Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work: ‘My life isn’t worth a dead-end

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Shut up, ho. This is why you and your punk ass kids won't ever achieve shyt. Hustling backwards having them work for pennies at a job that won't set them up for shyt with your dumb ass.

Broke bytches like you don't get women anyway, so you won't have kids that will be begging me for change one day any fukkin way, otherwise I'd advise you to stab yourself in the dikk and save us all some trouble.

Oh.... you’re a white troll..... your bullshyt makes sense now....

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

At what point in time in history did people depend on fast food and retail jobs to pay rent and buy food to support an entire family?

Probably from about 77 to 89... at least in the south..... and this is about a single person and living necessities. Not sure how families got thrown into the equation

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Probably from about 77 to 89

I don't believe that, especially when there was plenty of manufacturing jobs around that time.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I don't believe that, especially when there was plenty of manufacturing jobs around that time.

Doesn’t make it not true..... in the south... you could pay for living essentials off full time fast food work as a single person from about 77 to 89

 

[Apollo Creed]

Fast food work was a livable wage at one point.... probably 78 to 89.... at least in the south

nah. Working in a Restaurant sure/maybe but Micky Ds @ less than 40 hours a week Part Time? Nah.

Plant Jobs, Factories, Banks, Call Centers, admin assistant, hotels were much of the go to work for people without degrees in 2 income homes.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Doesn’t make it not true..... in the south... you could pay for living essentials off full time fast food work as a single person from about 77 to 89

Gone need sources on that chief. My mom worked at Wendy's as a teen, minimum wage was something like $4.25 back then.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

nah. Working in a Restaurant sure/maybe but Micky Ds @ less than 40 hours a week Part Time? Nah

Why are you throwing that caveat in there for fast food and not applying it to the other gigs? What I posted was for full time employment

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Gone need sources on that chief. My mom worked at Wendy's as a teen, minimum wage was something like $4.25 back then.

That was the 90s.... Purchasing power of a dollar decreased significantly around 90/91 and afterwards of course

 

[Consigliere]

Why are you throwing that caveat in there for fast food and not applying it to the other gigs? What I posted was for full time employment

probably because nobody gets 40 hours a week unless you’re being positioned for management or there’s a staffing shortage.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

probably because nobody gets 40 hours a week unless you’re being positioned for management or there’s a staffing shortage.

in today’s time.... I guess.... but people got 40 hours in that industry back then, hell overtime too. If they worked full time would that be enough to live off of? Those companies are just scamming the system since half of their workers will be on some type of social assistance to compensate for the lack of hours and low pay.

 

[Consigliere]

in today’s time.... I guess.... but people got 40 hours in that industry back then, hell overtime too. If that worked full time would that be enough to live off of? Those companies are just scamming the system since half of their workers will be on some type of social assistance to compensate for the lack of hours and low pay.

this doesn’t get enough attention

And I honestly don’t know how it was back in the 70’s/80’s. That less than 40 hours so you don’t have to pay benefits probably started during Reagan.

 

[NinoBrown]

Fast food work was a livable wage at one point.... probably 78 to 89.... at least in the south

I suppose but there were plenty of factory jobs or apprentice programs which would pay much more.....

Fast Food jobs were seen as a joke back then too....

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I suppose but there were plenty of factory jobs or apprentice programs

Like what? And what part of the country are you talking about?

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Its ludicrous. We see mega corporations cutting benefits, cutting wages, lowering hours for workers, but then tell you if a union is formed wages and benefits will be cut and life would be harder for the employee

Look at all the jobs that still have unions: Teaching, firefighting, police, grocery stores, etc. Have people researched the benefit packages these union people get? People act like they'll be worse off having people represent their best interest because they let propaganda influence them

I went to Wharton Undergrad and was absolutely appalled when I took a class that was shytting on unions.

As someone who was raised by a single mother who was a teacher, it was eye opening.

 

[Eternal Tecate]

No one deserves anything...no entitlement.
You earn what you get.
Only reparations is "owed"...outside of that we on our own