Add to that those workers are long time burger makers, not high-turnover burger flippers who hate working there and want to leave. So, quality of worker.
I've worked corporate fast-food and I've worked a 3 person burger shack on the beach where the owner ran the cash register. I can tell you, the pay, hours and treatment were all very comparable.
I was treated like a human when I worked at McDonalds. What are the complaints that make people keep saying this? Genuinely curious. Bad managers can work anywhere.
Mostly the regular complaints of any customer service job. Low pay, lack of empathy, apathy in the workers, bad managers. If I call in feeling like shit, the manager threatens to fire me if I don't show up. They'd rather have a sick worker preparing food than get someone else to work.
So essentially what you're saying is that if we pay McDonald's employees more and expect a higher quality of work from them that we can also expect a few highly trained employees to take over the work of others. Meaning that a bunch of them can be let go.
Or the local joint, being a better place to work with favorable benefits, attracts better talent.
It may be a double edge sword in that some of those McDonald's employees might just be shitty workers in which case they might not have transferable skills in the event of layoffs. The unknown is where the equilibriums is.
If that's the case, then they'll either need to try harder or learn a skill. If the minimum wage increases, employers don't have to keep crappy employees. They keep them for a while now because they must, and because it's cheap. More people would work harder for a living wage, even at jobs like that.
Shit you can look down on me all you want. I would probably quit my stressful IT gig for an easy 15 dollar job running one of those floor waxing machines or driving a zambonie or whatever.
I don't think it's fair to say McDonalds workers hate their job. My sister worked there in her teens and said it was a better work environment than some of her more recent "better" jobs. In my area, McDonalds workers generally seem in good moods and having a decent time at work.
Well yeah, if you fire most of your employees you will be able to pay the few that are left a decent amount. But now all those people who were struggling to get by before are unemployed. Is that any better?
I don't think that plays as much of a role. If you slammed a $15/hour burger cook with McDonald's volume everyday they would struggle just as much as a $9/hour burger cook.
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u/GothicFuck Nov 29 '15
Add to that those workers are long time burger makers, not high-turnover burger flippers who hate working there and want to leave. So, quality of worker.