Yeah that is too much I agree with that, 15 dollars an hour to flip burgers? To me that's insane. But apparently the theory on this is that anyone who works in this country deserves to make enough money to make a living, no matter what job it is. Now I do see the idea in this, because anyone who tries to make a living on the current minimum wage knows that it is impossible, hence the walmart workers who where told to go on food stamps. Now this idea is all fun and all, but we all know that these companies would just raise the prices for everything they sell. So it's like what's the point? Raise the wages then just raise the prices, everything would just stay the same.
To me, jobs like this were not meant for you to live off of. This is date money and shit while you are living at home and getting an education. Then the real money comes when you get off your ass and get a real job. That's the money you will live off of.
The problem isn't minimum wage, it is inflation and the rise of cost of living. Raising the minimum wage to $15 dollars only really impacts for as long as the rest of the market hasn't caught up.
This exactly.
I don't care what anyone says, restaurant work is not easy. It's not particularly difficult. But it's not the easiest work. People in America, and I'm sure other places too, get really pissed off if you forget to put mustard or something on their sandwich. Then the customer yells, management yells, everyone is having a bad night. In the pizza business, it's even worse cause it takes time to remake a pizza. sometimes more time the customer is willing to wait. But all in all, they get mad.
Does this mean restaurant workers deserve more money? Hell no. If they want more money, they need to get a better job. And I'm one of them. This is coming from a minimum wage worker... (ok, I'm a shift manager, I get $9 an hour, but close efuckingnough, right?) My point is exactly what I said above. I think jobs like this are meant to pay your way through school, give you some weekend money and have some fun. You will never have a house and take care of a family off this money. And in my eyes, it's not meant for you to be able to do that.
Coming from a management point of view, I personally think it will hurt us more than it will help us. We already have problems with labor all the time and if the cost of labor goes up, we can't afford to keep as many people. Then we will have less people to do the work and our quality will go down cause we don't have the people we need.
Coming from a consumer point of view, the cost is going up. I've already seen it where I work. Hell, we have ALREADY raised our priced in anticipation for the increase in labor costs. It's already happened!! A month or so ago we had a thread about the price of a pizza, I said our prices started at $10 for a cheese and went up $1 per topping or $4 for specialty. Well now it's $10.49 for cheese, $1.35 per topping and $5 for specialty. It's already happening.
Coming from a worker's standpoint, yea I'll get more money per hour, but I'm gonna get less hours cause they can't afford to pay me that much. So it's gonna be the same money. And as I said above, we will have less people so I have to work that much harder to make up for those we don't have anymore.
All around I think it's a bad idea. If anything, we should be lowering minimum wage and working to drive prices down!