Fast-food workers walk out of job

[Sunshine]

a trained monkey could do these jobs but these people think they are special?..


someone is yanking their chains because they sure look foolish

I am willing to bet you have never worked in fast food. Over 80% of people leave within the first three months because they can't hack the pressure.

By all means, come and work in my store, you can run around like a headless chook while I boss you around, you can serve the customers who abuse you and threaten you and spit at you because their fries are 'cold', and you can learn to juggle ten different things at once.

You wouldn't last a week, bitch.

I am willing to bet you didn't read this thread...I've worked in retail, waitress, bartender, etc
and it doesn't take a genius to work in fast food...as for the bitch thing, look in a mirror dear..I wouldn't want you waiting on me FOR ANYTHING

You're right it doesn't. Nurses have to do the juggling act while making life and death decisions.

 

[Katzndogz]

All work has worth and dignity. I hope they get their money.

Labour costs are usually the major outgoing of a company.

That's means you'll either pay more for your burgers or, if people go elsewhere, less jobs for the greedy, grasping workers.

No one minds paying extra for a burger here, pity American business owners are more concerned with lining their pockets than with paying their employees a decent wage.

Especially when those employees aren't worth the wages they are already getting.

 

[patriot66]

American business owners are more concerned with lining their pockets than with paying their employees a decent wage.

Of course they are.
The nature of capitalism is to make money, not do social work.

Its selfishness. Getting your employees to do the hard work, while you sit back and pocket the fruits of their labor.

Ok now you pissed me off, so you are saying that the person who risked everything to start a business should not reap the benefits. Fast food restaurants do not need to pay 18 dollars an hour, work your way up, and then be payed for being an asset to the company, worked for me.

 

[syrenn]

No, we just get paid what we deserve - pay rise every year, as well.

I earn close to $18 an hour at my workplace. Many would say I don't deserve that much, but then, they don't work where I work.

are you actually threatened and spit on?

Yes, I was actually spit at once when a woman didn't like her fries. She spat them out, and a gob of spit landed inches away from me, on the bench.

We have had other incidents, the scariest being my former boss punched in the face by an irate drive thru customer who stormed into the store, demanding free food. When my boss refused, she was punched in the face, and the girl went outside, picked up a chair and threw it through the glass door. Those doors have glass at least two inches thick - and it smashed. Lucky no customers were standing nearby, they would have been slashed to pieces.

We've had drug addicts yell at staff and refuse to leave, accuse us of stealing from them. We've had to call the police of several of them. We've had drunks staggering in right before closing time and then refusing to leave because they need some grease to cure their self inflicted hangovers.

We've had customers abuse the shit out of new employees who then end up in tears and refuse to go and serve another customer because they are terrified of being abused again.

And people here have the gall to insist that we don't deserve every single damned penny of the wages we get here? People think that all fast food employees deserve is seven bucks an hour?

Those people can go and get fucked.

quit.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

 

[PredFan]

What a bunch of idiots. Skilled labor workers that work for public works don't get a starting salary that large.

Fast-food workers walk out of job in St. Louis, other cities; want $15 an hour | KMOV.com St. Louis​

If that happens anywhere here in Orlando, I'll go buy food from the replacement workers.

 

[Stephanie]

I'm sure...like for real man

did they handcuff them to the registers?

 

[patriot66]

I'm sure...like for real man

did they handcuff them to the registers?

Oh yeah made em wear heavy parkas too

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

No, we just get paid what we deserve - pay rise every year, as well.

I earn close to $18 an hour at my workplace. Many would say I don't deserve that much, but then, they don't work where I work.

are you actually threatened and spit on?

Yes, I was actually spit at once when a woman didn't like her fries. She spat them out, and a gob of spit landed inches away from me, on the bench.

We have had other incidents, the scariest being my former boss punched in the face by an irate drive thru customer who stormed into the store, demanding free food. When my boss refused, she was punched in the face, and the girl went outside, picked up a chair and threw it through the glass door. Those doors have glass at least two inches thick - and it smashed. Lucky no customers were standing nearby, they would have been slashed to pieces.

We've had drug addicts yell at staff and refuse to leave, accuse us of stealing from them. We've had to call the police of several of them. We've had drunks staggering in right before closing time and then refusing to leave because they need some grease to cure their self inflicted hangovers.

We've had customers abuse the shit out of new employees who then end up in tears and refuse to go and serve another customer because they are terrified of being abused again.

And people here have the gall to insist that we don't deserve every single damned penny of the wages we get here? People think that all fast food employees deserve is seven bucks an hour?

Those people can go and get fucked.

You work in a fast food joint? High school or college student?

 

[SteadyMercury]

Its selfishness. Getting your employees to do the hard work, while you sit back and pocket the fruits of their labor.

Awww its so cute to see the naive views of someone who's never advanced up the chain and realized that it doesn't mean no more hard work.

 

[Toro]

Its selfishness. Getting your employees to do the hard work, while you sit back and pocket the fruits of their labor.

Awww its so cute to see the naive views of someone who's never advanced up the chain and realized that it doesn't mean no more hard work.

It's called "intelligence."

 

[squeeze berry]

All work has worth and dignity. I hope they get their money.

Labour costs are usually the major outgoing of a company.

That's means you'll either pay more for your burgers or, if people go elsewhere, less jobs for the greedy, grasping workers.

No one minds paying extra for a burger here, pity American business owners are more concerned with lining their pockets than with paying their employees a decent wage.

most of us have had menial jobs, so we kinda understand your situation.

but..............


what are you doing to get out of there?

 

[PredFan]

Its selfishness. Getting your employees to do the hard work, while you sit back and pocket the fruits of their labor.

Awww its so cute to see the naive views of someone who's never advanced up the chain and realized that it doesn't mean no more hard work.

Yeah. Isn't it. I know a guy who owns a local franchise of a hamburger chain. During the rush times, he's right there up to his elbows helping the staff, then when it slows down, he's in the office working on the mountains of paperwork and handling employee problems. He does more work than any of the employess there.

 

[SuMar]

For arguments sake, let's say that McDonald's or any other fast food chain agrees to pay $15.00 an hour what do you really think will happen next? A chain the size of McDonald's or Burger King won't go out of business, however though, all those employees working 35 - 40 hours a week, expect your hours to drop down to 20 - 25 hours a week. Fast food industry is not unionized and never will be. By paying a cost to employees from $7.35 to $15.00 an hour is quite a leap. Now you know if the rich guy is forced to pay more in wages to employees, do any of you really believe they will take it in the shorts? The companies would cut cost in other areas such as hmmm let's see...medical benefits and retirement benefits. So for all those folks protesting, careful what you wish for. And for smaller chains, they'll just shut down some of the restaurants that don't make as much money. So now what, these workers take McDonald's or any other company to court? Ha, the judge would throw the case out, once again, not a unionized industry. Doesn't take an economics major to figure this out.

 

[Sunshine]

No, we just get paid what we deserve - pay rise every year, as well.

I earn close to $18 an hour at my workplace. Many would say I don't deserve that much, but then, they don't work where I work.

are you actually threatened and spit on?

Yes, I was actually spit at once when a woman didn't like her fries. She spat them out, and a gob of spit landed inches away from me, on the bench.

We have had other incidents, the scariest being my former boss punched in the face by an irate drive thru customer who stormed into the store, demanding free food. When my boss refused, she was punched in the face, and the girl went outside, picked up a chair and threw it through the glass door. Those doors have glass at least two inches thick - and it smashed. Lucky no customers were standing nearby, they would have been slashed to pieces.

We've had drug addicts yell at staff and refuse to leave, accuse us of stealing from them. We've had to call the police of several of them. We've had drunks staggering in right before closing time and then refusing to leave because they need some grease to cure their self inflicted hangovers.

We've had customers abuse the shit out of new employees who then end up in tears and refuse to go and serve another customer because they are terrified of being abused again.

And people here have the gall to insist that we don't deserve every single damned penny of the wages we get here? People think that all fast food employees deserve is seven bucks an hour?

Those people can go and get fucked.

Dog off the forums and spend your off hours getting a degree and move up. No one feels sorry for you. You have plenty of time to sit and post, so if you don't have time to better yourself you are just another lazy fool. I don't feel sorry for you.

 

[Sunshine]

All work has worth and dignity. I hope they get their money.

Labour costs are usually the major outgoing of a company.

That's means you'll either pay more for your burgers or, if people go elsewhere, less jobs for the greedy, grasping workers.

No one minds paying extra for a burger here, pity American business owners are more concerned with lining their pockets than with paying their employees a decent wage.

Right. And you don't have burglaries either. You are such a simple fool that you expect us to believe your line of horse shit.

 

[Indofred]

The basic tenet of the socialist class is that people who put thier money and time into a business should basically not take anything out of it. Profit it seems is evil.

What is normally ignored by people who say these things is; without capitalism, there would be no job for them to go.
The risk is taken by the capitalist in order to make money in the longer term.
What the hell would the point be in risking your cash and spending crazy hours at work be if you weren't out to make a profit?
My last business took my bank account to nothing and I had to work all day and a lot of the night for well over a year before I started to get a salary from it.
My new one, a restaurant and small school, has cost me a lot of money so I fully intend to make from it. Projections are around 30 times minimum wage per month but the staff will be paid minimum wage only.
If the staff are willing to work crazy hours with hardly any pay for 12 months or more, I'll cut them into the profits.
If not; they can work for what I pay them.

 

[syrenn]

For arguments sake, let's say that McDonald's or any other fast food chain agrees to pay $15.00 an hour what do you really think will happen next? A chain the size of McDonald's or Burger King won't go out of business, however though, all those employees working 35 - 40 hours a week, expect your hours to drop down to 20 - 25 hours a week. Fast food industry is not unionized and never will be. By paying a cost to employees from $7.35 to $15.00 an hour is quite a leap. Now you know if the rich guy is forced to pay more in wages to employees, do any of you really believe they will take it in the shorts? The companies would cut cost in other areas such as hmmm let's see...medical benefits and retirement benefits. So for all those folks protesting, careful what you wish for. And for smaller chains, they'll just shut down some of the restaurants that don't make as much money. So now what, these workers take McDonald's or any other company to court? Ha, the judge would throw the case out, once again, not a unionized industry. Doesn't take an economics major to figure this out.

and who do you think is behind all this we want more money lets strike?

the unions.


The unions want the fast food industry to be unionized.... they want the dues.

 

[Indofred]

The unions want the fast food industry to be unionized.... they want the dues.

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Ah, capitalism.

 

[depotoo]

The unions want the fast food industry to be unionized.... they want the dues.

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Ah, capitalism.

kind of funny that way, isn't it?