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- Restaurants struggle to re-staff post-pandemic, and while Republican pundits posit that more generous unemployment benefits are to blame, workers are taking a stand and demanding jobs that provide more than just enough pay - or often not enough pay - to make ends meet. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #LivingWages
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I was a server for a convention center and I did not return when they called me back to work many months later. They did not communicate with me regarding COVID19. They did not inform staff when one of our guests had COVID19. Fortunately, I landed a higher paying job with benefits.
My employer literally sent us into sick people's homes until I got sick. I was sick for a month and a half I cannot afford to have covid-19 a second time it almost killed me the first time. I'm going to sit out the next wave of covid-19 and probably start my own business if we ever get this pandemic under control
@BlueMarvel Congrats!
Respect
Someone gets how this works
@@Impromptuinterviews I wish you the best, your last employer sounds awful. Take care of yourself!
I found a better job. Monday- Friday and holidays off! No more weekends in the restaurant. Now I get to spend time with my kids.
Congratulations!!!!
🍾congratulations 🎉
You’re awesome!!
So happy for you!!
Nice!
I worked as a manager for a pizza joint, cooked at a banquet hall and cooked at a bar for 3 three years straight to save a nest egg. Just to have a year of only working one job. Worked through the whole pandemic but finally said no more. Took my time to finish my training to be an electrician. I will never go back to working in a kitchen.
unless it's your home kitchen? 🥳 Congrats
Awesome, happy for you buddy
AMEN!
unless the stove needs electricity or something?
Congratulations 🎊
If you pay minimum wage, expect minimum work effort. I'm leaving my job because they expected me to pick up the slack from being short-staffed, but did not pay me for the extra intensity.
100%
Where I live our minimum wage is so low that places pay on average $5-$7 more an hour than minimum wage.. hints why minimum wage should be low.
It's more and more common for companies to cut employees and make other employees do those jobs, too.
At the vet hospital, VCA cut out the kennel worker positions and added that to vet technicians' and technologists' jobs with no extra pay.
Also, RVTs did not go to college to become kennel workers. It's like asking registered nurses to be janitors.
That's what my job is currently doing to us
@@hardcorewhovian556 where I live, places almost refuse to pay above minimum wage.
This is so accurate I’ve worked in the restaurant industry for six years and during the pandemic I applied for other jobs and now I have I have better paying job with benefits and I don’t have anyone screaming at me for ranch
lol what do you mean you dont have honey mustard?! congrats on the new job!
Ranch...the most over rated dressing ever!
Im glad u don't have to experience Texans anymore
Lol, lucky!
Realest comment I've ever read
I believe it was Chris Rock who explained what Minimum Wage really is. "When your boss says he's going to pay you minimum wage, what he means is, he'd like to pay you less, but it'd be ILLEGAL!"
I remember when he said that.
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law.
@@henryadam5300 I agree with your opinion man, generally I always look out for it to drop so I can purchase, to me truly I believe it has come to stay.
Bitcoin trading nowadays is a big change to make money.
That’s what “right to work” laws allow employers to do, especially to tipped employees whom they can get away with paying as little as $2.13, regardless of tip averages and how seasonal their market is.
A restaurant worker does more work in one 8 hour shift than politician will do in a month.
I would say in thier entire life.
Yeah it’s not like they went to college for years are generally highly educated successful lawyers and then ran for office multiple times. And help pass legislation The guy flipping burgers does way more work totally 😂😂😂
Those lazy A$$ politicians are always out of session. So the politicians probably work abut three months out of a year.
I dunno man. I'd say the person actually doing exploitative work is still more beneficial to society than people like Majorie Green.
@@hunterxcraft8328 well mostly after they get their degree, they don't have to try much after that unlike lawyers and doctors
They think we left restaurant and retail to sit on unemployment? Nah, I got my Master's while at home during the pandemic, and now I'm teaching and considering a move to administration in a couple of years. From 20k a year to 50k now, to 70k+ in another year or two. Never going back.
I'm glad that worked in your favor and I hope you never have to go back there or a similar employer. Congratulations!!!!🤩
AWESOME! I worked on a micro masters in cybersecurity, 🤞 I get a job from it.
@@debbiandrews1981 wait that’s so cool! Was wondering if anyone had success from those! Congratulations!
@@duncanbug I don't know yet, but hopefully so! 😊
Me too!!
I went back to school. 🤷🏽♀️ What did they want us to do? Wait a year and do nothing so they can lay you off again with no warning?
I did the same. The funny part is people still expecting you to take anything although you now have a Bachelor's.
Same. I’m going back to get my master’s.
They tell you to get a better job and for that you need an education, and now they're complaining people are trying to get better jobs whilst not relying on those petty wages that barely cover tuition.
You go girl! F em
And when you have a degree that means you have a lot more debt and have to take a higher paying job. I really wish more Americans knew you can go to an accredited American college in Europe for free and they teach in English. There's a reason not a lot of people are aware of that.
As a former server it is horrible we have to rely on the generosity of customers to pay our wage since the restaurant won’t.
Pretty much an American thing too.
Serve somewhere better then cause real severs be making bank 😂😂😂 u must of been over at steak and shake
Thats sad because servers are the backbone of the internets
@@hunterxcraft8328 Yeah, why should servers complain about making $120.00 a day when people who work in factories make $15.00 an hour plus health, medical, & dental? I mean it's not like they have families to support, right?
@@charlesstebbins7207 no one anywhere makes 1,200 a day buddy
A local Dairy Queen also did the "No one wants to work anymore" line on their hiring.
I walked in and asked for a job, got interviewed, got told the pay was 10/hr and said "Ah, sorry, I got a better offer from every other place in town".
Best part is I'm self employed.
That seems like a whole lot of work just for the punch line. 🙂
Worth it
@@generationwolves And a free blizzard!
Lol was that in Vancouver
Trolling the trolls... brilliant. 🤣
See this is what happens when people say, you should get a real job instead of flipping burgers... That's what people did and now look at the situation.
Employer: "If you want a living wage get a better job."
Employees: "Ok."
Employer: "You weren't supposed to do that."
If they actually got better jobs why are so many still unemployed?
@@user-sb1vz9pv5y Probably because not all the businesses are doing so and were not gonna just accept a low pay and deal with it.
@@user-sb1vz9pv5y Because they lack job skills and educations and like some people they go and get laid alot so they now have kids to aslo feed and they get mad they cant get better paying jobs and live better lives because of poor choices they made. Im not saying this is every case but I am saying you cant have a society where you reap benefits but do not contribute. its simple economics.
@@brianlogan4243 "reap benefits but do not contribute" Ohhhhh! You mean like investment banker or mid level manager.
10 years ago, I left the restaurant industry. Food service is like that abusive boyfriend who gaslights you into thinking you don’t deserve anything better, and that you’ll never find anything else. Now I’m working a job where I make three times the pay for half the hours, and I don’t work every evening and weekend and holiday. And I don’t have obnoxious customers abusing me.
Everyone I’ve stayed in touch with from those days has moved on to better jobs during the pandemic. The unemployment benefits were a cold hard slap of reality that showed them what it’s like to make a living wage. So they searched for something better. Their new jobs showed them what it’s likenot getting screamed at by customers and brainless owners. They got used to way more humane hours. They have zero intention of ever returning to that industry ever again.
So it’s definitely not a matter of “nobody wants to work anymore”. It’s just that nobody wants to work at a miserable job anymore.
The unemployment benefits you got today are something we never ever got before. There was no unemployment compensation during the depression and if you lost your job before 2020, you only got it for a very short number of weeks before you were cut off. You had to prove you were looking for job and had to take the first job you were qualified to take. Now we have to get more money than we ever made full time in unemployment benefits, plus the stimulus money and then feel abused. Just about everyone under 40 seems to think they get their dream life with everything they ever wanted with little to no effort or sacrifice on their part. I rent out 2 apartments and it's amazing when looking at people's credit reports what they blow most of their money on. People making barely more than minimum wage driving new cars, nice clothes, lots of partying while having totally maxed out credit cards. This isn't just one applicant, it's just about all of them. I worked as a waitress for 11 years and I don't recall people being horrible unless now people are less courteous than they were in the 70's and 80o's. Yes, you worked hard, but the tip money was great. You leave your work behind when you go home after your shift. Now think about all the jobs where you work a standard wage where no matter how much extra work you put in, like teachers, therapists, social workers, bosses, etc. where you might put in more than 10 hours a week of unpaid work, you have people's lives you are responsible for like social workers and teachers. Sometimes you spend a lot of your own money buying things for your clients, like food, clothing and temporary housing. No overtime for all of this at all and wages that aren't superlative. Young people think they should make massive wages working little hours while blowing whatever they earn on cars, entertainment, tattoos, full service subscriptions and other nonsense. Your parents never expected anything from you while giving you whatever you ever wanted. Never any consequence for bad behavior or lack of effort. Sorry kids, in the real world sometimes you have to work for things, do without and make sacrifices, and if you got yourself or someone else pregnant that's your problem. You knew how to avoid that. Time to put on your big person pants and realize you aren't a child anymore. Life is not one never ending party.
@@amywalker7515 In the 70s and 80s, food servers made $2.01 an hour. It’s still only $2.83. Also in the 70s and 80s, people knew how to behave in restaurants. Now they all act like YOU, pointing your accusing fingers at people thinking you’re somehow better than them. Your thinking is outdated and cruel.
@@phillydragonfly thank you
Truer words have never been spoken.
The pandemic isn't over. The illness it's out there and few employees are so at risk. Pay decent wages, nobody wants to die cause they were working at McDonald's
“We’re essential workers, but we’re not really being treated like essential workers.”
The pandemic summarized in one phrase.
P
Even in NZ the government put a wage freeze on these essential workers 😑 like, the world wouldve went into Mad Max apocalypse zone if it werent for essential workers. USA specifically were half way there with all their drama.
Being called essential is as meaningful as a stripper telling you your her favourite customer
I work for a major pharmacy and we are definitely essential. Our wages start at $12/hr. $13 for management. Apparently all it takes to stop total social collapse is just $12/hr. Thanks for getting rid of unions, Republicans.
speaking facts
I went through a Steak 'N Shake drive through, yesterday, and the Franchise Partner was working the window. I hope this trend continues so that all these corporations realize exactly how essential the employees are.
Let the big chains disappear. Mom and pop shops can come back, there will someone who figured out how to pay their employees. It just took covid to figure it out.
@@andrewboyce7268 What are you talking about? There are independent restaurants freaking _everywhere._ And most of them are no better than the big chains when it come to pay & benefits.
@@lisarenee3505 I'm a chef, been in the business 30 years, the mom and pop places are the worst to work in. You never know when they're going to shut down, they expect you to ignore health guidelines, etc. Then they'll argue about your worked hours trying to pay you less.
That sure is some sweet karma. Imagine how many of those franchise owners called republican governors to cut off unemployment benefits so they can get back to abusing their employees while they sit in the office all day
💯
“No one wants to work anymore.”
Well, business owners, if you treat your employees as a necessary evil at best and as s*** on the bottom of your shoes at worst, you can’t expect loyalty from said employees.
If a company can’t afford to pay people a living wage, they shouldn’t be running a business in the first place.
Very true
They can afford it, but it would profit them the most to pay you the least
How that makes sense a livable wage is something that veries greatly from people to people not only that bussinesses dont necesseraly need to they just pay the necessary amount of money they have to get the skill you provide.Now that demand for restaurants is up employers will have to increase wages so that they can attract workers
A great President said something along those lines about 90 years ago.
Yes!
I saw this in a joke but it resonated!!
It's almost like the pandemic created an invisible Union of workers that demanded a better condition from the workplace.
Now if only they would form an actual union and have strike funds
That's the dumbest thing I've ready today. People are choosing to not work because your daddy government is paying people to not work.
@@boneappleteeth3127 and also add the fact that many people realized how much they got exploited
@@boneappleteeth3127 so is the government not supposed to help there people
💯 percent
So they want me to put my life in danger to be abused by Karen and not even make a living wage...? Oooookay.
...you mentioned Karen but you forgot Kody..he's a POS too.
same here
And not when Karen is always asking to see the manager if one of her fries is bent 🙄
You left out the part where you now also need to arbitrate if this is a vaccinated person who isn't wearing a mask, or an anti-mask anti-vaxer, just lying to to go around maskless.
@@dextersmithbsee
Don't forget the Tuckers.
All those restaurants should learn a thing or two from Gravity Payments, the credit card company which raised the salary for all its employees to $70,000, while the CEO took a paycut to $70,000, down from $1.1 million. The turnover rate at the company has dropped, and the profits have grown.
If only all companies treated their employees that way.
Yeah. . correct
That’s a company who puts people over profit. A real CEO is willing to cut their pay before their employees. But a lot just don’t care, it’s pretty clear where a lot stand.
This employer deserves a Nobel.
I'm sure they're already set with the millions they earned to do shady stuff on the stock market.
"No one wants to work anymore?" Incorrect, people want to work, but they want a living wage and decent treatment while doing so.
No i seen alot of youth come in our warehouse and quit 😒😒😒 we pay 31$$
Its ROBINHOODS FAULT ... wait till next years tax season. Gonna be a bloodbath
@Adam A. Your reasoning is incorrect. Here in California, most of those menial food service jobs were performed by "undocumented" workers who got paid under the table in cash and they did not pay taxes or contribute to the unemployment insurance fund. If there were no contributions, they are not eligible for unemployment benefits of any kind including the federal stimulus payments.
Furthermore, the restaurant industry claims it operates at a slim profit margin and it must hire undocumented workers who are paid less. However why are these low profit restaurants still in business after being closed for over a year? The answer is they are getting corporate welfare from the government. In other words, they are making more $$$ by not doing anything just like you claim unemployed workers are.
Republicans=HYPERBOLE!
@Adam A. and you know this from what source?
@Adam A. trust me alot are, I know some.
"Nobody wants to work anymore," -- Uh, no they don't want to work for /you/
Amen
This is true 👍..
Or "They don't want to work anymore for you !"
Don’t want to work for a pittance!
Big difference.
"I guess it turns out when they (restaurants) say 'Nobody wants to work, what they actually meant was nobody wants to work for the starvation wages that we were willing to pay them.' "
Thank you, Trevor!
The same exact principle applies to harvesting crops. There’s no such thing as: “jobs Americans won’t do”. Only jobs unwilling to pay fair wages for the labor required.
He really didn't get it right although he did appeal to his main audience. If you actually look at the unemployment number data that they are reporting it shows that people are going back to work but women are not going back to work. School has not gotten completely back to normal so women are still stuck at home taking care of kids. The unemployment data for women right now is staggering vs men. This is an easily explainable news story but no one wants to give you the truth because everyone is speaking their political agenda instead.
@@Tential1 No he did get it right and it seems that you can't understand. Maybe if women were paid a livable wage they could afford child care. No political agenda people just want to afford things (child care, rent Food) especially if they are working lots of hours per day.
@@Tential1 The real question is: Why did schools become the nation's babysitters and parents. It's kind of like the police thing (well a lot like it) We don't want to fix society and we are already paying for schools and police, so let them do it ... and 2020 showed us why that is not working out well for us. But as a mother who raised three kids mostly on my own. I do not disagree with your point at all. The struggle is real and it will not be an easy fix because parents can not afford to pay the full value of quality child care and child care can not afford to stay in business at what parents can afford to pay and there were not enough qualified child care facilities before the pandemic shut a lot of them down. So it is still an uphill battle and we lost a lot of ground last year.
Bingo!
I pursued my degree in Cyber Security and was able to break away from being paycheck to paycheck with my new job.
My aspiration
I will be starting a PCI DSS Cybersecurity course this week.
So, the restaurant had enough money lying around to plop tens of thousands of dollars on a single robot that will require ongoing maintenance and expensive upkeep, facility upgrades and storage, but paying an actual person a couple dollars more an hour and treating that person with basic dignity was going to bankrupt them... Right....
Don't worry, the robots will turn on them soon enough.....
100 dollars an hour for a tech to fix it...that's what my company pays our engineers to fix ours...they pay me $20 to operate it.
Well, there is training, injury insurance, & then being left staff less, etc, so in b the long term the robot would save money, but ya, I love how they can ask afford to pay more NOW, after supposedly losing so much in the last year
The robots will be cheaper in the long run....and cost them their businesses. This country NEEDS a balance between employers and employees. Without employees, work doesn't get done. Without employers, people can't afford the necessities of life. Here's the rub: without CUSTOMERS, the service industry is DEAD. Employees become customers when they can afford it. Employers who cut workers, are cutting customers.
@@ursamajor6347 I'm thinking we're headed for a serious shake-up in the next decade or so. Climate change is going to change how we live--whether they deny it or not. Immigration will be a fact of life as the fall-out of damaged ecosystems gets worse. Curious....all those businesses who want cheap labor, could support immigration and find workers ready to fill the gaps.
people realized they can get other jobs that don’t exploit them and put them in danger
truth. I cooked professionally for 12+ years, now I'm going to "sit home and Netflicc" until August when I go back to college 🙌
Working in a restaurant puts you in danger?
@@apexcrypto01 "This is a robbery, put the money in the bag."
@@apexcrypto01 Have you ever dealt with the public? WHEN are people not dangerous ?
@@apexcrypto01 knives, fire, chemicals, back injuries, drunken patrons, and Karens. so yes.
It's almost as if people don't want to work themselves to death in jobs that pays non-living wages. Can't imagine why...
Non living wages......Is that about the cost of living increasing on an hourly basis? Maybe find out what's causing THAT to happen and prevent the cost of living from increasing more. Huh?
@@boneappleteeth3127 How about doing both? Increase wages in the service industry from minimum-wage to a livable-wage so that workers do not have to rely on tips anymore, _and_ curb the cost of living to an afforable level? A lot of european countries are trying to do just that.
@@1989Nihil And what's a "livable" wage? Why not increasing it to $50/hr? Or $100/hr? This will only cause inflation. But many of you choose to ignore inflation.
@@boneappleteeth3127 The problem is inflation has been happening, and pay hasn’t gone up to match.
@@papinprincess I'll mention this again. Read carefully. The cost of living.......Is increasing! It has not stopped for the past twent years. Increasing the minimum wage is one way to cause inflation. Mass printing the USD also causes inflation.
"No one wanys to work anymore..."-in an industry that not only resists paying a living wage, but whose management STEALS tips given to front end workers as well!
can i be your friend? you sound like a decent human being who has heart.
Managers deserve those tips!!
Tired or Karen’s yelling at me and demanding to speak to Mannager. Top of all that my boss buying new cars but can’t pay $15
Not any different then Bezos stealing money from Amazon flex drivers and workers going to the bathroom in bottles. Meanwhile Bezos just bought a half billion dollar yacht. Oh and Amazon helps themselves to welfare and barely pays hardly any taxes.
@@mjohnson1741 They pay zero income tax.
I know one who complained about giving his workers health insurance but went out and bought a brand new yatch
@@markwilliams6378 That's kinda sickening really.
@@colabama yep that's what they do. The rethuglicans keep talking about trickle down economics. Yeah right. It's more about up flow
Them: “You don’t like minimum wage? Get a better job!”
Restaurant workers: [actually go and get better jobs]
Them: [surprised pikachu face]
Also, one thing I think we’re forgetting is that a lot of working class ppl DIED this past year. Kinda hard to work when you’re six feet under 🤷♀️
Hey, you're right. That didn't get mentioned. Bet those would make for some interesting statistics.
also it’s been much harder to immigrate/flee to the USA from places with much worse situations
They're not ready for that convo💯💯
A lot of people also don't wanna work for companies that willingly endangered their workers' health and lives by forcing them to work during a global pandemic just for a pittance of a paycheck.
@@glennwelsh9784 to a degree, ill agree. In theory people could just not work for them and they would fail. However, in many instances, those kinds of businesses are the only choice within a reasonable travel distance from their homes, so the choice they're left with is to work for them or don't pay bills or eat.
omfg those politicians are so dense! it’s not that people “don’t want to work”, they want to make enough money to *actually* live on! who would be eager to go back to a bs situation??
Exactly. When the fast food joint doesn't pay their workers enough to afford the product they're selling the system is broken. No one can afford to take a job where 100% of your paycheck doesn't even cover rent.
Pay for bombs, really. I agree most of us can live better when not under the the threat of war. Our gvt. is perverse.
FINALLY ANOTHER PERSON WITH COMMON SENSE
Plus covid-19 is a health risk
The politicians know they're spewing bs; they're playing to their base.
You know, the same base that gladly accepts the stimulus money, but still demonizes the party that's helping them survive.
"It's a free market! If your job doesn't pay enough, just quit and find a better-paying job!"
"Okay."
"Wait no not like that stop."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is funny when a stingy boss's advice to a worker to quit and find a better job backfires on them because it was a rhetorical complaint that turned out to be much more effective than they expected it to be.
Ironically many of these “staying at home” people are allowing people start their own business, find better jobs or even go back to school.
When people have started their own home based business, are they still allowed to keep collecting their "dole" benefits? Do they declare their income for tax purposes?
@@jivvyjack7723 ...yes. yes...it's allowed...🌸
@@jivvyjack7723 not if the state paying their benefits considers that to be "work" which probably is the case
one of the oldest UI scams in the book is to claim that you're out of work while self-employed...as far back as I can remember that's considered unemployment fraud, a very popular fraud as it is hard to prove but still fraud
just as it is unemployment fraud to turn-down work while collecting UI, but again easy to do if you only apply for jobs that you can't get.
That's a fair complaint on both sides. Employers merely need to offer people jobs and then report the offer to the state Division of Labor office. Eventually the state will put 1 and 1 together. But that takes additional time and effort on the part of employers which is often not worth their time. They really want to cancel the UI benefits and leave the unemployed desperate for money and forced to come in to accept whatever salary they can get. Which...is the entire point of unemployment insurance. The real problem here is that the GOP signed onto the benefits but didn't get the reward they wanted, which is that the businesses hit by the pandemic would get government money to stay open and pay their staff AND the unemployed workers would vote for Trump and keep him in office. Now the business owners will demand tax cuts to compensate.
No more corporate
Funniest part is, many people im sure still know the pandemic isnt over yet, so they arent going to work. But republicans are acting like there never was a pandemic!
As someone with a 4 year technical degree who FINALLY got a job in their field after working in service for years, I got really upset hearing my rich in-laws complain about how no one wants to work in the service industry anymore.
I honestly can not get over that. I'm from a country where it's not even legal to employ workers for tips only (not that some businesses wouldn't try to sneak past that). I can get it in the few restaurants / venues where people are throwing around with money, but in some small coffee & cookies joint? That's a bad joke.
As for the ****** in-laws: either go with
_"everybody can make it and earn enough money, if you don't , there's something wrong with you!!"_ ,
or with
_"I want you to service me for a not-even-livable wage, if you don't, there's something wrong with you!!!"._
Not both.
the waiter/waitress job is something to do for a while, not a carreer. that is the problem. you did the right thing.
@@Julia-lk8jnNot requiring restaurants to pay the same minimum wage as for every other industry was a huge mistake in the US. Hopefully, that will change.
Yeah. No one does because as inflation happens, the wages will no longer cover it. The wages hasn't changed much but I seen stuff going up in prices everyday. I remember working as a server for this cafe for university students and the menu prices goes up like 5-6 times in a year but our salary stayed the same.
@@lukewarmwater6412 So, while someone is waiting tables they are supposed to be homeless while they figure out a different job that people like you consider life-long worthy? Every person working full time should be able to afford a roof over their head. Either people start getting paid more, or rent and goods need to become cheaper. Either one will work.
I'm not gonna lie I just left Wendys after my first day because they believed I didn't need adequate training for the job. The minute I walked in the manager said start taking orders like really. No training on POS system or anything. Its not about the unemployment benefits its about how the restaurant industry is neglecting standards on training, pay and instead is paying more attention to their demands instead.
Correct, adequate training is becoming a relic in corporate America due to capitalism. I've worked in the financial sector for large banks and can attest to the same thing barely there training. Wrongful termination law suits have surged in the last 30yrs due to lack of training of management.
Same in Retail. No proper training. Just figure it out on your own time. When I asked my last manager why she refused to take some time each day (as required by the company) to go over proper procedures with me she said, because no one had trained her and basically she didn't know what she was doing😒
Even the postal service is not properly training any more; it seems like an easy job till you start doing it
If $300 dollars a week is the difference between working or staying home... I think that's says more about the state of the employer rather the employee
An extra $300 per week per employee would probably bankrupt most employers... Just because a bunch of losers with minimum wage jobs learned to suckle off the government's teet doesn't mean small business owners are to blame for having to pay low wages just to stay open. No one is talking about how the profit margin in restaurants is usually around 5-8%.
@@thisisgettingold if your profit margin is so low that it can only be sustained by paying poverty wages then your business model is wrong.
Pre-pandemic, a lot of servers had to have 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. People just don't want to do that anymore, and they shouldn't have to. Scary when the work force starts making demands, huh?
I worked 2 full time for 11 years only quit the night one after I remarried. Still took both of us working to make ends meet. No savings to speak of cuz if you're blue collar with a kid all $ gone as soon as you get it.
This makes me think of what happened after the black death. So many peasants died that Nobles were forced to give them better deals. I think it might have been part of the reason that the west got rid of the Peasant work model and allowed commoners free travel and choices in work.
I mean it even helped Western Civilization as the loss of workers forced a massive increase in technology to replace the loss workers.
@@Nostripe361 It made Europe look for slaves, as well.
@@beatrizmedeirosnoleto9391 that’s kind of all of history. Those in power are always trying to find someone to take advantage of.
I mean peasant is just a fancy way to enslave people to the land. So once they started to become freedmen the nobles decided to just use foreigners.
and here I am telling my son he could make more money waiting on tables than the total scam of an occupation he chose. Where are these horrible jobs where you have to work 3 to make ends meet? I waited on tables for 11 years, made fabulous money while going to college. Can we learn how to BUDGET?
I left kfc this year and now the location I left is struggling cause others followed suit. We all got tired of getting worked like crazy and not getting the pay or appreciation for the job we do. But now I work somewhere better and make more money than I ever did there
Yeah all Republicans are idiots.
Agree same thing at the hotels and motels. To much work for not enough money the living expenses are to high so people look for more pay in other jobs to meet their budget.
that doesn't fit the narrative that people are lazy and just want free handouts. how dare you pull yourself up by your boot straps and find a better opportunity.
yes
Congrats! That's awesome.
A lot of people went to work for call centers performing customer service from home. They get better pay and benefits. Notice call centers haven’t been as pressed for employees
Yeah my friend went from Starbucks to a call center for insurance. ~7.50/hr raise right there baby!
And that shows how terrible restaurant jobs are. Because call centers are the worst
@@amelialeila9289 Yeah, I do customer service and customers can really try your patience sometimes.
@@V.E.R.O. Plenty of bad customers in the restaurant and retail industry. I can attest for that during high school.
That's the only reason I took my last call center job, which was so stressful, I didn't last a year there. But I needed to money😩
“No one wants to work for starvation wages” so well said.
Then get a better paying job
@@brianlogan4243 No one working full time should be live in poverty. Or need to get food stamps because their employer is too cheap to pay them fairly.
@@LdyVder I disagree. If you have no skills and no desire to improve your station in life then you unfortunately are going to struggle. There is not enough money in the world to pay every single person even 500 a week to do nothing. That's one reason why communism doesn't work. If you don't produce you better be wealthy but even wealthy produce to a certain extent. People do get bad breaks and deserve help but they are exceptions and not the rule
No one WANTS to work. I never worked for starvation wages because low pay jobs are not meant to support people they are meant to start people out.
In america if you dont make enough for food you can get food stamps
I honestly don't get how it's legal to pay people $2 an hour and hope they make tips that's crazy they should be brought to the federal court
You're ill-informed and dūmb
My sister is a single mom with 2 kids that has no help, yet she makes enough working 3 days a week off of tips to sustain the household. And she doesn’t have to claim most of it because it’s cash.
@@mikecaldwell8014 Well that's gonna end soon. All places now are going cashless you get tips of a credit card or zelle. They want to tax you on those tips. Regan was the one who discovered at one time it was worth being a server because of the cash.
@@mikecaldwell8014 for every person like that there’s a hundred who aren’t making enough money.
@@AA-wb9zu dude that's literally how the restaurant industry works you're ill-informed
They do anything but pay workers a REAL LIVING WAGE
it's not always that simple though, some of the smaller businesses can't afford to pay 15 dollars a hour.
No offense but Get a skill that pays more. It’s what the rest of us did. Ijs.
@@pforgottonsoul then they shouldnt be in business
@@pforgottonsoul smaller business already pay more than minimum wage and if they can’t afford to pay people well the owners should take less money
@@DaniSmithe that requires money most of the time
I'm loving every story about someone actually being able to use a livable unemployment rate to hunt for a job, without fear driving them to take what they can get, and reduce their underemployment. It's a balm to my soul.
Exactly
Not in Texas..
Preach. It's about time the working class got some help.
I moved from cooking for $11 to forklift operation in a warehouse for $17 and I have never been happier
That's still a sad comment on wages when a person can be happy on less than what minimum wage should be only because they are accustomed to living on sustenance wages or less
I've worked for the restaurant business for 20 years. And that whole time I had to live paycheck to paycheck. Now I'm a Chauffeur and don't have to worry about if I have enough money to to buy me a 🥩 to eat. 😌😂
I wonder if they let you drive luxury cars Lol
The reason I'm not rushing to work at a restaurant is because I found a job that pays me 30 an hour
Nice...
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Depends on where you work.
Just curious, what type of job did you get?
Blessings!!
Happy for you! Please stay safe.
Everyone who has worked a restaurant or food service job knows exactly where to go to cry: the freezer.
True dat
Yessss
Or dry storage...but then again you're usually sweating like crazy from incessant demands for ramekins of ranch so the cooler IS probably best. 🙃
Its also where you go to tend to your burns with the medical supplies you bought because the kit is always empty.
Every person must HAVE to work as a server or FF-Worker for at least a month before they can do any other job. Period. Then they'd really get it and would treat their servers with respect and kindness and NOT THINK $2 is a GREAT tip regardless of their ticket total!
Restaurant workers should be paid at least equivalent to members of congress ~ they actually work and serve more people.
Sir, I love yr statment. That would make a great bumper sticker!
You should get that on a shirt, definitely would buy.
Brilliant
lol, another fantasy land comment. You dont think there are congressman that waited tables or came from poor homes?
@@brianlogan4243
Name them.
I saw a great metaphor that made the problem easy to visualize: "There are 300 cookies to divide between 20 people. The CEO takes 290 cookies, and fires 10 workers so there are enough cookies to go around."
You're missing the part where he says that the 10 fired workers just want cookies for free, because they are lazy and stuff.
@@Dreagostini BEAOTCH PULEEZE...
OBVIOUSLY YOU NEVER worked in the service/restaurant industry to say such a thing. 🙄
"TheNeoVid" describes Wall Street better than most economics professors.
Blows my mind when someone making $17000 a year plus perks can vote against $15.00 an hour.
Oops !I meant $170.000 a year
The CEO should take 291 cookies. 20 people minus ten equals 10 people, but the CEO IS one of those. So 9 normal workers.
Super pedantic I know 😞
Unless...unless...the CEO was never part of the equation...and just takes the cookies 🤔
I’m working and still can’t pay my bills and still have a little money. It’s not just restaurants workers. Health care pay is sickening.
Get a better job
@@williamerazo3921 Just be rich. William why haven't people gone to you for your endless wisdom. Which field did you get your PhD from?
I think it was a joke 😂
To be honest some persons just want to have a luxurious life style before they reach far in life. you only have to cut bac a little. I know this girl who only got 4k month car bills alone is 1200 per month, rent 1500, food and other expenses vary.
@@williamerazo3921 lol that's why the restaurant industry CANT FIND PEOPLE TO WORK. BECAUSE WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR ANS GETTING BETTER PAYING JOBS.....
Unemployment is the reason I’m never going back to retail. So instead, I’m starting my masters this fall in data science so I can start a career instead of working every other day and still can’t pay rent 🙄
Can't pay rent? It's almost as if we should find out what's causing the cost of living to increase........And prevent that from happening more.....Instead of raising minimum wage.
IM REALLY GLAD THIS PANDEMIC MADE YOU CONSIDER SCHOOL.
@@breannabrown9344 thank you! It looks like a lot of people have which might put some of us at a better advantage. I’m ready to start but also scared lol. I’ve been out of school for a few years so I hope I can readjust lol
Digital marketing course helps too
@@boneappleteeth3127 and how is somebody who's starving, and homeless and in need now supposed to do that?
I've got no extra pay for being essential in fact I lost hours and had to work harder than ever
Me too so I don't feel the least bite bad for quitting. I did too much free work it's time for management to up their game
Same.
Wait, so people actually want a living wage? Who would’ve thunk it!
The refrain for the last 20 years has been, “You’re lucky we let you work here and you should be grateful for a job”. UGH
@@sunnysal3889 ppl still think like that
It's not that simple though the employer will just pass along the cost to customers and very likely take a bigger cut for themselves. That will initially reduces demand resulting in a stagflation economy and potentially a very very long pain recession or series of them. That's pretty much what most of the 70's and early 80's were. It took over a decade to get rid of and that was when we almost had competent politicians something the US hasn't seen in over two decades now.
Except a 7.00 burger vs a 3.50 burger means nothing to you and everything to them. You won't get stagflation. They have more money. You will still want the burger.
@@Dayandcounting Oh no. The economy!
I'm a barista, we don't get paid much and have to rely on tips to make up for the lack of set pay.
Funny how last year we were called " essential " but, we don't get treated well or pay for that manner .
The cooks are with you. How 'essential' are you when most of your staff is last in line to get the vaccine? How essential are you that when you return they pay the same and offer no more? Nah fam
This is like opening the door then getting upset when your hostages escaped
Sad but true
Great analogy
ON POINT!!
Haha 100%
@@dannyv2230 not really an analogy. It is literally the situation.
I'd replace that phrase with
"no one wants to be exploited anymore"
😎🍿🍕📺
can i be your friend? you sound like a decent human being who has heart.
Republicans: "If you don't like getting paid minimum wage to flip burgers, then find a better job!"
Workers:
Republicans: "Wait, no! That's not how this is supposed to go! Who's going to make my food now?!?! I blame the Democrats and unemployment!"
Republicans: Refuse to wear masks, social distance, or get shots. Making the pandemic worse and last longer, having devastating effects on the economy. Especially in their southern states that already suffer badly with unemployment and low wages.
Republicans Now: "This is Biden's America! I can't get Chic-Fil-A dipping sauce!"
Yep and negotiate your new pay when you get to a new company. They need you more than you need them. Get into a skilled trade if you can carpentry is not that hard and the starting pay rate in my state has gone up. 30 to $50 an hour is the new starting rate for a carpenter
@@Impromptuinterviews ;-) measure twice, cut once! [former cabinet-maker]
If infrastructure will become the focus, we'll need a LOT of all kinds of skilled labor!!!
@@Impromptuinterviews a lot of people turn to skilled trade. Every ace hardware, Lowes, & home depot was sold out. A lot of remote workers, online tubers i.e only fans, podcast, diy videos, flipping stuff.
They aren’t finding better jobs. They’re staying home and collecting federal unemployment benefits, on top of their state benefits. Way to show that you’re completely ignorant and a tribalist in one comment.
Me and my friends who were servers got fired. They could have furloughed us but they fired us. We all moved on, finished our degrees, started businesses, learned new skills in better paying industries. Restaurants blew it.
I don’t understand how they did not see this coming...I was a hiring manager for a restaurant, I had been pushing for better wages and work/life balances for ever.
Absolutely!
@@killmewhileimahead But better wages doesn't stop the cost of living from increasing more....
They did you a favor by letting you go. If they put you on furlough, you would not have received unemployment.
@@boneappleteeth3127 Better wages at least makes it possible to keep up with increased cost of living, as opposed to the starvation wages restaurants usually pay, and thus having the workers rely on tips from customers.
Loool my ex boss took the ppe loan and laid eveyone off and when everything opened up they gave us less than 24 hours to say if we were going back lolololol safe to say no one went back and they got shafted for almost a month. Brings joy to my heart if we being hoenst.
My ex employer took the PPP loan then told us we need to come back to work in the height of a viral pandemic because they declared them self essential even though I would need to be in 5 to 15 households per week to do my job. I did not feel safe and I have underlying health conditions so I contacted the Attorney General's office to inform them I was being ordered back to work and they told me to go on unemployment. My employer continue to threaten me until I told them that for my own health and safety I cannot enter another person's house carpool or any of the other things that our state had said we should not be doing in a viral pandemic.
They continue tearing out people's kitchens in occupied houses well people were dying from their actions. I hope one of the clients that lost a family member because of them takes them to court and proves it was their fault. They also got me sick before I stayed home to begin with. It took a month and a half to recover
@@Impromptuinterviews Who did you vote for?
@@dannacht6827 your mom
This pandemic has allowed people to spend more time with family. Made them realize how many far more important things that matter more than pleasing your managers and corporate who will replace you in 24 hours if they want to. Hope this pressure continues and helps make some life changing laws.
A lot of people have never worked in customer care or service and it shows, getting yelled at and abused
Absolutely, dealing with so many Karens in your working day!! They should be paid serious danger money in those working conditions !!
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Or harassed by people that don't understand the concept of no.
Gah. Wage theft.
PREACH!!!!! Customers yell and complain they can't reach an AMERICAN customer service agent, but they want to abuse us and not pay us. Enough is ENOUGH!
People were home and had time to do free online courses, go back to school, finish degrees. They have better opportunities now so if you want workers make your job a better opportunity.
Yep. Much respect to anybody who took the chance to buckle down and learn stuff.
Much less to those who used the time to yell about masks violating their precious liberty. (Which seems to be doing just fine with speed limits, hard-helmet regulations and 'no shoes no shirt no service')
"Make your job a better opportunity" She said what she SAID, LOL!
A degree doesn't always land you a job, many with the same degree are seeking the same job you are.
Say it louder for the people in the back! 👏🏻
BINGO!!!!
Lol “we sent them so much money “ 😂😂😂
That little $1400 didn’t cover my mortgage!! These ppl are crazy!!
I died at that moment.😂🤣⚰
$ 1400 barely covers the rent for a single month. Forget child care, groceries, utilities. These are all monthly bills. The cheapest place I lived in the past 10 years was a 2 bedroom apartment in a collage town, and that was $750 per month just for rent.
@@seanpeacock4290 the problem with Republicans is they're using smoke and mirrors. They have a fundamental belief that some jobs have value and others do not. CEOs make millions yearly, and Republicans always say it's too little. Cashiers make $30 k a year, and they're making too much.
Gop are tightwad unless its tax cuts for thrm
Not taking sides but they were referring to the unemployment
I am a waitress. This made me cry. Thank you for speaking the truth
"You can't pay workers if they're not doing anything. This is business. It's not Congress." What a perfect line.
Trevor's Is Hilarious 😂
💯 percent
It''s not only congress, all government jobs are like that.
I work for government and it's the most chill job I've had ever!
So now the restaurant owners can do it all and save money right. hahha
I love him😃❤
All these millionaires talking about how much money 300 dollars is. 🙄
Right? That doesn't even pay my rent.
Exactly!! I’m sure NONE of them would do anything different if the tables were turned. And many of them cashed in to the tune of MILLIONS in PPP money! I’m sure NONE of that was passed on to employees! 😒
@@leslielewis40 EXACTLY!
That part...👏
stop being lazy you sad Libs 🤮
In the 2008 recession, owners got tax credits for hiring. So they'd hire you for "full time", then cut you down to 2 hrs. They knew this would make the worker quit, and then they could hire new ones and get tax credits AGAIN. And you wonder WHY no one wants to work at restaurants?
Wow I did not know that.
Yeah. It is false promises
Businesses are mostly in the business to game any system they can, finding all the tax loopholes and the employer cheats they can to boost share price for transient shareholders and their own executive stock portfolios. Now they're mad when workers have options.
@@citogal maybe if the government didn't give these benefits... Maybe if we realized that corporations getting money from the government isn't actually the corporations' fault
JC Penney did the same thing. Look at them now
In business school they taught us one of the best ways to save money was to cut workers pay… I kid you not ‼️
Employees mean nothing more than a necessary evil/cost if doing business, to corporations, on an expense spreadsheet. To employers, you are nothing, but a tool, & can be replaced at anytime. "You, foolish employees are not human beings. You are merely human doings. Now get back to work slaves, so I can hurt you some more!!" ~entitled employer, who owns a company too big, to fail.~
High turnover, hiring new employees, and training them costs money. Loyal seasoned employees do their job without their managers having to hover over them, and rarely make mistakes on the job. They have really missed this point in the service industry.
Imagine the fact that alot of these companies even received bail out money amd yet still chose to feed workers bread crumbs..233,000 new jobs but 500,000 people died 😥
Misinformation.., cdc shows nowhere near 500k deaths
@@heartlandlawncare8807 589,000 to date...look it up
Revised figures put it at 900k with the undocumented immigrants finally being counted
They revised the figures it was 900k people that died.
Yeah. I know of one business that laid off their workers and used the money for new flooring :|
“You know a job isn’t paying enough when every meal ends with a mini go fund me” 😭
hahahahaha
"people just don't want to work... human nature kicks in".
That's what they said about recently freed slaves, who were denied paying jobs because they should be grateful to work for free slop and and one set of rags.
Little Rock, Arkansas is a very racist place.
Mitch McConnell doesn’t work. He just goes to a place of business.
@@MegaTamarra ROFLMAOO! One of the best comments I've seen on YT. I am hollerin' 😂
@@smileychicaj 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁😁 I’m glad I could get you to laugh.😄
@@MrMonopolistic Is it? I drove through it two weeks ago to meet my girlfriend in St Louis, MO. Now I'm curious.
Translation: Do I want to go back to work and have to struggle to meet my basic needs while being abused by both the business I work at and customers, or would I rather meet my basic needs and be able to arrange my life in a more healthy, happy, and sustainable way? 🙃
This entire situation proves why we need unions. They had the opportunity to do this the entire time and only did it after this happened.
Which is why the conservatives and corporations in general spent generations and billions of dollars busting the unions.
@@OverworkedITGuy Yeah they don't wan to share their profits with the ppl who made them rich. Jerks.
@@100lamadrina8 exactly.
Remember how in precovid times we were expected to come in and work even if we were sick or else take responsibility for covering our own shift? Let's not go back to that.
I'll really hate it if we go back to that.
These companies need to pay people more. This pandemic has been a revelation for a lot of people.
The crazy leftits are talking about this since decades. And suddenly it's reality. Who would have thought.
And how do you expect companies to pay people more, if they can’t event afford to operate due to lack of job demand? On April there were 7 million job openings and only 2 hundred thousand were taken, this is due to Biden’s massive spending that just keeps people at home not wanting to work. If we want higher wages, we need companies to be able to hire people on the first place and we must stop this massive unnecessary spending, that by the way is causing inflation (which is something that also happens no matter how much you raise the minimum wage).
Why i am going to pay more to someone i gotta train that's the problem now
@@daisytinsley8575 Then run the entire business by yourself. If you can't run a business paying employees living wages, then you don't deserve those employees.
We've really found out that the "essential workers" who keep our country running are not valued monetarily in comparison with their usefulness to society.
This happens everywhere after the pandemic. I am from Bulgaria and used be in the restaurant business. Many of my former colleagues, now managers and owners, are struggling to find workers. What happened is that many people who worked in restaurants moved to the country side, found different jobs, started their own business, started some type of education or simply chose the security of social benefits instead of working/not working pandemic situation. We are witnessing an economic and social shift towards a different way of life. The lock down gave many people opportunity to just stop, relax and rethink their life choices.
Interesting that they don't want to raise minimum wage, and provide full time hours and benefits and wonder why people aren'tgoing. back. Like the CEO of Kroger who didn't want to pay 15.00 and closed stores in California but have himself 22 millions for the year.
It was actually 2 stores and it was the county they were in not just California that tried to make them raise their wages for I think it was 6 months.
Yes. And those stores are in the areas that most desperately need them to support the economy. It’s disgusting.
So, at $15/hour with a 40 hour work week for 50 weeks a year is $30k, or, divided into $22M, is 666 full time jobs.
@@kore5080 Absolutly unaffordable. Just imagine this bloak have to wipe his tears with simple cloth sheets instead of 100 Dollar bills. The poor soul..
even a planned future 15$ min wage would still be below the cost of living in the cheapest state to live in (KY)
I got a job at Harry and Izzie's but the first day they had me work a 9 hour shift with no break. So no I'm not rushing back.
The manager was very whiny "I'm paying you so much why don't you want to stay" and i told him i want scheduled meal breaks, he said no. Welp
Yes this is normal not getting a break. Not getting a food break Whiny bosses or clique bosses his friends get the best schedule. Long hours. Sometimes you walk out with hardly enough tips .
I think it's against the law to not have a break I believe the law states that after 5 hours you are entitled to a lunch break or at least 15 minutes??? . Do you know I work for KFC a long long time ago and you know what the boss said to me.
You're over 18 you don't deserve a break
@@jeannierusso2134 in Indiana it's not against the law
It depends on some states. In sone places yes its illegal, others no.
@@stefanieallen4645 really. ?? . Well I would just take my own breaks in between.. I would go to the bathroom and whatever I had on me scarf it down because she do need to eat and take a break and a breather and also to get something to drink.. not some people need to take smoke breaks.. I don't smoke so does that mean I don't get a break???? . That's not fair I should still get a break . Even if I don't smoke..... why should people get free brakes . Because they have a bad habit? . Well I guess each state does things differently. I'm not in the workforce anymore but thank you to all those people that work long hours
So now the country knows how important these people are. They're the people that no one cared for and treated with little respect. Hmmm? 🤨
See how the billionaire companies didn’t go out of business when they raised there minimum wages
"their"
A friend of mine used to make $8:50 an hour. As a house painter he is making $14...
your friend is also a young adult without an education, valuable experience, or skills. he is getting paid for what the value of the service is worth.
@@javy0820 Everyone is worth a living wage.
@@javy0820 I also don't have a education but I make 24€ an hours cause I live in Germany and we value knowledge over education :D
Welchen Job hast du? 24€ „ohne Bildung“ scheint auch in Deutschland bisschen hoch. (ehrliches Interesse)
@@javy0820 I guess no one wants to work for you.
Soooo true, I get tired of ppl who work above minimum wage calling others lazy because they refuse to work like you said starvation wages
Thank you thank you thank you!! Had to leave the city to move back home to a small country town to keep arguing with these small minded people the pay here (7.75-8.50 starting pay) is ridiculous!! How can we expect to live???
I'm not even going back to an office job. I'm at a warehouse now making almost double what the office jobs are paying.
Hmm which company?
Sell Amazon return items online.
Ouch. You must be working at one of the lower end office jobs
@@chrisp7110 Not really. In my area, I could work as an EMT for $13 or pay 25k to go to school to become a Paramedic for $15-18 an hour, losing over a year's worth of wages in the process, making the total economic loss 100k for going to school for a year... to make the same as I could in a warehouse or construction tomorrow. I could work Amazon for $15, construction for $18 starting, or I could work Grubhub for $20. Guess which one I picked? And because I can work whenever I want, I also started freelance proofreading/editing while I have consistent/flexible work, which is paying even more. So when I have consistent clientele, I will be making considerably more with that than I could paying for an education and getting a regular office job.
Awesome !!😎😎
Amen Trever. If you cannot afford to pay a living wage to your employees, you do not belong in business.
can i be your friend? you sound like a decent human being who has heart.
"People don't want to work" what they mean is "people don't want to work HERE". Restaurants deserve every bit of this. PAY YOUR EMPLOYEES!
YES!
Sounds like Kitchen Nightmares
Not only is the pay terrible, but the pandemic is still happening and people dont want to get infected - just so happens this is mainly in red states.
But republicans seem to think there is no pandemic now
@@sandshark2 no people are just lazy
@@alextemple9247 stop projecting
Honestly, as a former chef for 5 years, I got tired of the toxic work environment, and I invested in myself and now I work as A NOC operator in a telecommunication company.
Now I get to take a lunch break and I get a great work life ratio.
What is a NOC operator?
@@nawfsidereviews6029 network operation center operator
I saw a family of Karens walk out of a short-staffed Greek restaurant I went to for my birthday celebration with my parents & grandma. They grumbled on their way out that we shouldn't waste our time bc apparently they didn't get their pita bread in the first 5 minutes.
Guess who I sympathized with?
Neither? The dumb family or the restaurant who can't attract workers with fair wages?
I say sympathize with the workers who are making those Karen’s and boss realize how much they actually need them.
The wild family of Karens is another reason why many restaurant employees do not want to return to the restaurants. Too many customers are allowed to be abusive because they are spending their money!
Excuse me
Sympathize with the karens because they are hungry and shouldn't have to wait to eat. They are entitled to their meal asap they are tax paying amerikarens!
I worked in a restaurant washing dishes for a grand total of three days- that was enough to clue me in to how restaurant workers are treated. The manager and the main chefs, while their jobs are undeniably highly stressful and complicated, will usually be treated all right; everybody else under them are treated like garbage. That was BEFORE the pandemic.
When the starting pay for McDonalds worker is 21 an hour in Denmark you know something is wrong in this country.
That's not wholly true. They ALSO get 6 weeks of paid vacation on top of $21-$22/hr. Although apartments in Copenhagen can be just as expensive as in NYC, LA or Seattle.
@@discingaround And they get Union protections.
@@discingaround Let's not even talk about needing no health insurance (due to universal health care) and better job security due to strong workers unions. The USA is playing catch-up, even WITH the latest benefit program under president Biden.
@@bjoardar they do pay higher taxes but the benefits are awesome
denmark is trash
Here in assbackward land, otherwise known as central Georgia, these restaurants try to start people out at $7.25 a frickin hour. It's truly insane.
and when you drive through the state, you find people in their 40's and 50's in these positions where in the north and west you'd find only kids in them. People in the south vote consistently to keep conditions that keep them poor.
Yes its sad I just left Atlanta to move back to small town SC and its the same here as well!!
In 2003 I was making 7.24 HR as a paramedic, taking a pay cut from my 8 dollar an hour gas station attendant Missouri has not changed wages since!
In Kansas they pay servers below minimum wage! $2.13 an hour!
@@clareleanne That is so sad!! Thats exactly what it is here in SC.
It's a hard job with low pay, rude customers and employers, And finally perhaps also importantly you get no respect for doing it.
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Exactly! I was a waitress years ago and I just couldn’t deal with the rudeness. I dumped a dessert in a rude woman’s lap and walked out one day. I had enough. Never again. The low pay isn’t worth the constant disrespect.
That is true of most jobs working for someone else, isn't it? 🤔
@@cinderella3414
No. There are tons of jobs where you don't deal with rude customers, etc. Mark is describing jobs like being a waiter, cashier, etc. To me, the answer is simple: wait jobs in America should become regular, salaried jobs paying minimum $20 an hour. At least if they're going to deal with rude customers, they should get paid a living wage.
@@cinderella3414 not really. doctors, lawyers, and engineers don't receive low pay nor are they treated like rapists. Minimum wage workers deal with both and much more.
When your entire business profit model is predicated on exploiting cheap abundant labor..
I did the math recently and even if I worked 40 hours at minimum wage every week I would not be able to afford to live in an apartment on my own... Literally someone working 40 hours a week at minimum wage has to live with a bunch of roomates...
In Texas...it may still be possible to live off minimum wage. Only 1 person though (no children). Probably living in a room for rent....or a $585 apt (there are some all bills paid but you really don't want to live in those areas). No car, have to take the bus and have a $35 unlimited mobile plan. No internet or Cable though but it could work.
Yep. In New York City, if you work overtime with 1.5x pay for overtime hours, 50 hours a week, at minimum wage (which is $15/hr) you’re still so far below the poverty line. It’s sad.
@@tashumbriamiller A $585 apartment is impossible unless you have at least one roommate.
@@tashumbriamiller you forgot about groceries you know the thing that keeps you alive?
We’re not living anymore…just barely surviving, while we all slowly accumulate debt…
As a European I am so happy to see this. The whole concept of employing people but asking customers to pay their staff at their whim (i.e., tips) is insane and idiotic. Pay. Your. People. Gawddarnit. Glad these businesses are now having to increase what they offer their workers.
To people who say small businesses can’t “afford” a living wage for their employees, then guess what? They shouldn’t be in business. This was inevitable. Why do you think those jobs have a high turnover of staff? Because when someone can finally move to that better job they’ve been eyeing for 2 years they are gonna do it if you don’t even give dental.
Exactly! First thing I learned in an afternoon financial seminar/workshop for small business owners is to calculate how much working capital you need on any given day to sustain and operate a business. If these small businesses can't afford to be in business because they can't afford real wages, they need to recalibrate or operate a different kind of business where they will be able to afford it. I don't understand why they haven't figured that out.
An argument could also be made, that if we as a country valued small business- we could substantially raise the taxes on large corporations, and provide incentives and subsidies to small businesses. Of course, that's a hard sell, since the current system is predicated on those big players buying the politicians who make those laws.
@NightHawk: As someone whose parents ran a small pharmacy (plus I worked for a small biz later in life), I can tell you that that's not exactly true. Mom-and-pop stores have been squeezed to death for decades by competition from enormous chains that have buying power a mom-and-pop doesn't, plus megachains can offer health insurance for far less -- they're buying that in bulk, too.
My parents weren't affluent, even with minimum-wage employees; same with the mom-and-pop I worked for (a video store). Non-chain businesses would stand a fighting chance if we had Medicare For All -- that would start to level the playing field.
And FYI, my parents had the same employees for years, bc my father was a gem. Likewise the video store where I worked -- very little turnover bc the owners were lovely people.
@@aJoats THIS. Thank you.
@@dw999 well maybe then small business owners should start agitating for universal healthcare if they would like to take a burden off themselves
Literally every business I drive by has "Now Hiring" signs hanging
I actually love seeing it because it's what most business owners deserve. Perhaps you will pass by those same business owners standing outside a welfare or unemployment office line.
Me: have you considered increasing their salary?
Restuarant owner: don’t be ridiculous
That doesn't increase the quality of employee because we have folks complain about their feet hurting and quit.
@@sarahhockey2420 Agreed. Even if it wasn't busy that day, you are still on your feet all day.
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Read stuff and videos, that the pandemic just put everything on pause to give us all a chance to recharge and think what to do next. and because of changes it has cause some or many to rethink jobs and find something really wanna do . and so places lost help cause unemployment still going for some while others have found other jobs they really wanna do any.
restaurant owner: shut up with this communist nonsense
Saw in a meme:
Bart Simpson: "No one wants to work anymore!"
Homer Simpson: "No one wants to work FOR YOU anymore!"
Yes 👏👏👏👏
That meme ain't lying
The fact that we even have minimum wages just shows you that companies would probably pay us so much less if they legally could. This company's chase profits massive profits It's okay to want profits That's the whole point of starting a business but companies get greedy with their profits and it'll save money everywhere they can.
America's legacy of slavery still impacts us all
How about you work for those "evil" corporations then?
Wage disparity 😢
No one pays minimum wage. It's $7.25 where I am technically, but literally no one is paying that--they wouldn't have workers. Everywhere I've seen is paying $10+. I'm currently making $14.50/hour.
They act like, someone is gonna be a millionaire, with all 300$ "extra funds" 🙄