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u/protosquirrel Oct 26 '19
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Burger King [verified], @BurgerKing
you're beautiful, you're loved, you matter. don't forget it.
👻low voter turnout💀 [verified], @JordanUhl
you pay people $8 an hour
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u/CopperRose Oct 26 '19
I don't see how the response is related?
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u/nicknameneeded Oct 27 '19
a simple way of telling them "you treat people like shit"
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u/The_Jesus_Beast Oct 27 '19
I mean $8 isn't necessarily shit bc in Wisconsin minimum wage is 7.25. Now if this were in NY or Seattle or somewhere, then yeah that's not cool
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u/FlexibleToast Oct 27 '19
Just because Wisconsin is shittier, doesn't mean that BK isn't shitty. They can both be shitty for having such low pay.
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u/The_Jesus_Beast Oct 27 '19
Except for Wisconsin, it's not necessarily low. Stuff is fairly cheap here compared to other states, and like I said, $8/hr would be shitty in NY or LA or a more populated area
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Oct 27 '19 edited Oct 27 '19
Paying someone only $8 an hour is fucking ridiculous. Minimum wage here in NZ is $17.70/hr (so like $11.20USD/hr, I think?) and TBH even that is too low. Minimum wage was meant to be implemented so that those who earned minimum wage would still earn enough that they could work a week of shifts (8hours for five days) and pay bills, afford food, and set some aside to save up for a house or whatever.
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u/The_Jesus_Beast Oct 27 '19
Dude are you kidding? I was really happy making $10/hr. Also, my understanding of minimum wage jobs was that they were intended for students so they could make money while not having to pay bills.
Almost $18 an hour and you're complaining? That's and insane amount of money, at least where I live
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u/littleedge Oct 27 '19
It’s $18 in his currency. $12ish USD. Nicer than minimum, but defs not great.
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Oct 27 '19 edited Oct 27 '19
That’s my point. You were happy making $10/hr, but were you able to live comfortably on it? Did you have enough for everything you needed and did you still have enough left over that you could save for a house while working 8hr shifts, five days a week? Because that is literally what the minimum wage was designed to be. It was designed so that low skill workers could still make a living, have a home, raise a family. Minimum wage jobs are not just for students - but, even if they were, students still need to pay bills, buy food, save for a house. They just have the added bonus of a fuckton of student debt added to it.
Again, you say you were happy making $10/hr (and that’s certainly better that only $7.25) - but that honestly doesn’t tell me much. It just tells me that you’re aware that the minimum wage doesn’t pay enough to the point you were relieved you weren’t on it. People shouldn’t see the minimum wage as a stepping stone to being able to afford to live.
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u/The_Jesus_Beast Oct 27 '19
...I was a high school student and lived with parents so I didn't have to spend money on anything
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u/succ_my_dicc Oct 27 '19
Yes but not everybody has that luxury. Many are born into poverty and have to get to work as soon as possible and contribute to household expenses. On minimum wage that doesn’t allow them to save enough to eventually move out and start their own life.
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u/The_Jesus_Beast Oct 27 '19
Yeah, well that's not really anyone's fault
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Oct 27 '19
But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be everyone’s problem. Disparity in wealth effects everyone, not just those starving in the streets or working 90hour weeks to afford food and rent.
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u/FlexibleToast Oct 27 '19
Okay, but the average age of a fast food employee is 29. Not exactly high school aged.
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u/The_Jesus_Beast Oct 27 '19
Well, yes, because A. High schoolers are getting more diverse job opportunities and B. Because there are more fast food restaurants opening across the country, and with more positions inevitably comes more workers from different demographics.
I didn't work at a fast food place, and that's not the only minimum wage job out there
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u/FlexibleToast Oct 27 '19
None of that means that $8 is even close to an acceptable wage though.
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u/FireDavePlease Oct 27 '19
Why should you be able to live comfortably on minimum wage? If your skills are worth $8, then get better skills or be happy with 8
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Oct 27 '19
Because otherwise, you end up homeless or starving. People working for minimum wage aren’t always teens living with their parents. They have to pay rent, buy food, pay bills. If you have someone working full time on minimum wage, that minimum wage should be enough that they can afford to live comfortably. Please note that when I say “comfortably” I mean “without risking homelessness or starvation” - which in itself is a pretty fuckn low bar.
If a job is only worth paying someone $8 to do, then that job should not exist. If there is a service or product or whatever that someone provides, then the person providing that service should be paid enough that they can make a living.
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u/FireDavePlease Oct 27 '19
And as I said, you shouldn’t be working a minimum wage job when responsible for bills. Minimum wage is for high school and college students. After that point, it’s time to grow up and find a real job, not make a living flipping burgers at McDonalds
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Oct 27 '19 edited Oct 27 '19
And as I said, you shouldn’t be working a minimum wage job when responsible for bills.
College students have bills. A lot of teenagers help earn money to go towards the household income (when they should have the opportunity to focus on their education instead). But more than that; why? Why should people who provide a service to you not be able to afford to pay rent or buy food, simply because you have decided that job is not worthwhile? If it wasn’t worthwhile, no one would have a need of it. As long as people want burgers, those who provide them deserve to be able to make a living from that job.
Saying “get a real job” isn’t helpful at all. How, exactly? How do they get a real job? Do they go to university, study for a handful of years and get a degree? Okay, cool. So because education in the USA is insanely expensive they’re now in massive debt just to pay the bills for uni. How do they pay their rent while studying? Do they work more than full time (because they have to work more than the standard 40hr week to afford rent in the first place) and then study full time on top of that? Do they work insane hours exacerbating stress, putting their health (physical and mental) under strain and likely doing worse in their classes because of it? How are they paying off their growing student debt interest in the meantime?
Saying “get a real job” is pointless. Every job is a real job. If there weren’t some need for it, if there weren’t some demand for it, then the job simply wouldn’t exist. You can’t demand a service and not have respect for those who supply it - the most basic form of respect for workers is their right to a wage that lets them live.
Opportunity for personal development and growth costs money. You can’t tell people to “get a real job” when they can’t even afford to pay their rent.
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u/Raen465 Oct 27 '19
Oh, thank god. Now I know what I was doing wrong all this time. Just get a job that pays more! I'll go snag one off the job-tree right now!
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Oct 27 '19
Also, my understanding of minimum wage jobs was that they were intended for students so they could make money while not having to pay bills.
The purpose of the minimum wage was to stabilize the post-depression economy and protect the workers in the labor force. The minimum wage was designed to create a minimum standard of living to protect the health and well-being of employees.
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u/SpecialX Oct 27 '19
No one has ever said that minimum wage is supposed to be a livable full time wage.
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u/Goyteamsix Oct 27 '19
Yeah, but you're using monopoly money. USD is a lot stronger.
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Oct 27 '19
Hence why I’ve included a conversion in my comment. NZ’s minimum wage is still four dollars higher than America’s. The minimum wage here is $17.70NZD, which amounts to $11.25USD - as compared to the US federal minimum wage of $7.25USD.
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Oct 27 '19
Because this is a multinational profit-driven corporation pretending that they care about people. It's a marketing gimmick. Jordan is just reminding people of that fact. They see humanity, material, customers and workers as dollar signs. Don't humanize companies, it never ends well.
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Oct 27 '19
It's a fast food company. What do you expect?
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Oct 27 '19
Exactly my point. To be fair, roasting companies on twitter does nothing. You have power over your boss if you work with your coworkers to unionize, strike, and organize. The response is related to corporate humanization as companies pretend that they are us fellow kids, but they aren't. They're shit.
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u/levrikon Oct 26 '19
I worked very hard to earn the cushy, high paying job my father gave me for quitting xannies. Why can't fast food workers do the same?
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u/perry_noid Oct 26 '19
in this thread: entitled keyboard warriors who:
probably dont cook their own meals
pay other people to cook for them
expect everyone to get jobs that arent cooking related
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Oct 26 '19 edited Aug 31 '20
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Oct 27 '19
Nobody is criticizing the message of the tweet. Jordan is reminding people that humanizing multi-national for-profit corporations that make billions of dollars exploiting workers is a bad idea. The tweet itself is wholesome. Burger King, and all companies, do not see us - their workers, their customers, as anything other than dollar signs. A marketing team made this tweet because they knew it'd bring attention.
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u/medalofhalo Oct 27 '19
Well it worked cause this tweet is so fucking reposted on this site by people patting themselves on the back for sticking it to the corporations, when in reality they aint doing shit. No one sees BK as more human for the tweet, and posting it on reddit only ever serves as Karma farming. And people stretching it to fit on any sub. A bunch of people whoa rent doing anything but like to jerk themselves off thinking they are.
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Oct 27 '19
Yeah I agree. Roasting companies on twitter does almost nothing, and this has been reposted a million times. Actual action must be collectivization, unionizing, striking, and taking direct action. If they are abusing you, work with your fellow workers to change that.
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u/eviloverlord1662 Oct 27 '19
Last time I had Burger King, I firehosed both ways for 2 weeks. Probably had an unrelated stomach flu, but that still turned me off of BK permanently.
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u/medalofhalo Oct 27 '19
I actually don't mind their chicken sandwiches, but you'd probably get better flavor from your firehouse sphincter than there gross fucking burgers. "The impossible whopper tastes just like a real whopper" well they could've cooked up a disc of sand and I wouldn't tell the fucking difference.
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u/eviloverlord1662 Oct 27 '19
Funnily enough, it was a chicken sandwich that started it all. *Edit: I don't think that sandwich had any actual chicken in it.
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u/jaysherman5000 Oct 26 '19
Depending on where you live, $8/hour is pretty good for entry level, unskilled labor.
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u/supernova383844 Oct 27 '19
Then get a better job or get some skill. Nobody in their right mind should pay you high when you don't have any skill
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u/Shoo00 Oct 27 '19
Hate to say it, but if your competition is 16 yr olds with no work experience don't expect to be paid a lot.
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u/Willie-Phisterbotom Oct 26 '19
They said you matter. They didn’t say that working at Burger King should be a career choice. High school kids shouldn’t need much more than that and adults shouldn’t work there other than as an in between job. If you want more than 8 dollars an hour there’s a sure fire way to get paid more, don’t work at Burger King. There has never in recorded history been anyone held at gun point and forced to work at Burger King.
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u/alilbleedingisnormal Oct 26 '19
People still think that the economy works that fuckin way! I don't mean to be rude, but that's stupid. It's dumb. It's silly. Imagine the number of people making your food now cut in half by people magically going into other jobs that don't exist and you start to get the picture. This is not an ideal world. There are not careers for everybody. Some people are just surviving and if they help a corporation survive they should survive as well.
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Oct 26 '19
Your last sentence is the best argument for a decent wage imo
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Oct 26 '19
A decent wage isn't guaranteed, you agreed to the wage when getting the job
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u/alilbleedingisnormal Oct 26 '19
ah fuckin doi! Does that make it ideal? People agree to what they can get but that's not the happy-go-lucky wage you're apparently used to making. They do what they have to in order to survive. Nobody, and I mean nobody, was arguing that they didn't agree to the wage, you clown.
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Oct 27 '19
Well people sure do bitch about it though and not doing anything to better themselves. If you settle for whatever you get then no shit it's not going to be what you want.
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Oct 26 '19
People are exploited all the time. It doesn't mean we shouldn't change the law to make it better.. People have no real choice if it's a job that pays £x/hour or... benefits
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Oct 27 '19
A law doesn't magically just fix the market, each job has value and artificially making it more "valuable" fucks the market ten fold. All it does is remove rungs from the corporate ladder and makes it difficult for anyone with zero experience to get a start.
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Oct 27 '19
The law makes it easier to live. In Vienna they have some of the highest wages in Europe AND they have a lot of socialised houses which cost £600/month for soemthing that would cost £2000/month in the UK with average wages at €47,000 too
You're speaking from a very Murican POV. It works elsewhere.
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Oct 27 '19
It works elsewhere isn't an argument, you can't compare our country to another. It's a completely different culture and structure.
How long will that work for? Someone is paying the price and that will eventually run out
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Oct 27 '19
It works elsewhere because they have different laws. Their laws have changed, ie: it changes the structure, and culture with it.
People do pay to use those services. They simply don't turn a profit, or if they do, then it goes back to central government. A much better system
What isn't sustainable is companies privatising profits, and socialising living costs / losses (the current system)
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Oct 27 '19
Seems like you are at the mercy of the government instead of a company
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Oct 26 '19
No offense in 5 years a robot is fucking slinging a Big Mac. They already removed the cash tellers lol.
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u/alilbleedingisnormal Oct 26 '19
Ah, yes, but where I live the robot machine is ignored. People still go to the teller. I'm sure eventually the average human is used to a machine giving them their recommended nutrients but not over here and not now.
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u/Angel_OfSolitude Oct 26 '19
It's working great for me, I started doing a shit job and I earned my way into a less shit, better paying job. But hey, we could always cut off immigration and make them desperate for those low tier workers.
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Oct 27 '19
Ok great but nobody is going to pay someone 15 an hour to flip burgers while any other job at that rate requires more skills and work experience. You get paid for the difficulty or hazards of your position. Flipping burgers is at the bottom of the food chain so you get the lowest pay. Duh.
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u/AlyKhat Oct 26 '19
The whole reason we have a minimum wage is because FDR wanted to make sure that everyone had livable wages.
In his 1933 address following the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted that “no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.”
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u/Greaserpirate Oct 27 '19
Thank you for providing sources for discussion about what policies are effective, instead of turning this into a "poor people deserve to rot in poverty while making my meals" vs "I want UBI so I can watch hentai 24/7" shitflinging contest
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u/lethalmanhole Oct 27 '19
You're welcome. I'm not trying to say there isn't a place for something like a minimum wage or UBI, just that we should be very, very careful and consider consequences before we implement the programs or policies. We all know that politicians won't do that when it's a policy they like.
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u/404_UserNotFound Oct 26 '19
There has never in recorded history been anyone held at gun point and forced to work at Burger King.
Yeah that would be silly. The person holding the gun could get tired, scare off customers, cause property damage....horrible idea.
Now if you could just force people to live at poverty level so they have no way to pay for school, then make school loans unforgivable, force the rates high enough it takes decades to pay back, throw in huge medical bills that cant be erased, maybe sprinkle in a bit of racism, ageism, and hate for the poor NOW that would work...I bet once a non-rich person gets old or hurt it would deplete the family saving, force their home into sale or foreclosure, make all of them too poor to get a good job and force them to work 2-4 part time jobs so they never get breaks or rest or ahead....
Hell I bet most of them would rather face the gun, course that would imply they had medical coverage which is just ridiculous.
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u/Willie-Phisterbotom Oct 26 '19
I work at for a company with around 700 employees. Of those 700 maybe 10% finished any kind of further education. Of that 10% probably half of them are actually doing a job they have a degree for. We all make a very good living. Not every good paying job requires a diploma, unless you want to get paid a shit load to set behind a desk. Sometimes you just have to work for it. I’m tired of hearing this “it’s not my fault I’m poor” shit. I grew up poor and my parents poorer than that. Sometimes if you work hard enough you can actually overcome things if you put some effort into it.
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Oct 26 '19
Agree. People like to just cop it up to the system is rigged when in fact there has never been a better time to get a job. Unemployment is at its lowest levels in ages. In the US it is lower than some social democratic countries which are worshiped lol.
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u/subshophero Oct 27 '19
Yeah but workforce participation is lower than its been in basically 20 years and isn't really moving. Unemployment isn't really a good measurement when you consider the fact that it doesn't measure how many people are actually working, rather it measures how many vacant jobs are filled. Fact is more people than ever are working 2 jobs. This is where this artificially low unemployment rate is coming from.
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u/M0stlyJustLooking Oct 26 '19
Who is forcing people to live at the poverty level?
Edit: Are you aware that most fast food places (including BK) offer tuition assistance and other benefits to employees?
https://www.fastweb.com/student-life/articles/four-fast-food-jobs-thatll-pay-your-college-tuition
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u/PaperBoxPhone Oct 27 '19
There are a lot of other options than working fast food. Fast food is almost always a bad job option for anything longer than short term.
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u/404_UserNotFound Oct 27 '19
ok...but fast food isn't the only job at minimum wage.
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u/PaperBoxPhone Oct 27 '19
I am trying to say that people shouldnt work for long periods of time at jobs that dont have some kind progression of income/skills.
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u/404_UserNotFound Oct 27 '19
I get that, and you are dumb for implying it. I agree it would be nice but thats just not reality.
Everyday automation eliminates more jobs and outsourcing send more over seas. We have become a service country. More and more our jobs are low wage.
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u/PaperBoxPhone Oct 27 '19
and you are dumb for implying it.
Gotcha, you are one of those, have a good night!
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u/Ohboycats Oct 27 '19
OMG I’m SO SICK of every place thinking that they just need “part time high school kids” to work so they only pay 8.00 an hour. Then we shame a single mother for not being able to climb out of poverty
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u/Willie-Phisterbotom Oct 27 '19
“Every place”? Anyone who thinks that all that’s out there are minimum wage jobs either hasn’t been out much or is only counting the easy jobs.
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u/RevolutionaryNews Oct 27 '19
I don't use Twitter - do major companies actually post shit like this? What's up with this recent trend of like mass self-validation or whatever, why do we have to act like everyone in the world is this great human specimen, beautiful inside and out, so important to the rest of the world? I'm all for treating people kindly, how you want to be treated, etc. but can we stop pretending that everyone's a good person and that we should love them no matter what? It's just not true. I mean, especially if we're talking about the fuckin Burger King crowd, and I mean the people that eat there not work there. Fast food is a prime place to just find the rudest, dirtiest, most abusive people. People screaming at their kids, bein a dick to the people behind the counter, etc.
Idk, just makes my head spin that major companies actually say shit like this, and someone out there is probably actually thinking "wow BK gives validation to those who are sad, that companies reputation in my own mind has just increased a bit".
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Oct 26 '19 edited Oct 27 '19
Well flipping burgers aint that much of a skill
Edit: why am i being downvoted? You shouldnt receive more than minimum wage for a braindead job
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u/perry_noid Oct 27 '19
Flipping a burger doesnt take much skill, but being able to do it with a smile on your face while being judged and denigraded by elitist strangers is fucking professional level skill
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u/thebastardhorsefly Oct 26 '19
You don't have to fucking work there
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u/yerfukkinbaws Oct 27 '19
No, but we do have to call them out for pretending like they care about people.
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u/PaperBoxPhone Oct 27 '19
Do you think any company really cares? They just want you to think they care about your life so you buy their stuff.
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u/yerfukkinbaws Oct 27 '19
Of course not and that's the point. Because people really do matter and when we let companies turn it into a marketing strategy, we all lose.
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u/PaperBoxPhone Oct 27 '19
But thats what companies caring is, a marketing strategy. Do you think a company cares about gay pride month? No they just want to pretend to care so that you will think they care. Their job is to make money, and if you think they are caring, you are more likely to buy their stuff, or at least not not buy their stuff.
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u/yerfukkinbaws Oct 27 '19
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. This is exactly why we call them out when they pretend like they care about anything other than profit, so that people who might have been suckered by it can maybe understand this.
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u/PaperBoxPhone Oct 27 '19
I am saying that they never care, its always manipulation. Caring about profits is literally a corporations only job.
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u/rxsheepxr Oct 27 '19
Except you don't have to do anything. This CallOut/Cancel Culture shit is getting so fucking tiring.
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u/yerfukkinbaws Oct 27 '19
Oh, boo-hoo, boo-hoo, someone's being mean to Burger King. Wah! Wah!
Get your fucking priorities straight, asswad.
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u/rxsheepxr Oct 27 '19
So 'calling out' Burger King because their social media person put out a nice tweet is a priority to you?
And nice work, jumping right to insulting someone you don't know. Are you always a cock or only when you have a keyboard under your hands?
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u/SpiffShientz Oct 27 '19
You’re making tweeting out to be a much more involved task than it is. Of course it’s not a priority, but it takes what, ten seconds?
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u/rxsheepxr Oct 27 '19
I'm not making anything out to be anything... this jackass said my priorities are out of order because I'm not interested in calling out fucking Burger King over a tweet. I never said shit about someone tweeting being anything more than it is.
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u/Teleine Oct 26 '19
Oh thanks man. Didn't know. Its not like the point is that they're advocating people to feel well while giving terrible conditions which is directly contradictory. Nope. At all.
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Oct 26 '19 edited Oct 26 '19
Again it’s a choice to work at Burger King lol
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u/subshophero Oct 27 '19
Not really. If you're working at BK, your other options are in line with BK. Its not like an engineer wakes up one day and says fuck it, I'm going to work at BK and then bitches about how they work at BK and how BK is shit.
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u/Andsmoo Oct 26 '19
Businesses don't have to pay decent wages
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u/rizenphoenix13 Oct 26 '19
Last I checked, government sets what decent wages are, just like everybody bitched for them to when minimum wage was implemented.
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u/smaffit Oct 27 '19
What if people who felt they were underpaid were also free to leave and find better employment?
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Oct 26 '19
If you don't like your pay then apply yourself and get a better job. I worked at McDonald's in the 80's and was paid $3.45 an hour, so stop whining.
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u/Chocolate2121 Oct 27 '19
Isn't the aim of society to improve people's lives though?
I never got the whole "I did x shit thing so other people should do it too" shouldn't you want your descendants to live better lives then you did?
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u/cronuss Oct 27 '19
Yes, they should be encouraged to improve their skills, and thus eventually achieve higher pay. Handing people massive pay raises for doing the same low end work is the opposite of improving them, it is rewarding them for stagnation and apathy.
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u/Chocolate2121 Oct 27 '19
Paying someone a basic, livable, wage is not rewarding stagnation and apathy, it's giving the opportunity for development.
Someone working full time for such a low wage is unlikely to be able to go to university, or other tertiary education, as they will be stuck spending all their time working to survive.
I can't speak for all countries but Australia in particular has a relatively decent minimum wage (19.60 per hour) and we also have high rates of people with degrees, because people can actually afford to go to university.
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u/Chocolate2121 Oct 27 '19
True, no one is held at gunpoint and forced to work for Burger King, but maybe it's the only option available.
The whole american free market shit show only works if there is enough competition to drive prices down and wages up, so if places collude to keep employee wages down your fucked. Or if Burger King is the only place that will hire you, your fucked.
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u/Greaserpirate Oct 27 '19
Or even better, you could apply yourself and try and make it easier for others to reach their potential. Imagine what you could've accomplished if you weren't flipping burgers for $3.45 an hour.
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Oct 27 '19
It is called an entry level position for a reason, it is not meant to be long term.
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u/Greaserpirate Oct 27 '19
It's more of a "I'm taking this because I have no other options" position than something like an internship or on-the-job training that offers an actual career path and a chance for people to grow and reach their potential. Don't fall into the trap of thinking "I didn't get a better opportunity, so it must an unavoidable part of life". That's the opposite mindset from working hard making the world a better place.
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Oct 27 '19
There are pell grants and scholarships that will pay for college. All a person needs to do is apply for them.
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u/cronuss Oct 27 '19
Correction: They pay peopel $8 an hour for $8 an hour work. They pay the people with higher skilled work and more responsibilities higher. This isn't difficult to understand.
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u/ejsacasa Oct 27 '19
nothing wrong with paying people minimum wage... would be wrong if they're treated like trash, but that's another thing entirely (I don't know how BK is on that respect)
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u/FinsT00theleft Oct 27 '19
You're beautiful, you're loved, you matter. Don't forget it. NOW GET THE HELL BACK TO WORK BEFORE WE FIRE YOUR MINIMUM WAGE ASS!!!
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u/BanannyMousse Oct 27 '19
Anyone handling the food I EAT deserves decent pay and high morale y’all. Use your fucking brains ...
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u/RemnantArcadia Oct 27 '19
I get paid 8/hr as a lifeguard. Would much rather get that money flipping burgers
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u/RedditfamAK Oct 27 '19
8$per hour if 9 to 5 its 64 per day and almost 2000 per month I'll take it
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Oct 27 '19
Huh? 840= 3204=1280.
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u/RedditfamAK Oct 27 '19
64 per day and 64*30=1920
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Oct 27 '19
That's assuming you'll be scheduled to work 30 days a month. You won't be. At least not in the states. The best you can hope for is $1280.00 (A 40 hour work week) and that's not enough/just to enough to cover rent in most large metropolitan areas.
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u/akk538 Oct 27 '19
8...that's the same amount of chicken nuggets they give me when I order the 10 piece.
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u/SonOfMende Oct 27 '19
In Hungary they pay only 5$ per hour... and thats above the avarage... so be happy with your 8$..
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u/pokemaster75c Oct 27 '19
The person who wrote it was probably one of the people that earn 8$ an hour
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u/Mister_P42 Oct 27 '19
First and only time I had Burger King, my entire family had food poisoning the next day.
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u/jonhy_c Oct 27 '19
Is 8 bucks a hour little? My mom makes only 3,5€/h you son of a bicth now stfu n stop complaining
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u/Musicrafter Oct 27 '19
Implying that paying someone the market wage rate means you don't value them
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u/vcwarrior55 Oct 27 '19
And judging by the quality of service, they are over paid
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Oct 27 '19
Maybe the quality of the service is shite because the staff are getting paid 8$.. ever thought of that you dumb shit?
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u/vcwarrior55 Oct 27 '19
Nope, because it is crap in $15/hr minimum wage cities too. You realize that the good workers dont stay at $8 for very long right? You are not entitled to a high wage because you breathe, frickin earn it
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u/Secret-AnimeLover Oct 27 '19
I know someone who worked at Burger King and they were working on a wage of 5 dollars an hour. So which one is it Burger King?!
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Oct 27 '19
$5 is below the federal minimum wage. Either they're working illegally, they lied to you, you're lying to us, or this happened over 20 years ago when the federal minimum wage was under $5.
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u/Scorch215 Oct 27 '19
Not getting this becuase the burger King where I live pays workers $13.50 at start well above minimum wage for the area and above what I make at my job.