Reich v. Boudreaux Minimum Wage

[noonereal]

Was (NotWas)

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by noonereal

Was (NotWas)

Luvs me some funk!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE7SgKjQ63E

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by Wasillaguy

If he made enough to retire ten years ago, he obviously didn't take very good care of his employees. Unless you are suggesting they all retired as well? How can this guy live with himself, knowing he got rich off the sweat of those under him?
Poor suckers are probably now helping some other jerk capitalist get rich. Your brother would still be working if he were a stand up guy, until all those who helped him succeed are sitting on the beach next to him.

No so fast. He had worked in the restaurant chain since fifteen. Started in the kitchen and worked up to owning two stores. Built up the stores business through good relationships with the customers and employees. He will be the first to tell you a big part is the employees. A bad one can run people away. There are still people we run into who wish he hadn't sold them. Or they want to know when he will open another. We run into the employees still at family gatherings. They were welcomed into the family and still all these years later are around.

When he sold the restaurants the selling point was the business built up by him. The clientele and the employees. He was approached with an offer that was to good to be true.

One is still going the other is long gone. Guess which one kept the same game plan my brother started and the one who cut corners.


Barney

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Oerets

No so fast. He had worked in the restaurant chain since fifteen. Started in the kitchen and worked up to owning two stores. Built up the stores business through good relationships with the customers and employees. He will be the first to tell you a big part is the employees. A bad one can run people away. There are still people we run into who wish he hadn't sold them. Or they want to know when he will open another. We run into the employees still at family gatherings. They were welcomed into the family and still all these years later are around.

When he sold the restaurants the selling point was the business built up by him. The clientele and the employees. He was approached with an offer that was to good to be true.

One is still going the other is long gone. Guess which one kept the same game plan my brother started and the one who cut corners.Barney

Barney that always amazes me, last place I worked was great, we made money, management and staff alike, it was a fun place to work. Then a big company bought us and proceeded to change everything that made the place successful, just because it did not fit their corporate image,

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Barney that always amazes me, last place I worked was great, we made money, management and staff alike, it was a fun place to work. Then a big company bought us and proceeded to change everything that made the place successful, just because it did not fit their corporate image,

Went through three mergers and they all went the same way. Take a smooth running ship and some wet behind the ears young gun would come in with all these big ideas. Things they learned in collage or a book. Not from doing a damm thing productive. Some would learn quickly and quietly shut the fk up and let us do our jobs. Others had to left to dig their own graves.

My brother would go to the troubled store and try and help the new owner but it didn't take. First the staff started leaving because of cuts, then changes to food prep because of costs. The customers started going somewhere else.



Barney

[finnbow]

I think it's perfectly OK that raising wages at McDonald's would also increase the cost of their "food" offerings. That's a "win-win" as far as I'm concerned.

[icenine]

I do not want to be a member of a society in which everyone I interact with is in poverty.

I have a friend from the Philippines who will not go back, even though he could "live like a King" on his retirement. He just does not want to be surrounded by millions in extreme poverty.

I do not want that happening here either. It is if you look around.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by icenine

I do not want to be a member of a society in which everyone I interact with is in poverty.

I have a friend from the Philippines who will not go back, even though he could "live like a King" on his retirement. He just does not want to be surrounded by millions in extreme poverty.

I do not want that happening here either. It is if you look around.

But if you are living in a 15,000 sq. ft. McMansion on 15o acres you never have to see poverty all around you.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by merrylander

But if you are living in a 15,000 sq. ft. McMansion on 15o acres you never have to see poverty all around you.

Well you have to go to the store sometimes Rob..........
I think anyone who has walked the footbridge from San Ysidro into Tijuana will understand what I am saying....

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by icenine

Well you have to go to the store sometimes Rob..........

No, you don't. If you're in the 1%, you "have people" who do that for you.

Remember George H. W. Bush's astonishment upon seeing price scanners at the supermarket? Though scanners had been around for decades, he'd never seen one because, quite simply, he never had the need to do his own shopping.

John