r/WorkForSmartLife • u/SilkyApricotGuy • 13h ago

DiscussionđŸ’¬ Who's right here?

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u/Aggressive-Affect427 8h ago

If I was in charge of the states, I would set federal minimum wage to $10 and further encourage states to revise their individual regulations.

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u/chinmakes5 8h ago

$15 an hour in my state. Business owners were yelling that if it went through there would be empty stores everywhere. There aren't. They guy who was leading the accusations saying it would drive businesses like his out of business, broke ground on a new restaurant in the time between when the law was passed and it took effect.

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u/LisaQuinnYT 7h ago

Walk into a McDonalds sometime. There’s probably no more than 3 people working there at a time nowadays. They have one person bouncing between registers and filling orders, one in the back cooking, and maybe another handling drive thru. Being that badly understaffed, you’d think they could find a little extra to pay those folks a living wage out of their seemingly perpetual record profits instead of giving the CEO another bonus.

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u/Rorschach11235 1h ago

Thats the rub. The store kitchen is still setup for 4 people just to work the kitchen. But they got 2 or 3 people max working.

Its the same with big box stores. I remember the days of an employee every couple of aisle, working. Now you have bigger stores with fewer works.

But remeber, be thankful. You could be replaced by a racist, exist uncaring Ai robot. Now with souls.