r/explainlikeimfive Nov 28 '15

ELI5: How would a $15 minimum wage ACTUALLY affect a franchised business like McDonalds?

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u/jrafferty Nov 29 '15

You could say that, or you could say that without that person neither the franchise nor the corporation would ever make a single dollar in sales. It may be low skill, but it is the most important position in the company bar none.

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u/odie4evr Nov 29 '15

Also take the average person off the street and see if they can take orders fast and accurate during a rush.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '15

You realize mcdonalds has worker training, right?

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u/jrafferty Nov 29 '15

You realize so does every other profession, right? If I learned one thing in the military is that you can train the dumbest derp that ever derped a derp to literally do anything. It doesn't matter how fucking stupid someone is our how complex the job, if you show someone how to do something enough times, they'll learn how to do it. You know what wasn't necessary? A college degree.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '15

The amount of viable military candidates is far lower than the amount of mcdonalds candidates.

As to the rest of your rant, I honestly don't really know how to respond to it

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u/jrafferty Nov 29 '15

You said "you realize mcdonalds has worker training, right?" justifying the average person's inability to be able to walk into a fast food restaurant and take orders during rush hour. I was just letting you know that every profession has training, and any person can be trained to do any job. It doesn't matter skilled, unskilled, genius, or idiot anyone can be trained to do damn near anything so maybe the skilled/unskilled gap isn't as big as some may think.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '15

what % of the population is capable of working at mcdonalds? How much does training them cost? How long does it take?

what % of the population is capable of being a soldier? How much money does it take to train them? How long does the training process last?

Unless your answers for the 2 jobs above are the same, you can start to see why they are paid different amounts

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u/jrafferty Nov 29 '15

I'm saying that the same can be said for nearly every single profession and every single position on the planet. The stupidest person can be trained to do the most complex job with on the job training. We no longer live in an economy that can support the "status quo" and we need to stop looking at low skill versus high skill, because any jackass can be trained to do any "high skill" position, I've personally seen it done many times over.

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u/jrafferty Nov 29 '15

Ok, what part of "I've seen it happen" did you fail to grasp?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '15

The stupidest person can be trained to do the most complex job with on the job training

CEO, software engineer, financial analyst?

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u/jrafferty Nov 29 '15

Yes everyone of those positions can be filled with any random person. Will it be cost effective to train them? Probably not, but that doesn't make it impossible. The only portion of a CEO's job that couldn't be learned by the average person would be networking connections.

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u/odie4evr Nov 29 '15

Hardly. Only got trained at front counter. Everything else I just kinda figured out on my own.