I was in the local Burger King twice the past 2 weeks, and boy. Those workers sure were -not- $15 an hour folk! There was just no initiative, no activity, no nothing. One was interested in his cell phone, two gals were interested in standing off on the side, one fella just looked bewildered.
Of the 4 orders in front of us one day 2 were wrong, as well as my wife's order; next time 2 orders in front out of 3 were wrong, and my wife got mustard and pickles which she had requested none of that, but she just put up with it.
I ordered 2 Hershey pies and waited 7 minutes because the one working person was busy getting the 4 waiting orders put together. The 3 other kids looked bewildered and stood there, could not reach into the cooler and put 2 pies and 2 forks from the counter on a tray and hand it to me.
I don't know the answer, but something does need to change and its not just raising min wage to $15.......
That was very disheartening to experience. Any one hour I can have a bad day myself, but this was not a bad moment, this was just failure by several folk, all the same race as me, that just didnt care and didnt want to care.
My wife spent 6 months training in a new guy from a different dept at her job, he went from maybe a $12 job to a $20 job, but he brought his $12 attitude with him, he's not willing to shoulder more responsibility, follow the pattern of the jobs, learn new things.... He just expects to be getting $20 now, but he's not doing any more for the company than he did at his $12 position, no effort, no responsibility, it is disheartening.
The local Applebee's has put TED on every table, a tablet computer. It shows menu, can order drinks or appetizers on it, pay your bill with a credit/debt card, and let the kids play games on it for $.99 cents. I understood it within 30 seconds. If min wage goes to $15, it is training us customers to use a tablet to order, and they won't need waiters, just a seater, and food delivery and table cleanup folk. I totally understand that, if you double the cost of labor, they can't double the cost of food; they will have to cut half the staff. These tablets are early trainers to figure out what works for people to cut the staff.
We have a nephew that graduated, he's smart, creative, very smart kid puts me to shame. Got out, got a 6 month training job, but it was leading in a direction that wasn't his dream position, so he walked away. He was offered a job more in line with where he wanted to go, but naw, he had 12 different tiny issues as to why no, not for him at this time. Instead he created web sites/hits/oppertunities for people, well that was great for 3 months, but then the hours he kept, the lack of structure in his life, and no real business plan led to using up all his customers and not finding any new ones and whatever he was doing slightly changed with search engines and messed up his investment whatever it was, and so he just kinda been living in his folks basement for 2 years. He just now started a temp job very close to the very first one he got out of college that he walked away from. Its just odd to me, you get an education, and you get a job, and you progress through the rat race and learn some experience and judgement and then, from solid roots, you can do your own thing if you get the experience. Walking out of college, and feeling you are too good to get a job, that just don't make any sense. Doesn't matter if its a $9 job or $25 job, if you feel you are too good to work, what chance do you have of making it?
What chance do any of is have then?
To get better jobs, a person has to want to do better work as well.
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