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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #30 on: July 17, 2013, 01:07:15 am »
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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #32 on: July 17, 2013, 01:38:42 am »
It's the path that leads to the company store.  Where you aren't actually paid money, but company script that only the company store will take.

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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #33 on: July 17, 2013, 07:12:22 am »
I thought employers were supposed to offer multiple options when it came to payment. Something beyond the debit card. Someone raised hell about McDonald's only giving her cards not too long ago, and they supposedly corrected the issue.
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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #35 on: July 17, 2013, 07:51:05 am »
It looks like America needs a MASSIVE overhaul of her employment laws.  Some of the shit I read about US employers being legally allowed to do are rediculous, and so very very illegal in the EU.  We even have restrictions on how many hours you can work in a week.  You can actually work over that if you want, but you have to sign waver forms and most employers now are very reluctant to let you work over those hours.  Some will even straight up refuse to let you work that many hours, if you ask they'll just be like, "Nope!"

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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #36 on: July 17, 2013, 08:09:22 am »
Not to mention some of these places pay with pre-paid debit cards with fees for withdrawing money

This is legal?

It is now.
May not be for long, at least one lawsuit is being filed against such things as they're a massively unfair and exploitative practice.

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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #37 on: July 17, 2013, 08:47:11 am »
Here's a quick copy/paste of a comment and the replies to it. The third one is reminiscent of Romney's comment back during the election.


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Christopher Engleby · Penn State
no the biggest problem facing our generation today is the refusal to admit its your own fault and get out their and change it.. start your own business .. for some reason we think we should be entertained and party 24/7 and still be paid like the people out their creating jobs and opportunities. sad
Reply · 127 ·  · 10 hours ago


The third one is reminiscent of Romney's comment back during the election. Really dude? Just start a business? Do you know how hard that actually is? Do you know how many small businesses I see come and go rather quickly?

This reminds me of a guy I know who is my age and is a hard core right-winger. Me and some other guys went by his house to pick him up on the way go have a goodbye party for another friend leaving to join the army. I saw his house and my friend made note of how big and nice it was and how it was in a brand new, high end neighborhood. His parents had to be pretty rich. I wonder if shit like that distorts these people's view of the world.

Yes it distorts, a lot.  Start your own business, go back to school, get a 2nd job are standard responses from well-off people who have a bit of a disconnect from reality.  They don't realize that being born into a higher social class creates opportunity, and connections.  Maybe a lot easier for a guy like that to just say, "Hey, I hate my fucking job, I'll call so-and-so and talk about that business we always wanted to start."     

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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #38 on: July 17, 2013, 08:49:14 am »
Health insurance costing $20 a month? Are they high?

Also, fuck food. We don't need that.

McDonald's employee insurance that covers a single doctor visit a year and 1000 dollars worth of emergent care is 20 a month.

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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #39 on: July 17, 2013, 11:06:03 am »
Visa and McDs have created a website to show workers how to budget.  And the peasants rejoice.   



http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/202172/mcdonalds-suggested-budget-for-employees-shows-just-how-impossible-it-is-to-get-by-on-minimum-wage/

Ok NO money for heating?  How does that work?

only 90 for electricity?  Even if you get budget billing that's going to be at least over 100 and if you use electricity instead of gas, then more so.

150 for a car?  And how much for the repairs you will constantly need because you bought a shitty automobile?

And where's the money for food?  Did I miss it?

However, you can find an apartment for 600. I use to have one for 500.  Of course I lived in St. Louis with an unusually low cost of living and it was filled with bed begs and a drunk neighbor who would make my ceiling shake (from BELOW my apartment).  And how does this budget account for the down payment (that's 1200 one has to come up with immediately.)

Yeah there's certainly a disconnect here.
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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #40 on: July 17, 2013, 11:16:50 am »
Here's a quick copy/paste of a comment and the replies to it. The third one is reminiscent of Romney's comment back during the election.


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Christopher Engleby · Penn State
no the biggest problem facing our generation today is the refusal to admit its your own fault and get out their and change it.. start your own business .. for some reason we think we should be entertained and party 24/7 and still be paid like the people out their creating jobs and opportunities. sad
Reply · 127 ·  · 10 hours ago


The third one is reminiscent of Romney's comment back during the election. Really dude? Just start a business? Do you know how hard that actually is? Do you know how many small businesses I see come and go rather quickly?

This reminds me of a guy I know who is my age and is a hard core right-winger. Me and some other guys went by his house to pick him up on the way go have a goodbye party for another friend leaving to join the army. I saw his house and my friend made note of how big and nice it was and how it was in a brand new, high end neighborhood. His parents had to be pretty rich. I wonder if shit like that distorts these people's view of the world.

Yes it distorts, a lot.  Start your own business, go back to school, get a 2nd job are standard responses from well-off people who have a bit of a disconnect from reality.  They don't realize that being born into a higher social class creates opportunity, and connections.  Maybe a lot easier for a guy like that to just say, "Hey, I hate my fucking job, I'll call so-and-so and talk about that business we always wanted to start."   
I'm just going to leave this here, then.
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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #41 on: July 17, 2013, 11:17:40 am »
Visa and McDs have created a website to show workers how to budget.  And the peasants rejoice.   



http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/202172/mcdonalds-suggested-budget-for-employees-shows-just-how-impossible-it-is-to-get-by-on-minimum-wage/

Ok NO money for heating?  How does that work?

only 90 for electricity?  Even if you get budget billing that's going to be at least over 100 and if you use electricity instead of gas, then more so.

150 for a car?  And how much for the repairs you will constantly need because you bought a shitty automobile?

And where's the money for food?  Did I miss it?

However, you can find an apartment for 600. I use to have one for 500.  Of course I lived in St. Louis with an unusually low cost of living and it was filled with bed begs and a drunk neighbor who would make my ceiling shake (from BELOW my apartment).  And how does this budget account for the down payment (that's 1200 one has to come up with immediately.)

Yeah there's certainly a disconnect here.

I think food is under 'other'.

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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #42 on: July 17, 2013, 11:19:12 am »
Visa and McDs have created a website to show workers how to budget.  And the peasants rejoice.   



http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/202172/mcdonalds-suggested-budget-for-employees-shows-just-how-impossible-it-is-to-get-by-on-minimum-wage/

Ok NO money for heating?  How does that work?

only 90 for electricity?  Even if you get budget billing that's going to be at least over 100 and if you use electricity instead of gas, then more so.

150 for a car?  And how much for the repairs you will constantly need because you bought a shitty automobile?

And where's the money for food?  Did I miss it?

However, you can find an apartment for 600. I use to have one for 500.  Of course I lived in St. Louis with an unusually low cost of living and it was filled with bed begs and a drunk neighbor who would make my ceiling shake (from BELOW my apartment).  And how does this budget account for the down payment (that's 1200 one has to come up with immediately.)

Yeah there's certainly a disconnect here.

I think food is under 'other'.
I assumed 'spending money'. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think I could get by on $100/mo as a food budget. Not well, at least. Though threads I've seen on this elsewhere suggest that Mickey D's assumes all their employs are on food stamps so fuck it.
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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #43 on: July 17, 2013, 11:24:19 am »


Ok NO money for heating?  How does that work?

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I think food is under 'other'.

So 100 bucks a month for Food.. and clothes.. and gas.. and shit that just pops up every so often?!
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Re: McDonald's suggested employee budget.
« Reply #44 on: July 17, 2013, 11:35:16 am »
Let's see. No food budget (pretty self explanatory). No fuel budget despite both car insurance and car payments. As for existing car related expenses, $150 car loan payments and $100 covering both car and home insurance is fucking retarded. If a car that cheap will have rather hefty insurance premiums, especially so if the owner is under 25. You can either have a cheap car or cheap car insurance, you can't have both. Explicitly $0 on heating, well, I hope you live in Texas or Florida. I guess if you're Alaskan, you're as good as bankrupt. $600 a month will barely cover the most shitty apartment you can rent, and won't be nearly enough to cover any mortgage. Granted, you could if you have a working partner or at least one room mate it's feasible. However, if you're working to support your family, I guess you're royally fucked.

Yeah, that budget is bullshit, and the $900 of other + spending money wouldn't even come close to covering the discrepancies. It was an admirable effort from the folks at Visa and McDonalds, however, it's still quite clear that the minimum wage in America is in fact in dire need of a raise.