Paying an idiot $15+ per hour.

[lonegunman762x51]

When America decided every teenage, fuckwit and asshole to ever stumble into a service job was worth brain surgeon wages everyone knew what the end result would be except America's stupid fucking idiot socialists. Somehow the fuckwit leftists thought companies would simply pay every asshole in the place manager's wages and prices would stay low. Why you would think something that fucking stupid is something no socialist would ever be able to explain.

If my wife and I go to Denny's for breakfast or dinner, it is $40 dollars minimum for two drinks and two meals and a reasonable tip if the service is decent. We cannot get out of a fast food joint for $20 bucks unless we buy two drinks and a medium fries. If you order a burger, you can read newsprint thru the patty and a 1/4 pounder is now 1.5 ounces tops. We stopped at Arby's and my bride had a "Rueben sandwich combo" the bread was the same size with a silver dollar sized blog of meat in the middle and the fry container was half empty. I took it all back to the counter and got a refund, I told the manager if they needed the fries that badly they should stop selling them. He opined that was the "corporate approved" serving size. We promised to never return and parted ways.

It is amusing to see that even leftist fuckwit news has noticed the problem they fucking caused.

MSN

Good luck with that $15 dollar latte from an asshole making $35 an hour at Starbucks and working like a worthless Teamster.

 

[BufordTJustice]

I've paid Idiots more...

 

[W54/XM-388]

This is what happens when the government prints trillions of dollars of free money for their buddies and declares war on energy and producers of stuff.

Have you seen what's happened to the price of food recently?

Real costs have almost doubled in 2 years.

Have you noticed the price of eggs recently?

 

[ggmanning]

F fast food and the dimwits making it that chit will kill you.

 

[lonegunman762x51]

So have I and where I work now has some incredible idiots in the $40 dollar an hour range. They do not realize they are idiots and they think they are underpaid.

They will die failures. Bu those participation trophies will make it alright.

 

[Rthur]

Shit.................
We pay a pack of fucking idiots 174,000 a year to fuck the American public.

R

 

[MK20]

It isn't that they are getting paid any more than before.

It's that the dollar is worth a whole lot less.

 

[Stevo86]

I've paid Idiots more...

Same….

 

[Bradu]

We have worthless fucking idiots making $150k a year to sit in a service truck. They fix very little, cobble the fuck out of everything and the boss treats them like they can do no wrong just because they are willing to travel.

 

[96coal449]

Those portions will shrink more, once the food shortages really take hold.

 

[96coal449]

We have worthless fucking idiots making $150k a year to sit in a service truck. They fix very little, cobble the fuck out of everything and the boss treats them like they can do no wrong just because they are willing to travel.

If it pays that much to be an iiidiot, sign me up.
Heck, I'll play.

 

[OREGUN]

Well by golly, I used ta get a shave and a haircut for two bits and still have enough left over to buy my sweet an egg cream on the way to the sock hop.

Or some other such boomer-Fudd whining.

 

[Bradu]

If it pays that much to be an iiidiot, sign me up.

Heck, I'll play.



This is one example of a "repair". Instead of going to get a fuse, this guy have the driver a u joint strap to hold on the posts.



 

[The D]

I work with idiots that make much more than that

 

[MK20]

I am not an idiot, but if someone would kindly point me to one of these six figure jobs they keep referring to, I'll pretend to be one really quick.

 

[rhsc]

Due to inflation, $15.00 will now buy about what $12.00 would just 10 years ago. Your federal government loves inflation because it allows them to pay the interest on the national debt with less valuable dollars.

 

[Im2bent]

Well by golly, I used ta get a shave and a haircut for two bits and still have enough left over to buy my sweet an egg cream on the way to the sock hop.

Or some other such boomer-Fudd whining.

 

[WaltHer]

I get it. Most people's wages haven't risen remotely similar to the cost of goods. So for wage earners and (especially) those on fixed incomes it feels like wages and goods are terribly high.
However, anger should be directed at those who simultaneously create inflation, drive down markets, and spend (to the moon) on stupid shit like the Ukraine, "reparations", "green energy", and the Ukraine (plus millions of other things). All this while turning future generations into tax slaves to China.

Leave the poor bastard making 15.00/hr alone. Those are chump-change wages in Brandon's America. 15.00 is minimum wage even if that hooker AOC and her anti-American cooze squad never got it through Congress.

If that's you, then you're the chump. Sorry to be the one to tell you.

 

[MK20]

I went from making 130K a year to working part time for 18 dollars an hour while paying for school.

All thanks to being rejected out of hand when I asked for a religious exemption for the covid shot.

So fuck Brandon. Fuck his inflation. Fuck the Republicans who voted for it. Fuck Trump for his massive spending too.

And fuck anyone who voted for all this.

Let me tell you, 18 an hour is nothing these days.

I haven't eaten store bought meat in at least 9 months and I am still hurting.

 

[candyx]

Everyone who wanted to make more money per hour didn't understand Newton's Third Law. 65 years ago a home was $20,000.00 car $2500.00 and gas $.27 a gallon on wages of $4500.00 a year . Yes they raised your pay but then made you pay for that increase through your basic purchases.

 

[W54/XM-388]

I went from making 130K a year to working part time for 18 dollars an hour while paying for school.

All thanks to being rejected out of hand when I asked for a religious exemption for the covid shot.

So fuck Brandon. Fuck his inflation. Fuck the Republicans who voted for it. Fuck Trump for his massive spending too.

And fuck anyone who voted for all this.

Let me tell you, 18 an hour is nothing these days.

I haven't eaten store bought meat in at least 9 months and I am still hurting.

$18 an hour is almost average warehouse worker wage these days.
Sounds like a lot but it doesn't go very far with the cost of living these days.

 

[MK20]

Not when you are paying for certifications you need out of pocket and working part time so you can knock out those certs.

 

[W54/XM-388]

Everyone who wanted to make more money per hour didn't understand Newton's Third Law. 65 years ago a home was $20,000.00 car $2500.00 and gas $.27 a gallon on wages of $4500.00 a year . Yes they raised your pay but then made you pay for that increase through your basic purchases.

Historically wage increases always lag price increases.
It has only gotten even worse with the price increases vastly outpacing wage increases.
It's why people these days are less well off than they were in previous eras.
For example, in 2021 and 2022 unless you got a 15% pay raise, you wound up having less purchasing power.

My wages don't go up by 10% each year, but the local bastards at the school district seem to think they have a god given right to raise my taxes 10% each year and they still aren't happy with that and try to find ways to screw me out of more.

 

[MK20]

Fortunately I have a timber exemption on my place so I pay less taxes for growing my own firewood basically.

It helps.

I grew my own meat this year too.

He was decent.

 

[akmike47]

Why did they use anal beads to mount the fire extinguisher?

 

[Maser]

What ghetto ass hole in the wall hospitals have you been going to that have brain surgeons making only 15 bucks an hour?

 

[candyx]

Why did they use anal beads to mount the fire extinguisher?

Alex I'll take anal beads for $100.00

 

[Bradu]

Why did they use anal beads to mount the fire extinguisher?

Gives the driver something to do while blocking traffic

 

[candyx]

Fortunately I have a timber exemption on my place so I pay less taxes for growing my own firewood basically.

It helps.

I grew my own meat this year too.

He was decent.
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Did you back drag the rest of him with the dozer.

 

[FWoo45]

It’s not meant to be a “living wage” it’s meant to be the fucking minimum, like what high school kids start at when they work part time and don’t know if they have anything between their ears or skills. Even a commie would melt seeing the look on a kids face when you give em a pay bump and tell them they’ve been doing a great job. Can’t even give em that chance for $15 an hour. It is all going according to the plan, more robots and kiosks that don’t get paid hourly, less rewards for hard work and more tax slave derived handouts for libtard voters. We’re fucked.

 

[MK20]

Did you back drag the rest of him with the dozer.

Nope. Used the grinder for that.

 

[E. Bryant]

This is what happens when the government prints trillions of dollars of free money for their buddies and declares war on energy and producers of stuff.

Have you seen what's happened to the price of food recently?

Real costs have almost doubled in 2 years.

Have you noticed the price of eggs recently?

Yep. Considering that there is no such thing as a "$15 minimum wage" (the federal minimum is still $7.25) but yet the Fed has printed about $8 trillion since the minimum wage was last increased in 2009, I believe it should be simple to understand what has driven the increase. If one lives in a state that has a substantially higher minimum, then move. It probably won't fix the problem of an expensive breakfast, but it might feel better in other ways.

There are also population demographics to consider; that kind old Baby Boomer lady who poured your coffee 15 years ago is now out of the workforce and there aren't enough aging Gen Xers to replace her. Industries of all types got used to cheap excess labor and are struggling now that this is drying up. Note that the pandemic stupidity accelerated this issue by causing a large portion of the pre-retirement workforce to say "fuck it, I'm out".

Comprehending this would deprive the OP of an overly simplistic rant, so it's unlikely to happen.

 

[BLEE]

Historically wage increases always lag price increases.
It has only gotten even worse with the price increases vastly outpacing wage increases.
It's why people these days are less well off than they were in previous eras.
For example, in 2021 and 2022 unless you got a 15% pay raise, you wound up having less purchasing power.

My wages don't go up by 10% each year, but the local bastards at the school district seem to think they have a god given right to raise my taxes 10% each year and they still aren't happy with that and try to find ways to screw me out of more.

That's surprising. School taxes must be voted on, here in Caddo Parish (Shreveport).

 

[Mike Casselton]

Due to inflation, $15.00 will now buy about what $12.00 would just 10 years ago. Your federal government loves inflation because it allows them to pay the interest on the national debt with less valuable dollars.

You haven't bought fuel lately, have you?

Or groceries, or fast food, or eaten in a restaurant, or bought tires, or powder, or primers?

Not only are prices waaaaay the hell up, but product quantity/size continues to spiral downward while the price goes up.

 

[BurtG]

Well by golly, I used ta get a shave and a haircut for two bits and still have enough left over to buy my sweet an egg cream on the way to the sock hop.

Or some other such boomer-Fudd whining.

Rush was right. Liberalism is a mental disorder.


It’s like they can’t see what’s in front of their face except the Pravda box

 

[BurtG]

Due to inflation, $15.00 will now buy about what $12.00 would just 10 years ago. Your federal government loves inflation because it allows them to pay the interest on the national debt with less valuable dollars.

Lol

Today’s $15 will buy $12 of 2012s stuff ?

Food?
Fuel?
Cars?
House?
Ammo?

 

[BurtG]

15.00 is minimum wage

Minimum wage just makes it illegal to hire people worth less than that arbitrary dollar amount.


And it drives all people’s cost of living up. Like taxes regulation etc.

See New York Ca etc

 

[vinniedelpino]

Force your good-for-nothing teenage kids to close their onlyfans accounts and get a job.

The supply/demand curve for unskilled labor is all jacked up. Increase the supply of unskilled labor and prevailing wages go down. If your little snowflake is 16+ and isn't working, you're part of the problem.

 

[Kein Mitleid]

Makes paying basic laborers expensive enough that anything which can be automated will be automated.

As a kid I worked in a machine shop, started by cleaning the machines and breaking down and cleaning incoming motors. No one with a shop like that is going to pay $15/hr for that. I learned every foundational machine operation skill in that, even though I am not a machinist it is incredibly useful in my career.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

People who bitch about minimum wage are usually low paid barely skilled workers who if they actually made decent money, wouldn't give a shit what poor people make.

Worry about yourself. It's pathetic.

 

[roostercogburn98]

This is what happens when the government prints trillions of dollars of free money for their buddies and declares war on energy and producers of stuff.

Have you seen what's happened to the price of food recently?

Real costs have almost doubled in 2 years.

Have you noticed the price of eggs recently?

My eggs come from the backyard. Meat comes from further back in the “yard” if we want. Americans should start being self reliant and sufficient again.

 

[davsco]

Due to inflation, $15.00 will now buy about what $12.00 would just 10 years ago.

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[davsco]

Good luck with that $15 dollar latte from an asshole making $35 an hour at Starbucks and working like a worthless Teamster.

you need to learn how to vent or you're going to give yourself a heart attack! ahaha

 

[lonegunman762x51]

I went from making 130K a year to working part time for 18 dollars an hour while paying for school.

All thanks to being rejected out of hand when I asked for a religious exemption for the covid shot.

So fuck Brandon. Fuck his inflation. Fuck the Republicans who voted for it. Fuck Trump for his massive spending too.

And fuck anyone who voted for all this.

Let me tell you, 18 an hour is nothing these days.

I haven't eaten store bought meat in at least 9 months and I am still hurting.

I sent you a job to look at. 20 years ago, lots of people got hung up on the anthrax vaccine and got sent packing. Unless people ask, keep your vax status to yourself. The way things are going they might call you and invite you back. Socialist hate pushed this vax shit right over the edge, the same demented reasoning pushed that fucking anthrax and not one fucking case was ever reported, hundreds of millions of dollars pissed away.

Turn on the charm and find something to do in the skilled trades.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

If you are a vet you should apply to every federal job you qualify for. Not hard to find a GS9/11 which not only pays better than $18/hr but most are career paths.

 

[Mike Casselton]

I sent you a job to look at. 20 years ago, lots of people got hung up on the anthrax vaccine and got sent packing. Unless people ask, keep your vax status to yourself. The way things are going they might call you and invite you back. Socialist hate pushed this vax shit right over the edge, the same demented reasoning pushed that fucking anthrax and not one fucking case was ever reported, hundreds of millions of dollars pissed away.

Turn on the charm and find something to do in the skilled trades.

Was it shot number two or three that felt like hot sauce going in?

 

[BurtG]

they actually made decent money, wouldn't give a shit what poor people make.

Know how I know that you have never ran a free market business. And you don’t understand basic economics ?

 

[Partsunavailable]

Due to inflation, $15.00 will now buy about what $12.00 would just 10 years ago. Your federal government loves inflation because it allows them to pay the interest on the national debt with less valuable dollars.

$12??? Seems more like $7.

 

[lonegunman762x51]

Was it shot number two or three that felt like hot sauce going in?

It did not make an impression, but I have been dosed with all sorts of shit. My shot record was pages long. I have a friend who was driven out of the ANG over the anthrax and she just found out she had 20 years and 9 months time in service and no twenty year letter. So now she is fighting to get retired with benefits and they are trying to fuck her over once and for all.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

Know how I know that you have never ran a free market business. And you don’t understand basic economics ?

Yea I wonder how you know that since I worked for my family business (all of my immediate family members are business owners) for years and have a BS in Finance. There must have been a few macro/micro classes in there.

Poor people who make shit decisions working shitty wages always bitch about others. If you are making $25 and hour to drive a bus or some other semi -no skilled job then you bitch about people at McDonalds making $15. Get an education, learn a skill or go do some hussling. Guys hauling trash to dump are making $500 a day, becuase they are willing to work.

Its an inadequacy and insecurity because you want you put yourself higher on the pecking order to feel better about yourself.

Bitching about poor people making $15/hr just shows how ignorant and little people know about how the economy works, how its financed and where all the money is actually going. CMS (Medicad/Medicare/CHIP/ect) is going to spend $1.5 Trillion this year and most of that money is going to those same people making minimum wage. Go protest in front of congress but the second you are benefiting or getting "your share" I bet we hear silence.

Same thing with the Stimulus checks, How many here sent theirs back? LOL Bunch of fucking Hypocrites.

The last few years have been a boomtown for getting paid. If you haven't taken advantage of that and gotten your 25-100% pay raise, then you are a fool.