Originally Posted by
xcureanddisease
I do not agree with the 15 dollars minimum wage increase fast food employees are asking for. For a few reasons.
1) I worked for a factory, a fast food joint, and a video store and all of those places paid minimum wage and it sucked. But that is exactly what drove me to go to school, get my act together and land a decent job. I drove my daughter to school every morning and picked up my son from school then drove him to his babysitters(in-law) at lunch time. Eating while driving back to work just to make it on time and feed myself. I did this routine for 5 YEARS until i was finally done. 2002 - 2007 was HELL for me. So this "well single parents cant go to college because there isn't time" is a load of crap. There's a word for that its called LAZINESS.
2) I know good teachers that only make around 19 dollars to 25 dollars an hour. If fast food workers are gonna get paid 15, then teachers in general should get paid 40 an hour. And honestly, I feel this way even if fast food workers dont get an increase. Teachers are really underpaid. The way I see it is, teachers spent their time grinding and studying to become an educator, and they get 36k a year, yet fast food workers just have to walk in, no skills, no school, nothing to qualify them other than, "can you work nights and weekends" and they'll get almost 30k a year???? That doesn't make any sense to me at all.
HOWEVER I do believe that fast food employees should be raised >UP TO< 15 dollars an hour. Minimum to start off with, and a dollar raise annually until they cap out at 15. Also they should add a "back to school" tuition reimbursement program to encourage and support salaried and full-time hourly employees who enroll in college, university and technical school courses in order to obtain an associate’s, bachelor’s, a master’s, doctoral, or technical degree. Just to give them that incentive to not be complacent. I know that obtaining a degree doesn't guarantee a career, but it sure helps.
Anyone think im wrong? Am I not seeing the bigger picture here?