To the people saying - "These jobs are not meant for supporting families, they're meant for extra money! They're highschooler jobs!" I mean you're not wrong, but for ALOT of American adults, this is all they have. For others it's a fallback, for some it's a stepping stone, but if you can't even make enough TO DRIVE TO WORK OR EAT WHEN YOU GET HOME then how can you even keep working? We can't keep gatekeeping these jobs and the stigma around 'unskilled' by saying 'it was only meant for people who don't have families'. Yeah, maybe that was the intent, but thats not the REALITY. I'm sure some workers are lazy and have terrible spending habits, but the same can be said for people at white collar jobs, or any job. More people than you realize are stuck and can't change their life, let alone barely afford to continue it. I honeslty feel like you've never met someone that's in this situation. Where its so difficult.. it's almost mathematically impossible to improve their life with the time and money they have, and no schedule you make, or hours they work will pragmatically let them improve their life. Not without taking some sort of financial risk (ie. student loans to go back to school) and they know they can't pay back, but hey it's the only shot they have and so they take the risk and bet against themselves, because it's their only chance at not being a burger flipper. And just so you know - not everyone that is currently employed at a fast food place necessarily WANTS to be "an unskilled burger flipper" their entire life, and if they did, who the fuck cares? Shouldn't someone that flips burgers all day be able to sit down at the end of the day and eat one too? No? You don't think so? Then looks like there won't be any burger flippers left, unless everyone can just magically be part time or high school students and not have any living expenses to pay right? Now - You know it wasn't smart, but you took the student loan, you barely have time to make it class, and afford gas, but you took the risk to improve your life and you're on your way up! Suddenly life happens, you lose your job, you get sick, your family gets sick, your store closes, you aren't getting enough hours anymore, or any other number of things that REGULARLY happens to people in the USA. Eventually they default on their loan. Now they're even worse off for trying to better themselves. Life HAPPENS to more people than anyone wants realize because of this bullshit boomer ideology of 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps!' when these people can't even afford boots. Lets not forget, people aren't robots and I'm sure after being yelled at by the public all day it's probably hard to come home and be able to focus on improving your life, and if you have kids even more difficult. Now couple that with the stigma of people thinking you only work at Mcdonalds because you're a lazy unskilled piece of shit, and you're only there because you make poor life choices, and you deserve to be where you are. Not only is this a REAL thing that people deal with, it can be impossible to ask for help because you'll instantly be lumped in with those 'lazy unskilled burger flippers who want free money for nothing'. I'm sure you're EXTRA motivated now. If you really think these jobs should only be for those that need "extra money", then why the fuck would anyone pick mcdonalds to do it? Oh that's right, it's because most likely it's all they have. I'm not saying you have to pay them a luxurious CEO salary, but ffs - how do you keep going to work if you don't make enough to keep going? What your suggesting is as insane as unskilled internships, with a similar mindset of 'well you're supposed to be in school while you do it and live at home or whatever so you don't need the money'. This is not the way modern working America operates anymore. Take those old ideologies and throw them out. Not everyone has a family to help them live, or pay their bills, and this mindset is ignorant. I'm not saying 'its the companies responsibility to take care of their workers and make sure they have a great life!' Because it's absolutely isn't their responsibility. They only care about profit. I personally wouldn't want any company reaching that far into my life to be able to take care of me like that. I'm just saying logically and on a human level - it doesn't make sense to complain about no one wanting to work, but at the same time not pay enough money for people to be able take the jobs - even if they wanted. Unless of course you work there because 'you don't really need that much money, it's just supplemental' which in that case....must a NICE place to be. Better than most Americans. 'Yeah i just work here part time for extra money, but i don't need it'. But this isn't about logic, or being human, it's about profit. That's all they care about. Maybe this is just me, but personally I think someone deserves more than $7.25 an hour just deal with the public. You want me to deal with a Karen at $7.25? HA. FUCK OFF. And I'm blessed to have the ability to say that. Most people aren't. You can literally stand at the doors of walmart and say hello to people and most likely make more. So why don't they just go work at Walmart? Surely if it was that easy then Mcdonalds would be out of business. You would think a company would want to keep their workers fed and able to work so they can keep making a profit. Na instead everyone is expendable. And that's how they want it. I honestly think companies appreciate the stigma, because then it gets everyone else to agree 'yeah they're just burger flipperss not mean't to make a living doing this anyway' and Mcdonalds is laughing all the way to the bank. Now lets jump back to reality, it's 2022, you're not a high schooler, you're an adult that tried to make good choices but now you're stuck in this endless downward spiral, and you can't even work to live. Charge me $9 for a hamburger idgaf. If I can't afford the fast food I eat, then I probably don't need to buy it anyway. YOU ARE NOT EXEMPT. "Life" can happen to anyone at anytime, yeah you do what you can to make smart choices, but sometimes it is what it is, and you eat a huge slice of humble pie, take the L and start your life over again. You never consider these possibilities because why would any employee working there tell you their past? Again, they'll just get lumped in with the 'should of made better choices loser, sucks to suck' crowd. We forget about the fact that back in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and so on - "unskilled workers" were able to afford houses, cars, school, and their kids. Only in the last 25 or 30 years 'flipping burgers' became this thing to 'be ashamed of'. IMO it's gatekeeping by boomer mindset people, that probably didn't follow their own advice they're giving you, while they sit on their nice pensions that don't exist for us anymore. Just go to college and get a degree, then you'll be successful right? Yeah ok boomer. If you want to come at this scenario with the angle of 'sucks to be them, should have made better life choices, now you reap what you sow' you can do that, but you're still a jerk. My favorite part is how everyone is so focused on minimum wage they totally forget that instead of Mcdonalds paying their employees to live, tax payers are. YOU ARE. No problems with that? Where are those comments addressing that? You want to get political? Look at all the companies mandating vaccines. You hear about the mandate, but you didn't know about the shitloads money they got from doing it. CVS, Walgreens, and plenty of pharmacies around the nation have skilled workers, and they will never see a single penny of that 'handout'. Companies will play whatever political party helps make the most money. You're all being played. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
My son lost his job at McDonald's (a corporate store) for refusing to work 50 hours. After 2.5 years of 3rd shift full time he was making the same as what new employees were hired at. He was regularly disrespected and the GM told him no one will ever want him, and asked who would ever hire him. The abuse is out of control, even when you're a dedicated employee.
💯. Those comments just show the lack of empathy for other people. Everyone despite the level of skill should be able to live on their wages. These corporations are so effing greedy. McDonalds & Walmart telling their employees to use public assistance instead of paying them appropriate wages should be a crime.
these Americans call customer service hotlines expecting Asians to answer the calls and they really enjoy yelling at the poor workers and asking for a supervisor immediately after the agent answer the phone. Then when the call is over and they got the help they need. They answer a survey, giving very low scores to the agent, which cost them to lose their bonuses or get fired. So Karma bites them in the ass.
@ I get why you would say that. Ive just always felt bad for Josh and how his family did him dirty. Its a terrible story. Go back to his older videos where he talks about his dad.
@@VioFax Yep exactly! Lol (Except I doubt they would even be affected by price increases on beef since they surely inexpensibly breed their own cattle and chickens etc.)
IIRC, Walmart (aka the great Satan) does the same thing. I unfortunately to business with those demonic jackals. Their idea of doing business is me on the ground with their heel in the hollow of my neck. I never shop there for this reason.
@@casusbelli9225 not really. The choice between socialism and capitalism is the choice between letting those with talent and skill be rewarded for those and attempting to erase the bad by erasing the good. The reason capitalism is failing its cultural. Corruptin within people. There's no integrity. When there was integrity nothing ever came close to America. Additionally, capitalism took people from garaunteed poverty to a 1 in 500 chance of being wealthy. This idea that socialism will balance the field where everyone succeeds is silly. Everyone will equally barely survive while the state harbors wealth and resources for itself and the people that are part of it. Human corruption can only be tamed by the individual. Only 10% at most even want to. And they Excell because they do. Any government given any power almost immediately becomes corrupt because that's the nature of power. Power given to corrupt leaders becomes a weapon used against the people to benefit the leader. Power given to a disciplined leader becomes a tool of the people, weirded thru that leader which the leader has no interest in... this is why anyone who actively seeks power should never ever be given it. They will use it as a weapon. Leaders who were disciplined, like gorge Washington for example, had no interest in power or the presidency, he was forced by the people to take it up.. the sheep always need a leader. A few are good, the vast majority are bad. You know how you identify a good leader? The entire federal government illegally taps his phones and investigates him for 6 years without ever producing a shred of physical evidence of any crime. Then when that guy finally comes to take the power, they do something stupid and desperate like illegally raiding his home to find absolutely anything to allow them to hold onto power.. That's just how I see it. The federal government is openly and insanely corrupt, and corrupt people don't attack other corrupt people.. I don't know when people started acting like the government is the good guys, but that's a new trend... Sorry bro, my point is, if you want socialism, fine. But if want this federal government intact and socialism also, well.... indont think it will take long to change your mind on that if you get what you want. . Sorry for rambling. The issue is human nature.. learn it.
Hey all! I did it! I quit my job! It's my last week in the corporation. No more corporate nonsense! I'm starting my own business now. Wish me luck, guys!
Food has the potential to become more addictive than street drugs; you'll pay for it four times over after factoring for the costs associated with this food. You'll pay for it once by buying their food, twice by subsidizing the employee's welfare, third by subsidizing the medical bills of people who end up eating this trash, and fourth by paying your own medical bills once you end up in the hospital from this trash.
@@kevg1617 I've listened to Venus In Furs by The Velvet Underground so much that I only associate the word with the lyric " I Am Weak , I Am Weary " Somrwhere , I now remember that one should cast a wary 😟 eye 👁 ! Thanks for keeping me on my toes ! 👍
"Breaking food into pieces often results in eating less and still feeling full?' Oh my God! Try telling that to a growing boy or girl who actually needs that nutrition!
Crappy corporations: “Complaining is like vomiting. You may feel better, but everyone around you feels sick!” Workers: “Complaining is like vomiting. Something caused it to happen. And it’s best to figure out why and change it so that it doesn’t happen again.”
lol @ Crappy corporations: “Complaining is like vomiting. You may feel better, but everyone around you feels sick!” i actually found that kind of funny. cruel as it may be, Corporate disses are hilarious. Its the spitefulness behind them which makes them funny lol
Not everyone can accommodate a skilled job, society wouldn’t survive if we did. Regardless of where you are on the job skill totem pole, you should still be able to make enough to be above the poverty line.
Doing what exactly? Oh yeah, something something something, and hey presto you are above poverty line dont complain. You need to live the reality fo poverty to see what a huge hole it is and how there are very many systems designed to keep people in that trap
@@flethacker I could be mistaken, but I think you may have read my comment wrong. Maybe I am reading yours wrong? It sounds like we are saying the same thing, no?
Ok, start a biz, and pay everyone what they think they are worth then make a video and show the world, like Josh does. Oh, Josh won't let his intern make a vid?
I knew someone who worked at Jack N The Box and a customer threw a full soda at him, and he reacted by throwing a soda back at the customer. He got fired. He was the sole money maker for a family of four adults. If not for a family member renting property to them, they woulda been homeless. Working at fast food seems like a big pile of slanted toilet poop.
@@Labyrinth6000 Yes vicious mom said thank you for the refreshing drink on my face and hear in my clothes cause I don’t have another pair clothes to change into thank you so much I love working in a wet shirt
Getting stuck at job similar to that of McDonalds is a poverty cycle. Go to work and work 80 hours a week to just be able to afford rent, food, and transportation. Too exhausted to learn a new skill, too broke to change life. Go back and repeat working there. It's a whirlpool that you cannot escape.
I worked warehousing for 9 years. Right before covid out of desperation I joined the army. When I came back due to Covid I was stuck at the same job. One year later I took a 3 months crash course in IT support while juggling IT support remote training, army training, and full time night work and passed everything. Also got my Comp TIA A+ certification. Than by November I left, now I’m a field technician doing cabling. It’s an uphill battle to fight against poverty, but if you’re willing to dedicate every second of your life getting out, I can’t think of a better country that would give you a chance and resources to do it. When I did it I was driven crazy and obsessed with breaking generational poverty.
@@Jay-dawg337 Awesome! I hope you continue to share your story with young people. A lot of people grow up in families who have given up and do not encourage. I think many of these workers feel it is out of their reach.
Learned that as a young guy by a old worker at the time, he told me what are you rushing to do that for, they are only going to give you more work to do
at my last job i frequently did the work of 2-3 people instead of just one. my reward? how hard i worked was never even acknowledged, while coworkers got freakin gifts for literally doing the basic job description. one night it was just too much for me and i went to my car to cool off so i didnt cuss someone out.
I'm constantly laughing about how similar the army has become to corporate entities. I've personally brought issuses to my command and got handed numbers to federal assistance while the military department just dumped millions into housing for our top guys amidst overspending investigations.
The army has become nothing more than a place to launder money for the weapons industry. It’s a black hole of billions that are unaccounted for and a military that is too powerful to be held to account.
my husband is a chief in the navy and has brought up several times (including to the top enlisted person in the navy) issues related to suicide prevention. they are frequently expected to somehow take care of and prevent suicide attempts while having barely any skills. he requested more thorough training programs and support for this specific topic several times and was told every single time that there are no funds available. while that useless prick lloyd austin is clowning around with covid policies for public and political approval of the government, suicide prevention policies, which take significantly more lives in the military than covid ever has, are pretty much limited to “thoughts and prayers”. military is very much similar to corporate entity and literally doesn’t give a shit about service members’ health and wellbeing.
@@danielcrafter9349 eh it is support the troops...not "support the military beurocracy," look up "semper fi documentary,: about camp legune... where 1000s of military families poisoned and through the roof infant mortality and cancer. Then you have to look up the video.."why generals better in ww2," lecture...shows how modern military is bs..and mediocrity is rewarded. Then you have coleen the 9/11 whistleblower who wrote the memo.. Recently she has talked..."we have used the military in the fight against terrorism..when we should have used law enforcement." But yeh capitalism isnt that bad... it is the corporate system...which ends up with all the juicy benefits and tax breaks. While well paying small business cannot compete.
It's crazy to me that companies see no problem with all of their employees qualifying for government assistance. We literally subsidize employers and they think it's normal instead of shameful.
What is so crazy about? You will starve on a street, and they will rather step over your body instead of giving you a few cents from their profit, to save your life. That is the reality of capitalism, your life quality represent your perceived worth for those companies. If you are unskilled worker then your worth is only going to decrease from year to year, because any immigrant from less developed country, will be happy to take your place for half the salary you get.
@@nikolaizaicev9297 i don't believe in "unskilled" labor. If they are profiting from your labor, skills don't matter unless you're a doctor or salesman
@@jermainemyrn19 Well, here is a plot twist for you. Capitalism is dictatorship. You might have illusion that you have a choice, but that is just an illusion. Forced mandates, do you have a choice here? Yes, between loosing job and dying from hunger vs keeping job and injecting stuff that you were forced to inject in yourself. Is that a real choice? I don't think so, because we all know, what "choice" majority will be forced to do in this situation.
@@nikolaizaicev9297 if you don't have a choice then it's not free market or capitalism. You're describing corporatism, which is antithetical to the free market.
They love to bitch about communism while gobbling on corporate welfare. I think demanding corporate welfare should be automatic grounds for a forceful nationalization of the company.
In order to qualify for Snap benefits and medicaid they have to have a PT job that's above 20+hrs a wk BUT cannot exceed the annual gross income of 16k for a family unit of 1. It increases to 22k if you have a ONE child and 28k if you have 2. If you go above 1 dollar you case gets terminated. Case workers get a bonus if they close your file so they actively look for mistakes to close your case. This is why they keep the minimum wage the way it is to keep their employees below that line to avoid having to provide benefits. Keeping people on Food Stamps also keeps certain farmers on government subsidies. It a whole mess that i wish i could explain in depth.
@@lashaye3627 Ive been in the system for a while now due to a disability and let me tell you that's not even half the nonsense ive seen happen at Social Services.
@@minuit6305 I believe you and at this point I wouldn’t be surprised unfortunately. Social services seems to do more harm than help individuals are in-need.
"case workers get a bonus if they close your file and actively look for mistakes to close your case." I know that's a lie. My friend in college was on EBT/SNAP whatever it's called and when she was finally able to get off it her case worker tried her hardest to keep her on them. Saying things like it's just easier to stay on and renew or 'don't you want it , it's free money to help you in college.'
No one should have a full time job where they need government assistance. No wonder the national debt is so high. To pay for large corporations’ greed.
@@josephj6521 even better, your tax dollars provide them subsidies more often than not. They also get the most tax breaks out of just about any entity in the nation short of the ultra elite (who often run the companies anyways) & non profits.
@@ASTRA1564 Conservatives don't give a shit about fast food lol. It's exploitive garbage that the world would be better off without. The real issue is that no one is ever going to be paid a "livable wage" (which is pretty subjective and depends on where you live and what you personally see as "livable") flipping burgers. This is due to how easily replaceable these types of jobs are, and is only getting worse as automation increases. Nobody wants people to starve out on the streets (as your strawman might suggest), but there are reasons these jobs are the definition of "wage cage", they are something to escape from, not something to keep nickel and dime-ing hoping one day your McOverlords will grant you a 2 family house for your decades of servitude.
"I wouldn't mind if my hamburger costs a little more." My dude. It already does and they're still paying these people $7.25. It's all bullshit. All of it.
Worked at McDonalds in 2007. Wage theft was super common. Employees were often forced to work up to 10 hour shifts because they would not be allowed to leave at closing time unless the closing duties were completed. Due to staff shortages, this occurred nearly every night, however staff were not paid for those extra hours. As a shift manager, I would record people’s pay for the OT they worked, plus a full 8 hours if the staff were unable to take their unpaid breaks throughout the day. The store managers however would go in and manually adjust people’s pay, removing the break time and overtime.
@@Qhimadi The job market in France went to shit. I worked there in 2008 and made +/- 1700€ 35h/week. In 2016 all i could find doing the same job was paying 1300€.
Happened to me in hs at a Wendy’s. I was working about 45 hours a week and going to school at 3.35 an hour, getting off work at 11pm every week night. My first paycheck was 110.00 bring home for two weeks. After six weeks of that, I was done. I knew something wasn’t right. The last two weeks, I fucked off extra and stole food knowing they weren’t paying me. What a rip off.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Hi, check out The Guardian's new article entitled "Your work is not your god". There are many interesting thoughts: like companies gain more from the stock market rather than their workers but still push them to put extra hours, or society persuades us to work even though we do not need it anymore and ready for retirement.
I know a manager who is also the owner in my country and he said changing prices is not allowed. They in fact lose money on cheese burgers because it's so cheap to sell and costly to make.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I remember reading somewhere that if McDonald's just increased every item on the menu by $0.30 than they could afford to double all of their employees hourly pay. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure everybody in America could afford to spend an extra $0.30 for their Big Mac meal. Especially if it increases the chance of the employee to earn a living wage.
@@AK-47ISTHEWAY They can literally afford to probably triple or quadruple their employee wages right now, just look at all the bonuses and salary increases in the millions the execs got during a pandemic while the workers got shafted. Companies just use the potential price increase as an excuse to pay their workers below a living wage.
10 years ago I went to Sidney Australia in 2011. Australia had 16 dollars an hour minimum wage . Mcdonald's in Australia are required to pay full medical and retirement benefits. The combo meals were only 1 dollar more than in America. Most Americans don't realize how bad they have it. #livingwageisaright
It's roughly $23 now. Very decent, and McDonald's here are still very profitable. Although, profit/revenue is slowly going down as people have become way more health conscious in the past 6-7 years. America has a corporate greed problem, and it shows. I've seen job ads that require bachelor degrees paying $8-10. What an absolute joke of a job market. A recent strike event happened in Alabama where miners want better conditions, the company told them "they can afford to give them better health and insurance pay, but they aren't worth it". America and it's 'corporate targets' are fucked, and this is coming from someone that's a capitalist. I love when people make money, but pay your workers ffs, it's not hard.
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." -Franklin. D. Roosevelt
Decades ago as a punk college kid, I had a checker job at a chain drug-store , earning $4.45/hr. The first time I worked until closing, I rang up the last customer, the closing manager locked the door behind them as they left, which makes sense, and I tried to follow a minute later. "No, we have you until 14 minutes after the hour (at no additional pay). When I tried to unlock the door anyway, another worker blocked me, angry that I might leave without putting in the requisite free labor. I managed to escape about 30 seconds later, and over the next few months, they found other things to mess with me until I foolishly quit without a lawsuit.
A place I use to work HATED giving you overtime and if you even went a minute over the 40hrs they'd 'teach you a lesson,' by dropping your hours. I thought it was hilarious that me doing almost 90% of the work would be 'taught a lesson,' if I go into OT but the bosses cousin who doesn't do shit gets 60hrs a week and no one bats a fucking eye as he takes his 8th break of the day.
@@The-Great-Brindian It was more like 3 seconds of restraint, me pretending to capitulate, then making a break for it when they thought I was on my way to clean aisle 7. As to pressing charges, I'm the sort to deal with such issues on my own, and it didn't come up again. Now the 6 weeks it took to get my first paycheck, that's different .. I should have sued on that.
One place I worked tried something similar after we clocked out they were saying you're not done Yada Yada... I smiled and said if I'm not on the clock I'm not working, now move or be moved. Management put 2 fingers on my chest and said menacingly get back to work asshole.. I bent his fingers in the wrong direction until he was on his knees , then broke them and said I quit open the door fucker, or I'll break the rest. Also since we're not on camera it's your word against mine I'm 17 and no one's going to believe someone half your size and weight kicked your ass and threatened you with worse should you decide to press charges.
I remember when this was floating around Facebook back when this came out and it was just as unrealistic 10 years ago as it is now. The company should be ashamed.
I don't know how anyone could take one vacation a year, let alone two. The only job that ever gave me vacation days left me so worn out, that I slept through my off days. I wouldn't have the energy to even take a real vacation.
@@jamesleonard6890 Yeah, it sucks most of the time. What puzzled me is that I was working for the US branch of a Belgian company, but nothing there is done even remotely like my understanding of the European way. We had 60 vacation hours the first year of employment, then 80, and it always had to be pre-approved. When we actually took our days off, someone else would have to work over to cover us. I could go on, but I don't want to complain too much.
To enjoy a vacation, I need at least two weeks off, in a row. I need the first week to turn back into a normal human being, so that I can actually enjoy the second week of the vacation. However, I understand many workers don't have the luxury of two weeks vacation and, even if they do, many employers discourage employees from taking two weeks off in a row (nevermind if you actually have three or four weeks vacation, like many Europeans have).
Here's how: you work for a company that values you, and take vacations in smaller increments throughout the year rather than waiting to use it all at once.
When working in retail managers act so OFFENDED that you even think about getting a second job. My friend who eventually promoted to manager had gotten a second job and our manager had griped and acted like she killed his first born or something. She ended up quitting the second job because of it.
I believe we should be conscious and caring consumers, so before we buy a product or a service, we should think about how the company treats its employees. But most of the time we tend to ignore the necessity of others, and we don't care about all the injustices this mean companys do to their employees
And how would you go about figuring that out in an extensive supply chain. Let's use McDonald's. Let's say all their employees got fair wages and benefits. Well what about where the meat cheese bread and veggies are processed, what about the truckers who move them. Are they all treated fair. There is no way to actually know unless you get it straight from the source
@@chrism8180 - you're totally right. It's not like we ourselves can find such information on the internet, or find out what other companies they deal with, or find out their treatment of minorities or anything like that... It's not like we can find out like, Chick-a-Fila expoit the poverty-stricken in Africa or support abuse of the LGBTQ community... Oh. Wait.
@@danielcrafter9349 the information you find will hardly be entirely accurate. If you don't want to buy products from places that exploit workers, you might as well stop consuming goods and services altogether, because there are no honorable companies. This piece of tech we're communicating with, brought forth by exploitative means, the internet, also conceived through exploitative means. Literally everything within the modern world we live was brought forth by exploitation. It's an unfortunate reality, and purchasing "fair trade" products is a gimmick
Ethical consumption is fine in theory. Unfortunately, it's a meme. For it to cause a significant change would require a coordinated public will typically only seen at the height of wars. Anything short of that is just virtue signaling by a select few. We already have a mode of collective public action: the government. That's what needs to be used to force ethical production.
People like to talk about MacD jobs are unskilled. “Skill” is literally the ability to do something well. Flipping burger is a skill. Customers expect the cook to not poison them by cooking/handling the food properly. Even presumably mundane jobs that people assume don’t bring “value” requires skill of some kind. Their value lies in freeing the employer or manager to do something else and be good at that specific task.
Unskilled jobs are often the ones that require LOADS of diverse skills - to handle several tasks, documentation, communication, physical exertion, patience with clients, additional tasks on top of the ones mandated in the job, etc.
@@gotinogaden Sure, and realizing that fact, the best way to help such workers is to help them find more valuable uses of such skills so that they can make a lot more.
@@gotinogaden When people speak about skills and unskilled jobs, they mean the rareness of the skills. Anyone cal flip burgers, if I fire you I can find another one as a replace quite fast. More than that, the new worker won't need that much of training and he can become productive really fast. If we are speaking about a let's say plastic surgeon, that is a skill that you can't replace so easily. And even another surgeon might need some training/practice to become as productive as the previous one. Thereby, the salary is paid based on availability of some skills and is governed by the law of supply and demand.
Dude this was so cringing that I just couldn't watch it, thanks to Joshua for doing this good work, everyone is in need to learn and see how workers are treated poorly especially in the US.
I cringed at the "sing away the stress" part because it reminded me of when I read about how in the slavery era slaves would often sing while working out on the fields. Basically, McDonald's is just another corporate company treating their employees like modern day slaves.
worked for McDonalds for FOUR days in October. So bad. Couldn't even hydrate myself. All the people that picked up the jobs and were in training left when I did.
yeah if a company have their call center for complains dont its a way that they protect themselves from you youre better off taking complains to lawyer and bash the company without warning cause lets be honest companies are corrupt they get away with a lot of acts against humanity as for lawsuits its a gamble you can still lose even if youre in the right
In my view, corporations in general are banking on a combination of two factors to keep wages low: 1) Any money is better than $0 when you have to eat 2) society deciding that they should monetarily help people not starve (what little help it is) It's hard to hold out for higher wages when you can't eat or don't have a roof over you're head. And when you do complain about not making enough, they can just point you to "government handouts." Handouts disproportionately paid for by the middle class and not the rich.
Yep, this. Government handouts should never have become more than an extreme measure. Now it's basically become an indirect subsidy of abusive corpos. It is frankly _unacceptable_ that people have to rely on any government programs when working full time.
NO employee that's works a job should be getting food from a pantry, medicaid for insurance while the CEO gets paid 20x and spends millions on tv commercials it's SICK
Wow. TH-cam recommended these out of order. I saw your follow-up video first, where you just summarized the call. That did NOT prepare me for how disgusting this is. Any job that directs employees to government aid is an employer who knows damn well they aren't paying enough. And then while they're the ones getting the full benefit of the labor, they're passing the expense onto the public. As for the inflation argument, it's bunk. Look at all the inflation that happened without raising minimum wage. Besides, I'd rather pay more for a burger I eat than get taxed for burgers I don't eat so that McDonald's can shirk their responsibility to pay employees and say "jUsT gO oN wElFaRe"
Right now I've seen more restaurants closing early or simply not having staff than any time I can ever remember. Taco bell had drive thru only, drove to another across town, same thing. KFC literally had no chicken to serve. Bojangles closes about 4 pm everyday they used to be open till 8-9. Jack in the box locked their door because they couldn't handle the customer inside, this was at noon. I was inside and people were banging on the door since they put no sign up. Even chipotle was out of steak. I miss mean tweets I will tell you that.
You're right on point when you mentioned that companies expect you to be wholly loyal/dedicated to the company working 60 hours a week, yet pretty much EVERY CEO of every major company are also board members, etc of different companies. For an example, the CEO of Domino's is also on the Board of Executives at Best Buy....not sure if he still is though. Some of them are literally CEO's + on multiple boards of different companies simultaneously (earning about $20K per board meeting session) while they delegate everything to all of their subordinates.
They should ration the left over food and give it to their low income employees that rely on food stamps instead of having a policy that fires these employees for even eating a French fry... McDonalds wastes so much food that could've been given to homeless people or low income employees. But nope, the store manager is allowed to take all the free food they want. Sickening
Going back to school will NOT save you from Crappy Wages. My friends who wasted 4 years in University had to learn this the hard way. Oh yeah! Get a degree and a buttload of debt that will only secure you a Job that is a dollar or two above the minimum wage! WOOO!
@@alexsalgado7894 I'm not sure about Switzerland, but I can speak for Germany: If you manage to get accepted by a German university, you get a student visa and can study in Germany FOR FREE. And it is really not difficult to get accepted in some unis here. The minimal requirements include a basic understanding of German though. If a US high schooler would study a bit of German in school and practice it a bit, they could easily move to Germany to get free college. It's literally as simple as that.
This is called corporate welfare. It's when a company doesn't pay their people enough to take care of themselves. They'll use all the gov benefits so they don't have to pay them more.
The folks that say "Well just get a better job!" are completely ignoring the fact that at the end of the day that job still exists and someone WILL be desperate enough to take it, thus starting the cycle for someone else. To those people saying "get a better job", I have to say that you're tacitly implying that SOMEONE should be forced to fill that role, at poverty wages, so that you can still pay the same amount of money for your McBurger. You're admitting that you think there should be a class of citizen in this country that should be forced to endure that. I dunno man, that just seems really selfish
I don't think so, eventually "get a better job" ends up where we are at with the great resignation, In some places minimum wage is 7.25 still but people are resigning and fast foods have had to raise their wages to 9-11$ just because they can't find people. They have signs flaunting that they raised wages to 8.50 or 9.50 but its still not enough because people are "getting a better job", serves the franchise owners right for not paying fair wages to start, and customers for choosing the cheapest.
It's the big elephant in the room that the US's entire economic structure of 'unlimited growth' is built off of two pillars: Robbing future generations of their wealth through fiat BS, and mass importation of a serf class of citizens. I'm an ardent capitalist and very opposed to socialism but what the US is right now is a corporatocracy and we're all actively being fleeced in a totally unsustainable model. We don't call them 'slaves' because they're technically willing and they get paid, but let's be real here, there is ABSOLUTELY a second class of citizens in the US and that class is largely economic. If you don't have a certain networth in the US you are considered worse than pond scum.
There are also a lot of us that fall through the cracks, not a sizeable percentage but more than you think. Due to legal and health/mental health reasons combined there are few and far between jobs I can do but I'm also slightly too healthy for state assistance. I survive only the kindness of others. I don't even count as unemployed because you technically have to be actively attempting to get a job to be considered unemployed and the stats are skewed due to people such as myself who no longer even try.
This is why I quit Chipotle, because they don't give a F. I was making $5.50 at the time and our cheapest item on the menu was $6.50... So much for all their marketing BS about a "Better deal".
Oof this is dystopian. I want to believe that these garbage companies can all sink without dragging their remaining employees down with the undertow...
The system is working as intended, peasants with too much free time and money might realize how unbalanced things are and try to change them, and that would most certainly cut into the bottom line of the owners of this country and they can't have that.
2:20 If you are suprised by that, you'd be in for a ride on how ridiculous some of these places are. Back when I worked at McDonalds as a teenager, we had a dedicated eployee counting the food in the kitchen's trash so the company knew no employees ate any. Yes. That employee took yesterday's trash bin, sit down with it and with a piece of paper and counted the meats that were thrown out, the bums and almost everything. Then he took the data on how many were sold and how many we recieved from shipment and calculated for "missing" food. I am not joking.
Yes, that phone call would fit right into 2022, I would not have guessed it was made in 2013...this is a hamster wheel.. wow...what country do we live in again????? Excellent presentation Josh
Thats where "grazing" comes in clutch. Sure you can't eat a whole thing but its hard to catch someone dropping an extra nugget here and some fries there. They'd also have to have a good amount of times having caught a person before a disciplinary action could really be rational.
Ah yes, I remember being homeless with nothing to eat in college. Me and my friend couldn't food stamps because we didn't work 20 hrs. If I had a job, why would I need them then? I'm glad my morals are independent from laws. People look at the law like it's a greater good even when it starves their families. Tsk. Tsk.
All these tips are , at best, correlation. For exemple, I bet the real thing is that people that are able to take 2 vacation a year are less likely to have heart attack, not the other way around.Because they have money so the means to take care of themselves.
Their business model depends on indirect governmental subsidies. It baffles me that the richest country in the world allows businesses to run in this manner.
'To the people saying - "These jobs are not meant for supporting families, they're meant for extra money! They're highschooler jobs!"' I say that those people ARE wrong. My local gas station was closed at 7 pm the other night, due to staffing issues. Staffing issues at jobs just like McDonald's are causing insane delays in service and unexpected closures. I like to be able to go to my local gas station, during regular business hours, so that I don't have to drive all far from home to get what I need. I like to be able to take a night off from cooking and swinging by McDonald's to get dinner. These were the exact jobs that were essential when the majority of the U.S. was closed due to COVID. Let me say it again: THESE JOBS WERE LABELED ESSENTIAL during the pandemic shut downs. We need to shift the narrative to respect and gratitude towards these types of positions because they are 100% necessary to the functionality of our western society!
I believe anyone who works full time should get a living wage. So anyone who says that these are jobs for extra money is really out of touch with reality. We need full-time workers in all sectors to function properly. I'm not from the USA so I will ask a question that might seem dumb. Why the government doesn't make any law about it? (I also never understood the tipping culture because an employer should pay their workers the wage, not the client who only wants to buy the product.)
Always told myself that the thirty years since. It’s a very high energy job hours on end for little pay. When I hire fast food people, I often get good employees.
The Federal Minimum wage is $7.25 an hour but all 50 U.S. States get to decide how much their state minimum wage should be. Here in Los Angeles, $16.04 is the minimum wage. You can not live a descent life in LA if you make less than $25.00 dollars an hour, as an individual without a family or without kids!! More like $30.00 but it really sucks for those types of persons that have to live off of less than a livable wage within the city and state they live in. I'm fortunate enough to work in tech/IT and make pretty good money!! Don't shame people that get EBT and General Relief!! A lot of them work low-wage jobs and need the extra help from the county!! Low wages is semi-slavery and real fucked up, Joshua!
I hate the stranglehold that fast food has on this country. Americans legitimately think we would all starve to death without it, then wonder how these companies got so powerful.
@@creapyalbinofish the last time I did was about 8 months ago; I had some fish sandwiches and fries from Jack In The Box while moving. Sure it's convenient for situations like that, but people don't need it every day.
Settling for any amount is why they keep getting away with it. Settlement isn't a win for anyone but attorneys and maintains the (shitty) status quo. No doubt these exploited workers need the cash, which is why they do it; but I would love to see one case go to trial and score a win AGAINST any of these corporations (it's not just McDonald's that does this).
I think that's something that's confusing to non-americans, that a settlement is the EXPECTED outcome in the US - while in other countries it is expected that you finish the process.
How do these videos not have 80 plus millions views? As someone who grew up poor, you are speaking up for the suffering of so many people in this country. God bless you
I had some interesting conversations with my ex and her siblings. They had never worked a min wage job in their lives. They are all high income earners on their way to being wealthy. Having conversations about raising the min wage to a living wage were perhaps some of the most frustrating conversations I've ever had. They are all caring and kind people in their daily lives. They take care of their employees and do right by others. For some reason, when it comes to paying the average Joe/Jane, they get their hackles up in a bunch and refuse to consider it an option. It's crazy.
Interesting. The reach of compassion only goes so far, I guess. Also, when it comes to the finance industry, that kind of thinking is common. Everyone with an MBA seems to worship the gospel according to Milton Friedman.
The best part of companies like these complaining about having no workers is the argument of "If we raise minimum rage we'll just replace you with robots" has been ruined
Employee: I can't afford to feed myself or my family and I'm getting yelled at by customers all day. McDonalds: I know what will make you feel better- a song!
😂🤣 Love this. Very true. If they're feeling especially heated, they will also add "you're a communist", or if you look slightly ethnic, "if you don't like it, go back to your country!"
I used to be a manager at these restaurants. A common wage theft activity would be to stop at another restaurant on your way in to work to borrow line items (fries, shake mix, etc). You borrow the items, show up to your restaurant, and then clock in. And then of course, there’s drop line items off at other stores on your way back home, off the clock. Managers also had to drive the shift deposit bag to the bank and drop it off, once again off the clock.
I don't understand why people are so concerned with "skill". When do workers start asking, "how much wealth does my labor actually produce?" and "how much do I get to share in that wealth?" If workers are producing millions for the corporation, the workers should be doing well also. Everybody loves to look back to the good ol' days when things were so much better, without considering that a major reason for WHY those times were better was that workers kept a larger percentage of the wealth that their labor produced. This percentage took a nosedive in the 1970s and has kept getting smaller. And we've been talked into believing that it's right even as we struggle to eat.
One thing that bothered me When I worked at “Cracker Barrel.” Every night we would throw out Atleast one, if not two entire giant kitchen garbage cans of food. We had mother’s with kids to feed, elderly people working there, and Lord knows I am Always broke enough I could’ve fed myself for two weeks with a fraction of the food we threw away in one night. It really makes me mad seeing companies willing to throw hundreds of millions of dollars of food out before giving it to employees. It’s the times we live in folks, when Grocery stores put locks on their trash cans so homeless people can’t get food out of it.
The "rampant wage theft" is something I can speak about. I worked at a place non-McDonalds and they used to tell people go outside and clean the lot then you can leave. I remember managers clocking people out so those people didn't get paid for that extra time. I recommend getting your time sheets always. Always clock yourself out and video tape if you can. Watch your money or someone else will!
“Breaking food into pieces often results in eating less and still feeling full.” I had to rewind for that one. Hard to top. Wait is the next one telling them to return their kids Christmas presents? Oh snap.
😂 I just about fell out of my chair when I read this LOL!! You have to wonder how the people that produced this nonsense mapped all of this out. Crazy stuff! Delivered in that dead yet artificially cheery corporate delivery.
I used to work at Target as hardlines. Closing shift we make the areas "look new and restocked" (pulling items to the front, taking out items that were misplaced and didn't belong, restocking our area's items that were misplaced elsewhere). If the cashiers were overwhelmed we were called as backup. Precious 10-20min taken away from our work that we were expected to still do by a time limited or expected to stay longer to complete. No one is coming to help us even though we sacrificed our time to help the cashiers. One day I was told to stay later. At the time this was before I had a car and had to take the bus which they knew about. After 10 there were only 2 busses left and that last one isn't always a guarantee. My shift ends at 10 so I left at 10. Oh the boss was pissed, but she knew I wasn't the typical pushover that companies love to prey on and exploit. Overtime they took me off closing shifts and put me on afternoon shifts which I very much preferred and was way more efficient at. It was mostly taking carts from the backroom filled with items and restocked empty shelves. I knew the shelves so well I could almost pinpoint where most items belong to without scanning them.
As a tax payer who pays a substantial income tax, I am offended that McDonald's has the gall to tell its own to take government assistance that I help subsidize instead of taking a cut from their corporate profits so their employees don't have to go on government assistance. This is not just an insult to the dignity of the employees, but an insult to all of us who pays taxes.
The fact that minimum wage in America is 7.25 is disgraceful! Minimum wage here in Australia is somewhere between 19-21 and I earn just under 30 an hour working at a petrol station while I'm at uni
Its as if people don't realize that plenty of McDonald's workers have college educations.....degrees even. There just aren't enough good jobs to go around.
This just became my fav video you've made. I make quite good pay now, but I remember making minimum wage, and being super depressed, hating my life, buying literally 1 box of pasta and a carton of eggs to eat for the whole week because I only had a few dollars and walking everywhere (normally taking 1-2 hours to get there at a good pace) because where I lived didnt have a good public transportation system and I couldnt afford a bike, let alone a car and insurance. I was homeless for a time. It was literally hell and I kept thinking, "How do people do it?! Literally how do people do it? Is this what life is supposed to be?!" I was fortunate enough to make it out of that situation but I know other people have barriers I didnt face. And even if they didnt, I dont honestly think anybody should have to live how I did. It was so miserable and stressful and scary.
Your story really illustrates the struggle of trying to live on low wages. And the way such jobs are denigrated here is appalling - even by the owners themselves. I understand how depressing it must've been. Definitely food for thought (no pun intended). Glad you've moved on and up.
When people say that raising wages will make everything cost more, I want to remind them that any business plan that has to be subsidized by underpaid labor is probably a bad one.
I am so glad this clip is back in circulation. I remember seeing this circling leftist social media when it happened, and the gaslighty response it got was sickening. Average people were going on bootlicking + bootstrapping tirades and the clip was eventually buried. The only people who were outraged were considered "radical leftists". Part of me is bitter, but a bigger part is glad this shit is being talked about seriously.
these places that are always hiring, there's always a reason for it. why are they always hiring? if people were happy working there, they wouldn't have such trouble keeping people working for them.
I love your heart. It's most definitely in the right place, which unfortunately can't be said for most people these days 😔 Sad but true. I truly appreciate the videos you put out, people need to know the stories of corporate greed. Cause if nobody tells us... how would we know? How do we know what we don't know, until it happens to us 😣😖😫 *Knowledge IS POWER* This being said, there is actually some good advice in here that we should all take some pearls from. But First... I don't shop at Walmart, My mother started that (before 2000) because they moved in and all her friend's business went under. I agreed and joined that boycott (BOYCOTTS WORK) I'd rather have less, pay a little more for the things I want- to people I like! Thaaaannnn give my money to greedy sobs that are destroying the world. *Personal Preference.* My ex's grandmother worked at Walmart (this story is from ~2009) she had worked there for like 30 years or something. She told me that when she started she made decent wages and loved her job, then over the years something changed. A "few years back" (grandmother terms... I equate that to the captain of the airplane saying "momentarily") they shuffled everyone from the jobs they loved and put them new places within the store or district. They then proceeded to take away their hours to the point they didn't make enough to live. When people started to complain they were told to file for welfare and medicaid/medicare. Walmart knew exactly what they were doing. They paid their employees just under the poverty level so that they could go collect benefits from the tax payers (aka themselves... while the owners and CEOs are mega gazillionaires). 😧 I KID YOU NOT 😐 This is not a new thing. McDonalds is not alone in their schemes... I would argue, many big corporations do this same thing and get away with it hand over fist. The saddest part about this, is that towns and cities will actually *PETITION* to get these fuckers in their areas! Give them all sorts of tax cuts and permit fee waivers. By corporations promising the politicians "local jobs" 😂😂 Do I think our "leaders" are that stupid to not know... I donno, scoundrels can be slick- excellent magicians. Does anyone see the irony here? *Corruption is rampant, EVERYWHERE!* Some pearls that I think we can extract from this slap in the face (lemonade from lemons...) Singing absolutely does help the soul. When we are sad or upset at life, *know,* that being aggravated and feeling defeated only makes the problem feel more insurmountable. We need to clam down and try to look at our issues rationally. So we can start taking steps to solve them ➡️ making our lives better. Even if we start with a few baby steps, climbing the mountain of issues that we face, it will make us feel better and further more, those baby steps add up and we will have gone miles when we look back. ❤️ Nothing is so bad that we can't change it little by little. So in Light of this ⬆️ *Complaining isn't going to do much...* Unless you are trying to discuss the issues at hand so they can be broken down into chewable pieces. That way you can start picking away at accessible options. If you are feeling overwhelmed about life, I suggest a journal. Journal about your problems and then revisit what you've written after looking for inspiration for options around you to change it. Try just one or a piece of one... Disciplined action is necessary to solve anything, attack great threw little Tao Te Ching #63 www.egreenway.com/taoism/ttclz63.htm Spending Budgets are one of God's gifts to humans 🙌🏻 😜🙃 No but seriously, they are pretty fabulous. If you don't have a budget and *KNOW WHERE YOU SPENDING YOUR MONEY,* you are doing yourself a disservice. Daily spending budgets... This is a bullshit term. Do you really need to spend money everyday?? I don't... I can go days without spending anything, sometimes weeks if necessary. I make my coffee at home and bring any breakfasts/lunches. This will save you so much... I cannot tell you, you'll have to try it and see for yourself. I have many other points but this Ted talk (😜) is getting kinda long. We are marching into a depression whether anyone wants it or not. It's happening and the only thing we can do is be prepared. Buying prepared food cost a lot of money (not to mention all the chemicals, additives and preservatives they put in processed foods). You can get a WHOLE lot out of buying the raw materials (dried beans, rice, flour, salt, sugar, bouillon...) and making things from actual scratch. I started making bread and it saved me no joke almost $50 a month, I'm one person... I got a $10 bread-maker at a yard sale and it literally took me 5 minutes of work to make one loaf (set it and forget it baby 😎). I've moved past that and make shit by hand now cause mmmmmm. This is what it's coming to. We need to start thinking realistically about inflations and the issues supply chain disruption is causing. Window bed gardens and such. Lots of resources on the internet about this... Things are really going to get that bad and we need to be prepared for it!! *AND* teach our children to keep their chins up. We can handle ANYTHING life throw at us... never give up or surrender. When your at rock bottom, theres only one direction to go ⬆️ th-cam.com/video/o-bhhdYhBeA/w-d-xo.html
People seem to forget that back in the boomer days, they could support an entire family, buy a house, buy 3 cars, even buy a fucking horse, AND invest, all on ONE part-time minimum wage job. Now people are arguing if full-time minimum wage workers should be able to afford to eat. What the fuck happened to this country? Why do we demand less than our parents and grand-parents generations?
Places like that have boomer boss mindset and think the only people that work there are high school and early college kids or in other words if you're under 20 more particularly if you're under 17, 16, or 15.
The biggest employers use what little social safety net we have in the US as a supplement to their profits by enabling them to pay wages low enough to keep their workers in poverty. It is disgusting. In my opinion, a policy that you can not be employed while receiving federal benefits or benefits that flow from the feds through the states (which is most of it because basically every state except New York and California are huge leeches that take far more money from the federal government than they generate in tax revenue) would, while it would at first result in either many people leaving their jobs to retain benefits or losing access to the programs while still working (the wrong choice, but many people would make it, which is what these parasites exploit) and fairly quickly those employers would have to start paying higher wages so that their employees could, you know, EAT and get medical care for their kids. The fact that the prior standard of a single income from 40 hours a week being being able to support a family of 4 COMFORTABLY is now seen as some insane ludicrous burden on corporations is insane and shameful.
As a housecleaner, if you're getting paid a proper wage, you're making at least $20 an hour during a cleaning. McDonald's employees can't afford to have me come over and clean up their shit. The fact that McDonald's thinks their employees have housecleaners shows how out of touch they are
Its really sad when you see people mistreating these workers because they feel entitled. Its even sadder to see that a big "Food chain" doesn't have the decency to provide a free meal to its workers let alone pay enough money, so as to be able to afford a meal that they cook. Probably they know what is in those burgers and don't want employee falling ill and skipping work. Wonder what's so Happy about their meals.
A ton of money spent on a BS website, a support team that tells employees to return Christmas presents. McDonald's uses government handouts as a way to make higher profits.
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To the people saying - "These jobs are not meant for supporting families, they're meant for extra money! They're highschooler jobs!"
I mean you're not wrong, but for ALOT of American adults, this is all they have. For others it's a fallback, for some it's a stepping stone, but if you can't even make enough TO DRIVE TO WORK OR EAT WHEN YOU GET HOME then how can you even keep working? We can't keep gatekeeping these jobs and the stigma around 'unskilled' by saying 'it was only meant for people who don't have families'. Yeah, maybe that was the intent, but thats not the REALITY.
I'm sure some workers are lazy and have terrible spending habits, but the same can be said for people at white collar jobs, or any job. More people than you realize are stuck and can't change their life, let alone barely afford to continue it.
I honeslty feel like you've never met someone that's in this situation. Where its so difficult.. it's almost mathematically impossible to improve their life with the time and money they have, and no schedule you make, or hours they work will pragmatically let them improve their life. Not without taking some sort of financial risk (ie. student loans to go back to school) and they know they can't pay back, but hey it's the only shot they have and so they take the risk and bet against themselves, because it's their only chance at not being a burger flipper.
And just so you know - not everyone that is currently employed at a fast food place necessarily WANTS to be "an unskilled burger flipper" their entire life, and if they did, who the fuck cares? Shouldn't someone that flips burgers all day be able to sit down at the end of the day and eat one too? No? You don't think so? Then looks like there won't be any burger flippers left, unless everyone can just magically be part time or high school students and not have any living expenses to pay right?
Now - You know it wasn't smart, but you took the student loan, you barely have time to make it class, and afford gas, but you took the risk to improve your life and you're on your way up! Suddenly life happens, you lose your job, you get sick, your family gets sick, your store closes, you aren't getting enough hours anymore, or any other number of things that REGULARLY happens to people in the USA. Eventually they default on their loan. Now they're even worse off for trying to better themselves.
Life HAPPENS to more people than anyone wants realize because of this bullshit boomer ideology of 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps!' when these people can't even afford boots.
Lets not forget, people aren't robots and I'm sure after being yelled at by the public all day it's probably hard to come home and be able to focus on improving your life, and if you have kids even more difficult.
Now couple that with the stigma of people thinking you only work at Mcdonalds because you're a lazy unskilled piece of shit, and you're only there because you make poor life choices, and you deserve to be where you are. Not only is this a REAL thing that people deal with, it can be impossible to ask for help because you'll instantly be lumped in with those 'lazy unskilled burger flippers who want free money for nothing'. I'm sure you're EXTRA motivated now.
If you really think these jobs should only be for those that need "extra money", then why the fuck would anyone pick mcdonalds to do it? Oh that's right, it's because most likely it's all they have.
I'm not saying you have to pay them a luxurious CEO salary, but ffs - how do you keep going to work if you don't make enough to keep going? What your suggesting is as insane as unskilled internships, with a similar mindset of 'well you're supposed to be in school while you do it and live at home or whatever so you don't need the money'. This is not the way modern working America operates anymore. Take those old ideologies and throw them out. Not everyone has a family to help them live, or pay their bills, and this mindset is ignorant.
I'm not saying 'its the companies responsibility to take care of their workers and make sure they have a great life!' Because it's absolutely isn't their responsibility. They only care about profit. I personally wouldn't want any company reaching that far into my life to be able to take care of me like that. I'm just saying logically and on a human level - it doesn't make sense to complain about no one wanting to work, but at the same time not pay enough money for people to be able take the jobs - even if they wanted.
Unless of course you work there because 'you don't really need that much money, it's just supplemental' which in that case....must a NICE place to be. Better than most Americans. 'Yeah i just work here part time for extra money, but i don't need it'.
But this isn't about logic, or being human, it's about profit. That's all they care about. Maybe this is just me, but personally I think someone deserves more than $7.25 an hour just deal with the public. You want me to deal with a Karen at $7.25? HA. FUCK OFF. And I'm blessed to have the ability to say that. Most people aren't. You can literally stand at the doors of walmart and say hello to people and most likely make more. So why don't they just go work at Walmart? Surely if it was that easy then Mcdonalds would be out of business.
You would think a company would want to keep their workers fed and able to work so they can keep making a profit. Na instead everyone is expendable. And that's how they want it. I honestly think companies appreciate the stigma, because then it gets everyone else to agree 'yeah they're just burger flipperss not mean't to make a living doing this anyway' and Mcdonalds is laughing all the way to the bank.
Now lets jump back to reality, it's 2022, you're not a high schooler, you're an adult that tried to make good choices but now you're stuck in this endless downward spiral, and you can't even work to live. Charge me $9 for a hamburger idgaf. If I can't afford the fast food I eat, then I probably don't need to buy it anyway.
YOU ARE NOT EXEMPT. "Life" can happen to anyone at anytime, yeah you do what you can to make smart choices, but sometimes it is what it is, and you eat a huge slice of humble pie, take the L and start your life over again. You never consider these possibilities because why would any employee working there tell you their past? Again, they'll just get lumped in with the 'should of made better choices loser, sucks to suck' crowd.
We forget about the fact that back in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and so on - "unskilled workers" were able to afford houses, cars, school, and their kids. Only in the last 25 or 30 years 'flipping burgers' became this thing to 'be ashamed of'. IMO it's gatekeeping by boomer mindset people, that probably didn't follow their own advice they're giving you, while they sit on their nice pensions that don't exist for us anymore. Just go to college and get a degree, then you'll be successful right? Yeah ok boomer.
If you want to come at this scenario with the angle of 'sucks to be them, should have made better life choices, now you reap what you sow' you can do that, but you're still a jerk.
My favorite part is how everyone is so focused on minimum wage they totally forget that instead of Mcdonalds paying their employees to live, tax payers are. YOU ARE. No problems with that? Where are those comments addressing that?
You want to get political? Look at all the companies mandating vaccines. You hear about the mandate, but you didn't know about the shitloads money they got from doing it. CVS, Walgreens, and plenty of pharmacies around the nation have skilled workers, and they will never see a single penny of that 'handout'. Companies will play whatever political party helps make the most money. You're all being played.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
My son lost his job at McDonald's (a corporate store) for refusing to work 50 hours. After 2.5 years of 3rd shift full time he was making the same as what new employees were hired at. He was regularly disrespected and the GM told him no one will ever want him, and asked who would ever hire him. The abuse is out of control, even when you're a dedicated employee.
100% agree
💯. Those comments just show the lack of empathy for other people. Everyone despite the level of skill should be able to live on their wages. These corporations are so effing greedy. McDonalds & Walmart telling their employees to use public assistance instead of paying them appropriate wages should be a crime.
I saw an article recently, the headline was "America Runs On Bad Jobs."
100% , Thnx for all you do Joshua.
You know what reduces stress levels?!?! Not starving to death, or seeing your kids hungry!
these Americans call customer service hotlines expecting Asians to answer the calls and they really enjoy yelling at the poor workers and asking for a supervisor immediately after the agent answer the phone. Then when the call is over and they got the help they need. They answer a survey, giving very low scores to the agent, which cost them to lose their bonuses or get fired. So Karma bites them in the ass.
Who woulda thunk it?
ill try that! thanks!
Who would’ve thought I would’ve never guessed that
I like how the budget didn’t even include food. You’d think a company selling food would remember that people need to eat.
that would be included in their "Other" category
@First Name Last Name based on the McLogic yes
There is always left overs and icecream.
they don't sell food, they sell poison.
McDonald's is *not* food
Funny how CEOs love living in a capitalist society, but hate it when their employees turn out to have a capitalist mindset
CEOs are helping their fellow capitalists in the big pharma as well
McDonalds is voluntarily enforcing vax id in Israel
@@awakeandwatching953 Israel in general enforced mandatory vax, not just McDonalds
Privatization of profits and socialization of losses.
It's not capitalism when you get as much help from the government as these companies do.
Im almost old enough to be your dad. On a personal note I would be proud to call you my son. I love what you are doing. Keep up the good work.
That is both nice and weird of you lol.
@ weird, why? Because he's impressed that this young man is doing something other than protesting and trying to change his gender?
@@FlightRobXIII no, a total stranger telling you that he would like to be your dad. It’s sweet, but a little weird.
@@FlightRobXIII how the fuck did you come up with this, so out of topic hahaha
@ I get why you would say that. Ive just always felt bad for Josh and how his family did him dirty. Its a terrible story. Go back to his older videos where he talks about his dad.
$7.25 isn't enough to buy the cheapest, small-sized "value" meal on the McDonald's menu these days.
@@Fedgery007 I doubt that McDonald's itself is victim to inflation.
@@VioFax Yep exactly! Lol (Except I doubt they would even be affected by price increases on beef since they surely inexpensibly breed their own cattle and chickens etc.)
@@VioFax and make sure no employee gets above 1% raise...
@@Fedgery007 yeah, so what about the wages?
@@Fedgery007 Brilliant! As we all know, inflation (caused by gubment) increases the price of everything except labor, because reasons.
So McDonald's is saying they need government hand outs to function as a company... Quite the corporate welfare state we live in.
IIRC, Walmart (aka the great Satan) does the same thing. I unfortunately to business with those demonic jackals. Their idea of doing business is me on the ground with their heel in the hollow of my neck. I never shop there for this reason.
A choice between capitalism and socialism is a choice about who gets tax-paid welfare. Companies, or citizens.
something something, capitalism something something
@@casusbelli9225 or you know.... you can have worker rights and capitalism.
@@casusbelli9225 not really. The choice between socialism and capitalism is the choice between letting those with talent and skill be rewarded for those and attempting to erase the bad by erasing the good.
The reason capitalism is failing its cultural. Corruptin within people. There's no integrity. When there was integrity nothing ever came close to America. Additionally, capitalism took people from garaunteed poverty to a 1 in 500 chance of being wealthy.
This idea that socialism will balance the field where everyone succeeds is silly. Everyone will equally barely survive while the state harbors wealth and resources for itself and the people that are part of it. Human corruption can only be tamed by the individual. Only 10% at most even want to. And they Excell because they do. Any government given any power almost immediately becomes corrupt because that's the nature of power. Power given to corrupt leaders becomes a weapon used against the people to benefit the leader. Power given to a disciplined leader becomes a tool of the people, weirded thru that leader which the leader has no interest in... this is why anyone who actively seeks power should never ever be given it. They will use it as a weapon. Leaders who were disciplined, like gorge Washington for example, had no interest in power or the presidency, he was forced by the people to take it up.. the sheep always need a leader. A few are good, the vast majority are bad.
You know how you identify a good leader? The entire federal government illegally taps his phones and investigates him for 6 years without ever producing a shred of physical evidence of any crime. Then when that guy finally comes to take the power, they do something stupid and desperate like illegally raiding his home to find absolutely anything to allow them to hold onto power..
That's just how I see it. The federal government is openly and insanely corrupt, and corrupt people don't attack other corrupt people.. I don't know when people started acting like the government is the good guys, but that's a new trend...
Sorry bro, my point is, if you want socialism, fine. But if want this federal government intact and socialism also, well.... indont think it will take long to change your mind on that if you get what you want. .
Sorry for rambling. The issue is human nature.. learn it.
Hey all! I did it! I quit my job! It's my last week in the corporation.
No more corporate nonsense! I'm starting my own business now.
Wish me luck, guys!
Best of luck
All the good vibes for you!!!!
Right behind ya
Good luck! Try and do the good you needed most - but lacked in the corpo world - to your employees
Best of luck
I always think it is crazy, walmart and McDonald's make billions and the taxpayers have to pay for their employees Healthcare and food stamps.
Absolutely! I hear so many people complain about others who depend on assistance. I always tell them that they're angry with the wrong people.
In some States Walmart is the number one employer.
Food has the potential to become more addictive than street drugs; you'll pay for it four times over after factoring for the costs associated with this food. You'll pay for it once by buying their food, twice by subsidizing the employee's welfare, third by subsidizing the medical bills of people who end up eating this trash, and fourth by paying your own medical bills once you end up in the hospital from this trash.
People should stop going there
Many people are victimized by " Human Resources " be weary , very weary of that department.
HR is NEVER your friend. They are there to protect the Company, the CEO, the Owners, and to limit exposure for inevitable lawsuits.
wary. Weary is a synonym for tired. Maybe you mixed up wary and leary, which are synonyms
They don't call them in-human resources for no reason (no offense HR lady)
@@kevg1617 I've listened to Venus In Furs by The Velvet Underground so much that I only associate the word with the lyric " I Am Weak , I Am Weary " Somrwhere , I now remember that one should cast a wary 😟 eye 👁 ! Thanks for keeping me on my toes ! 👍
HR is a Karen haven club with every diversity hire you can think of with a power trip to boot
"Breaking food into pieces often results in eating less and still feeling full?' Oh my God! Try telling that to a growing boy or girl who actually needs that nutrition!
It's pretty insane
It’s literally what I would do in the worst days of my eating disorder. I’m ready to murder whoever thought that was a OK thing to promote. 😡
It’s ok just drink water it will keep u full then in couple yrs die malnutrition
It's It's indirect way of saying "f*ck you, starve".
Billions in profit annually.
Crappy corporations: “Complaining is like vomiting. You may feel better, but everyone around you feels sick!”
Workers: “Complaining is like vomiting. Something caused it to happen. And it’s best to figure out why and change it so that it doesn’t happen again.”
lol @ Crappy corporations: “Complaining is like vomiting. You may feel better, but everyone around you feels sick!”
i actually found that kind of funny.
cruel as it may be, Corporate disses are hilarious. Its the spitefulness behind them which makes them funny lol
Not everyone can accommodate a skilled job, society wouldn’t survive if we did. Regardless of where you are on the job skill totem pole, you should still be able to make enough to be above the poverty line.
Doing what exactly? Oh yeah, something something something, and hey presto you are above poverty line dont complain. You need to live the reality fo poverty to see what a huge hole it is and how there are very many systems designed to keep people in that trap
@@flethacker I could be mistaken, but I think you may have read my comment wrong. Maybe I am reading yours wrong? It sounds like we are saying the same thing, no?
Ok, start a biz, and pay everyone what they think they are worth then make a video and show the world, like Josh does. Oh, Josh won't let his intern make a vid?
Ab-sol-damn-lutely!
Agreed!
I knew someone who worked at Jack N The Box and a customer threw a full soda at him, and he reacted by throwing a soda back at the customer. He got fired. He was the sole money maker for a family of four adults. If not for a family member renting property to them, they woulda been homeless.
Working at fast food seems like a big pile of slanted toilet poop.
This is awful but confirms that social capital is almost as if not more, important than financial capital.
That’s his own fault for doing that!
@@Labyrinth6000 nah, if that bitch ass customer wants to start a fight he can finish it
@@Labyrinth6000 Yes vicious mom said thank you for the refreshing drink on my face and hear in my clothes cause I don’t have another pair clothes to change into thank you so much I love working in a wet shirt
Getting stuck at job similar to that of McDonalds is a poverty cycle. Go to work and work 80 hours a week to just be able to afford rent, food, and transportation. Too exhausted to learn a new skill, too broke to change life. Go back and repeat working there. It's a whirlpool that you cannot escape.
I worked warehousing for 9 years. Right before covid out of desperation I joined the army. When I came back due to Covid I was stuck at the same job. One year later I took a 3 months crash course in IT support while juggling IT support remote training, army training, and full time night work and passed everything. Also got my Comp TIA A+ certification. Than by November I left, now I’m a field technician doing cabling.
It’s an uphill battle to fight against poverty, but if you’re willing to dedicate every second of your life getting out, I can’t think of a better country that would give you a chance and resources to do it. When I did it I was driven crazy and obsessed with breaking generational poverty.
@@Jay-dawg337 and lot of cases it's done on purpose. Give you a good example why doesn't schools teach money.
@@Jay-dawg337 Awesome! I hope you continue to share your story with young people. A lot of people grow up in families who have given up and do not encourage. I think many of these workers feel it is out of their reach.
@@Jay-dawg337 so, GI bill?
Pro tip: meet expectations, not exceed them. Your reward for being efficient and highly productive in your job is more work, so it is not worth it.
Preach
Learned that as a young guy by a old worker at the time, he told me what are you rushing to do that for, they are only going to give you more work to do
@@maxclubhouse9968 they dont exist.
@@maxclubhouse9968 those are fewer and fewer. Loyalty means nothing, fair pay means nothing when they can exploit you.
at my last job i frequently did the work of 2-3 people instead of just one. my reward? how hard i worked was never even acknowledged, while coworkers got freakin gifts for literally doing the basic job description. one night it was just too much for me and i went to my car to cool off so i didnt cuss someone out.
I'm constantly laughing about how similar the army has become to corporate entities. I've personally brought issuses to my command and got handed numbers to federal assistance while the military department just dumped millions into housing for our top guys amidst overspending investigations.
And yet capitalists are constantly banging on about SuPpOrTiNg ThE tRoOpS
The army has become nothing more than a place to launder money for the weapons industry. It’s a black hole of billions that are unaccounted for and a military that is too powerful to be held to account.
my husband is a chief in the navy and has brought up several times (including to the top enlisted person in the navy) issues related to suicide prevention. they are frequently expected to somehow take care of and prevent suicide attempts while having barely any skills. he requested more thorough training programs and support for this specific topic several times and was told every single time that there are no funds available. while that useless prick lloyd austin is clowning around with covid policies for public and political approval of the government, suicide prevention policies, which take significantly more lives in the military than covid ever has, are pretty much limited to “thoughts and prayers”. military is very much similar to corporate entity and literally doesn’t give a shit about service members’ health and wellbeing.
@@danielcrafter9349 I'm a capitalist lover and I think our troops are way over "supported"
@@danielcrafter9349 eh it is support the troops...not "support the military beurocracy," look up "semper fi documentary,: about camp legune... where 1000s of military families poisoned and through the roof infant mortality and cancer.
Then you have to look up the video.."why generals better in ww2," lecture...shows how modern military is bs..and mediocrity is rewarded.
Then you have coleen the 9/11 whistleblower who wrote the memo..
Recently she has talked..."we have used the military in the fight against terrorism..when we should have used law enforcement."
But yeh capitalism isnt that bad... it is the corporate system...which ends up with all the juicy benefits and tax breaks. While well paying small business cannot compete.
It's crazy to me that companies see no problem with all of their employees qualifying for government assistance. We literally subsidize employers and they think it's normal instead of shameful.
What is so crazy about?
You will starve on a street, and they will rather step over your body instead of giving you a few cents from their profit, to save your life.
That is the reality of capitalism, your life quality represent your perceived worth for those companies.
If you are unskilled worker then your worth is only going to decrease from year to year, because any immigrant from less developed country, will be happy to take your place for half the salary you get.
@@nikolaizaicev9297 i don't believe in "unskilled" labor. If they are profiting from your labor, skills don't matter unless you're a doctor or salesman
@@jermainemyrn19
Well, here is a plot twist for you.
Capitalism is dictatorship.
You might have illusion that you have a choice, but that is just an illusion.
Forced mandates, do you have a choice here?
Yes, between loosing job and dying from hunger vs keeping job and injecting stuff that you were forced to inject in yourself.
Is that a real choice? I don't think so, because we all know, what "choice" majority will be forced to do in this situation.
@@nikolaizaicev9297 if you don't have a choice then it's not free market or capitalism. You're describing corporatism, which is antithetical to the free market.
They love to bitch about communism while gobbling on corporate welfare.
I think demanding corporate welfare should be automatic grounds for a forceful nationalization of the company.
In order to qualify for Snap benefits and medicaid they have to have a PT job that's above 20+hrs a wk BUT cannot exceed the annual gross income of 16k for a family unit of 1. It increases to 22k if you have a ONE child and 28k if you have 2. If you go above 1 dollar you case gets terminated. Case workers get a bonus if they close your file so they actively look for mistakes to close your case.
This is why they keep the minimum wage the way it is to keep their employees below that line to avoid having to provide benefits.
Keeping people on Food Stamps also keeps certain farmers on government subsidies. It a whole mess that i wish i could explain in depth.
This really blew my mind! I l always knew the system was messed up but damn this is madness. Thank you for the insight, it really explains a lot.
@@lashaye3627 Ive been in the system for a while now due to a disability and let me tell you that's not even half the nonsense ive seen happen at Social Services.
@@minuit6305 I believe you and at this point I wouldn’t be surprised unfortunately. Social services seems to do more harm than help individuals are in-need.
"case workers get a bonus if they close your file and actively look for mistakes to close your case." I know that's a lie. My friend in college was on EBT/SNAP whatever it's called and when she was finally able to get off it her case worker tried her hardest to keep her on them. Saying things like it's just easier to stay on and renew or 'don't you want it , it's free money to help you in college.'
@@james_chatman Mcdonalds pays about the same in the entire united states, California, Indiana, Illinois, Washington state, all pay the same wage.
Instead of just providing quality pay & benefits, they set up a whole ass system to help people rely on the government to get by. Shit's fucked up.
And an internal charity, which you can opt in out of your pay check for, for the company tax write offs :)
No one should have a full time job where they need government assistance. No wonder the national debt is so high. To pay for large corporations’ greed.
@@josephj6521 even better, your tax dollars provide them subsidies more often than not. They also get the most tax breaks out of just about any entity in the nation short of the ultra elite (who often run the companies anyways) & non profits.
It sure is!
McDonald's company housing? Wow. We're right back to the days of the Company Store. Sickening.
At the end of your shift you can sit on Ronalds lap before he escorts you back to your cage.
@@JoshuaFluke1 All the while my wages are being Hamburgled. Thx for the pin.
@@ASTRA1564 Conservatives don't give a shit about fast food lol. It's exploitive garbage that the world would be better off without. The real issue is that no one is ever going to be paid a "livable wage" (which is pretty subjective and depends on where you live and what you personally see as "livable") flipping burgers. This is due to how easily replaceable these types of jobs are, and is only getting worse as automation increases. Nobody wants people to starve out on the streets (as your strawman might suggest), but there are reasons these jobs are the definition of "wage cage", they are something to escape from, not something to keep nickel and dime-ing hoping one day your McOverlords will grant you a 2 family house for your decades of servitude.
@@ASTRA1564 code for "we want workers that are stupid enough so we can take advantage of them."
Are they bringing back Ronald's Caboose and using it as a bunkie for their workforce?
"I wouldn't mind if my hamburger costs a little more."
My dude. It already does and they're still paying these people $7.25. It's all bullshit. All of it.
They most likely mark it to 'pay it forward' and never do. Yup.
Worked at McDonalds in 2007. Wage theft was super common. Employees were often forced to work up to 10 hour shifts because they would not be allowed to leave at closing time unless the closing duties were completed. Due to staff shortages, this occurred nearly every night, however staff were not paid for those extra hours. As a shift manager, I would record people’s pay for the OT they worked, plus a full 8 hours if the staff were unable to take their unpaid breaks throughout the day. The store managers however would go in and manually adjust people’s pay, removing the break time and overtime.
Turn those store managers in and have them prosecuted.
Still happening in France in 2022. Especially the first part.
@@Qhimadi The job market in France went to shit. I worked there in 2008 and made +/- 1700€ 35h/week. In 2016 all i could find doing the same job was paying 1300€.
Happened to me in hs at a Wendy’s. I was working about 45 hours a week and going to school at 3.35 an hour, getting off work at 11pm every week night. My first paycheck was 110.00 bring home for two weeks. After six weeks of that, I was done. I knew something wasn’t right. The last two weeks, I fucked off extra and stole food knowing they weren’t paying me. What a rip off.
@@VRDejaVu WOW! What happened in France to cause them to be americanized? I thought workers had tons of rights in Europe
"Hey man, can we get a raise?"
"We can't afford it, here's an automatic drive thru window and ordering kiosk though!"
Translation: "No, you're already obsolete."
whatever is most profitable.
@@JoshuaFluke1 Hi, check out The Guardian's new article entitled "Your work is not your god". There are many interesting thoughts: like companies gain more from the stock market rather than their workers but still push them to put extra hours, or society persuades us to work even though we do not need it anymore and ready for retirement.
As someone who ran a mcds in 06, we bumped pay from $8 to $12 and we raised prices by like $0.05 per item
Not bad.
I know a manager who is also the owner in my country and he said changing prices is not allowed. They in fact lose money on cheese burgers because it's so cheap to sell and costly to make.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I remember reading somewhere that if McDonald's just increased every item on the menu by $0.30 than they could afford to double all of their employees hourly pay. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure everybody in America could afford to spend an extra $0.30 for their Big Mac meal. Especially if it increases the chance of the employee to earn a living wage.
@@oleanderthor-borre9506 The franchasing rules can change depending on the country/state to acomodate the local laws.
@@AK-47ISTHEWAY They can literally afford to probably triple or quadruple their employee wages right now, just look at all the bonuses and salary increases in the millions the execs got during a pandemic while the workers got shafted. Companies just use the potential price increase as an excuse to pay their workers below a living wage.
10 years ago I went to Sidney Australia in 2011. Australia had 16 dollars an hour minimum wage . Mcdonald's in Australia are required to pay full medical and retirement benefits. The combo meals were only 1 dollar more than in America. Most Americans don't realize how bad they have it. #livingwageisaright
It's roughly $23 now. Very decent, and McDonald's here are still very profitable. Although, profit/revenue is slowly going down as people have become way more health conscious in the past 6-7 years.
America has a corporate greed problem, and it shows. I've seen job ads that require bachelor degrees paying $8-10. What an absolute joke of a job market. A recent strike event happened in Alabama where miners want better conditions, the company told them "they can afford to give them better health and insurance pay, but they aren't worth it".
America and it's 'corporate targets' are fucked, and this is coming from someone that's a capitalist. I love when people make money, but pay your workers ffs, it's not hard.
“But think of those poor corporations!”
@@Lilnuker1337 it seems fairness and doing the right thing is a forgotten concept.
The irony of working somewhere surrounded by food, but going hungry.
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." -Franklin. D. Roosevelt
Decades ago as a punk college kid, I had a checker job at a chain drug-store , earning $4.45/hr. The first time I worked until closing, I rang up the last customer, the closing manager locked the door behind them as they left, which makes sense, and I tried to follow a minute later. "No, we have you until 14 minutes after the hour (at no additional pay). When I tried to unlock the door anyway, another worker blocked me, angry that I might leave without putting in the requisite free labor. I managed to escape about 30 seconds later, and over the next few months, they found other things to mess with me until I foolishly quit without a lawsuit.
A place I use to work HATED giving you overtime and if you even went a minute over the 40hrs they'd 'teach you a lesson,' by dropping your hours. I thought it was hilarious that me doing almost 90% of the work would be 'taught a lesson,' if I go into OT but the bosses cousin who doesn't do shit gets 60hrs a week and no one bats a fucking eye as he takes his 8th break of the day.
So for 30 seconds they attempted to physically assault/restraint you but failed.
I'd have pressed charges young man.
@@VenomKpp I took 2 breaks a day and they caused my line manager immense stress and hurt. She was a snowflake. Cute, very hot but a snowflake.
@@The-Great-Brindian It was more like 3 seconds of restraint, me pretending to capitulate, then making a break for it when they thought I was on my way to clean aisle 7.
As to pressing charges, I'm the sort to deal with such issues on my own, and it didn't come up again. Now the 6 weeks it took to get my first paycheck, that's different .. I should have sued on that.
One place I worked tried something similar after we clocked out they were saying you're not done Yada Yada...
I smiled and said if I'm not on the clock I'm not working, now move or be moved.
Management put 2 fingers on my chest and said menacingly get back to work asshole..
I bent his fingers in the wrong direction until he was on his knees , then broke them and said I quit open the door fucker, or I'll break the rest.
Also since we're not on camera it's your word against mine I'm 17 and no one's going to believe someone half your size and weight kicked your ass and threatened you with worse should you decide to press charges.
I remember when this was floating around Facebook back when this came out and it was just as unrealistic 10 years ago as it is now. The company should be ashamed.
So. Subsidizing your benefits through government programs...
I love how that sample budget doesn't include things like FOOD. Or gas for your car. Talk about ridiculous.
I don't know how anyone could take one vacation a year, let alone two. The only job that ever gave me vacation days left me so worn out, that I slept through my off days. I wouldn't have the energy to even take a real vacation.
Union electrician
So weird reading this when living in Ireland. America is mental.
@@jamesleonard6890 Yeah, it sucks most of the time. What puzzled me is that I was working for the US branch of a Belgian company, but nothing there is done even remotely like my understanding of the European way. We had 60 vacation hours the first year of employment, then 80, and it always had to be pre-approved. When we actually took our days off, someone else would have to work over to cover us. I could go on, but I don't want to complain too much.
To enjoy a vacation, I need at least two weeks off, in a row. I need the first week to turn back into a normal human being, so that I can actually enjoy the second week of the vacation. However, I understand many workers don't have the luxury of two weeks vacation and, even if they do, many employers discourage employees from taking two weeks off in a row (nevermind if you actually have three or four weeks vacation, like many Europeans have).
Here's how: you work for a company that values you, and take vacations in smaller increments throughout the year rather than waiting to use it all at once.
Holy shit. Yes, sell off your possessions so you can remain here.
One of us!
When working in retail managers act so OFFENDED that you even think about getting a second job. My friend who eventually promoted to manager had gotten a second job and our manager had griped and acted like she killed his first born or something. She ended up quitting the second job because of it.
I believe we should be conscious and caring consumers, so before we buy a product or a service, we should think about how the company treats its employees. But most of the time we tend to ignore the necessity of others, and we don't care about all the injustices this mean companys do to their employees
And how would you go about figuring that out in an extensive supply chain. Let's use McDonald's. Let's say all their employees got fair wages and benefits. Well what about where the meat cheese bread and veggies are processed, what about the truckers who move them. Are they all treated fair. There is no way to actually know unless you get it straight from the source
@@chrism8180 - you're totally right. It's not like we ourselves can find such information on the internet, or find out what other companies they deal with, or find out their treatment of minorities or anything like that...
It's not like we can find out like, Chick-a-Fila expoit the poverty-stricken in Africa or support abuse of the LGBTQ community...
Oh.
Wait.
@@danielcrafter9349 the information you find will hardly be entirely accurate. If you don't want to buy products from places that exploit workers, you might as well stop consuming goods and services altogether, because there are no honorable companies. This piece of tech we're communicating with, brought forth by exploitative means, the internet, also conceived through exploitative means. Literally everything within the modern world we live was brought forth by exploitation. It's an unfortunate reality, and purchasing "fair trade" products is a gimmick
Ethical consumption is fine in theory. Unfortunately, it's a meme. For it to cause a significant change would require a coordinated public will typically only seen at the height of wars. Anything short of that is just virtue signaling by a select few.
We already have a mode of collective public action: the government. That's what needs to be used to force ethical production.
One reason Amazon has so much profits. Glad Josh is not supporting these scum.
If you have a job, you shouldn’t need any kind of government assistance. :/
Yes, this. It's essentially an indirect subsidization of corporations.
Love these one sentence observations that focuses straight into the main problem. Well said 👏
People like to talk about MacD jobs are unskilled. “Skill” is literally the ability to do something well. Flipping burger is a skill. Customers expect the cook to not poison them by cooking/handling the food properly. Even presumably mundane jobs that people assume don’t bring “value” requires skill of some kind. Their value lies in freeing the employer or manager to do something else and be good at that specific task.
Unskilled jobs are often the ones that require LOADS of diverse skills - to handle several tasks, documentation, communication, physical exertion, patience with clients, additional tasks on top of the ones mandated in the job, etc.
@@gotinogaden Exactly.
@@gotinogaden Sure, and realizing that fact, the best way to help such workers is to help them find more valuable uses of such skills so that they can make a lot more.
@@gotinogaden
When people speak about skills and unskilled jobs, they mean the rareness of the skills.
Anyone cal flip burgers, if I fire you I can find another one as a replace quite fast.
More than that, the new worker won't need that much of training and he can become productive really fast.
If we are speaking about a let's say plastic surgeon, that is a skill that you can't replace so easily. And even another surgeon might need some training/practice to become as productive as the previous one.
Thereby, the salary is paid based on availability of some skills and is governed by the law of supply and demand.
Good point
Dude this was so cringing that I just couldn't watch it, thanks to Joshua for doing this good work, everyone is in need to learn and see how workers are treated poorly especially in the US.
I guess employees are treated better in other 3rd world countries.
If u have a full time job and still have to get on SNAP, the government is further subsidizing the employer
I cringed at the "sing away the stress" part because it reminded me of when I read about how in the slavery era slaves would often sing while working out on the fields. Basically, McDonald's is just another corporate company treating their employees like modern day slaves.
Chain gang. Nightmare. Galley slaves. Corporate vampires.
worked for McDonalds for FOUR days in October. So bad. Couldn't even hydrate myself. All the people that picked up the jobs and were in training left when I did.
Wow this is fucked up! I worked at McDonald’s back in 2013 and I was paid 7.25… a decade later the minimum wage hasn’t increased ?!
Certain cities have raised it, but the federal min wage is $7.25
That shit is depressing! Glad you did this!
yeah if a company have their call center for complains
dont
its a way that they protect themselves from you
youre better off taking complains to lawyer and bash the company without warning cause lets be honest companies are corrupt they get away with a lot of acts against humanity
as for lawsuits its a gamble you can still lose even if youre in the right
I'd quit the minute I read that "break up your food" part.
In my view, corporations in general are banking on a combination of two factors to keep wages low:
1) Any money is better than $0 when you have to eat
2) society deciding that they should monetarily help people not starve (what little help it is)
It's hard to hold out for higher wages when you can't eat or don't have a roof over you're head. And when you do complain about not making enough, they can just point you to "government handouts." Handouts disproportionately paid for by the middle class and not the rich.
Yep, this. Government handouts should never have become more than an extreme measure. Now it's basically become an indirect subsidy of abusive corpos.
It is frankly _unacceptable_ that people have to rely on any government programs when working full time.
NO employee that's works a job should be getting food from a pantry, medicaid for insurance while the CEO gets paid 20x and spends millions on tv commercials it's SICK
Wow. TH-cam recommended these out of order. I saw your follow-up video first, where you just summarized the call.
That did NOT prepare me for how disgusting this is. Any job that directs employees to government aid is an employer who knows damn well they aren't paying enough. And then while they're the ones getting the full benefit of the labor, they're passing the expense onto the public.
As for the inflation argument, it's bunk. Look at all the inflation that happened without raising minimum wage. Besides, I'd rather pay more for a burger I eat than get taxed for burgers I don't eat so that McDonald's can shirk their responsibility to pay employees and say "jUsT gO oN wElFaRe"
Right now I've seen more restaurants closing early or simply not having staff than any time I can ever remember. Taco bell had drive thru only, drove to another across town, same thing. KFC literally had no chicken to serve. Bojangles closes about 4 pm everyday they used to be open till 8-9. Jack in the box locked their door because they couldn't handle the customer inside, this was at noon. I was inside and people were banging on the door since they put no sign up. Even chipotle was out of steak. I miss mean tweets I will tell you that.
You're right on point when you mentioned that companies expect you to be wholly loyal/dedicated to the company working 60 hours a week, yet pretty much EVERY CEO of every major company are also board members, etc of different companies. For an example, the CEO of Domino's is also on the Board of Executives at Best Buy....not sure if he still is though. Some of them are literally CEO's + on multiple boards of different companies simultaneously (earning about $20K per board meeting session) while they delegate everything to all of their subordinates.
They should ration the left over food and give it to their low income employees that rely on food stamps instead of having a policy that fires these employees for even eating a French fry... McDonalds wastes so much food that could've been given to homeless people or low income employees. But nope, the store manager is allowed to take all the free food they want. Sickening
Going back to school will NOT save you from Crappy Wages. My friends who wasted 4 years in University had to learn this the hard way. Oh yeah! Get a degree and a buttload of debt that will only secure you a Job that is a dollar or two above the minimum wage! WOOO!
I know, and its a trap.
Get a degree in Europe. In Germany and Switzerland it's less than 1.5k usd per year.
@@MK-yf1wu as if people can "just" move to Germany and Switzerland
@@alexsalgado7894 If you're from the US it is not as difficult i think.
@@alexsalgado7894 I'm not sure about Switzerland, but I can speak for Germany: If you manage to get accepted by a German university, you get a student visa and can study in Germany FOR FREE. And it is really not difficult to get accepted in some unis here. The minimal requirements include a basic understanding of German though. If a US high schooler would study a bit of German in school and practice it a bit, they could easily move to Germany to get free college. It's literally as simple as that.
This is called corporate welfare. It's when a company doesn't pay their people enough to take care of themselves. They'll use all the gov benefits so they don't have to pay them more.
The folks that say "Well just get a better job!" are completely ignoring the fact that at the end of the day that job still exists and someone WILL be desperate enough to take it, thus starting the cycle for someone else. To those people saying "get a better job", I have to say that you're tacitly implying that SOMEONE should be forced to fill that role, at poverty wages, so that you can still pay the same amount of money for your McBurger. You're admitting that you think there should be a class of citizen in this country that should be forced to endure that.
I dunno man, that just seems really selfish
I don't think so, eventually "get a better job" ends up where we are at with the great resignation, In some places minimum wage is 7.25 still but people are resigning and fast foods have had to raise their wages to 9-11$ just because they can't find people. They have signs flaunting that they raised wages to 8.50 or 9.50 but its still not enough because people are "getting a better job", serves the franchise owners right for not paying fair wages to start, and customers for choosing the cheapest.
It's the big elephant in the room that the US's entire economic structure of 'unlimited growth' is built off of two pillars: Robbing future generations of their wealth through fiat BS, and mass importation of a serf class of citizens. I'm an ardent capitalist and very opposed to socialism but what the US is right now is a corporatocracy and we're all actively being fleeced in a totally unsustainable model.
We don't call them 'slaves' because they're technically willing and they get paid, but let's be real here, there is ABSOLUTELY a second class of citizens in the US and that class is largely economic. If you don't have a certain networth in the US you are considered worse than pond scum.
that's a bit of a stretch
@@algorusty Here in the Midwest, it's $15-$16 an hour.
in short, they approve those actions
There are also a lot of us that fall through the cracks, not a sizeable percentage but more than you think. Due to legal and health/mental health reasons combined there are few and far between jobs I can do but I'm also slightly too healthy for state assistance. I survive only the kindness of others. I don't even count as unemployed because you technically have to be actively attempting to get a job to be considered unemployed and the stats are skewed due to people such as myself who no longer even try.
This is why I quit Chipotle, because they don't give a F.
I was making $5.50 at the time and our cheapest item on the menu was $6.50...
So much for all their marketing BS about a "Better deal".
Oof this is dystopian. I want to believe that these garbage companies can all sink without dragging their remaining employees down with the undertow...
The system is working as intended, peasants with too much free time and money might realize how unbalanced things are and try to change them, and that would most certainly cut into the bottom line of the owners of this country and they can't have that.
2:20 If you are suprised by that, you'd be in for a ride on how ridiculous some of these places are. Back when I worked at McDonalds as a teenager, we had a dedicated eployee counting the food in the kitchen's trash so the company knew no employees ate any. Yes. That employee took yesterday's trash bin, sit down with it and with a piece of paper and counted the meats that were thrown out, the bums and almost everything. Then he took the data on how many were sold and how many we recieved from shipment and calculated for "missing" food.
I am not joking.
Yes, that phone call would fit right into 2022, I would not have guessed it was made in 2013...this is a hamster wheel.. wow...what country do we live in again????? Excellent presentation Josh
I was working at McDonalds back then - watching them throw away an enormous amount of food (at least 20 meals an hour) while employees were starving.
Thats where "grazing" comes in clutch. Sure you can't eat a whole thing but its hard to catch someone dropping an extra nugget here and some fries there. They'd also have to have a good amount of times having caught a person before a disciplinary action could really be rational.
Ah yes, I remember being homeless with nothing to eat in college. Me and my friend couldn't food stamps because we didn't work 20 hrs. If I had a job, why would I need them then? I'm glad my morals are independent from laws. People look at the law like it's a greater good even when it starves their families. Tsk. Tsk.
All these tips are , at best, correlation. For exemple, I bet the real thing is that people that are able to take 2 vacation a year are less likely to have heart attack, not the other way around.Because they have money so the means to take care of themselves.
Their business model depends on indirect governmental subsidies. It baffles me that the richest country in the world allows businesses to run in this manner.
Corporate greed runs extremely deep, keep standing up and spread this information Joshua! This content is what should be viral to any able-worker.
'To the people saying - "These jobs are not meant for supporting families, they're meant for extra money! They're highschooler jobs!"' I say that those people ARE wrong. My local gas station was closed at 7 pm the other night, due to staffing issues. Staffing issues at jobs just like McDonald's are causing insane delays in service and unexpected closures. I like to be able to go to my local gas station, during regular business hours, so that I don't have to drive all far from home to get what I need. I like to be able to take a night off from cooking and swinging by McDonald's to get dinner. These were the exact jobs that were essential when the majority of the U.S. was closed due to COVID. Let me say it again: THESE JOBS WERE LABELED ESSENTIAL during the pandemic shut downs. We need to shift the narrative to respect and gratitude towards these types of positions because they are 100% necessary to the functionality of our western society!
I believe anyone who works full time should get a living wage. So anyone who says that these are jobs for extra money is really out of touch with reality. We need full-time workers in all sectors to function properly. I'm not from the USA so I will ask a question that might seem dumb. Why the government doesn't make any law about it? (I also never understood the tipping culture because an employer should pay their workers the wage, not the client who only wants to buy the product.)
When I was 18 I worked at McD and it was one of the hardest jobs I ever had.
"B-b-but it's an unskilled job!"
@@gotinogaden true and went on to make millions no degree
Always told myself that the thirty years since. It’s a very high energy job hours on end for little pay. When I hire fast food people, I often get good employees.
Same. Worst time of my life.
Those sloped toilets are ADA violations. Doubt they'll ever be used, but good luck to any company that tries.
The Federal Minimum wage is $7.25 an hour but all 50 U.S. States get to decide how much their state minimum wage should be. Here in Los Angeles, $16.04 is the minimum wage.
You can not live a descent life in LA if you make less than $25.00 dollars an hour, as an individual without a family or without kids!! More like $30.00 but it really sucks for those types of persons that have to live off of less than a livable wage within the city and state they live in. I'm fortunate enough to work in tech/IT and make pretty good money!! Don't shame people that get EBT and General Relief!! A lot of them work low-wage jobs and need the extra help from the county!! Low wages is semi-slavery and real fucked up, Joshua!
I hate the stranglehold that fast food has on this country. Americans legitimately think we would all starve to death without it, then wonder how these companies got so powerful.
It's wierd given how easily you can cut them out, I rarely eat fast food.
@@creapyalbinofish the last time I did was about 8 months ago; I had some fish sandwiches and fries from Jack In The Box while moving. Sure it's convenient for situations like that, but people don't need it every day.
"The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves"
Settling for any amount is why they keep getting away with it. Settlement isn't a win for anyone but attorneys and maintains the (shitty) status quo. No doubt these exploited workers need the cash, which is why they do it; but I would love to see one case go to trial and score a win AGAINST any of these corporations (it's not just McDonald's that does this).
I think that's something that's confusing to non-americans, that a settlement is the EXPECTED outcome in the US - while in other countries it is expected that you finish the process.
How do these videos not have 80 plus millions views? As someone who grew up poor, you are speaking up for the suffering of so many people in this country. God bless you
I had some interesting conversations with my ex and her siblings. They had never worked a min wage job in their lives. They are all high income earners on their way to being wealthy. Having conversations about raising the min wage to a living wage were perhaps some of the most frustrating conversations I've ever had. They are all caring and kind people in their daily lives. They take care of their employees and do right by others. For some reason, when it comes to paying the average Joe/Jane, they get their hackles up in a bunch and refuse to consider it an option. It's crazy.
What jobs do they have
@@anakarina1011 Finance, etc.
Interesting. The reach of compassion only goes so far, I guess. Also, when it comes to the finance industry, that kind of thinking is common. Everyone with an MBA seems to worship the gospel according to Milton Friedman.
The best part of companies like these complaining about having no workers is the argument of "If we raise minimum rage we'll just replace you with robots" has been ruined
Employee: I can't afford to feed myself or my family and I'm getting yelled at by customers all day.
McDonalds: I know what will make you feel better- a song!
And less complaining. :(
Is the song "Take This Job and Shove It?" Or "Soup is Good Food"?
"Stop Complaining", America's #1 catchphrase for anyone that points out problems in our society.
😂🤣 Love this. Very true. If they're feeling especially heated, they will also add "you're a communist", or if you look slightly ethnic, "if you don't like it, go back to your country!"
It's such an obvious defense mechanisms.
I used to be a manager at these restaurants. A common wage theft activity would be to stop at another restaurant on your way in to work to borrow line items (fries, shake mix, etc). You borrow the items, show up to your restaurant, and then clock in. And then of course, there’s drop line items off at other stores on your way back home, off the clock.
Managers also had to drive the shift deposit bag to the bank and drop it off, once again off the clock.
I don't understand why people are so concerned with "skill". When do workers start asking, "how much wealth does my labor actually produce?" and "how much do I get to share in that wealth?" If workers are producing millions for the corporation, the workers should be doing well also. Everybody loves to look back to the good ol' days when things were so much better, without considering that a major reason for WHY those times were better was that workers kept a larger percentage of the wealth that their labor produced. This percentage took a nosedive in the 1970s and has kept getting smaller. And we've been talked into believing that it's right even as we struggle to eat.
I have weld's that is still being used in the oil refinary 30 years ago still making them MONEY !! And I got $19 dollars to weld it .!
One thing that bothered me When I worked at “Cracker Barrel.”
Every night we would throw out Atleast one, if not two entire giant kitchen garbage cans of food. We had mother’s with kids to feed, elderly people working there, and Lord knows I am
Always broke enough I could’ve fed myself for two weeks with a fraction of the food we threw away in one night. It really makes me mad seeing companies willing to throw hundreds of millions of dollars of food out before giving it to employees. It’s the times we live in folks, when Grocery stores put locks on their trash cans so homeless people can’t get food out of it.
The "rampant wage theft" is something I can speak about. I worked at a place non-McDonalds and they used to tell people go outside and clean the lot then you can leave. I remember managers clocking people out so those people didn't get paid for that extra time. I recommend getting your time sheets always. Always clock yourself out and video tape if you can. Watch your money or someone else will!
“Breaking food into pieces often results in eating less and still feeling full.” I had to rewind for that one. Hard to top. Wait is the next one telling them to return their kids Christmas presents? Oh snap.
😂 I just about fell out of my chair when I read this LOL!! You have to wonder how the people that produced this nonsense mapped all of this out. Crazy stuff! Delivered in that dead yet artificially cheery corporate delivery.
I used to work at Target as hardlines. Closing shift we make the areas "look new and restocked" (pulling items to the front, taking out items that were misplaced and didn't belong, restocking our area's items that were misplaced elsewhere). If the cashiers were overwhelmed we were called as backup. Precious 10-20min taken away from our work that we were expected to still do by a time limited or expected to stay longer to complete. No one is coming to help us even though we sacrificed our time to help the cashiers. One day I was told to stay later. At the time this was before I had a car and had to take the bus which they knew about. After 10 there were only 2 busses left and that last one isn't always a guarantee. My shift ends at 10 so I left at 10. Oh the boss was pissed, but she knew I wasn't the typical pushover that companies love to prey on and exploit. Overtime they took me off closing shifts and put me on afternoon shifts which I very much preferred and was way more efficient at. It was mostly taking carts from the backroom filled with items and restocked empty shelves. I knew the shelves so well I could almost pinpoint where most items belong to without scanning them.
As a tax payer who pays a substantial income tax, I am offended that McDonald's has the gall to tell its own to take government assistance that I help subsidize instead of taking a cut from their corporate profits so their employees don't have to go on government assistance. This is not just an insult to the dignity of the employees, but an insult to all of us who pays taxes.
The fact that minimum wage in America is 7.25 is disgraceful! Minimum wage here in Australia is somewhere between 19-21 and I earn just under 30 an hour working at a petrol station while I'm at uni
That's a lot, even in dollaridoos
It is discraceful. But employers don't care, sadly. Welcome to AmeriKa. 😵🤦🤯
Its as if people don't realize that plenty of McDonald's workers have college educations.....degrees even. There just aren't enough good jobs to go around.
I have a Computer Science degree, and I'm still looking for gainful employment a year out.
This just became my fav video you've made. I make quite good pay now, but I remember making minimum wage, and being super depressed, hating my life, buying literally 1 box of pasta and a carton of eggs to eat for the whole week because I only had a few dollars and walking everywhere (normally taking 1-2 hours to get there at a good pace) because where I lived didnt have a good public transportation system and I couldnt afford a bike, let alone a car and insurance. I was homeless for a time. It was literally hell and I kept thinking, "How do people do it?! Literally how do people do it? Is this what life is supposed to be?!"
I was fortunate enough to make it out of that situation but I know other people have barriers I didnt face. And even if they didnt, I dont honestly think anybody should have to live how I did. It was so miserable and stressful and scary.
Your story really illustrates the struggle of trying to live on low wages. And the way such jobs are denigrated here is appalling - even by the owners themselves. I understand how depressing it must've been. Definitely food for thought (no pun intended). Glad you've moved on and up.
When people say that raising wages will make everything cost more, I want to remind them that any business plan that has to be subsidized by underpaid labor is probably a bad one.
I am so glad this clip is back in circulation. I remember seeing this circling leftist social media when it happened, and the gaslighty response it got was sickening. Average people were going on bootlicking + bootstrapping tirades and the clip was eventually buried. The only people who were outraged were considered "radical leftists".
Part of me is bitter, but a bigger part is glad this shit is being talked about seriously.
The only time to contact support, is to give them your lawyers number to pass on the HR.
Absolutely Joshua! The federal budget is supplementing their horrible pay. If these programs didn't exist, no one could AFFORD to work for them.
these places that are always hiring, there's always a reason for it. why are they always hiring? if people were happy working there, they wouldn't have such trouble keeping people working for them.
I love your heart. It's most definitely in the right place, which unfortunately can't be said for most people these days 😔 Sad but true.
I truly appreciate the videos you put out, people need to know the stories of corporate greed. Cause if nobody tells us... how would we know? How do we know what we don't know, until it happens to us 😣😖😫
*Knowledge IS POWER*
This being said, there is actually some good advice in here that we should all take some pearls from. But First...
I don't shop at Walmart, My mother started that (before 2000) because they moved in and all her friend's business went under. I agreed and joined that boycott (BOYCOTTS WORK) I'd rather have less, pay a little more for the things I want- to people I like! Thaaaannnn give my money to greedy sobs that are destroying the world. *Personal Preference.*
My ex's grandmother worked at Walmart (this story is from ~2009) she had worked there for like 30 years or something. She told me that when she started she made decent wages and loved her job, then over the years something changed. A "few years back" (grandmother terms... I equate that to the captain of the airplane saying "momentarily") they shuffled everyone from the jobs they loved and put them new places within the store or district.
They then proceeded to take away their hours to the point they didn't make enough to live. When people started to complain they were told to file for welfare and medicaid/medicare. Walmart knew exactly what they were doing. They paid their employees just under the poverty level so that they could go collect benefits from the tax payers (aka themselves... while the owners and CEOs are mega gazillionaires). 😧 I KID YOU NOT 😐
This is not a new thing. McDonalds is not alone in their schemes... I would argue, many big corporations do this same thing and get away with it hand over fist. The saddest part about this, is that towns and cities will actually *PETITION* to get these fuckers in their areas! Give them all sorts of tax cuts and permit fee waivers. By corporations promising the politicians "local jobs" 😂😂 Do I think our "leaders" are that stupid to not know... I donno, scoundrels can be slick- excellent magicians.
Does anyone see the irony here? *Corruption is rampant, EVERYWHERE!*
Some pearls that I think we can extract from this slap in the face (lemonade from lemons...)
Singing absolutely does help the soul. When we are sad or upset at life, *know,* that being aggravated and feeling defeated only makes the problem feel more insurmountable. We need to clam down and try to look at our issues rationally. So we can start taking steps to solve them ➡️ making our lives better. Even if we start with a few baby steps, climbing the mountain of issues that we face, it will make us feel better and further more, those baby steps add up and we will have gone miles when we look back. ❤️ Nothing is so bad that we can't change it little by little.
So in Light of this ⬆️ *Complaining isn't going to do much...* Unless you are trying to discuss the issues at hand so they can be broken down into chewable pieces. That way you can start picking away at accessible options. If you are feeling overwhelmed about life, I suggest a journal. Journal about your problems and then revisit what you've written after looking for inspiration for options around you to change it. Try just one or a piece of one... Disciplined action is necessary to solve anything, attack great threw little Tao Te Ching #63
www.egreenway.com/taoism/ttclz63.htm
Spending Budgets are one of God's gifts to humans 🙌🏻 😜🙃 No but seriously, they are pretty fabulous. If you don't have a budget and *KNOW WHERE YOU SPENDING YOUR MONEY,* you are doing yourself a disservice. Daily spending budgets... This is a bullshit term. Do you really need to spend money everyday?? I don't... I can go days without spending anything, sometimes weeks if necessary. I make my coffee at home and bring any breakfasts/lunches. This will save you so much... I cannot tell you, you'll have to try it and see for yourself.
I have many other points but this Ted talk (😜) is getting kinda long.
We are marching into a depression whether anyone wants it or not. It's happening and the only thing we can do is be prepared. Buying prepared food cost a lot of money (not to mention all the chemicals, additives and preservatives they put in processed foods). You can get a WHOLE lot out of buying the raw materials (dried beans, rice, flour, salt, sugar, bouillon...) and making things from actual scratch. I started making bread and it saved me no joke almost $50 a month, I'm one person... I got a $10 bread-maker at a yard sale and it literally took me 5 minutes of work to make one loaf (set it and forget it baby 😎). I've moved past that and make shit by hand now cause mmmmmm.
This is what it's coming to. We need to start thinking realistically about inflations and the issues supply chain disruption is causing. Window bed gardens and such. Lots of resources on the internet about this... Things are really going to get that bad and we need to be prepared for it!! *AND* teach our children to keep their chins up. We can handle ANYTHING life throw at us... never give up or surrender. When your at rock bottom, theres only one direction to go ⬆️
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People seem to forget that back in the boomer days, they could support an entire family, buy a house, buy 3 cars, even buy a fucking horse, AND invest, all on ONE part-time minimum wage job. Now people are arguing if full-time minimum wage workers should be able to afford to eat.
What the fuck happened to this country?
Why do we demand less than our parents and grand-parents generations?
Those same corporations control the media and education
Places like that have boomer boss mindset and think the only people that work there are high school and early college kids or in other words if you're under 20 more particularly if you're under 17, 16, or 15.
The biggest employers use what little social safety net we have in the US as a supplement to their profits by enabling them to pay wages low enough to keep their workers in poverty. It is disgusting. In my opinion, a policy that you can not be employed while receiving federal benefits or benefits that flow from the feds through the states (which is most of it because basically every state except New York and California are huge leeches that take far more money from the federal government than they generate in tax revenue) would, while it would at first result in either many people leaving their jobs to retain benefits or losing access to the programs while still working (the wrong choice, but many people would make it, which is what these parasites exploit) and fairly quickly those employers would have to start paying higher wages so that their employees could, you know, EAT and get medical care for their kids. The fact that the prior standard of a single income from 40 hours a week being being able to support a family of 4 COMFORTABLY is now seen as some insane ludicrous burden on corporations is insane and shameful.
As a housecleaner, if you're getting paid a proper wage, you're making at least $20 an hour during a cleaning. McDonald's employees can't afford to have me come over and clean up their shit. The fact that McDonald's thinks their employees have housecleaners shows how out of touch they are
Its really sad when you see people mistreating these workers because they feel entitled. Its even sadder to see that a big "Food chain" doesn't have the decency to provide a free meal to its workers let alone pay enough money, so as to be able to afford a meal that they cook. Probably they know what is in those burgers and don't want employee falling ill and skipping work. Wonder what's so Happy about their meals.
A ton of money spent on a BS website, a support team that tells employees to return Christmas presents. McDonald's uses government handouts as a way to make higher profits.