I wonder if this is what TeX’s menorah looks like:
Hah!
Once again, I hope the personnel staffing the various TX GN embassies (Texas being a separate country and all) remain safe and warm. And that FedEx gives Mac an excellent excuse to stay indoors. 😉
A Florida movie theater filled with families eagerly anticipating a viewing of Disney’s hit holiday season release “Frozen” got an eyeful of something much steamier.
According to WTVT, a “sexually explicit scene” from another movie somehow ran in place of an animated Mickey Mouse short that accompanies and precedes the hit film.
That made me think of this classic -- if crude -- poster from the ’60s (couldn’t find a larger image):
If I see any “Raise The Wage” protesters in front of a fast food place while I’m out running errands, I may have to purchase a couple of Value Menu items just to piss them off.
When I was in fast food management McDonalds was the big dog. The average store had a bottom line about 10% and we all drooled over that, most did less. Labor cost was normally about 15 to 18% not looking at benefits or extra costs, just simple salaries. Double that cost and your bottom line disappears and goes into the red, especially with increased costs and fines from Obamacare and other mandates. These people really think someone will lose money in order to give them a job? Not happening. They will close down or automate the jobs. The remaining employees will need skills that give them productivity worth $15.00 an hour and if these people had those skills they could make that now. They are saying they want to lose their jobs and they are being cruelly lied to. The unions don’t care as the $15.00 an hour operator will probably pay as much dues as the two $7.50 an hour employees who will lose their jobs but those unskilled workers will be SOL. Good luck working your way up the ladder without college with no entry level jobs, too. I bootstrapped my way up in both management and machining. Those doors will be barred to those without a lot of money to invest in training and certification.
Those doors will be barred to those without a lot of money to invest in training and certification.
But FAIRNESS!!1!
I’ve seen pics today of maroons with signs reading stuff like “Give me the raise I DESERVE” and “Can’t survive on $7.25”. Criminy…when I was making minimum wage, I never expected I ought to be able to take care of a family on that income.
I think you’re probably right in re the SEIU’s calculation.
I’m also aware of at least two companies marketing machines which can grill a patty to order, toast the bun, cut fresh lettuce, tomato and onion, assemble, dress and wrap a burger without any human intervention except for stocking the various hoppers. And they take up a significantly smaller footprint than a grill area and assembly station which requires manual labor.
Ordering is done via touch screen and swiping a debit card, saving more labor and reducing opportunities for pilferage. And one of them claims the machine can serve 360 burgers/hour; one every ten seconds.
Too many idjits think that a business’ purpose is to provide jobs, not maximize ROI.
With the minimum wage push from Obama and his ilk, I’m surprised no one asks what the estimated increase in federal revenues would be. It’s not like Obama doesnt have a vested interest in seeing wages go up so tax revenues go up.
I’m sure they expect an increase because they always assume business will keep the same people and hours but just pay more, but it does not work that way. You will have less people working less hours and if prices go up you will see less business. The tax revenue will probably be lower, just as it always went up when tax rates are cut. Smaller slice of a bigger pie, or in this case a bigger slice of a smaller pie. They never allow for compensating behavior when they meddle in the markets. Back a few decades they were speculating how much they would make each year with a 100% tax rate, assuming we would all continue to work with the government taking all the money.
This is what happens when you have business policy set by people who never had a real job, much less ran a company or met a payroll. In all my years of management I saw many minimum wage raises but I never had my percentages increased. I just had to get the work done in less manhours. It meant I had employees with over a years experience making starting wage or just over.
Good morning…and LOVE the thread pic. That’s funny.
Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Sven!
At least Mac didn’t make you a garden gnome.
Happy Thursday, GN!
Hai, Sven and Paddy!
Sven does have a certain cherubic aspect.
Hah!
Once again, I hope the personnel staffing the various TX GN embassies (Texas being a separate country and all) remain safe and warm. And that FedEx gives Mac an excellent excuse to stay indoors. 😉
*poo-t*
An unintended consequence of nearly 9/10 American movie theaters being digital?
That made me think of this classic -- if crude -- poster from the ’60s (couldn’t find a larger image):
If I see any “Raise The Wage” protesters in front of a fast food place while I’m out running errands, I may have to purchase a couple of Value Menu items just to piss them off.
Dropping fries is not a $15/hour job. If these idiots persist, they’ll provide an even larger incentive to automate them right out of their jobs.
When I was in fast food management McDonalds was the big dog. The average store had a bottom line about 10% and we all drooled over that, most did less. Labor cost was normally about 15 to 18% not looking at benefits or extra costs, just simple salaries. Double that cost and your bottom line disappears and goes into the red, especially with increased costs and fines from Obamacare and other mandates. These people really think someone will lose money in order to give them a job? Not happening. They will close down or automate the jobs. The remaining employees will need skills that give them productivity worth $15.00 an hour and if these people had those skills they could make that now. They are saying they want to lose their jobs and they are being cruelly lied to. The unions don’t care as the $15.00 an hour operator will probably pay as much dues as the two $7.50 an hour employees who will lose their jobs but those unskilled workers will be SOL. Good luck working your way up the ladder without college with no entry level jobs, too. I bootstrapped my way up in both management and machining. Those doors will be barred to those without a lot of money to invest in training and certification.
But FAIRNESS!!1!
I’ve seen pics today of maroons with signs reading stuff like “Give me the raise I DESERVE” and “Can’t survive on $7.25”. Criminy…when I was making minimum wage, I never expected I ought to be able to take care of a family on that income.
I think you’re probably right in re the SEIU’s calculation.
I’m also aware of at least two companies marketing machines which can grill a patty to order, toast the bun, cut fresh lettuce, tomato and onion, assemble, dress and wrap a burger without any human intervention except for stocking the various hoppers. And they take up a significantly smaller footprint than a grill area and assembly station which requires manual labor.
Ordering is done via touch screen and swiping a debit card, saving more labor and reducing opportunities for pilferage. And one of them claims the machine can serve 360 burgers/hour; one every ten seconds.
Too many idjits think that a business’ purpose is to provide jobs, not maximize ROI.
With the minimum wage push from Obama and his ilk, I’m surprised no one asks what the estimated increase in federal revenues would be. It’s not like Obama doesnt have a vested interest in seeing wages go up so tax revenues go up.
I’m sure they expect an increase because they always assume business will keep the same people and hours but just pay more, but it does not work that way. You will have less people working less hours and if prices go up you will see less business. The tax revenue will probably be lower, just as it always went up when tax rates are cut. Smaller slice of a bigger pie, or in this case a bigger slice of a smaller pie. They never allow for compensating behavior when they meddle in the markets. Back a few decades they were speculating how much they would make each year with a 100% tax rate, assuming we would all continue to work with the government taking all the money.
This is what happens when you have business policy set by people who never had a real job, much less ran a company or met a payroll. In all my years of management I saw many minimum wage raises but I never had my percentages increased. I just had to get the work done in less manhours. It meant I had employees with over a years experience making starting wage or just over.