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Originally Posted by Robbie
$15 to $16 an hour would be a good wage to pay to an employee who has a skilled labor position AND has proved he is a responsible worker (shows up on time, adds an extra value to the company above and beyond what the entry level workers do).
But no way in hell that McDonalds should pay the young person with their first job at the drive in window $15 an hour. That makes zero sense and takes away any need for people working there to even try to do a good job and get a promotion.
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I agree 100%. I was just pointing out that $16 is the average wage in this country. The post I was responding to was saying that $15 was still a very low, unlivable wage.
Some friends and I were talking about this today. One of them has a son who went in the Air Force right out of high school and served for 5 years. He has not been out for about four years. He married this girl and they had a kid and now they live with her parents who are on disability and he works at Walmart making about $9 per hour. Over the last weekend my buddy and his wife were visiting him and his wife and the son was telling how he was happy that he had a job, but he wants to get a job making three times as much as he makes. My buddy was trying to explain to him how to do that (go to school and learn a trade or work your way up the company ladder) and he was just not interested. It was as if he felt since he wanted the job he should get it.
The crazy thing is that for four years in the Air Force he was a fire fighter. He loved it and wanted to go into that field when he got out, but instead when he got out he hung out with friends, played video games, drank beer all day and ended up putting on 100lbs in the first year he was out so there was no way he could ever be a fire fighter.
My buddy tried to tell him he could still do it if he lost the weight and committed him self to it, but he acted like doing that was just too much work. He wants it handed to him.