Thank you for the reply.

From my experience, the lower the wage offered, the less reliable the applicant is that you attract.

Again, from my experience, minimum wage outfits like Wal-Mart / Sam's club are purposefully staffed at the bare minimum necessary and the employees are left to pick up the slack when others break, lunch or don't show at all. Some are expected to cover multiple departments in normal situations.

Ever try to get new tires at one of these places? Imagine one person in the auto shop changing tires while covering the phone and writing up work orders at the service desk that is located on the other side of the observation window, all the while having no one in the back of the store where the tires are located to field customer sales questions. Now add to that, being told you can't work the overtime necessary to service all the customers waiting in line as the store is 1 hour from closing for the night. The start pay for a tire/battery installer in 1991 was $7 hourly.

Needless to say, it wasn't long before I jumped ship at the opportunity to work my ass off for someone else offering a higher wage for an appropriate amount of work expected of one individual that incidentally was not a skilled labor position.

I'm no genius, barley graduated from high school, but I showed up for work, early. Worked hard, took an interest in doing better, learned the business. Was trustworthy, did my drugs at home, never showed up drunk. Went from grunt to sales, to asst mgr, to mgr of shit locations, to mrg of the biggest and busiest locations, to regional manager, to store owner, to multiple store owner. Was such a good store owner was elected president of franchise steering committee for over 200 locations. Made a shit load when company was sold.

So yea, I know about grunts working for minimum wage. My starting pay was irrelevant because I sure as hell wasn't going to be at that level for long. For those that can't move up for one reason or another that are still excellent employees of course they should make more. Most will. But the ones that don't want to work hard and contribute? Doesn't matter what you pay them they won't be worth it.


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I've always gone from unskilled position to unskillled position, from pumping gas for $3.35 when I was 16 to $20 being a Jack Of All Trades with great benefits, bonuses and retirement accounts. The laziest motherfuckers who worked while they were drunk and were earning more than me were always friends and family of the bosses that never got disciplined.

$8 hourly to flip burgers while some ahole who could have been our president gets paid how much to play video poker? In 2013? LOL Life is too unfair and too short to work for some cheapskate cunts lavishing greedy cunts with millions in bonuses.

Yeah the rich are leaving in droves, thats why home prices are exploding OVER the million dollar mark
http://www.zillow.com/local-info/CA-...-value/r_4281/

http://www.zillow.com/local-info/CA-...value/r_26374/

uh huh http://www.zillow.com/local-info/CA-...value/r_47583/

Uh, I know from LIVING here, with the jammed pack traffic for hours and hours a day, rents and home prices are through the roof, restaurants are a 90 minute wait, you can't get a studio in my area for $1,300/month or a home under $700k, and that's a shit hole home, Gas and food prices are very high, and people pay it to live here.

I dont know what survey you're looking at, but where I live its jammed-fucking-packed, and expensive as hell because there's lots of people and money here to support it.

* Even McDonald's means opportunity if you work hard.

"Many hourly employees have advanced to become restaurant managers, Owner/Operators, regional or division staff members and corporate employees. In fact, 70 percent of restaurant managers, 33 percent of Owner/Operators and 50 percent of McDonald's corporate employees started as crew."

* A job is what you make it and advancement is up to the individual who doesn't feel the world owes him a living.

"McDonalds trained one out of every 12 working Americans. McDonald's work experience teaches skills and values that last a lifetime. Employees gain skills that are required in many professional positions, including teamwork, customer service and leadership. As employees excel at McDonald's restaurants, they learn how to supervise others, communicate effectively and manage finances."

* Sure you start at a minimum wage but you are also PAID to have a chance to learn and advance. College students pay to learn job skills and then start looking for a job saddled in debt for a decade or longer.

* Flipping burgers is an ENTRY LEVEL JOB that gives a hard worker a chance. It's NOT a career.


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A friend of mine is getting his degree. He finds the grocery business interesting and he is a bold type of guy. He goes and speaks to his local kroger GM. The GM gives him the name and number of the guy who recruits potential managers. He tells him now since you dont have experience, he may try to get you be a cashier. He said dont do that because you will be forgotten. No start there and you can work your way up. lol
This country thrived with a strong hard working middle. They dont want to be super stars or kings of the world. They want to do an honest days work for a honest days pay and go home to their family. Everyone cant be a star somebody has to be in the chorus.
and this is not an entitlement culture. You actually had more entitlements back in the day ,much cheaper college and if you got a degree pretty much the guarantee of a career. If you didnt have a degree, you could get a job that made you a living that you could take care of your family,you got a pension when you retired and if you didnt steal you had a job for life. Now they feed you the bullshit because someone has a iphone and wants a living wage(if you know your history min wage was once a living wage) The entitlement word is thrown around which is such bullshit, we actually live in a time with the least entitlement. lol

Average mcdonalds manager makes just over $40k. Work your way up to barely anything

Incorrect.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4126233n

Ask anyone who is a business owner or who has to hire people this day and age about the quality of labor and their work ethic of the candidates available on the market. You will find that the article above more a less sums up the general experience of what's going on today.

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Here in the Midwest in the New Millenium, where the cost of living is more down to earth and the locals have at least one foot grounded in reality .......

We have these new fangled things called Employee Owned Businesses, where even cashiers start at $12 hourly in chain grocery stores that have lower prices for higher quality foods and 50X the selection of both the Super Wal-Mart and your local Mom & Pop market combined. If you wanted to make this a career, you get stock in the company after 3 years.

What's the deal here, you may ask? How is that even possible, you incoherently mumble?

Well, you remove from the equation the hack who wants to slash labor and benefits so he can impress the shareholders and net himself a 4th property with an inground pool, hot tub, top shelf liquor and hookers.

A $8 minimum wage will get you about 2.25 gals of gasoline for an honest hour's labor. The federal minimum wage of $3.35 would get you 3.75 gals 25 years ago, when you could actually find used cars for a few hundred dollars that got better gas mileage than most new models produced since.

Now that job seekers can go onto the Internets to research nationwide past and present realities, any employer who FAILS to make adjustments for the rising costs of living is less likely to attract any dedicated workers willing to better themselves. You are more likely to attract disabled veterans, potheads, children and senior citizens wishing to complement their social security.

If it bothers you that people want to be paid an appropriate wage for an appropriate amount of labor in order to afford an appropriate amount of necessities in the appropriate location, I suggest you go back to Gilligan's Island for another 25 years and have a fourway with Mary Ann, Ginger and a coconut.

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Wow.

You are really out of touch with reality and this topic if you think I give a shit about some failed protest movement.

Feel free to keep on chumming the waters, Mate!

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Now here is some interesting reading material for you.

Nuff said. :winkwink:

but on the upside cally does run money making industries out of the state :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh