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As long as no low wage worker tells me what i should earn, i have no business telling them what they should earn. They've got every right to ask for whatever wage they want. It's none of my business.
Im sick and tired of hearing low wage workers complaining and asking for a higher minimum wage. Customer service is a joke. Whenever I have to interact with low wage workers, it just reminds me how lazy our low wage workers have gotten. What ever happened to working hard and moving up? We should LOWER the minimum wage to remind these people they need to work harder, NOT whine for government handouts.
I don't know if I can go quite as far as you, but I know what you are saying. All I have to do is go to our nearest WalMart. They have raised their min salaries but not to $15 an hour like some think it should be. They also hire people that would have problems finding a job anywhere else.
You want more money, like you say, work harder, get some training and learn how to get and hold a job. uwuo
And we can scale back all of the worker protections to the point where we go right back go the days when companies forced minors to work under dangerous circumstances for long hours with peanuts comp! Sounds like a true conservative wet dream.
No one is suggesting that and you know it. Of course I guess to live in Ca people do need to earn twice as much or get the heck out of the state. Then we can look at all the homeless people in CA. especially San Francisco, guess raising the min wage didn't help them did it?
As long as no low wage worker tells me what i should earn, i have no business telling them what they should earn. They've got every right to ask for whatever wage they want. It's none of my business.
If I'm a government janitor working alongside another government janitor paid 5x my wage for similar work, I have a right to at least demand a lower tax rate. I already gave at the workplace.
Doesn't really work that way anymore. Can work like dog// no longer work up the ladder. Now they grab some college kid to be your boss knows shyte about the business you worked at 10 yrs. get out more into 2016 in the real world.
so why aren't more that college kid? You choose to not get an education you have to live with this
BTW, I do agree somewhat with what you are saying. But that same young kid might have people under him or her with an education as well. It has been this way for a couple of decades.
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Im sick and tired of hearing low wage workers complaining and asking for a higher minimum wage. Customer service is a joke. Whenever I have to interact with low wage workers, it just reminds me how lazy our low wage workers have gotten. What ever happened to working hard and moving up? We should LOWER the minimum wage to remind these people they need to work harder, NOT whine for government handouts.
I implore you to work toward this goal.
It almost certainly guarantees a Burnie Sanders type politician will be elected in the near future. You'd be helping this "socialist" out a lot. Thanks!
This is more of the mentality that the world "owes you a living" that is so prevalent in the millenials generation.
What proponents of this fail to realize is that this will just have the affect of raising prices to absorb the impact. Many places who pay out minimum wage have low profit margins to begin with. Even if they could absorb the extra cost of paying people more by cutting into profits (they won't) They will just raise the prices to make up for it.
Many people who make minimum wage also patronize establishments who pay minimum wage. So while you may make more money an hour, you are now also paying more for your groceries, gas, fast food, etc.
Like most liberal minded polices it sounds good and it makes people feel good but it doesn't make a lot of sense.
Im sick and tired of hearing low wage workers complaining and asking for a higher minimum wage. Customer service is a joke. Whenever I have to interact with low wage workers, it just reminds me how lazy our low wage workers have gotten. What ever happened to working hard and moving up? We should LOWER the minimum wage to remind these people they need to work harder, NOT whine for government handouts.
You and I have crossed swords before. You sound like you own a retail business. You probably call your employees zeroes or losers. Working hard has its merits as long as you are doing that for yourself. Otherwise the employer takes advantage of the employee and you don't like to pay overtime either.
Try living in Manhattan on the current minimum wage.
No. There's plenty of customer service workers who do the absolute bare minimum, and are not good at their jobs. It's rare to get one that is good, and I go in to that with the understanding of what they go through every day, because I've done that job in the past. Fact is, if you don't work hard, then don't ask for more.
If an employer chooses to pay the minimum, then they should expect the minimum. Why should someone working minimum work harder for the one who pays them the least? It would make more sense for them to work harder to learn things outside of their minimum wage job to help them move on from a low wage employer.
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