Is it cruel to think fast food workers are either out of touch or are losers??

I laugh when people on GLP say flipping burgers is "real world experience"

it's crap and a waste of time, get a real job

Agree 100 per cent.

It USED to be an entry level job for high school kids or as you unkindly put it, losers. Now, its a job people take to feed their families, so that they wont be on welfare so that assholes like yourself could call them leeches. The dismantling of capitalism is outing the soulless mean self righteous all over the place. Karma is a bitch and the abyss is gonna swallow you whole.

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A fast-food worker I have recently spoken with has sight yet little background in studies of matters.

Still has the sight, the synchronicity, and the neuron-synapses to process what is right in front of the face.

Because the workers resent their own job, restaurants are a very unsafe place to order food to eat.
And it almost seems like the workers resent you, the customer, and who knows might even mess with your order or get it wrong on purpose. Avoid Avoid Avoid Avoid

I think you should think as you please but there are reasons some older people have to do it. If you consider all the possibilities, you might not think as bad of them.

Its not cruel but better to have all facts so your opinion is an informed one. They could be homeless and not want to tell you.

Or am I a sucker for assuming there are reasons for everything?

If you were making just $1.85/hour, you must have went through that experience quite a long time ago. Most likely before all the jobs in America got shipped overseas.

Nobody looks at minimum wage or fast food work as a lifetime career. People work there because they can't find work anywhere else. Having had RECENT experience in the field of food service, 100% of the other workers I had conversed with were ALWAYS looking for a higher paying job. My co-workers weren't just high school kids either. They ranged from high school kids, college graduates, and even a single parent. If you think that a college graduate who worked through four years of studies or a single mom trying to support her family isn't looking for higher paid work then McDonald's, then you are the only person who is 100% out of touch with the world as it exists today.

While somewhat aggravating, it's also really funny when people who lived through America's most prosperous years for the middle class want to criticize minimum wage workers looking for work after the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression.

But no, you're right, it's all those lazy fast food workers that are out of touch or losers.

ANY job that can be taught and mastered in a few hours SHOULD be low-paying. It's supply and demand. If you hold out for $15/hr to say "Please drive up" into a microphone, or assemble a burger to be thrown into a microwave, there will be 10 16-year-olds who will be thrilled to take that position for $7.25/hr.

All work is honorable, but the fact is, a McJob is not designed to feed a family. If you ARE talented, hard-working, and ambitious, you get raises and promotions. I bet all those regional managers who were promoted up through the years from the deep fryer earn a tad more than $7.25/hr (and more than $15/hr, too).

When you see some 50 year old idiot complaining that he makes minimum wage at a McJob, it's not the fault of the economy, it's his laziness, bad work ethics, and poor life choices.

Word.

It's assholes like Opie here who bitch and moan about welfare and foodstamps but when somebody gets a job to be an honest worker and feed his family, he's a loser.

Fuck you opie.


Fuck you.

This is union-think. The belief that if you're hired at $7.25, you stay there forever. Away from the unions, and out in the real world, there's merit pay increases for hard workers.

Working For A Fast Food Joint Is Basically Joining With Evil. They Deserve Their Fate.

Tell me, what noble occupation is yours? Let me guess... you're a selfless monk who works tirelessly to feed orphaned storm victims with leprosy?

YES IT IS

Just boycott fast food places. Humans shouldn't be eating that swill anyway.

Right.

Whenever I find myself in a fast food restaurant and the cashier fumbles for the right picture on the cash register, I always wait patiently and then encourage them to quit the day they don't have to fumble to find it; it indicates what should be the final moment in a fast food career.

"Is it cruel to think fast food workers are either out of touch or are losers??"
Don't forget many are mexicans too.

I started at $3.35/hr at a restaurant when I was in college and in 5 years was getting $11.50/hr. I left and got into the field of my major. I learned what a good work ethic was and some business basics that help me to this day. That was awhile back, but the concept holds true to this day. People get raises and promotions. They move on to better jobs. No one goes to Burger King and is enslaved there at minimum wage forever.

Opie just got fired from McDonalds

does anyone ever consider that some people might be in mundane jobs because of other issues.
for instance they might come from a highly stressful home
environment without a lot of support or downright hostile.
The "mundane" job might be the only stable environment they have.

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40 years ago there were better jobs too move up to , today there are not OP

for the rank n file workers the best jobs on average are goverment jobs.

Which make up 75 % of the 40 to 100 k jobs

I think it's "wrong" to put a blanket statement over all "fast food workers".

I see some that can't handle "the pressure" of flipping burgers...and then I see some & I think to myself "he's gonna own this joint in a year or two".

It all up to the individual & what he wants to make of his own life.

All those restaurants need supervisors, managers, regional managers, etc. Most hire from within.

Tarded is this thread.

do any of you realize that those people only get paid by their tips

the chain corps only pay if there is a difference

all my kids have (and still) work the service industry

many of the same workers eat at the same joints to keep each other a float

why not actually talk to some of them

with no degree (and no student dept, by the way) what else is there

oh, that's right, walmart is a good career move
construction, manufacturing, office work is as much a slow death now as those places

get a clue people, there are NO F%%^^&&G JOBS!!!!

And a lot of these fast food workers voted for hoax and chains. Next time they should choose more wisely!!!

Ignorant, yes.
Cruel, no.

Wrong. Fast food workers are the people at places like McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, and the like. They are not tipped employees. And even at restaurants where waiters and waitresses DO serve food, they earn money above and beyond their tips... in some states, the same minimum wage that the people on the grill earn. In most cases, tipped employees are the highest earning employees at their respective businesses. But NO ONE works for tips at a McJob.

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People in Russia line up to get visas to come to US and work at McSuck... Pathetic.

the like: chilis, pizza hut applebee, papa johns, most local chain steak houses, buffalo wind wings, olive garden, red lobster, and every other place you take your buddys, family, and coworkers to eat at other than the FEW that you named its called ALL SERVICE INDUSTRY.

obviously you have no kids or family trying to survive on their own, keep feeding the fat 28 year old kid in the basement dumbass