Originally Posted by Eric

I worked at McDonalds as a kid, the majority of the people I worked with fit into two categories:

A) Kid in high school that needed a job with flexible hours
B) Adult that didn't or barely finished High School and didn't do shit with their lives

In most cases the workers from A were the ones that actually worked the hardest. Now, of course, this was 20+ years ago, and many kids I see these days are lazy fucks too because of Mommy and Daddy putting them on a pedestal and telling them constantly that their shit doesn't stink. So hard work never enters their blood stream.

With all of this said there was an article posted back in march that has resonated with me since I first read it back then.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickunga...t-you-pay-for/

Harold Myerson writes in a terrific piece published in today?s WashPo?

?One lesson that emerges from the experience of low-end retailers is that putting workers in crummy, low-wage jobs tends to yield crummy service as well. McDonald?s earnings have fallen, the Wall Street Journal reports, and a management webcast to franchise owners acknowledged that customer dissatisfaction is rising in part because ?service is broken.? Myerson adds, ?Some of the most successful retailers follow a different path. As MIT management professor Zeynep Ton argued in Harvard Business Review last year, Costco and Trader Joe?s pay their workers far more than many of their competitors, offer their employees opportunities for promotion and enjoy markedly lower worker turnover and far higher sales per employee than their low-road counterparts. Sales per employee at Costco are nearly double that at Sam?s Club.(emphasis added)?

One of those things that makes you go hmmmm...