Fast-food workers, "We Are Worth More!"

[Kellhound]

So long as my wages double for no reason as well, I have no problem with hiking the minimum wage.

[Pendulous]

So long as my wages double for no reason as well, I have no problem with hiking the minimum wage.

Not really logical since people just want to be paid a livable wage. That doesn't mean YOUR job is worth more, it means those other jobs aren't paying what they should.

[Kellhound]

Not really logical since people just want to be paid a livable wage. That doesn't mean YOUR job is worth more, it means those other jobs aren't paying what they should.

They are paid what there work is worth, as am I. I have no interest in losing purchasing power to benefit others. They want more money, I want more money.

[Captain N]

They are paid what there work is worth, as am I. I have no interest in losing purchasing power to benefit others. They want more money, I want more money.

Who are you to judge what someone is worth?

[Kellhound]

Who are you to judge what someone is worth?

The same as anyone else that posts here.

[Pendulous]

They are paid what there work is worth, as am I. I have no interest in losing purchasing power to benefit others. They want more money, I want more money.

So, you don't want people's jobs to pay a livable wage because you have some kind of personal issue with their worth?

[Captain N]

So, you don't want people's jobs to pay a livable wage because you have some kind of personal issue with their worth?

Just another one of those "I got mine and nobody else should get theirs unless they work as hard as I had to!" types....It's really sad the way we treat our fellow human beings.

[Kellhound]

So, you don't want people's jobs to pay a livable wage because you have some kind of personal issue with their worth?

No, I have issue with degrading my purchasing power so they can make a short term living wage.

[tj119]

Just another one of those "I got mine and nobody else should get theirs unless they work as hard as I had to!" types....It's really sad the way we treat our fellow human beings.

More like work hard in general...you ever worked at a fast food restaurant? Lmao I'm surprised it can even be labeled as a job.

[Kellhound]

Just another one of those "I got mine and nobody else should get theirs unless they work as hard as I had to!" types....It's really sad the way we treat our fellow human beings.

No, it is a case of I have worked for what I have and I am not going to degrade it for others.

[Pendulous]

More like work hard in general...you ever worked at a fast food restaurant? Lmao I'm surprised it can even be labeled as a job.

I know people who sit on their ass browsing the internet for most of them time, and they're middle class. Fast food is hard work, MUCH harder work compared to that, and they're not making a LIVABLE WAGE

[Captain N]

No, it is a case of I have worked for what I have and I am not going to degrade it for others.

I guarantee I make more money than you do and if you honestly think your buying power is going to take some serious hit taking care of low wage workers you obviously have not done your research outside of Fox News and CNN.

[Pendulous]

No, I have issue with degrading my purchasing power so they can make a short term living wage.

No, it is a case of I have worked for what I have and I am not going to degrade it for others.

I still don't understand how people making more money somehow makes you make less.

[tj119]

I guarantee I make more money than you do and if you honestly think your buying power is going to take some serious hit taking care of low wage workers you obviously have not done your research outside of Fox News and CNN.

Oh boy here goes the internet dick flexing.

AAAAAAAAAND DOWN GOES HIS CREDIBILITYYYYYY.

[Captain N]

I still don't understand how people making more money somehow makes you make less.

It's that delusion that if he makes $17/hour now and he had to work for 5 years to get it and the minimum wage workers suddenly make $15 (which they wouldn't as the increase would be gradual).

Oh boy here goes the internet dick flexing.

AAAAAAAAAND DOWN GOES HIS CREDIBILITYYYYYY.

Actually it's usually people who make approximately $15-$20 hourly that are the ones who seem to feel most threatened by a minimum wage increase. You can challenge my credibility all you want but as shown by numerous posters in this thread....It tends to be the trend.

Other people make more -> price of goods and services they create increases -> his current pay no longer goes as far as it used to.

Prices will increase slightly with a wage increase and they would increase even without a wage increase. Just as the prices of items has continued to climb since 2009 (Our last wage increase). Buying power would outweigh the price increase - It's mathematically impossible for it to be any other way.

[Dhurn]

I still don't understand how people making more money somehow makes you make less.

Other people make more -> price of goods and services they create increases -> his current pay no longer goes as far as it used to.

[tj119]

I still don't understand how people making more money somehow makes you make less.

I've worked in fast food, Idk a felon who hasn't lol, If I could go back in time and my old self told me I deserved $15/hr for the work I had to do, I'd laugh in my own fucking face and call myself a moron. That work wasn't hard...the hardest part of working in fast food was dealing with bitchy customers when YOU fuck their order up.

[Kellhound]

I guarantee I make more money than you do and if you honestly think your buying power is going to take some serious hit taking care of low wage workers you obviously have not done your research outside of Fox News and CNN.

If I made twice what I wouldn't care near as much. However, even a 5% hit would hurt right now.

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I still don't understand how people making more money somehow makes you make less.

Never said I would make less, I said my purchasing power will go down.

[Pendulous]

I've worked in fast food, Idk a felon who hasn't lol, If I could go back in time and my old self told me I deserved $15/hr for the work I had to do, I'd laugh in my own fucking face and call myself a moron. That work wasn't hard...the hardest part of working in fast food was dealing with bitchy customers when YOU fuck their order up.

Well, the $15/hr. thing is kind of like getting a raise from your boss. You tell em you deserve $2 more an hour, they compromise and give you $1, which is all you really wanted. No one REALLY expects the minimum wage to go up to $15. $9 is a more likely scenario, but you still have to understand, and after several months and hundreds of posters that don't, that the current minimum wage does not pay a livable wage and has not increased to coincide with the cost of living increases. People also have to stop thinking of it as "haha stupid fast food workers" when there are a lot more jobs that pay minimum wage or below a livable wage.

I've worked in fast food before. Dealing with customers is by far the easiest part for me. The hardest part is the working conditions, which are usually made worse by incompetent owners. I also don't understand this notion of "anyone can get a better job" because that's just not even kind of remotely true. Stop assuming $50k a year jobs are just sitting on a door step waiting for some lonely guy to come snatch it up.

[tj119]

Actually it's usually people who make approximately $15-$20 hourly that are the ones who seem to feel most threatened by a minimum wage increase. You can challenge my credibility all you want but as shown by numerous posters in this thread....It tends to be the trend.

Minimum wage increase isn't the issue here. It's the fact they want to double their pay when unless it goes nation wide that would have them making more than a lot of people who do 10x the work they do. They don't give a fuck about other jobs they just want to be paid double to flip burgers.