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2019-02-11 Home Front: Politix

Rep. Omar Laments Low Pay of McDonald's Employees Who Work ’40 Hours a Day’

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Posted by Fred 2019-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Evil and stupid - a deadly combination in a Congresscritter.

Posted by Raj 2019-02-11 00:32|| 2019-02-11 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 40 hours a day, 365 days a week. Sucks to be them, man.

Let's not even get started on what 'median' means.

Posted by SteveS 2019-02-11 00:52|| 2019-02-11 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Shows you Omar never worked a regular job?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-11 01:58|| 2019-02-11 01:58|| Front Page Top

#4 In come the robotics. Many have them now. In Maryland it is being done now as the state considers minimum wage going to that magic cure all number $15.00. Walmart, Martins have gone that way currently but the public is not so easily pushed into it. Places like Dollar General are seeing dramatic increases in traffic. Then add price increases and the glow is lost for Walmart especially.Full cart checkouts for self checkouts is not going to happen. Online orders for pick up maybe but are you going to trust order is correct. Then who puts the stuff in the car and how far away do you have to park. Then returns?. New games to be played.Men are bucking this big time.

Posted by Dale 2019-02-11 04:59|| 2019-02-11 04:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Re Dale's comments: The problem with self checkout is the work has just been transferred from the checker to the buyer. What's needed is a system where you push the shopping cart up against a TSA like security checkpoint scanner that empties the cart, scans the contents, packages them and sends them to a loading dock upon payment. Customer gets a claim check, walks to their car and drives to loading dock for assisted loading of their merchandise. This also solves the abandoned full cart when the credit card or EBT card doesn't deliver. I've seen that scenario too many times. Someone has to put all that stuff back and often the refrigerated stuff must be trashed. Order online for pickup at the store kills impulse buying and retailers rely on those sales too.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-11 05:36|| 2019-02-11 05:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Tell me again about the virtues of Soviet central planning.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2019-02-11 06:00|| 2019-02-11 06:00|| Front Page Top

#7 All the apologists say the plans were fine. Those who were expected to carry out the plans were said to be "lacking" or worse...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-11 06:04|| 2019-02-11 06:04|| Front Page Top

#8 If I was working 40 hours a day, I'd be pissed about my pay too...

Posted by ed in texas 2019-02-11 07:37|| 2019-02-11 07:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Wait until all 57 states require that $15/hr.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-11 07:45|| 2019-02-11 07:45|| Front Page Top

#10 On a less cheery note: The people who elect these gaffe machines don't see, hear or know the difference.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-11 07:46|| 2019-02-11 07:46|| Front Page Top

#11 The result of inbreeding.

Posted by gorb 2019-02-11 08:10|| 2019-02-11 08:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Tell me again about the virtues of Soviet central planning

Well, when I grew up in Soviet Union, my father was one of the two people capable of fixing a supermarket's meat freezer (central planning + nepotism + promoting local cadres) in a city of 1/4 million people - extrapolate.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-11 08:57|| 2019-02-11 08:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Tell me again about the virtues of Soviet central planning

Tom Clancy wrote a good description of Soviet retail procedures in, I think, "Red Rabbit".
The inefficiency of the process was decried as something that consumers wouldn't put up with in the US..................my how things change.

Posted by AlanC 2019-02-11 09:25|| 2019-02-11 09:25|| Front Page Top

#14 "Hello Dearborn, burger flippers, wanna thank you for your time. 'Work a 200 hour week for a living, just to send it on down the line."

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-02-11 10:51|| 2019-02-11 10:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Nobody from Dearbornistan is touching ANY of my food...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-02-11 11:54|| 2019-02-11 11:54|| Front Page Top

#16 $7,000 a year? In what universe? Assuming they make $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage (most states/large cities have substantially higher ones now), at 40 hours a week, taxes at 20% would leave you with just over $12,000 if you worked 52 weeks in a year. Which, lets be honest, everybody working for that wage and those hours does. Also, McDonalds in urban areas pays higher than that, and about half of those taxes would come back every year if they file a tax return (what is stolen by the social security tax never comes back).

Posted by Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-02-11 13:44|| 2019-02-11 13:44|| Front Page Top

#17 8 days a week, too.
BTW, that many hours would be a st*tload of overtime.

Posted by Spot 2019-02-11 14:58|| 2019-02-11 14:58|| Front Page Top

#18 The main problem for the poor is the "tax" called rent.

That eats a vast amount of everyone but the establishments income.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-11 15:14|| 2019-02-11 15:14|| Front Page Top

#19 40 hours wage is this freshman's minimum wage proposal. (In Somali this be called Jizya.)

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-02-11 22:45|| 2019-02-11 22:45|| Front Page Top

#20 ... per day.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-02-11 22:46|| 2019-02-11 22:46|| Front Page Top

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