Flipping burgers isnt ment to be a permanent job, it's ment for kids who are in highschool or college get by to buy food and materials. After they graduate, they build their career, these lazy pricks who want 15 an hour are just going to ruin the economy by making the dollar worthless.
This post is garbage.
Paramedics make way more than that.
I'm a first aid lv3 and I make 25/h. A paramedic should make at least 30/h. And have time off + support when they lose a patient.
Fast food workers are pushed every day to be faster and please people and they barely have a minute to breathe. I've been there too.
Value your emergency workers.
Value your service workers.
Any person that works full time should be able to make a living.
People know this to be true, but they chose to thrown poor people down than pointing down that they are not paid enough.
People like this are part of the problem.
Why should anyone working full time “make a living”? The free market determines what your contribution is worth; these people are marching and demanding the govt step in and artificially manipulate the market so they can take more than they give. That’s gotta come from someone else now. Minimum wages provided me a great standard of living when I was 16, lived at home and drove a $500 car; if you’re middle aged and trying to raise a family then you’ve made terrible life choices and it shouldn’t fall to the rest of us to clean up your mess. 40 years old and the same employable skill set as a teenager; hiding under a pile of coats hoping everything will turn out alright. Owning a detached house is not a human right, saving for retirement is not a human right, simply existing doesn’t entitle you to a comfortable lifestyle.
My mother worked at EMS as a paramedic for 30 years (not all of it at paramedic level obviously) and no one there saw any better pay than poverty level except for admin. She got a temp assignment to dispatch when she hurt her back and then never got put back. In the last 2 years before retirement she finally got out of dispatch but to transcription and then at the very end of it got forced to take hours in dispatch from a lack of people left working it. Couldn't leave cause she'd lose her accumulated retirement benefits but got paid dirt the whole time and she hadn't gotten much skills to use elsewhere from 30 years of emergency medicine. This is commonly how emergency services of all kinds are treated in America.
@matthewg maybe I'm wrong, but arent you a paramedic as well? Or maybe I'm confusing you with someone else. Either way, you've been summoned now. Care to weigh in?
Then literally everything where employees are a part of the process will raise prices by enough to offset the increase in employee cost and lay off employees to make up some of the difference.
sarcasm aside it seriously is not hard to get another job. I personally have friends straight outta high school doing construction jobs that pay 20+ an hour. Its not fun work and it sucks physically but it exist. They work up to 60 hours a week working with concrete and heavy objects but none the less its there. I know my friend who worked in a cole mine and he made 25 an hour and if he was there for 3 months he got full benefits and an extra 2.50 an hour attached. These jobs pay lots and they are hard work. Do not act like its sooo hard to get a job or that fast food is the only option. Jobs are everywhere we dont live in a depression in all truth and honesty these people dont want to do those jobs the key being want. They wanna make the same money but only folding burritos and flipping burgers. I work at taco bell it is the easiest shiz i have ever done and trust me no one should be making anywhere near that much money to do some easy af job like that.
there are more people than jobs in quite a lot of places. Also most construction jobs require certification to apply. Finding a job that doesn't have a prerequisite other than a highschool diploma is fairly easy but getting the job against the ass ton of other people with identical qualifications is the hard part.
Bro highkey my friend worked at a restraunt and went from a busser to a sushi employee and the dude was illegal. While i agree there probably is more people than jobs doesnt change the fact that there are jobs everywhere so that is just telling me that people are lazy. Every guy i work at taco bell with spends there entire paychecks on stuff they dont need. Saving money is almost non existent because after they pay bills they believe the rest of their money is just leftovers and excess that they get to spend. Hell at taco bell you can become a manager if you work your a off and you are nice to your managers and work your way up to 40,000 a year.
becoming a manager isn't done by working your ass off at a low level job. Being super good at busing tables doesn't give any incentive to promote you at all. They want good bus boys to work as bus boys and they want ok bus boys that showed any sign of leadership skill to work higher up.
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When there are 30 job openings in a town and 250 people that need jobs (both are super low numbers for either in must towns but the ratio is about that where i live) its gonna end with most people never getting a job out of that.
"You can get paid whatever you want if you are the best at what you do" Thats what my uncle told me (im sure someone famous or in history said that shiz too). I believe him too because he was a bank manager in utah and he was the best in his company. When his company got dissolved the company picked him to join them. That company was Wells Fargo he has made enough money for a lifetime and just told me do what you want but if you are the best at that job you will get paid for it. Let me tell you that is bs on that manager shiz. I work at taco bell I WORK THERE and a dude is getting to be manager there after only working 2 months over a dude who has worked 2 years because he works 100 percent harder than the other dude. It helps waaay more than what you think. Also if you want a job without going to college that makes lots of money go work in a coal mine or go work in construction. They always got jobs and they pay enough to make a living.
"This person doesn't have enough money to live. This other person doesn't make enough money to live and he works harder. Therefore, the first person shouldn't complain about not having enough to live."
Because if someone has it worse, then you can't have it bad. Yes, you have six broken ribs, but this other guy has ten broken ribs. You're just not as bad as this guy, so we shouldn't give you treatment.
If the burger flippers are successful at banding together to force a wage increase then the paramedic will be paid much more due to market forces. How else to keep him on the job when he is overqualified for a $15hr position?
Market economics isn't just business><customer relationships it's also employer><employee relationships. Being anti-union and anti-labor doesn't make you a capitalist it makes you an asshole.
That paramedic should be paid way more. That’s the issue. Cost of living has risen so much that 15 an hour should be the minimum. Minimum wage was made so people can live at poverty level. Shelter, food and clothes. The basics.
Paramedics make way more than that.
I'm a first aid lv3 and I make 25/h. A paramedic should make at least 30/h. And have time off + support when they lose a patient.
Fast food workers are pushed every day to be faster and please people and they barely have a minute to breathe. I've been there too.
Value your emergency workers.
Value your service workers.
Any person that works full time should be able to make a living.
People know this to be true, but they chose to thrown poor people down than pointing down that they are not paid enough.
People like this are part of the problem.
Try me tomorrow.
Just in case anyone is keeping score.
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When there are 30 job openings in a town and 250 people that need jobs (both are super low numbers for either in must towns but the ratio is about that where i live) its gonna end with most people never getting a job out of that.
Because if someone has it worse, then you can't have it bad. Yes, you have six broken ribs, but this other guy has ten broken ribs. You're just not as bad as this guy, so we shouldn't give you treatment.
Market economics isn't just business><customer relationships it's also employer><employee relationships. Being anti-union and anti-labor doesn't make you a capitalist it makes you an asshole.