Is $ 7.25 per hour realistic?
Posted 07-05-2014 at 02:27 PM by Fortoggie
On another site I have been chatting with a young man who does fries at McDonald's. He has been telling others that he doesn't deserve more than $ 7.25 per hour to run the fry cooker and that if they paid him more they would have to raise prices. I challenged him to do some research and improve his math. First he seemed unaware that he was generating up to $ 240.00 per hour at busy times; lets cut that to $ 100.00 per hour on average to be conservative. [ We are talking about just the fry cooker.]
He also didn't seem to be thinking about his own real needs, He needed a car, plus insurance and he needed to buy at least two kinds of personal insurance. He hadn't thought through the cost of food, clothing and housing, cell phone and entertainment nor did he seem to understand that now that he is 18 his parents would like for him to move out. He certainly had not considered a $ 200.00 visit to the dentist nor that he might need a car repair at any time.
It's hard to get him to think in those terms and even harder to get the company to consider his real needs.
He also didn't seem to be thinking about his own real needs, He needed a car, plus insurance and he needed to buy at least two kinds of personal insurance. He hadn't thought through the cost of food, clothing and housing, cell phone and entertainment nor did he seem to understand that now that he is 18 his parents would like for him to move out. He certainly had not considered a $ 200.00 visit to the dentist nor that he might need a car repair at any time.
It's hard to get him to think in those terms and even harder to get the company to consider his real needs.
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Seattle is pushing a $15.00 per hour minimum wage! Move here and he'd double his income. I don't agree with the policy but tell him he is worth more.Posted 07-05-2014 at 06:20 PM by fnaskippy
