‘It’s a walkout!’ Inside the fast-food workers’ season of rebellion

[bnew]

I said I wished them the best of luck and asked why aren't they going back to school?

if they all went back to school, you'd still be asking the same question to the next worker demanding better wages.

why should the job exist if fulltime work doesn't provide a living wage?

 

[The God Poster]

The whole, this is a high school job argument makes no sense to me when these businesses are open during school hours!

I agree with you but I think some people say the wages were never meant to support an adult. However they can supplement a high schooler who wants money outside of their parents

 

[Genos]

I wish them all the best of luck. I wonder what's stopping these folks from going back to school. I used to work at Walmart, but was in school at the same time. Got my degree and had a job lined up paying $17. Now I'm looking to make $60k, just gotta get passed these interviews.

Probably the thousands of dollars. Also people have kids/other responsibilities.

 

[hatealot]

Six years earlier, Matt had taken a Greyhound bus to Bradford from Tacoma, Wash., to visit a woman he met while playing a video game called “Second Life.” The woman turned out to be married. Now, Matt, 32, lived with her, her husband and another developmentally delayed woman in a rotting brown and yellow two-story rental, which had no working furnace, black mold and bedbugs. Matt was the only one in the house with a job, and they had all come to depend on his salary to survive.

Jesus christ. That is horrible

 

[Afro]

https://www.bestplaces.net/economy/city/pennsylvania/bradford

Pa, especially western PA is filled with small towns like this.

Legit old school sundown towns.

Everybody on drugs and section 8, all white

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

if they all went back to school, you'd still be asking the same question to the next worker demanding better wages.

why should the job exist if fulltime work doesn't provide a living wage?

Not really considering low wage workers are the only folks complaining. I don't hear STEM graduates complaining. I don't hear Trades complaining.

The only people that are struggling are non college educated or non tradesmen

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Probably the thousands of dollars. Also people have kids/other responsibilities.

Pell Grant pays for classes. Do good and you can get a full ride scholarship.

 

[bnew]

Not really considering low wage workers are the only folks complaining. I don't hear STEM graduates complaining. I don't hear Trades complaining.

The only people that are struggling are non college educated or non tradesmen

so if your solution is that everyone go to college or get into a trade, then who exactly is suppose to work the jobs that don't require a college education or a trade skillset?

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

so if your solution is that everyone go to college or get into a trade, then who exactly is suppose to work the jobs that don't require a college education or a trade skillset?

Wet behind the ear 18, 19, and 20 yr olds, all the way up to 23 or so. You know a lot of high-school graduates work these jobs to save for college, gas money, and spring break.

Do better. Strive to be better.


I was embarrassed to work at Wal-Mart in my mid 20s, if I was still there in my 30s I would've commit that.

 

[Genos]

Pell Grant pays for classes. Do good and you can get a full ride scholarship.

Ok but there are litterally millions of fast food workers. Do you think even 50% will get full ride scholarships?

 

[(ALi)]

Six years earlier, Matt had taken a Greyhound bus to Bradford from Tacoma, Wash., to visit a woman he met while playing a video game called “Second Life.” The woman turned out to be married. Now, Matt, 32, lived with her, her husband and another developmentally delayed woman in a rotting brown and yellow two-story rental, which had no working furnace, black mold and bedbugs. Matt was the only one in the house with a job, and they had all come to depend on his salary to survive.

WTF, what kind of degenerate demonic nonsense is this.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Ok but there are litterally millions of fast food workers. Do you think even 50% will get full ride scholarships?

Whether they get a scholarship or not, you don't have to go to college to make a living. Either take student loan debt or go elsewhere


All I see you doing is making excuses. My brother works at Buffalo Wild Wings and starred at $10/hr. He's now at $19/hr as a manager and now looking to move up again. Do better.


My question to you is, how are these fast food workers not embarrassed at where they work? Who wants to flip burgers in their 30s? I know I was embarrassed working at Walmart, nikkas was clowning me, so I did what I had to do to get up outta there.

 

[bnew]

Wet behind the ear 18, 19, and 20 yr olds, all the way up to 23 or so. You know a lot of high-school graduates work these jobs to save for college, gas money, and spring break.

Do better. Strive to be better.


I was embarrassed to work at Wal-Mart in my mid 20s, if I was still there in my 30s I would've commit that.

so you believe when a person is 18, 19, or 20 years old non-college educated with no trade skills, they shouldn't earn a living wage working 40 hours a week?

did the walmart wages embarrass you or what the job entailed?

 

[Absolut]

What’s been stopping them from getting other entry level jobs anywhere else all these years

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

so you believe when a person is 18, 19, or 20 years old non-college educated with no trade skills, they shouldn't earn a living wage working 40 hours a week?

did the walmart wages embarrass you or what the job entailed?

Those kids are most likely living at home if not with roommates.

When have those jobs ever paid the bills in the history of the U.S.?