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Originally Posted by KylerGrn
ease of ordering is resulting in more orders being placed. more orders being placed results in more back room staff. just because you dont see them doesnt mean they dont exist.
"wah wah wah everyone is going to make a decent living"
Who yelled at you when minimum wage was brought up when you worked a part time job, that made you so resentfull that people can make a decent living now?
and if it werent for those mcdonalds employees you wouldnt get your big macs so clearly they deserve the 15$ or make your own burgers and you wont have to pay their raising prices.
every job is just as important as the next.
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I don't think you are picking up what I am putting down, here.
I did not once say that I didn't want people to make a decent living. I'm all for a better quality of living actually.
All I said is that while the wages will increase nearly $3 in Ontario at the bottom line it will cause issues in the work place for those who have more seniority/responsibilities/higher ranking job titles and can also effect the entire country financially.
Example: You work at Home Depot, you are a shift manager, you have worked there for 5 years, you started as a cashier making $12/HR and moved up within the company, you currently make $16.50 an hour, minimum wage goes up to $15 tomorrow, you get your pay stub and you are still being paid $16.50 per hour, the guys that you manage are now making almost the same money as you are but have far less responsibilities. You are a key holder, have to deal with extra paper work, entering payroll so your people are paid, attend after hours meetings, make the bank deposits, have to report to a district manager when things go wrong, and so on and so on, plus you engage in all the general work that the staff who report to you does. Do you as the shift manager think that this is fair when you have 3 times the work load/pressure and you are only making a fraction more money than the people you are being paid to manage? Magic 8 Ball says "highly unlikely"...and this is where the problems begin because there is slim to no chance that employers are going to give everyone in the company that extra $3 an hour.
With more money paid out to workers at the bottom line this will naturally cause an increase of cost on ALL goods and services...because without marking up prices companies will not be able to afford to pay their staff which would result in a loss of jobs. Food/beverage, gas, rent, utilities, vehicles, homes, electronics, postal fees, novelty items, services, tuitions etc will all see price hikes. So someone who goes from their current minimum wages to the new $15/Hr will not even notice any improvement in their quality of living because the amount of disposable income they have left over after paying out their essentials will go no further than it does today...meanwhile the middle men of the country who won't see any extra money on their hourly wages (and who are by no means rich) will have less disposable income at the end of the day...which effect sales, lower sales create lower profits and then jobs start disappearing.
This isn't me bitching that minimum wages are going up, or being butt hurt that the guy microwaving my Burger at BK is going to make too much money. This is about economics, plain and simple. Wages will go up and so will the cost of living. So if you are excited about the possibilities of making $15 an hour, that's all fine and good but don't expect your new found wealth to go any farther than it currently does...and expect people you know to possibly lose their jobs if the economy starts a downward spiral as a result of lost jobs. My point is that money needs to be evenly distributed throughout the work force, not just at the bottom, because if its not; problems will eventually arise that will adversely affect the way we all live our lives.
...So, anyone want to talk about toys?
