Originally Posted by mikeg19
You have to broaden your perspective, man. What if I told that both you AND fast food workers deserve to make more money? I know - crazy, right?
Let's start with fast food. McDonald's is making over a billion dollars a quarter, and if you've been to many McDonald's recently, you'd know that's with the company reinvesting substantially into its restaurants. You think the company can't afford to pay workers a few bucks more?
I've read varying estimates on yearly employee turnover in the fast food industry, but I feel safe saying it's probably close to or above 100%. Now if McDonald's increases the average pay for an employee by 30% - which wouldn't even be that much money in real terms - you don't think turnover will decrease? And if job turnover decreases, that substantially cuts job training costs and should result in a more consistent product.
Who knows, people might even be willing to pay an extra 20 cents for a McNasty! That raise would barely hurt old McDonald's.
On to you: you probably don't work in fast food. You're a big shot, of course. But what if I told you that real wages in most professional fields have stagnated for decades, all while the real wages of CEOs and the profits of companies [[adjusted for inflation) have increased steadily? That, in reality, you're being shafted just as bad as the fast food worker, just on a different scale? In all likelihood, your job could afford to pay you more. If it went under after it wouldn't be because it paid you an extra 5 bucks an hour. It would be the end result of a series of unrelated bad decisions that happened way above your pay scale.
Just think, in America, companies hand out bonuses to executives and pay millions for a TV spots while telling us that there is nothing left in the vault for us. How stupid do we look?
Wake up.
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