This is really a weak OP, but the DUmp is saturated, polluted, overwhelmed by threads defending the traitor Snowden. As bad as this one is, it's a relief to find a different subject.
The semi-literate idiot DUmmy rsmithnumbers, a rising sophomore at his four-year truck driving school, offers another bouncy. As usual, it's a conversation with a store manager, and of course the intrepid, dimwitted bouncy author uncovers another outrageous offense against the working man:
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 08:55 PM
rsmith6621 (6,683 posts)
So I Walked In To A Fast Food Place...and???
So I walk in to the local national fast food establishment that opened in the town for less than 4 years and see a sign with a master plan look to it with visuals of a remodel that they are slated to start next month.
The visuals are beautiful. They are going to put a new coat of paint on the walls, change out the moldings, new floor tile, remodeled restrooms,revamped restrooms and a new exterior paint scheme.
So the manager is taking my order and I ask him, so how much is this going to cost... around 200K. I asked him are sales down? he said no in fact we were up almost 50% over our sales from 2011 so then I asked other than the state mandates on min wage when was the last time you gave a token raise to the employees... he said he did not remember, he said its hard to give raises because they cant afford it most of the time. So I said you are beating sales records, spending 200K on a remodel and you are telling me you cant give your employees even a 50 cent raise? above state min wage.
He just took my order and said he could not talk about it any more.
Just makes you wonder how new tile floor translates into adding spendable income that ultimately benefits the community. I wonder what another $1.00 an hour would do to moral that would lead to a better customer experience leading to potentially better sales which would result in more spending in the community making it better for all.
It's a shame that corporations wont invest in to their employees.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023087439Ugly DUmmy Warpy chimes in. Since losing her nursing license in a kerfunkle over drug theft, she's been keenly interested in minimum wage issues:
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:05 PM
Warpy (69,786 posts)
8. Any job worth doing is worth a living wage
Paying the help starvation wages means high turnover, high paperwork costs, and high training costs for new hires all the time.
If it's worth having line cooks in the back and a cash register/order person at the front, it's worth paying them enough for nutritious food, safe housing, routine medical care, and everything else an employee needs in order to live.
These pricks have gotten a free ride on the backs of desperate people since the late 70s. It's time to make them pony up.
There is no better place to ride. Desperate people get you where you're going more quickly than satisfied, content people.
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:30 PM
silvershadow (1,762 posts)
18. Service is broken, and we can't figure out how to motivate our starving, piss-poor,
-agency-having employees to do our bidding down to the last, minuscule detail for our customers on an individual basis, customer after customer. D'oh. Here's an idea: recognize that this work can, in most places, be compared to a factory worker on the line...with the added hobble that many customers are picky, so there is a lot to it. It quickly fries the brain, I am sure, never mind the soul. I worked in a convenience store/pizza fast food joint for many years as my disability progressed and I can tell you it is no picnic, dealing with the public. They are lucky they still get warm bodies to show up in most hell-holes.
Wrong, DUmmy! So many people are looking for work in the 0conomy there are brazillions off normal motivated people available who will make a positive impression on customers. The trick, as it's always been, is to avoid hiring DUmpmonkeys and democrats while avoiding lawsuits. The ability to do that is what separates successful businesses from failures.
Response to NickB79 (Reply #13)
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 10:18 PM
madville (1,340 posts)
35. Service and attitude are lacking
Low morale is always the culprit. If people don't want to be there working it reflects in their service and attitude. Don't worry, plenty of eager low wage people will be showing up to take over these jobs if the Senate immigration bill gets passed.
True, but the secret remains the ability to avoid hiring 0bamaites and other democrats.
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:00 PM
NightWatcher (20,762 posts)
2. It's a McJob. Most pay rates are set at corporate
They don't do arbitrary raises at one locale and not others.
Once again, its a McJob. That said, I had several of them in highschool.
Did you really expect more from the owners?
Please, DUmmy. You're talking to the half-witted DUmmy rsmithnumbers. This bouncy is entirely the product of his stunted mind. It didn't happen.
Now here's a DUmmy you don't want to hire to do your taxes:
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:08 PM
Journeyman (9,250 posts)
9. The remodel will be eligible for tax write-off. Wages? Not so much. . .
Response to Journeyman (Reply #19)
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:45 PM
oldhippie (1,550 posts)
28. Yes, so much ....
Every dollar of wages paid is 100% deductible from gross to arrive at taxable income.
The remodel, no so much. It will probably have to be depreciated over years. You have it exactly backwards.
DUmmies simply can't help themselves. It doesn't matter how stupid, how transparent, how ludicrous a bouncy tale is, they take it at face value and discuss it as if it actually happened:
Response to rsmith6621 (Original post)
Mon Jun 24, 2013, 09:33 PM
Billy Pilgrim (37 posts)
21. The person you were talking to likely
hasn't gotten a raise either, and it's very unlikely he has the authority to give anyone a raise. It's also unlikely he had anything to do with the decision to remodel the place.
If my experience with serving customers serves as a guide, he was likely hoping your misplaced intrusion of personal ideology didn't excacerbate into an unpleasant experience for the chain's customers. That might get him fired, and he probably needs that job.
You make a valid point, but you did it the wrong way. I'm sure that fast-food manager just LOVES low wages for himself and his staff.
It's a bouncy, stupid! It didn't happen! The illiterate nitwit rsmithnumbers made it up!