming of the labor costs. "Sorry Marcus but you aren't buying enough of our shït and we have to let you go to maintain profits."

Marcus needs to get an education, needs to stop eating processed foods, and should stop spending his time on video games, texting, and TV.

But suggesting that would be seen as an oppressive attempt to tramp on his freedom to be a loser.

Oh, and his parents should have had a more positive influence on his life...but suggesting that would be seen as hateful.

[mrklean]

Thompson also noted that in the U.S., fast-casual restaurants now appear to be performing a bit better as customers with a little more to spend skew toward those chains. However, McDonald’s main customer base “isn’t faring quite as well in the current economy.” And that’s made competition with rivals such as Burger King and Wendy’s all the more fierce. All three chains have been aggressively promoting their value menus in the fight for customers.

The excuse is that prices should drop as a result. Maybe if we wait another hundred years it might happen. Until then, we can expect more trimming of the labor costs. "Sorry Marcus but you aren't buying enough of our shït and we have to let you go to maintain profits."

Marcus needs to get an education, needs to stop eating processed foods, and should stop spending his time on video games, texting, and TV.

But suggesting that would be seen as an oppressive attempt to tramp on his freedom to be a loser.

Oh, and his parents should have had a more positive influence on his life...but suggesting that would be seen as hateful.

How do you know he did not have these?

[Ibanez]

Marcus needs to get an education, needs to stop eating processed foods, and should stop spending his time on video games, texting, and TV.

But suggesting that would be seen as an oppressive attempt to tramp on his freedom to be a loser.

Oh, and his parents should have had a more positive influence on his life...but suggesting that would be seen as hateful.

How do you know he did not have these?

If you have a college education, and you're working in fast food, you better be the owner.

[YoUDeeMan]

Marcus needs to get an education, needs to stop eating processed foods, and should stop spending his time on video games, texting, and TV.

But suggesting that would be seen as an oppressive attempt to tramp on his freedom to be a loser.

Oh, and his parents should have had a more positive influence on his life...but suggesting that would be seen as hateful.

How do you know he did not have these?

Well, since you didn't provide a link, and Marcus is out of a job, in a thread about minimum wage workers, then the odds are that I'm correct about his levels of education and parental involvement.

Prove me wrong.

[YoUDeeMan]

How do you know he did not have these?

If you have a college education, and you're working in fast food, you better be the owner.

No, no...he was oppressed. It isn't Marcus' fault.

[CID1990]

How do you know he did not have these?

If you have a college education, and you're working in fast food, you better be the owner.

There's nothing wrong with working in fast food after college- for a lot of kids it is a tie-over while career hunting. Between the navy reserve and the police dept I delivered pizza and worked the golf dept at Kiawah.

I have a classmate we made fun of who literally went to work at Burger King cooking and running a register after graduation. He was in corporate within 6 years- worked his way right up the ladder

[DSUrocks07]

All this hubbub about MINIMUM wage jobs.

Like that's what people should strive to achieve in life.

Congrats Marcus, you got a job at McDonald's, you set for life!

[DSUrocks07]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pglOjYwIV-U[/youtube]

[Ibanez]

If you have a college education, and you're working in fast food, you better be the owner.

There's nothing wrong with working in fast food after college- for a lot of kids it is a tie-over while career hunting. Between the navy reserve and the police dept I delivered pizza and worked the golf dept at Kiawah.

I have a classmate we made fun of who literally went to work at Burger King cooking and running a register after graduation. He was in corporate within 6 years- worked his way right up the ladder

I delivered chinese food, part time until I found a job, but that was after my gig at a hotel. But like you...it wasn't a career. The point is that fast food/minum wage jobs aren't designed to be careers. Your buddy that went corporate has a degree. That isn't who we're talking about. We're talking about those that don't finish high school or college and are at the bottom of the totem pole.

[bandl]

We're talking about those that don't finish high school or college and are at the bottom of the totem pole.

HOSE FAULT IZ DAT? THE WHITE FOLK, THATS HOO.

U GODDAMN RAZIST

[Ibanez]

We're talking about those that don't finish high school or college and are at the bottom of the totem pole.

HOSE FAULT IZ DAT? THE WHITE FOLK, THATS HOO.

U GODDAMN RAZIST

Says the guy paying his people in tacos and queso.

[bandl]

HOSE FAULT IZ DAT? THE WHITE FOLK, THATS HOO.

U GODDAMN RAZIST

Says the guy paying his people in grade D ground meat and pesos.

ACCURACY, BITCH

[kalm]

There's nothing wrong with working in fast food after college- for a lot of kids it is a tie-over while career hunting. Between the navy reserve and the police dept I delivered pizza and worked the golf dept at Kiawah.

I have a classmate we made fun of who literally went to work at Burger King cooking and running a register after graduation. He was in corporate within 6 years- worked his way right up the ladder

I delivered chinese food, part time until I found a job, but that was after my gig at a hotel. But like you...it wasn't a career. The point is that fast food/minum wage jobs aren't designed to be careers. Your buddy that went corporate has a degree. That isn't who we're talking about. We're talking about those that don't finish high school or college and are at the bottom of the totem pole.

And as someone who employs mostly minimum wage workers (insert evil Walmart like employer jokes here), I can tell you there are a surprising amount of people with college degrees and I few with masters degrees willing to work minimum wage as there's still not that much out there. And I'm talking about solid, responsible people some of whom have families, from ages 30 - 50's who have had careers. Not everyone working minimum wage is an underachiever.

[Ibanez]

I delivered chinese food, part time until I found a job, but that was after my gig at a hotel. But like you...it wasn't a career. The point is that fast food/minum wage jobs aren't designed to be careers. Your buddy that went corporate has a degree. That isn't who we're talking about. We're talking about those that don't finish high school or college and are at the bottom of the totem pole.

And as someone who employs mostly minimum wage workers (insert evil Walmart like employer jokes here), I can tell you there are a surprising amount of people with college degrees and I few with masters degrees willing to work minimum wage as there's still not that much out there. And I'm talking about solid, responsible people some of whom have families, from ages 30 - 50's who have had careers. Not everyone working minimum wage is an underachiever.

Ok, so forgive my generalization. But still, when we're talking about Fast Food, primarily those you see protesting, who do you see? It isn't the bus boy at Chili's working his way through college.