Some fast food franchises start cutting jobs as California minimum wage increases

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  • Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
  • Fast food workers here in the Golden State are set to receive a major pay raise this year, increasing to a minimum of $20 an hour in California.
    While supporters say this move is a long time in coming, others say this new law could end up hurting many of the workers it's intended to help. This major boost to fast food workers' minimum wage here in California is set to take effect in April. Already, though, some fast food chains like Pizza Hut are responding by cutting jobs.
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  • @kirstenperez4265
    @kirstenperez4265 9 місяців тому +485

    Imagine thinking your getting a big pay raise but instead you lose your job. Go California.... I bet all those pizza hut workers are real happy right now.

    • @alexmendez3681
      @alexmendez3681 9 місяців тому

      Yes I agree with you. California Voters am really are idiots aren’t they.

    • @lilblkrose
      @lilblkrose 9 місяців тому

      All to protect the higher-ups insane payroll 🙃 Watch as they increase the price of their food to "accommodate" the increase pay

    • @Toastybees
      @Toastybees 9 місяців тому +56

      Stop blaming the working man asking for decent pay and start blaming executives who refuse to take a pay cut.

    • @Dontatmebr0
      @Dontatmebr0 9 місяців тому +65

      @@Toastybees all that whining and now you don’t have a job hilarious

    • @bigtobacco1098
      @bigtobacco1098 9 місяців тому +31

      ​@@Toastybeesoffer a skill set

  • @sandman9924
    @sandman9924 8 місяців тому +60

    California can choose to ignore federal immigration and drug enforcement laws, but it cannot ignore the laws of economics.

    • @malin7919
      @malin7919 8 місяців тому +3

      Food inflation is unreal and it will get a lot worse from crazy wages. The good news is that J B will be ousted in Nov.

    • @malin7919
      @malin7919 8 місяців тому +2

      Food inflation is unreal and it will get a lot worse from crazy wages. The good news is that J B will be ousted in Nov.

    • @malin7919
      @malin7919 8 місяців тому +1

      Food inflation is unreal and it will get a lot worse from crazy wages. The good news is that J B will be ousted in Nov.

    • @JAMESYBOY.
      @JAMESYBOY. 5 місяців тому

      If gavin Newsom wants to help he should of passed rent control years ago. Instead today over 9,500 jobs have already been wiped out in socal.

    • @Vicariously_gifted
      @Vicariously_gifted Місяць тому

      Cali is the 5th largest economy on its own. I thi k they will be ok

  • @bigfatdavebigfatdave7395
    @bigfatdavebigfatdave7395 9 місяців тому +1178

    Remember about 5-7 years ago when there was the big push for $15/hr for fast food workers? The first thing McDonalds did was install the kiosks to reduce the number of people needed to take orders. It’ll go something like this- congratulations, you’re all getting a raise to $20/hr. Also we’re reducing staff levels from 25 employees to 6. Have a nice day!

    • @jr1252
      @jr1252 9 місяців тому +76

      in sacramento it’s only order by kiosk now or drive through.

    • @HeadStronger-HS
      @HeadStronger-HS 9 місяців тому +92

      It’s either that or 30 dollar combo meals.

    • @zuramax2049
      @zuramax2049 9 місяців тому +46

      Shouldnt the price of food go lower then? low staff and dont need to pay kiosk a wage .The food price will remain the same even after this

    • @kainschild
      @kainschild 9 місяців тому +54

      Not only will they lay off workers but they will also reduce hours too. Plus costs will be moved down so customers will start paying more and the site will get less money.

    • @morebrainmoregains3234
      @morebrainmoregains3234 9 місяців тому

      Entire point of a business is to maximize profits.
      Only time they're gonna lower the cost is if competitors lower theirs or the business is dying. ​@@zuramax2049

  • @MartyInLa
    @MartyInLa 9 місяців тому +442

    You know, I just experienced this literally yesterday. I went to a Mc Donald's and the place closed crazy early. The workers told me it was because the owners cut the hours of the place to save money.

    • @garyK.45ACP
      @garyK.45ACP 9 місяців тому +42

      That's right. It changes the math for low volume times of day. Increasing the cost of "keeping the doors open" makes it unfeasible to stay open longer.
      Every business owner knows what his minimum income is required to stay open. They aren't in business to LOSE money.

    • @Mike__B
      @Mike__B 8 місяців тому +8

      I'm sure other stores in the history of stores have closed early/opened later to save costs. If the McDonalds you went to gets very little business in that hour(s) before they close to the point where they may lose money by staying open then it makes very little financial sense to stay open, now if they do have a ton of business in the hour(s) they're getting rid of then that's them being stupid and using a increase in the minimum wage as a bullshit argument.

    • @garyK.45ACP
      @garyK.45ACP 8 місяців тому +14

      @@Mike__B It's still reducing paid hours for someone. And it requires MORE business to make it profitable to stay open.
      And THAT is the problem with "minimum wage". Raising wages without an increase in productivity or revenue causes business to raise prices and/or cut expenses.

    • @Ron-fq2sn
      @Ron-fq2sn 8 місяців тому +11

      Guess what everything is going up 💰Happy meal will be double the price 😬

    • @roygbiv5164
      @roygbiv5164 8 місяців тому +2

      I would say that if that is the case, people in that neighborhood should boycott that store.

  • @chibba
    @chibba 9 місяців тому +259

    minimum wage in 2015 was $9 in California. Now $20... That's fucking insane.

    • @chickens-yt
      @chickens-yt 9 місяців тому +57

      That $20 today is about the same as $9 back in 2015...

    • @Tgrey808
      @Tgrey808 9 місяців тому +14

      thank inflation

    • @prodigalpriest
      @prodigalpriest 9 місяців тому +19

      I'm not thanking inflation.
      Though I do have two words for our Representatives. And it rhymes with pluck yew.

    • @Hproawesome
      @Hproawesome 9 місяців тому +3

      I got paid $13.25 for my 2016 high school internship.😂

    • @fredly3303
      @fredly3303 9 місяців тому

      @@prodigalpriest exactly. The democrats are horible.

  • @JL-lg8tk
    @JL-lg8tk 8 місяців тому +254

    When I was in high school many of the the people behind the counter at fast food restaurants were my classmates. It was how they made their spending money. A lot of them went on to become business owners and professionals in various fields; medical, attorneys, broadcasting, etc. Flipping burgers was never intended to be a career move.

    • @hmc2s
      @hmc2s 8 місяців тому +40

      We said, fast food was always a side job for students in school. It was never intended ro support a family.

    • @rkgaustin9043
      @rkgaustin9043 8 місяців тому +21

      I just watched 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' again recently. It really struck me how fast food workers used to all be middle class white high school kids.

    • @velani98
      @velani98 8 місяців тому +17

      I went from working at a supermarket chain to working in IT. I don’t have a degree, just certifications that I studied for online using free resources. I wasn’t waiting for a wage increase, I was educating myself in a field that has a higher earning potential.
      Increasing minimum wage like this has its consequences, and will not really benefit you much. Poor guy lost his delivery job because of this increase. It’s a double edged sword.
      You don’t have to spend thousands to educate yourself. So much free knowledge is available online. A couple hundred dollars worth of certifications can go a long way.

    • @dblrim
      @dblrim 8 місяців тому +10

      Issue is, with so much competition across all industries, fast food chains aren’t a side job for many anymore. I look at employees of these side jobs and they’re all older. My whole Wal-Mart is made up of employees who are 40+

    • @Duran762
      @Duran762 8 місяців тому +9

      I think the problem you are missing is that many jobs don’t pay enough for bills so people are stuck with fast food jobs that don’t pay enough. Not everyone has parents to pay for their college education, transportation, food, electric, and housing. The jobs that do pay well require education or lots of experience or combined with connections.

  • @LongShot1225
    @LongShot1225 9 місяців тому +382

    My elementary school teacher once told me raising the minimum wages won't solve any problems because to that means everything else will raises to. She also said that jobs like fast food workers aren't supposed to be jobs that a person can live off. That they supposed to be "starter job". That was nearly 20 years ago. Man, was she on point.

    • @bloomerdavid
      @bloomerdavid 9 місяців тому +38

      She also didn’t teach you the proper use of “too.”

    • @Thebobbyman
      @Thebobbyman 9 місяців тому +20

      It should pay enough that you can afford to live

    • @erich6860
      @erich6860 9 місяців тому +25

      Perhaps your elementary school teacher, and your elementary mind should of thought a little harder than 2 + 2.
      Minimum wage goes up after,,, I repeat after years of loss of buying power. Case in point, federal minimum wage is still $7.25 after nearly 2 decades. Prices in those 19 states, where $7.25 is still the min wage since 2009, prices went up anyway!!!
      No, they are not "starter jobs" Just because they offer part time jobs, they are not "starter" anything. They pay wages, the workers pay taxes, the company makes profits. = Real job.
      I invite you and your elementary teacher to look up what the founder of minimum wage said it was for. Since you are not likely to do so, I shall place it below.
      "It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living."

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 9 місяців тому +2

      Inflation is an acceptable risk.

    • @desify6393
      @desify6393 9 місяців тому +10

      It should pay enough, and be enough job security for someone who wants to escape a situation, but in today's day and age it isn't. $6.25 adjusted with inflation in 1992, you still had more buying power per dollar, than even now with most states offering $15.

  • @sungyang2280
    @sungyang2280 9 місяців тому +328

    This will hurt the very people that it was intended to help. Politicians don’t face repercussions of their own policies, so they only push what sounds good to get votes.

    • @douglasskaalrud6865
      @douglasskaalrud6865 9 місяців тому

      You want these people to fall back on welfare? Because that’s where they’re going to be if we don’t pay them enough tp live on. Tell you what; why don’t you go without a raise for five or six years and then when inflation has eaten up whatever tidbit you managed to make then listen to people beat you down because they think they’re paying you too much.

    • @jaad9848
      @jaad9848 9 місяців тому

      Its not a coincidence that the fast food restaurants cutting job are the ones that make the worst product. Pizza Hut/ Carls Jr / La Pizza Loca and Arbys are going to cut jobs.

    • @TwistyMcFisty
      @TwistyMcFisty 8 місяців тому +14

      @@jaad9848 Because nobody wants to pay a premium price for a lower quality product. So if you can't increase the price, you need to cut your costs.

    • @jaad9848
      @jaad9848 8 місяців тому +3

      @@TwistyMcFisty Look at In-N-Out they are having no issue offering a higher quality product, at a lower costs, all while paying their workers more than minimum wage. The issue is their business sucks and places like In-N-Out will continue to eat them up.

    • @TwistyMcFisty
      @TwistyMcFisty 8 місяців тому +8

      @jaad9848 With a better product you get many more customers. I remember when Pizza Hut was good too. They fell hard.
      Edit: Worth noting that In-N-Out are all corporate stores. Whereas Pizza Hut works on a franchise model.

  • @matthewronson5218
    @matthewronson5218 8 місяців тому +10

    What a shock. Who is the gov't to dictate policies of private businesses hiring and pay? I'll share what the result was for my wife, who worked at a major retailer that loved to brag about their paying $15.00.
    Once that pay increase kicked in, she (and others) were now expected to cover the work previously done by 2-3 other associates, including all of the customers that they used to assist and all of their peripheral duties too.
    THEN the management would ask her why she didn't get everything done, when they knew exactly why and 'wanted to know' why she didn't meet expectations. She quit not long after that.

  • @Catherine-gh8kl
    @Catherine-gh8kl 9 місяців тому +400

    I'm a Californian and I have been telling people for years that raising the minimum wage will make it worse and end in job loss. Nobody listens 😔.

    • @shake_n_bake6192
      @shake_n_bake6192 9 місяців тому +14

      Am been saying the same thing but nobody listens. Now we are here and poeple now relize that its not good as they thought.

    • @PANIC_aka_PinD
      @PANIC_aka_PinD 9 місяців тому +17

      I am afraid you were wrong all along. The solution was to move to a different state ;) .

    • @minniemouse4515
      @minniemouse4515 9 місяців тому +20

      @user-ng3lk1uz6d all the democrat states are lol

    • @harveylin3548
      @harveylin3548 9 місяців тому

      I did, couldn't be happier. @@PANIC_aka_PinD

    • @jofujino
      @jofujino 9 місяців тому +4

      You make it sound like people didn't take into account and accept that job loss would happen. The minimum wage increase was supported in spite of it leading to job loss because it will still do net good. If you have to work 2 or 3 jobs 60+ hours a week to breakeven then losing your 3rd job to get higher pay in your other work is worth it. Also, the economy is still in a good position in terms of unemployment rate (in Caa 4.9%). If this minimum wage increase doesn't happen what you'd see given the increase in the cost of living is probably a mix of more homeless and more leaving the state neither of which would be good for the economy or small businesses.

  • @jonathantrujillo3044
    @jonathantrujillo3044 9 місяців тому +217

    As a scheduleling manager For Panera Bread I'm leaving the food industry. I feel so bad cutting hours to my regular good hardworking staff we can't even give them a full shifts anymore no more 40 hours no more 8 hours a day and I honestly I can't take it everyone is complaining about there hours coming to me but hey what can I do I'm just doing my job from the big bosses. Also I'm stopping going out to fast food joints, coffee shops and all that junk is just bad for the body. Time to step it and save me my money.

    • @michaeltabanao8092
      @michaeltabanao8092 9 місяців тому +18

      1950 to about early 2000 it was social understood that all fast food work was for teens and college , part time ⏲️......Federal Firefighters (wildland) make less than 20 an hour to put it in perspective 😮‍💨

    • @prodigalpriest
      @prodigalpriest 9 місяців тому +10

      It's cheaper to make your own fast food favorites and coffee at home.

    • @lukecwolf
      @lukecwolf 9 місяців тому +4

      Good for you for sticking up to the industry and taking care of your health!

    • @NAT-turners-Revenge
      @NAT-turners-Revenge 9 місяців тому +3

      ​@@prodigalpriest not by much lol

    • @boycott2720
      @boycott2720 9 місяців тому +5

      Never have gone and now never will go to Panera Bread

  • @cjhoward409
    @cjhoward409 8 місяців тому +39

    When I was a store manager of a bookstore in Chicago and our min wage in Cook Co went up .50 cents an hour, I had to cut 30% of my payroll. So my employees working 30 hours a week were now getting 20-25 hours a week and actually making less money. Raising the min wage to $20 like that is disastrous !!! Stores and fast food places will shut down. Those jobs are entry level jobs. People shouldn’t be having kids and trying to support them on entry level jobs. I worked a McDonald’s when I was in high school. Then went on to community college, then a state college TEHN got married and had children. People are so backwards now and wanting college degree marketable job pay , to flip burgers. No

    • @Beanskiiii
      @Beanskiiii 6 місяців тому

      @donk8105Donkey response. I guess all of these Pizza Hut owners and other California businesses that are going to start cutting workers don’t know how to run a business. Good job missing the point

  • @triggersafe1
    @triggersafe1 8 місяців тому +42

    Well that is why bleeding heart policies rarely help ppl.

  • @kellylorang6845
    @kellylorang6845 8 місяців тому +324

    In the 1970's I worked at McDonalds as a teenager. At that time, very few people were working in fast food as a 'career'. Most were in high school or college. It was a great part-time job to work around the school schedule. The job wasn't meant to support a family on or to be a long term career (unless someone worked their way up to management). I see way less teenagers working at fast food restaurants now & alot more 20 or 30 somethings.🤷

    • @Golfnut_2099
      @Golfnut_2099 8 місяців тому +44

      Me too. I worked from McD's during high school and college. It is NOT a career. It is a starting role to learn about having a job. You do not deserve $20 per hour for asking "You want fries with that?"
      This will make workers learn the true minimum wage... ZERO.

    • @jamesjoslin7586
      @jamesjoslin7586 8 місяців тому +26

      Ah cant believe ah cant support a family on mah job flippin burgers.

    • @lenblack1462
      @lenblack1462 8 місяців тому +42

      When manufacturing jobs get sent overseas that's what happens.

    • @Golfnut_2099
      @Golfnut_2099 8 місяців тому +27

      @@lenblack1462 We need to get back to AMERICA FIRST. Quit sending our tax dollars overseas. LOWER OUR TAXES. Punish businesses who outsource jobs. Make them pay higher taxes.

    • @jamesjoslin7586
      @jamesjoslin7586 8 місяців тому +25

      @@lenblack1462 Thats part of it. Another reason is so many kids dont want to go into the trades. The trades are screaming for new people. The kids that do go tho college are going into debt getting USELESS degrees that wont get them a decent job. A few young people I know who were smart enough to enter a trade are making big bucks.

  • @movingforwardman3186
    @movingforwardman3186 7 місяців тому +3

    Minimum wage is for entry level jobs to help young people to learn how to work and how to develop skills in order to move on to bigger and better things. Raising it quite a bit more puts a burden on the companies and helps to promote inflation. After all of this the minimum wage earner makes more but it is offset by inflation. People making just above minimum wage get hit the worst because they lose buying power. It is simple economics that a lot of people do not understand.

  • @tibedog5629
    @tibedog5629 9 місяців тому +157

    Years and years ago my state upped their minimum wage by less than .25 an hour, I was working as a Wendy's assistant manager then. The night before it went into affect the franchise owner called the store I was at and told me to let go 4 people. Day shift would let go 4 people as well. He had 20 stores under his franchise and he let go 8 people per store for less than .25 an hour. I can only imagine how many people will be let go over this drastic of a jump. This is only the start of what you will hear throughout this year of 2024.

    • @larryjohnson9914
      @larryjohnson9914 9 місяців тому

      U

    • @solandri69
      @solandri69 9 місяців тому +10

      It's not the amount of the increase which matters. It's the percentage. California's increase is 25% (from $16 to $20). A 25 cent increase if the minimum wage is $1/hr is 25% and will likely result in huge layoffs. A 25 cent increase if it's $8/hr is 3% and probably won't result in any layoffs (it's basically an inflation increase).

    • @charleslavoie5402
      @charleslavoie5402 8 місяців тому +8

      Your old boss was definitely greedy. 20 stores?

    • @Tangent360
      @Tangent360 8 місяців тому +11

      @@charleslavoie5402 You must have some insight into the financials of that bosses operation that the rest of us missed. About 60% of restaurants fail within the first year of operation and 80% fail within the first 5 years because they just never become profitable. But sure, go ahead and assume that the owner is cutting service levels purely out of greed and not because he's trying to not have to close many/most of them down altogether.

    • @annoyedok321
      @annoyedok321 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@charleslavoie5402Old boss was sending a message to workers so they didn't complain they deserved a raise. Wasn't about the 25 cents so much as the protests and slow work that would come about

  • @biancagerade4229
    @biancagerade4229 9 місяців тому +273

    I had a neighbor whose daughter got a job at Target about 3 years ago was real happy about it they were going to pay her $20 an hour she got no more than 12 hours a week, that's how they do things at Target everybody's part-time some girls get as low as 8 hours week, right now everybody's working one or two days a week after the Holidays but they're making $20 an hour 🤣

    • @NatsumeKonno
      @NatsumeKonno 9 місяців тому +40

      Target calls them "part time heroes"

    • @kistelkistel
      @kistelkistel 9 місяців тому +17

      I'd be working at 3 different stores then

    • @justintime4408
      @justintime4408 9 місяців тому +43

      That's how they did it EVEN before the wage was $20. You sound like you don't have experience working these shitty jobs. This is the playbook for these workplaces. Keep you part time. Keep giving low hours. No need for firing since they get no unemployment and this a way to get workers to quit on their own. You all wonder why support for unions and labor are at all time high. No one can live like this. Working 3-4 part time jobs. Having to fix your schedule to work with other workplaces. I would rather get paid $20 an hour and work multiple places part time than to get paid what were before.

    • @mitchd949
      @mitchd949 9 місяців тому +42

      @@justintime4408 working minimum wage jobs means you are still at the bottom - you will not be able to afford a "nice" living situation. You need to IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS if you want to climb the ladder. Learn a trade, get a useful degree, or otherwise do something for which other people will pay you.

    • @justintime4408
      @justintime4408 9 місяців тому +41

      @@mitchd949 Hot take: people who believe in labor know this. I still think people working these low wage jobs should be able to afford the basics of life. We aren't advocating for these people to live in mansions and take vacations to 5 star hotels. Pro labor advocates believe in a fair wage for hard days work. If you work 40 hours a week, you shouldn't be bordering homelessness. Like the guy said in the story, housing is out of control and that's another issue, but ideally, someone should be able to afford living in an apartment.

  • @lending99
    @lending99 8 місяців тому +17

    Bottom line...higher wage equals: raised prices and then cut jobs.

  • @ceuser3555
    @ceuser3555 9 місяців тому +276

    The answer is not to raise wages but to lower prices across the board, rent, cost of commodities, etc.

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 9 місяців тому +26

      You expect landlords and manufacturers of goods like flour and sugar to lower prices?? Why would they do that?

    • @ceuser3555
      @ceuser3555 9 місяців тому +25

      Government control is what this country needs. Capitalist free market ain’t cutting it anymore. Look around you.

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 9 місяців тому +22

      @@ceuser3555 well I agree, unfortunately. Can't let people just charge whatever they want, there must be some control to avoid price gouging

    • @henrytep8884
      @henrytep8884 9 місяців тому +17

      @@ceuser3555 I looked around the world, seems like the only working model.

    • @efunkyman6853
      @efunkyman6853 9 місяців тому +34

      ​@ceuser3555 Government control is what got us in this mess. Especially in California, everything is high because of government. Av state with more than a trillion dollars of unfunded pension, 60 plus billion budget deficit, and now illegals can access MediCal. A partially federally subsidized health plan, which means logical thinking, tax paying citizens from across the country are paying for California disastrous policies.

  • @WHiTEKiNGofKRAKATOA
    @WHiTEKiNGofKRAKATOA 9 місяців тому +82

    Happy meal $49.95 large pizza $99.95

    • @truthiscensored
      @truthiscensored 9 місяців тому +3

      And your firstborn for a chicken sandwich and fries

    • @michaeltabanao8092
      @michaeltabanao8092 9 місяців тому

      Round table pizza 🍕, already there 😮

    • @ajax7ox729
      @ajax7ox729 9 місяців тому

      What's the issue

    • @t.g.5797
      @t.g.5797 9 місяців тому

      Eating put.should be
      A luxury !! Hahha
      Once every 6 months! To a year
      No problm with thoes prices

    • @lucianraphael9527
      @lucianraphael9527 9 місяців тому +2

      @@t.g.5797you’re not a very smart person

  • @meself4955
    @meself4955 8 місяців тому +18

    That guy is right. Raising the minimum wage is just a band-aid. Same as forgiving student loans. In the end, the business wins and the average worker losses. Sucks that most people aren't forward thinking and only chase immediate gratification. Now they will get paid $0 per hour.

  • @JB-fq9dp
    @JB-fq9dp 9 місяців тому +208

    I remember fast food jobs used to be for High School/College kids and now people are raising a family with these jobs. 😳

    • @winning3329
      @winning3329 9 місяців тому

      Because boomers don't want to leave their high paying job's and they will hire family members and friends.
      People got eat and even a fast food job is a job.

    • @dizzle.1983
      @dizzle.1983 9 місяців тому +21

      That's the problem

    • @JustaGuy_Gaming
      @JustaGuy_Gaming 9 місяців тому +26

      To be fair due to child labour laws many those jobs can't even be done by high school kids any more. You have to be 18years old to operate a lot of machines, 21 to serve alcohol or be responsible for management duties etc. The entire industry requires adults to run but pays them barely more than the teenagers.

    • @xletzyy
      @xletzyy 9 місяців тому +18

      ​@@JustaGuy_Gaminglitteraly this. You have to be 18 to touch any cooking equipment legally in all kitchens.

    • @Toastybees
      @Toastybees 9 місяців тому +12

      There are literally not enough students who want to work to fill these jobs.

  • @marks7654
    @marks7654 8 місяців тому +109

    I started at $2.65 (corrected) per hour, never intended to make it a career. Got me through 4 year university without a student loan. California is a wasteland about to happen.

    • @pvpat92
      @pvpat92 8 місяців тому +5

      ABOUT to happen?😂😂😂😂😂

    • @kuor1979
      @kuor1979 8 місяців тому +5

      Gavin .... What a Clown

    • @paulbrungardt9823
      @paulbrungardt9823 8 місяців тому +2

      Well Said !

    • @marks7654
      @marks7654 8 місяців тому

      Makes no sense. You seems to be part of the Problem.@donk8105

    • @Dman425
      @Dman425 8 місяців тому +2

      About to happen?

  • @krishimmel6747
    @krishimmel6747 8 місяців тому +2

    You can thank that stupid governor in California for losing your job

    • @camrenmugabe3062
      @camrenmugabe3062 8 місяців тому

      You think pay increases only happen in California that is a lazy ass answer to a huge problem.

  • @deetalashoma3514
    @deetalashoma3514 9 місяців тому +17

    I began my Aerospace job at 12.50 an hour. I retired with my last wage at $30+ an hour.
    I made items for the Navy an Marines in 30 years of work.
    How right is it for hamburger flippers to be earning $20 dollars an hour with no real skills?

    • @dirtmcgirt9148
      @dirtmcgirt9148 9 місяців тому +1

      I mean, I'd counter by asking how right it is for the national median house price to have jumped 700-800% between now and when you purchased your home (assuming that you bought your house in the 80s).
      Like it or not, something has to give.

  • @Lightning613
    @Lightning613 9 місяців тому +155

    The biggest problem with raising minimum wage, it is still the minimum wage, which means all prices will go up exponentially and anyone receiving minimum wage still will not be able to cover their heirs costs of living.

    • @Erik_Ochoa013
      @Erik_Ochoa013 9 місяців тому +17

      @user-tz5nf4yo3tJust another day in Commiefornia. 🚬

    • @shaft5
      @shaft5 9 місяців тому +7

      This is just about politicians passing ridiculous laws that are intended to keep them in power even when they know full well that the laws and the consequences from those laws are either useless and destructive. Ultimately, the people the law is intended to serve (minimum wage workers) will just be replaced with automated kiosks, robots and other technologies and procedures.
      I just went to Walmart this morning and I only saw 3 cashiers while 90% of the customers paid at the automated kiosks.
      I predict that fast food chains will be able to quickly jerry-rig a bunch of automated conveyer belts with low-tech machines that will quickly replace kitchen workers. People act like automated cooking would be impossible or on the level of rocket science when it really is not. I do not believe it will take a lot of computers, research and development to make automated cooking happen.
      I would not be shocked if robots replaced actual kitchen workers within the next year.

    • @Sesquipedaliofobia
      @Sesquipedaliofobia 9 місяців тому +1

      That's wrong, because the cost of labor is only a share of the costs and not the whole of them. Inflation has been caused by the cost of materials, in that case the share of labor costs has diminished, so even if you raise salaries, the impact on prices would be less because the share of labor costs has diminshed. However, you can't raise salaries indefinitely because the share of labor costs increases, so any salary raise would directly affect prices.

    • @shaft5
      @shaft5 9 місяців тому +12

      @@Sesquipedaliofobia
      Inflation is generated mainly from the Federal Reserve when they print money to fund ridiculous welfare programs, overseas conflicts, and the military industrial complex.
      A portion of inflation derives from increased labor costs but it is not insignificant.
      Even a number like 10% might sound insignificant to most people but if you re-frame the question another way:
      “If your employer reduced your paycheck by 10% would you describe that as insignificant?”…
      Then all of a sudden, that 10% is not so insignificant.
      So choose your analogy: death by 1,000 paper cuts or get mugged by 100 robbers, eventually it all adds up and it is ALL SIGNIFICANT.

    • @7531monkey
      @7531monkey 9 місяців тому +6

      Isnt that the scare tactic rich people use?

  • @jasonredic9457
    @jasonredic9457 8 місяців тому +1

    I'm still waiting for $20/hr working in medical manufacturing. You can't just pay people more money to clog arteries. You're paying ME less money to un-clog them.

  • @wolf-yw9wk
    @wolf-yw9wk 9 місяців тому +87

    what will end up happening is businesses will really extract exactly what they need from employees for an exact amount of time whereas before they would say “yeah whatever stay on for a full 8 hr shift” instead it will be “yeah we only need you for 4 hrs take it or leave it” every owner will be extremely tight w their scheduling and will look for any opportunity to mechanize whatever they can replacing more and more humans along the way. enough will do it to the point that all these people will not be finding jobs and unfortunately the entry level jobs for your average 16 year old will not exist. in the end it will hurt more than it helps but most people can’t think things through because they only have their emotion they can respond to and that’s the only way they vote.

    • @tommas2674
      @tommas2674 8 місяців тому +3

      LOL, THAT IS WHAT IS DONE.

    • @RowdyLpx
      @RowdyLpx 8 місяців тому

      Your employer lets you hang around for 8 hrs making money when you dont need to be? Isn't that evidence that he can afford to pay you more per hour? Profound.

    • @wolf-yw9wk
      @wolf-yw9wk 8 місяців тому

      @@RowdyLpx nahh.. ur not a business owner clearly.. if ur paying less u tend to let others do jobs u would normally do yourself. the more you pay the more work the owner does or they try to pile more onto other workers. end of day it’s a balance between time and profit. you should start a business, you will understand immediately what i said above.

    • @lancecahill5486
      @lancecahill5486 8 місяців тому +1

      The only thing that politicians care about is that they can take credit for the increase in the minimum wage. They are not the ones who get laid off.

  • @jonnyveltri610
    @jonnyveltri610 8 місяців тому +2

    Unless you’re a super small business, why are you acting like you cannot afford 20 an hour? The CEOs need to start taking HUGE pay cuts.

    • @Danys81
      @Danys81 7 місяців тому

      Thank god you aren’t. Business owner

    • @jonnyveltri610
      @jonnyveltri610 7 місяців тому

      @@Danys81 Thank god you aren’t either. You can’t even complete a sentence correctly.

    • @jorgearmas9310
      @jorgearmas9310 5 місяців тому

      Most big name fast food places are franchise owned. They are almost ALL small businesses that pay royalties, as a percentage of their sales, to the brand.

    • @Danys81
      @Danys81 5 місяців тому

      @@jonnyveltri610 wow looks like someone actually explained it to you 😂 go back to commenting useless opinions

  • @nonfatalfonso
    @nonfatalfonso 9 місяців тому +52

    rip dollar menu, gone but not forgotten

    • @vickieclark5931
      @vickieclark5931 8 місяців тому +5

      Yep. Pretty soon it will be the $10 menu. Those will be the cheap prices now.

    • @christopheryoung2874
      @christopheryoung2874 8 місяців тому +3

      sad, lots of places now have 3 dollar menus

    • @TheTaoofEternalWar
      @TheTaoofEternalWar 8 місяців тому

      You're better to stay away from those food like products anyway. It's probably healthier to eat roadkill.

  • @phallondavenport470
    @phallondavenport470 9 місяців тому +158

    Higher wages mean cut jobs which means less staff which means longer wait times, reduced open hours, or close the business

    • @jaclynshorter2509
      @jaclynshorter2509 9 місяців тому +10

      Exactly!

    • @jacksoda349
      @jacksoda349 9 місяців тому +9

      I work for a market ,and union we make 20 am hr ,but only work between 28 and 32hrs a week and that's on a good week this isn't anything new the raise only helps if your fulltime and guaranteed 40hrs a week and company's will not do that because once your fulltime company have to give medical insurance ,use rather have companies give me medical than,a raise to say the truth ,America that's why other countries laugh at us ,because we love the,almighty dollar 🤣what a joke we are we need to read the fine print 🤣🤣again medical is more important than $

    • @petergriffinson1907
      @petergriffinson1907 9 місяців тому

      They don’t teach that at school. They rather teach men can be women and racism

    • @rayr6278
      @rayr6278 9 місяців тому +2

      Food is free. Go outside, turn over a rock, and you got a whole buffet.

    • @user-g968h93r
      @user-g968h93r 9 місяців тому

      Fock em

  • @mw-sl9vo
    @mw-sl9vo 6 місяців тому +2

    not sure why this is a shocker. its just simple math, either the businesses will need to cut cost (staffing) or increase product price to sustain this mandatory expense increase.

  • @ramsongewargis8736
    @ramsongewargis8736 9 місяців тому +203

    I haven't has fast food for 12 months and I feel great, all that bread ,salt , sugar and oil is horrible

    • @nathangardner772
      @nathangardner772 9 місяців тому +11

      Yeah, I’m at about 3 years.

    • @moedark4390
      @moedark4390 9 місяців тому +23

      its called fast food cause its the fastest way to die

    • @terryowen6759
      @terryowen6759 9 місяців тому +13

      Yeah, paying employees $20 an hour does absolutely nothing about the quality of the food

    • @thegoons3415
      @thegoons3415 9 місяців тому +5

      Yeah if you have a slow metabolism and don’t work out stay away from fast food

    • @terryowen6759
      @terryowen6759 9 місяців тому +4

      @@thegoons3415 fast food isn't good for anybody, it's not just about the calories

  • @jorgehuerta9593
    @jorgehuerta9593 9 місяців тому +31

    God i miss the 70's,80's and 90's. People were way cooler, music was way better, people dressed way sikkker,cars were WAY better,times were way simpler,and everything was WAY CHEAPER!!!!!

    • @Shorty_Lickens
      @Shorty_Lickens 8 місяців тому +1

      You are so ignorant you dont know how ignorant you are. Had you actually experienced and remembered the 70's, you would not have written using those words or that sentence structure. You are either a dumb zoomer or an extremely dumb millennial. Or a really good chinese bot.

    • @TheChangNetwork
      @TheChangNetwork 8 місяців тому +1

      Lol with 20+ percentage inflation in the 70s.

    • @Shorty_Lickens
      @Shorty_Lickens 8 місяців тому +4

      @@TheChangNetwork yeah but the culture was better. Now we have hyperinflation and shitty movies & shows & games & music. In absolutely no way is that an improvement.

    • @mikelcollins9273
      @mikelcollins9273 8 місяців тому +1

      We were rich we just didn't realize it

    • @jorgehuerta9593
      @jorgehuerta9593 8 місяців тому

      Oh and everyone worked MUCH HARDER!!!!

  • @vblic
    @vblic 7 місяців тому +1

    People say they understand the raising of wages. But do they understand the negative effect. It's fast food. It's not a job to be looked at like a professional job. Eventually people are not going to pay high prices, but then again it's Kalifornia. You know what screw them. They voted for those idiots in office. Will they destroy themselves or will the big one will. That is the question.

  • @jeffreywillis4258
    @jeffreywillis4258 9 місяців тому +109

    Bad news for sales, good news for public health.

    • @Btdenn123
      @Btdenn123 9 місяців тому +6

      The people getting cut from their jobs won't likely see an improvement in their health.

    • @jeffreywillis4258
      @jeffreywillis4258 9 місяців тому +11

      @@Btdenn123
      Yea but a lot of people will stop eating big macs when they are $15 each $25 for a meal deal.

    • @joshuad1716
      @joshuad1716 9 місяців тому +1

      You mean good news for credit card companies, if you think these people will stop eating Big Macs over the price increase you’re dead wrong lol

    • @jeffreywillis4258
      @jeffreywillis4258 9 місяців тому

      @@joshuad1716
      But the law drilled down to large fast food chains. They will definitely look at options.

    • @Btdenn123
      @Btdenn123 9 місяців тому

      @@jeffreywillis4258 More likely they will downgrade to the dollar menu. The people who will stop going are the people who are not habitual fast food customers in the first place.

  • @Kitkat-wu3ow
    @Kitkat-wu3ow 9 місяців тому +16

    This also means that the business will also increase prices. The customers will be the one paying. Frankly, its a good incentive for my health not to eat fast food.

  • @MyCardsNeverLieTarotLLC522
    @MyCardsNeverLieTarotLLC522 7 місяців тому

    thats so messed up‼People should stop eating at these fast food places. i bet they'll change their attitude then😡

  • @eldieharris
    @eldieharris 9 місяців тому +24

    The Governor played the Workers and the Unions knew this was going to happen. This is how you get people to join a union!

    • @bitnbyte3319
      @bitnbyte3319 9 місяців тому +4

      And to reinforce a quasi socialist government. This won't end well in CA. I'm just waiting for the In-N-Out double double to hit $8-10 (currently it is around $6 & 3-4 years ago it was around $4) & maybe this will wake up some people not to vote for the same stupid politicians. Edit: another food to look out for that might stir people up is Costco & Sam's Club's hot dog combo which still costs between $1.30-$1.50. If they increase that to $2+, the public might just might start thinking what's causing this increase especially if they notice that for some reason it is only happening in CA & no other state.

    • @fredly3303
      @fredly3303 9 місяців тому

      Unions are bad for society

    • @rockyroad3779
      @rockyroad3779 9 місяців тому

      This is exactly how taxes got started fooling the people into believing the government will take care of them. How many more countries have to collapse before people understand the democracy is just the blind leading the blind

    • @studleyjb3172
      @studleyjb3172 8 місяців тому

      You have to have a job to be in a union.

    • @eldieharris
      @eldieharris 8 місяців тому

      @@studleyjb3172 I agree!

  • @slygirl0213
    @slygirl0213 9 місяців тому +74

    By putting up minimum wage it will also mean prices will sky rocket to keep up paying for staff. We already have that problem here in NZ

    • @michaeltabanao8092
      @michaeltabanao8092 9 місяців тому +3

      Be like Venezuela 🇻🇪, hyperinflation

    • @rickybobby7276
      @rickybobby7276 9 місяців тому +2

      @@michaeltabanao8092 They should just make everything free then we can wait in line for days like Venezuela for gasoline.

    • @cremepuffle
      @cremepuffle 9 місяців тому +8

      They raise the prices either way though lol. Theres absolutely no reason why they cant pay their employees fairly without making it seem like it will burn down their business.

    • @lvgk8898
      @lvgk8898 9 місяців тому

      Most Americans are to ignorant to figure that out, woke schools.

    • @gmc9753
      @gmc9753 9 місяців тому +1

      @@cremepuffle If expenses stayed the same year over year, businesses wouldn't raise prices because a new business would come along and undercut the competition charging more for the same thing.

  • @rockitsurjon8629
    @rockitsurjon8629 8 місяців тому +3

    Those that think this is a good idea even when it fails, will never admit they were wrong so I will say it for them. "They told us so."

  • @TangMiChen
    @TangMiChen 9 місяців тому +22

    I called it lay off and leaving.

  • @trainsplanesandotherthings5187
    @trainsplanesandotherthings5187 9 місяців тому +31

    Time to invest in robotic food cooks & automation... Thank your governor for loosing your Jobs.

    • @terryowen6759
      @terryowen6759 9 місяців тому

      I know he was pressured into it by the Unions, surely he knows how it's going to end up...I'm all for Unions standing up for workers but how many times have they demanded ridiculous salaries only to end up with people unemployed?

    • @ryder4508
      @ryder4508 9 місяців тому

      *losing.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 9 місяців тому

      Blame greedy corporations

    • @garypiatt4666
      @garypiatt4666 9 місяців тому +1

      @@scifirealism5943Do you have a job?
      If yes, were you able to negotiate your pay? If you were able to, did/would you negotiate for the highest pay you could get?
      Would you be willing to get paid less money so some of your pay could go to lower payed workers?
      I’m assuming your only “yes” answer would be to the first question, no to all the following.
      So, if you want the most pay for you, why should business owners not want the most they can make?

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 9 місяців тому

      @garypiatt4666 I'm willing to make less for others to make more.
      The answer to the other questions is no.
      I was a cashier. My $17/hr wage proposal was rejected. I was paid $10/hr instead.
      My "raise" was $0.50.
      If I was in a union, or government intervention, or had welfare, I'd have enough bargaining power to make more.
      I don't want to make $1 million per hour, but I don't want to work for minimum wage with zero benefits or chance for advancement.

  • @kathryncashner3294
    @kathryncashner3294 8 місяців тому +3

    A few years ago CA raised the minimum wage, and many workers asked to cut their hours in order to not exceed the amount they could earn and still keep their welfare benefits (Cal-Fresh, Medi-Cal, housing, etc).Employers were reported to be surprised at the request to cut hours. No surprise that jobs are being replaced by kiosks and prices continue to rise.

    • @ocstrangeness
      @ocstrangeness 7 місяців тому

      That's not just a few years ago, Walmart has been doing that since the 90's (maybe earlier), it's called the welfare trap. They didn't even have to ask their employer to do it, it was automatically done because the company doesn't have to pay benefits and leaves the taxpayer on the hook for additional subsidies. Food stamps is one of the few government programs that actually works as intended, and medi-cal is the best health insurance in the country by a long shot.

  • @shawnalynn8428
    @shawnalynn8428 8 місяців тому +36

    I work for the state of California as a in home caregiver and we had to fight just to get a raise to 16.50 we are responsible to care for the states elderly and disabled and yet a McDonald's worker makes over 3 dollars more than i do smh thats such bs!!!

    • @helenacrossbow1412
      @helenacrossbow1412 8 місяців тому +2

      I wish you lived in Australia. Care givers make good money, which you totally deserve.

    • @TheChangNetwork
      @TheChangNetwork 8 місяців тому +1

      Care taking is gonna be a booming industry.

    • @ambivertical
      @ambivertical 8 місяців тому

      Yes but you have Hours for full time work. Mcdonalds workers will Not work 40 hrs

    • @dave8599
      @dave8599 8 місяців тому

      So you are a government leech. You are part of the problem.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 8 місяців тому

      How about demand you get paid more.
      And McDonald's workers don't get benefits like nurses.

  • @garyries2036
    @garyries2036 9 місяців тому +51

    I'm against raising it to $20 an hour. The reasons are many. It's inflationary, and only will make food prices rise. This effects seniors and those on fix income. Your raises will be only be eaten up by the landlords who will increase your rent. For employees, your hours may be cut or you will be let go. Fast food places aren't doing the kind of business they used to as prices have increased so much. When I eat my 2 for $3 at Wendys and spend an hour, I don't think they even make $60 gross in revenue. I don't see how they can pay 4 employees $16 an hour, $20 may put them out of business. What about the homeless. EBT cards only get them through 14-17 days. With the increase it will only be less. This increase will hurt more people then it will help. Maybe it looks good politically, but I'm against it.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 9 місяців тому +2

      You're more concerned with mitigating the risk of inflation than abolishing poverty

    • @lizzyyork
      @lizzyyork 9 місяців тому

      @@scifirealism5943 There is no such thing as abolishing poverty in a nation that isn't like North Korea. You can't have a free economy and then still support everyone. California already has a homeless crisis and it's about to jump even higher. I hope every resident there feels their stupidity when layoffs skyrocket.

    • @ccsmith2937
      @ccsmith2937 8 місяців тому +5

      @@scifirealism5943 raising minimum wage doesn’t “abolish poverty”, because it actually decreases spending power of your money. If raising minimum wages worked as you think why not make it $100/hr? 👊🔥

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 8 місяців тому +4

      @ccsmith2937 because politicians don't want to abolish poverty.
      Poverty functions to control workers, to ensure poor people must work "undesirable" jobs that rich people would never do themselves.

    • @marcelrodriguez2067
      @marcelrodriguez2067 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@scifirealism5943 you will never abolish poverty someone has to stay at the bottom its impossible for everyone to be equal.

  • @amidazad4832
    @amidazad4832 8 місяців тому

    The problem is, people instead of blaming their corrupted government, they’re blaming the businesses. If your government had integrity and good intentions to help people and businesses. They would’ve cut taxes on everyone and everything to keep the prices low and helping actually the economy. But, instead forcing businesses to pay more wages at the same time increasing taxes on everybody and everything else’s. You people need to learn, holding your government accountable for creating this mess. Not the business owners.

  • @SaintJude-ro4zm
    @SaintJude-ro4zm 9 місяців тому +59

    Less staff. Less hours . Higher pay . Too good to be True.

    • @rapinncapin123
      @rapinncapin123 9 місяців тому +4

      How is this good?

    • @paule8536
      @paule8536 9 місяців тому

      What ?

    • @DanielRojas-nw3mv
      @DanielRojas-nw3mv 9 місяців тому +7

      Less sales 🧐

    • @garylukens4610
      @garylukens4610 9 місяців тому +1

      In any restaurant, if you raise the dishwasher's wage, the rest of the staff will get theirs raised. Prices keep rising and patrons balk. Personally, I don't patronize any of them.

    • @SaintJude-ro4zm
      @SaintJude-ro4zm 9 місяців тому +2

      @@rapinncapin123 it's not a good thing.

  • @yumark5800
    @yumark5800 9 місяців тому +13

    They make as much as CNA health workers but don’t need to go through school for it and get registered to the state. Crazy 😅

    • @Kingsombra21
      @Kingsombra21 8 місяців тому +2

      I’m an hha health worker & I’m just as pissed

  • @BillyMartin68
    @BillyMartin68 8 місяців тому

    Such a great idea. It’s about time these multi billion dollar cooperations started paying people a living wage. Next year they need to push it even higher to $22.50 minimum. What a great day for our country. 🎉🎉🎉

  • @scottyoung1489
    @scottyoung1489 8 місяців тому +79

    Being a small business owner now is horribly challenging, employees making more money than most owners and the business owners are taking 99% of the big risks. Many small business owners are also doing all the jobs in order to pay the hundreds of bills and mountains of paperwork. Best jobs now seem to be local, state, national government jobs, everyone else seems to be really struggling.

    • @kenjohnson4423
      @kenjohnson4423 8 місяців тому

      If you have a state birth certificate. You are we the people. Read page 1 of California constitution to learn your rights. Also you can quit being a us citizen on form SS5 , line 5, mom checked us citizen in error to get your SSN. Check other instead. Now you dont need to pay or file income taxes ever again. If IRS sends a letter, just Check the box not a us citizen. The state government only tells us citizens what they have to pay employees. Use the California constitution to remind the Gov to piss off , we the people created government, we do whatever we wish.

    • @notyourtypicalwatchreview2563
      @notyourtypicalwatchreview2563 8 місяців тому

      And every government job is paid with taxes taken from people working in the private sector. More government jobs, less private sector, less taxes. This is why a socialist society cannot sustain itself.

    • @neutrino78x
      @neutrino78x 8 місяців тому +8

      "employees making more money than most owners"
      Pretty sure most franchise owners make a lot more than 20/hr.

    • @beneg417
      @beneg417 8 місяців тому +4

      Small business or not. You have to be able to adapt to business changes. Also if the employees are making more than the owners you're not cut out for business.

    • @notyourtypicalwatchreview2563
      @notyourtypicalwatchreview2563 8 місяців тому +6

      @@beneg417 if the government is forcing you to pay high wages for jobs that aren’t worth it, they should get out of businesses.

  • @markchapmon8670
    @markchapmon8670 8 місяців тому +50

    I remember when we still had factory jobs, before sending them "off shore". Fast food jobs were mostly teens and college students who needed to learn what working a job meant or needing money to help while you are in school. Fast food jobs weren't something to be your lifelong work. You will bankrupt more businesses in more sectors than fast food franchises at that pay rate. Add to that the cost of health insurance and employers who were providing health insurance who no longer are able to afford to stay in business could put that cost on employees, absorbing the pay raise if a person wanted to opt in for health insurance. Of course, you can be sure that a state who levies $2.00 or more per gallon tax on gasoline so there is money to give to crooked politicians and fund illegals in their state doesn't really care about the slave grade workers in their state.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 8 місяців тому

      Times change. Values do too.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 8 місяців тому

      You're more concerned about profits than poverty.

    • @markchapmon8670
      @markchapmon8670 8 місяців тому +3

      @@scifirealism5943 If that's why you think your taxes are so high, cool. Just enjoy your life on the left coast.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 8 місяців тому

      @@markchapmon8670 you're saying poverty is acceptable.

    • @markchapmon8670
      @markchapmon8670 8 місяців тому

      @@scifirealism5943 Nope, I'm saying your taxes are so high because your political class is importing illegals on a massive scale and there's not enough interest to take care of the tax paying citizens. The money not spent buying voters is siphoned off by corrupt politicians. You can't pay enough tax so they will ever be satisfied.

  • @loufher284
    @loufher284 8 місяців тому

    It's not about the wage...it's about the job, and how valuable you are to society in general. Low skill jobs paying people the same amount as higher skilled people is going to eventually lead to problems in the economy. It makes it lopsided. Working at a fast food place is not a career. It doesn't build skills or improve your ability to get a better job. California is MADNESS

  • @conqueringlion420
    @conqueringlion420 9 місяців тому +56

    Bad move, sales will take major hits

    • @remingtonsteel5945
      @remingtonsteel5945 9 місяців тому

      $35.00 BURGER ( no cheese) & $12.50 FRIES + $18.00 BIG-SODA...-AND BARBY-BOY NEWSOM IS GONNA MAKE BILLIONS IN ''PREPARED/FOOD'' LUXURY-TAXES...FOR HIS ''*OUTHOUSE - PRESIDENTIAL RUN*''...AND SINCE WORKERS ARE GETTING $20.00 /HR. ...RENT IS GONNA INCREASE 20+ %...IS CALI..hahahahahaha...$5.50 GAL. OF GAS...HAHAHAHAHAHA..!

    • @vids99230
      @vids99230 9 місяців тому +1

      Are they gonna raise prices? I mean if theyre firing people to even it out then shouldn't they NOT raise prices? Or is this all about profit and not really about paying more?

  • @rhondawoodard4144
    @rhondawoodard4144 9 місяців тому +16

    Its been obvious for a while that this is happening everywhere. Self check outs .

  • @1950Grendel
    @1950Grendel 2 місяці тому

    2014 - Twenty employees at $10/hr.
    2024 - Eight employees at $20/hr.
    And they wonder why the unemployment figures suck.

  • @dansimpson6106
    @dansimpson6106 9 місяців тому +124

    For the workers who are left after the thinning out....good luck your gunna really earn that 20 bucks running the whole place by yourself. lol.

    • @terryowen6759
      @terryowen6759 9 місяців тому +21

      Right next to the robots they will be installing

    • @ryanbarker5217
      @ryanbarker5217 9 місяців тому +3

      @smiledaydreammusicandrecov4463 lol, you're an, well, not gonna say it, but it ends with 'iot,' and it's not 'patriot.' if you love those countries so much, why don't you go there? oh, yeah, because those 'paradises' actually have strict immigration laws and aren't fond of squatters....

    • @ryder4508
      @ryder4508 9 місяців тому +1

      @@terryowen6759 I hope they replace you with a robot.

    • @terryowen6759
      @terryowen6759 9 місяців тому +1

      @@ryder4508 cool idea...Boomer retirement robots

    • @ryder4508
      @ryder4508 9 місяців тому

      @@terryowen6759 😂

  • @JUVI9596
    @JUVI9596 9 місяців тому +15

    When I worked as McDonald’s in 1990 the wage was $3.30 an hour.

    • @andrewczski1969
      @andrewczski1969 9 місяців тому +2

      Now you'd have to work 5 hours for a nasty Big Mac, without cold fries and watery soda.

    • @ronbennett7885
      @ronbennett7885 9 місяців тому +3

      And houses often cost $100K-$200K not $500K-$1 million+. Car prices, especially for used, were way lower. Heck, in 2008, dealers were offering two trucks for the price of one. People even worried about deflation. Also, in the 90s was talk of the peace dividend (cold war winding down) and then tech boom of the late 90s. I recall around 1998, gasoline prices being around 70 cents. Today, it's well over $3 in many places with some paying upwards of $5. It's all relative. If anything, the situation is worse now. $20 isn't all that much.

    • @JUVI9596
      @JUVI9596 9 місяців тому

      @@ronbennett7885 what was the peace dividend ? I dont recall that

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 9 місяців тому

      Wow

    • @Caracajou
      @Caracajou 8 місяців тому +1

      You got screwed big time. When I started in '84 it was $3.35 an hour.

  • @Fullmetal_christo
    @Fullmetal_christo 8 місяців тому +27

    The guy that used to work at McDonalds being interviewed said ‘come on, you shoulda done this a long time ago’. Doesn’t understand simple economics. That’s the problem, if would understand this, then you probably wouldn’t be working at McDonalds in all honesty.

    • @eddiemunster8634
      @eddiemunster8634 8 місяців тому +3

      It's going to take a little while for this profoundness to sink in for this guy😅

  • @pantherinparadise9686
    @pantherinparadise9686 4 місяці тому +1

    Flipping burgers was never seen as a job that needs to support a family, send them to college and buy a house in Malibu . It was seen as a teenager job just starting out in life. I guess times have changed. I can cook a burger faster at home than to wait in a drive thru.

  • @songsan807
    @songsan807 9 місяців тому +73

    I remembered working at an AM/PM starting off at $4.75/hour in 94. Every training and responsibility available I took and within a month I was making $6.50/hour. Some of the longer time staff resented me because they been there for over 10 years and only making $7.50/hour. They refuse to do the training or anything else. They just want their annual increase. Went and lot better paying jobs afterward.
    Instead of forcing businesses to pay an increase minimum wage, the business should offer opportunities that if the employees complete would get an increase. This would give the employees more money and better trained employees to the businesses.
    So sad to see so many businesses in CA have to close down because they could not continue the operation. My family used to own an Asian restaurant for almost 30 years. In 2008 we had 17 full-time employees. Then as the wages and cost increase we were down to just 2 FT and then none and finally close shop in 2018 because we lost thousands each month.

    • @joeyGalileoHotto
      @joeyGalileoHotto 9 місяців тому

      The goal of the democrats isn't to retain a workforce, it is to get people on welfare. That is something the governor intentionally did not state.

    • @cremepuffle
      @cremepuffle 9 місяців тому +2

      They’re flipping burgers what training do they need that would require any of that? For manager positions and up sure, this works. Just to be a cashier or stock it really would just be unnecessary.

    • @donnam5060
      @donnam5060 9 місяців тому +2

      Wage Increases of 25-50cents an hour are meaningless when taxes and inflating prices eat up more than that. When the wage increase you get to stay at a job is a pittance compared to the wage increase you get to job hop, there's a bigger problem.

    • @mr.bhewjew3212
      @mr.bhewjew3212 9 місяців тому +2

      Jesus Christ, imagine making $4.75 today 😂😂

    • @thetricksterpill
      @thetricksterpill 9 місяців тому +1

      Now you have entry level positions and basic jobs requiring years of experience for different things for minimum and low pay lol. It's only going to get worse.

  • @backcountyrpilot
    @backcountyrpilot 8 місяців тому +10

    Every day I wake up to find another reason to be grateful that I moved my family and my business out of K’alifornia 17 years ago😉

    • @MrPremierproperties
      @MrPremierproperties 8 місяців тому

      Good for YOU !!!

    • @TheChangNetwork
      @TheChangNetwork 8 місяців тому

      You missed some nice years though.

    • @billmeeker774
      @billmeeker774 8 місяців тому

      @@TheChangNetwork I escaped California in 2015 and now I wouldn't move back if Governor Newsom gave me a house for free! Freedom is right across the border from California and those who complain have only themselves to blame for their poverty and lack of opportunity.

    • @RajDeelish
      @RajDeelish 8 місяців тому

      If you owned real estate, you missed out big time on a massive run.

  • @shimarisu595
    @shimarisu595 8 місяців тому

    Congratulations California, you voted for it and now you deserve the result of it !!

  • @CF-cx3hg
    @CF-cx3hg 9 місяців тому +6

    Good job Democrats! Don't forget the free health care for non US citizens. *Slow* 👏👏👏

    • @Erik_Ochoa013
      @Erik_Ochoa013 9 місяців тому

      Yeah! I lost my higher up in retail due to HR firing him for stopping a shoplifter during Thanksgiving sales! I can’t wait for the state to reenact Titanic by it’s own policies with Grabbin Gavin Newsom to thank for as well as the rest of those to voted for him. I’ll just sit back, relax, and grab the popcorn. I tried telling them after all so why bother from that point on? 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @photolabguy
    @photolabguy 9 місяців тому +27

    Just wait, watch California mandate how many employees businesses must have, or mandate guaranteed hours for the employees. These people that lost their jobs will probably collect unemployment. That will cost everyone more!

    • @9TDF
      @9TDF 9 місяців тому +1

      Then every chain restaurant like burger king and McDonald pull out of Cali then no jobs and no "cheep" drive food, food.

    • @Baker.Matthew
      @Baker.Matthew 9 місяців тому

      @@9TDF😂 non of those places are cheap anymore and it is low quality food

    • @9TDF
      @9TDF 9 місяців тому

      @@Baker.Matthew
      Still if they leave (in the event the government mandates number of employees, a minimum of hours worked it less food options and less jobs and less tax revenue.
      Plus "cheap " as in should be cheap .

    • @Baker.Matthew
      @Baker.Matthew 9 місяців тому +2

      @@9TDF free market thrives when the greedy get too greedy, they will be replaced by other options for sure

    • @9TDF
      @9TDF 9 місяців тому

      @@Baker.Matthew There won't be any new options with to much government overreach.
      It's McDonald, flipping burgers and cooking and putting together premade from the factory ingredients . It's not like welding, teaching, car mechanic or IT specialist McDonald work can be one day automated.
      Eventually the grill, fry cooking, ice cream machine, food assembly and order taking could be automated.
      Plus free market? The scenario where the government basically takes control and mandates 20+ an hour, minimum days and hours and minimum number of workers and possibly regulates automation with the whole purpose of keeping human jobs then that's not a free market.
      Plus if smaller businesses and franchises take to big of a hit larger companies can look at that and choose not to expand in to arias that would be less profitable.
      Plus some high school kid that wants a part time job probably won't be able to get one because a business might not want to take a risk on a new worker with no work experience .

  • @roveriia6334
    @roveriia6334 8 місяців тому +1

    Skilled labor in California barely makes $20 per hour coming from an aerospace upper management person.. This will raise all wages. The real winners are people like me that own rental property. Competitive rent will increase and rental property values are going to skyrocket. I will do right and not gouge rents but I will certainly not give them away I will remain competitive. Raising minimum wage increases help the rich and just make things cost more.

  • @MonicaWalton-44
    @MonicaWalton-44 9 місяців тому +23

    Thanks to our wonderful governor 😡

    • @wolfseek
      @wolfseek 9 місяців тому +3

      What about the prices of everything else is that government also or greedy wish we could find a middle ground

    • @thomasgentry6201
      @thomasgentry6201 9 місяців тому

      Next President? Thank God Keep Damage to only California because Greasy Newsom could never beat Trump!

    • @shawnrobinson5912
      @shawnrobinson5912 9 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 9 місяців тому

      This was voted in by the voters before Gavin took office, genius

    • @thomasgentry6201
      @thomasgentry6201 9 місяців тому

      What you are Delusional!@@frankmacleod2565

  • @Wyndstrom
    @Wyndstrom 9 місяців тому +7

    The increase in the minimum wage will also increase prices on everything else. Food service is a low skill, bottom rung job. If you want a “living wage”, you’d have to be at least be in management with proven skills to keep up the restaurant. Really, $20/hr fry cook? You’ll be replaced by a kiosk and I’ll deal with a manager.
    Learn a trade go to Community College to build up skills for a real
    job with better security!

  • @myTube-bh9fj
    @myTube-bh9fj 6 місяців тому +1

    Why stop at $20 make it $1,000 for un skilled workers

  • @zundermuffin
    @zundermuffin 9 місяців тому +32

    I hope all the good workers are kept and all the crappy ones are canned. Some of them dont deserve that kind of money.

    • @Aireck174
      @Aireck174 9 місяців тому +3

      Thats what will probably happen. The people they keep will just be expected to do the work of 2 people.

    • @georgepoitras3502
      @georgepoitras3502 9 місяців тому

      that never happens.

    • @Zero11_ss
      @Zero11_ss 9 місяців тому +1

      $20 is not even a lot of money, most of these wages just sound high because people dont factor in inflation over the years or they dont live in a high cost of living state and dont understand costs

    • @Aireck174
      @Aireck174 9 місяців тому +3

      @@Zero11_ss Raising the min wage also increases costs. So you are just making the problem worse.
      Look at Venezuela, they raised their min wage multiple times in a short time because of inflation and all they did was make costs go up more and destroyed the middle class.
      If you want to help people economically you create policy that lowers living costs. And lower costs starts with policies that lower gas prices.

    • @zundermuffin
      @zundermuffin 9 місяців тому

      @@Zero11_ss it's a dual income time we live in, I agree but McDonald's isn't a career, it should be reserved for people new to the workforce to help them get some experience and some cash. Then move on to a real job.

  • @Kinaibhlan
    @Kinaibhlan 9 місяців тому +5

    minimum wage looks like a good idea on paper but it causes more damage than good

  • @quartytypo
    @quartytypo 8 місяців тому

    Governor must halt job cuts and fix fast food prices. The government should have been in control of the fast food industry a long time ago.

  • @danwilson9530
    @danwilson9530 9 місяців тому +6

    Over 40 years in the workforce I learned that with increased pay comes increased responsibility. In this case the ones who remain with have the responsibility of more duties and higher performance standards to meet, so bye bye to those entitled ones with a poor work ethic.

  • @chinatownboy7482
    @chinatownboy7482 9 місяців тому +22

    Now we will have to pay $20 for a Happy Meal.

    • @t.g.5797
      @t.g.5797 9 місяців тому

      Smart guy😏!!!!
      😂😂😂 Lmao u got me!!!

    • @james_giant_peach
      @james_giant_peach 9 місяців тому +3

      Considering your already paying 2,500 for rent in California a $20 happy meal isn’t that crazy 😂

    • @stevenbaker7025
      @stevenbaker7025 9 місяців тому +1

      😂 You realize a lot of Californians can afford that..right?

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 9 місяців тому +1

      Not willing to pay $5 more a meal means you view poverty as acceptable.

  • @laserbeamdaddy
    @laserbeamdaddy 6 місяців тому

    I grew up in the 1980's My first job was at McDonald's for 3.35 hour. However this minimum wage jobs were meant for high school and college students on summer break or after school. These jobs were meant to be gateway jobs to help people get job skills and to have a paycheck to help with tuition fees. These jobs were not meant to be forever jobs with people way into their 60's working there. These jobs wee meant to be a stepping step to get job training until a person graduates from college then have an occupation that pays real affordable wages. I remember as a kid I had a newspaper job delivering to homes now newspaper jobs are taking over by adults. What happened to society were people are content with living mediocrely.

  • @jeffnduran
    @jeffnduran 8 місяців тому +15

    Your elementary school teacher is correct when they told you raising the minimum wage won't help society as a whole. All of the people telling us otherwise just goes to show us how many "crabs" are out there pulling others down into the bucket with them. SO many people out there are losers. So many that it's actually normal. The average person doesn't care to try to do anything beyond 10% of their capability, for whatever reason, thus they feel the need to cry for minimum wage jobs to pay more. Those who take the effort to put in 10% more get 100% more in rewards...most people are just LAZY and make bad decisions in their life. It's really that simple.

  • @theturtle8869
    @theturtle8869 9 місяців тому +42

    And despite this, these companies will continue to make profits and lavish bonuses for their executives

    • @vndragonslayer1
      @vndragonslayer1 9 місяців тому +8

      if only people listen to brandon's heed of giving up mining coal and take up coding class instead.. jen psaki said so

    • @annoyedok321
      @annoyedok321 9 місяців тому +5

      They'll destroy the business before they take a pay cut in the c-suite

    • @ray-vw5qm
      @ray-vw5qm 9 місяців тому +7

      Build your own business, and you will do the same.

    • @Xiosoranox
      @Xiosoranox 9 місяців тому +1

      It's amazing that everybody is blaming the workers and unions instead of calling out the C-Suites collecting million dollar bonuses. This country is a joke.

    • @TheDexterFishbourne
      @TheDexterFishbourne 9 місяців тому +1

      And? Isn't that the point of opening/starting a business?

  • @amoskowitz0103
    @amoskowitz0103 8 місяців тому

    The problem here is not how much the workers get paid. The problem is that the government is mandating raises for people who have not earned it through hard work and dedication.
    ANY kind of entitlement is a recipe for disaster.
    What they have essentially done is make every fast-food job that pays less than 40,000 / year illegal. Ridiculous "plan"

  • @jamess9808
    @jamess9808 9 місяців тому +4

    Keep raising the minimum wage your on track for communism

  • @mikeelek9713
    @mikeelek9713 6 місяців тому

    Who saw this coming? Increase the minimum wage for a no-education, no-skill job to $20 an hour and expect the business to absorb the higher cost of payroll - just a couple of years after more than doubling it from $7 an hour?

  • @renaissanceaccount
    @renaissanceaccount 9 місяців тому +7

    Make cost of living less, raising the wage to $20 does nothing but raise the prices. Then these same people will be begging for $25 in a few years.

    • @trainsplanesandotherthings5187
      @trainsplanesandotherthings5187 9 місяців тому

      Your Pay is related to your Education, Skill sets & expertise.... Not set buy a bunch of entitled burger flippers and in idiot Governor... Want a living wage do more than the minimum..

    • @RAGINGMACHOMANX
      @RAGINGMACHOMANX 9 місяців тому

      Always one @@trainsplanesandotherthings5187

    • @ChristianAlexSantiago
      @ChristianAlexSantiago 9 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, they should already have been making 45$ an hour. I mean, Mcdonalds made 14.3 billion in profits in 2023, meaning after salaries, after these poor workers made dog crap, after the cost of all the food, and gas, and everything else they spent on. They made 14 billion dollars. Do you have an extra chromosome or are you genuinely pissed that the bottom percentile are getting a break? It' the chromosome, I knew it.

  • @mr.bhewjew3212
    @mr.bhewjew3212 9 місяців тому +4

    These workers see more per hour and assume they are going to make so much more but no…I already know what these franchises are going to do. They are going to cut employees and they are going to cut hours. Yeah you’ll make $20 and hour but have fun working the minimum 12-16 hours a week now.

  • @buddhaboyy1267
    @buddhaboyy1267 8 місяців тому +1

    Hopefully this will slow everybody down from eating junk food all the time

  • @jessstirland8338
    @jessstirland8338 9 місяців тому +7

    Price hikes coming......customer pays

  • @Jay_323
    @Jay_323 9 місяців тому +33

    I believe all fast food associates that are not in a leadership position will only be part time.

    • @davidanderson8469
      @davidanderson8469 9 місяців тому +1

      Yep.

    • @well-blazeredman6187
      @well-blazeredman6187 9 місяців тому +6

      Good point. And many will be living at home with their parents. Burger-flipping is a first-job, not a vocation.

    • @AF-ib8ec
      @AF-ib8ec 9 місяців тому

      make all the leadership work the kitchen and the front counter and get yelled at all day by the karens and karons

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 9 місяців тому

      They already are to avoid being eligible for benefits

  • @brucel.554
    @brucel.554 9 місяців тому +15

    I don't know what the governor is thinking. This is going to backfire and it's already hapening. Why is it I alwaysI see minimum wage raise and not other salary?

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 9 місяців тому

      The governor has nothing to do with it. The voters voted for these raises years ago

    • @henlohenlo689
      @henlohenlo689 9 місяців тому

      my job trucking raised pay each year but not all jobs did that. the good ones did.
      also certain higher impact jobs they need to keep the pay up to lure more workers.
      raised min wage gets people comfortable in low impact jobs and less likely pick higher impact jobs and causes economy more likely to run less efficiently. also without min wage people will still do the jobs and keep the prices down.

    • @frankmacleod2565
      @frankmacleod2565 9 місяців тому

      @user-tz5nf4yo3t Yes, it is true. I remember seeing it on the ballot myself. This was about a decade ago. Look it up

    • @Erik_Ochoa013
      @Erik_Ochoa013 9 місяців тому

      @@frankmacleod2565 Both.

    • @2002films
      @2002films 9 місяців тому

      ​@smiledaydreammusicandrecov4463Take economics and pass it before making comments

  • @ChadBray
    @ChadBray 9 місяців тому +13

    I hate to see the price of a Happy Meal after April.

    • @rustybros
      @rustybros 9 місяців тому +2

      20 dollars happy meal.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 9 місяців тому +1

      The fact you are more concerned with paying $5 for a happy meal than helping poor people is disgusting

    • @dave8599
      @dave8599 8 місяців тому

      @@scifirealism5943 The poor wont be able to afford the happy meal, you must hate the poor.

  • @mercury2c
    @mercury2c 8 місяців тому +1

    If you can't afford to pay workers a living wage, your business should fail. It's not a hot take. Stop expecting people to work for a wage that doesn't even pay rent

  • @Toolbox12-y1p
    @Toolbox12-y1p 9 місяців тому +13

    BAN tipping. Require businesses to pay their employees fair wages!

    • @danielcabrera543
      @danielcabrera543 9 місяців тому +2

      What are you talking about. They do require them. Don't you see. 20 dollars an hour? Is that not fair wages? Look at the outcome.

    • @norwegianblue2017
      @norwegianblue2017 9 місяців тому +1

      Why, so we can have crappy service like in Europe? American wait staff make far more money with the tipping system than their counterparts abroad.

  • @racheljustrachel2732
    @racheljustrachel2732 9 місяців тому +4

    People will start cooking at home like covid times it will cost less than buying out. Bring out the frying pan etc to cook burgers.

    • @PoeLemic
      @PoeLemic 9 місяців тому

      BINGO, smart woman ... That's what we are doing, @Rachel. It's already too much to eat out anymore. I am not going to pay $15 bucks at FREAKING McDonald's or Whataburger for a hamburger, fries, and drink. So, we've stopped going already. We are just going to learn how to use Google and search COPYCAT RECIPES for whatever we want to cook.

  • @dietmarstahl5407
    @dietmarstahl5407 7 місяців тому

    What California needs is a 4 week minimum Vacation Proposition!!!! Everyone will sign it. Get it ready......

  • @JaneTheDoe-id2vx
    @JaneTheDoe-id2vx 9 місяців тому +9

    why didn’t gavin reduce taxes instead? why increase the minimum wage if it doesn’t help anyone.

  • @vincentnarvaez4618
    @vincentnarvaez4618 8 місяців тому +6

    So as a skilled laborer
    Imagine starting at $12 then working hard , get experience , be a solid worker . Years after you get $20 level but its the same pay as someone who just started working at mcdees. Great

    • @donaldlyons17
      @donaldlyons17 8 місяців тому

      Well that depends on buying power too right? Over 6 years I was able to make 35K extra but $12 an hour was not bad back then!!!

  • @bobbyl3262
    @bobbyl3262 8 місяців тому +2

    If I owned a business in the state of california, I would close my business down, move out of california and open a business in a more business friendly state, such as Texas.

  • @PHN-2024
    @PHN-2024 9 місяців тому +12

    Pizza Hut knows paying their Delivery Drivers $20 an Hour to Sit Traffic would lead to Bankruptcy.

  • @Steven-xf8mz
    @Steven-xf8mz 9 місяців тому +4

    It's always net neutral in a sense. It's minimum wage, thus, minimum. Do people become super rich if hyper inflation shows up and everyone making $15 a hour is then making $1500 a hour? There are far too many people believe that everyone who works 8 hours a day should be entitled to a good life where they have a home, good spending power, 1-2 vacations annually, and a retirement fund. It just doesn't work that way, minimum wage is often tied to bare minimum someone needs to have to keep themselves barely fed. It's meant for HS and College students to make money on the side while still having their parents covering some of their living expense. If adults have these jobs, it's not a job where you can raise 2 kids + a housewife. Often 2 minimum wage workers can barely make a living, just economy, nothing personal.

  • @jashannon
    @jashannon 4 місяці тому

    Regarding California's fast food wage hike to $20 from $16, a worker at McDonalds told me the franchise owner cut hours -- especially overtime hours which was $22, nobody was laid off, the prices were not increased, the restaurant didn't go out of business, and the workers are happier as they have a bigger paycheck without working overtime hours to pay their bills. You could even guess that the only major change is that the workers have to work more efficiently -- but they are able to due to not being as tired having 8 hour shifts rather than 12 hour shifts. Or 32 hour weeks compared to 40 hour weeks. And they are willing to work more efficiently as well because they are happier. If the restaurant owner is even halfway decent with math, they'll see that they can solve the problem by cutting hours not jobs.

  • @OG1415
    @OG1415 9 місяців тому +4

    Thank God I got out of grocery and fast food jobs now i moved to solar industry earnings $38/hr 🙌🏽

  • @alfr1
    @alfr1 8 місяців тому +24

    WHY did Walmart and every large store go to some self-check-outs, and less cashiers? Because of high wages per hour. Now the state wants to double down on that mistake. Causes stores to close. My old boss at a McDonalds had 3 of us work on weekend nights, and chewed us out every Monday when the Day-shift came in and complained that it was a mess in the back because we were given NO TIME to clean, as he wanted us serving and cooking right up to the minute before we closed and left within a half hour, when a good cleaning took two hours. I quit after he wanted to cut us down to two workers for the 10pm to 12pm last two hours of the night. Hated leaving my fellow workers, but I told him I would not take a chew-out again when he shorted us on help. Then on Monday, they started serving Breakfast, and they started with 5, worked the day shift with 9, evening with 4 and night until 12:30 pm with 3, and chewed the 3 out, again. He had scheduled me to work Friday, Sat and Sun from 4:pm through 12:30, and Monday morning start at 05:30 am. He didn't care at all about us or our concerns or need for sleep between schedules. Of course he was paying minimum wage.

    • @silvy7394
      @silvy7394 8 місяців тому +3

      They moved to self checkout because it increased their profits, as they needed less workers. Get it right.

    • @alfr1
      @alfr1 8 місяців тому +1

      @@silvy7394 Right now the local Wal-mart has 50 Full-timers and 66 Part-timers, according to one assistant manager I visit with there. He told me that one night, they had 106 Fulls with vacation time and benefits, but OBAMACARE kicked in and they now had on Monday, 50 Fulls and 60 Parts, with Parts getting NO PERKS and NO PAID VACATION, ever. O'care told all who didn't get a Nancy Pelosi EXEMPTION that if they employed over 50 Full-timers at one location, they had to pay for ALL of the employees that worked there, their total Insurance costs. And every January 1, more bills tucked inside the 1600 pages of O'care spits out more laws, most taxing the people of this nation. . And junky, problematic, constantly breaking machines are not cost-effective, they hired many new employees to do the carts for Shopping for customers to drive up and get curb service or Home Delivery. But they did fire the night stocking crews so they could reduce theft and night operating costs. Now they stock shelves all day long, and hire more Security.

    • @scifirealism5943
      @scifirealism5943 8 місяців тому

      ​@@alfr1corporations wanting more is good
      But poor people wanting more money is bad.
      Got it

    • @alfr1
      @alfr1 8 місяців тому +2

      @@scifirealism5943 NOPE. He was the most un-caring boss that bought a Franchise, and he had his Son there to teach him how to be the next UN-CARING Boss just the same way. If the Corporation had found out what he was doing, they would have punished HIM, not the employees. I quit a cheap bad Boss, not a bad company.

  • @kevinlane7555
    @kevinlane7555 8 місяців тому

    Blaming your minimum wage job for not supporting your family is like complaining about a Volkswagen Jetta for not seating 15 people