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    tektwoHamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 11:43am

    I looked at the numbers last week and if McDonalds raised it's wages even for employees with longer than five years on the job (in the US) it would nearly destroy its profit margin. To do this across the board would not be realistic.

    Either McDonalds starts charging more money for its product or it needs to find another revenue source, like licensing of its product (which it is reluctant to do). McDonalds US has a much higher % of full time and long term employees in relation to other nations, we should be looking at why people need to work at McDonalds when we have a lower unemployment % and cheaper cost of living then most developed countries. Teen pregnancy and cost of education could be good starting points...

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      VirilityUntoTheetektwo
      10/11/13 11:46am

      "we should be looking at why people need to work at McDonalds"

      To serve food. You can go fix education all you want but in order for the business to run, it still needs employees.

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      Psyramicstektwo
      10/11/13 11:51am

      ["The Numbers" needed]

      http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business…

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    criscoinfernoHamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 11:50am

    How much does she expect to be paid for flipping burgers?

    If she has no desire to rise any higher in life thats cool but she shouldn't expect to be paid well.

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      Obliteraticriscoinferno
      10/11/13 12:08pm

      How shitty is your life if you think getting $10 an hour is "getting paid well"?

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      criscoinfernoObliterati
      10/11/13 12:11pm

      They are calling it the "Fight For 15" so I believe they are pushing for $15.00 an hour which seems like a lot for flipping burgers.

      And why the hell is she having all these kids with no way to support them??

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    Dan HubelHamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 11:38am

    She definitely deserves to get paid more. Why hasn't she left? surely in ten years she could have been sending out resumes and finding anything better.

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      ObliteratiDan Hubel
      10/11/13 12:31pm

      Maybe she's lazy. Maybe she's stupid. Or maybe she's just unlucky. IT DOESN"T MATTER. She exists. Her kids exist. They have to eat, and get shoes, and go to school. She cannot afford those things, so WE pay for them. We subsidize her living expenses so Mr McDonald's president here can get a bigger yacht.

      While you're busy wagging your finger at her, McDonalds is using your tax dollars to buy jewelry and fancy cars. Does that seem right to you?

      Everyone who works full time should make a living wage. Otherwise, what's the point of working? No matter how hard she works, and how much she educates herself, or whatever, SOMEONE has to be on the bottom. If not her, it'll be someone else.

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      Dan HubelObliterati
      10/11/13 12:41pm

      i'm not wagging my finger, calling her lazy or stupid. I even started my paragraph saying that she deserves more money, I didn't even say but. Personally I think the minimum wage should be a living wage and it digusts me that it is so low.

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    PercyChuggsHamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 12:29pm

    No, she doesn't. She gets paid what she is worth. You could throw a rock out the window and hit someone who has the job skills and education needed to do her job. Hence, she gets paid accordingly. I really can't understand why people have such a hard time figuring this out.

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      WaxManPercyChuggs
      10/11/13 12:49pm

      Humans have value. Humans deserve to be treated with respect and paid a living wage for their work. Almost anyone could do almost any job given the right set of opportunities. Access to education is not merit based. It’s total blind random chance dependent on the circumstances you are born into.

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      FrederickDouglassPercyChuggs
      10/11/13 12:52pm

      No she gets paid based upon a scale that legally requires employers to pay them a certain amount or else she would get paid even less all the while relying upon tax dollars to actually care for their workers. That amount is below the poverty line and therefore even if you have been at the job for 10 years you are still digging yourself out of a hole. Of course realizing this would take empathy so yeah I can understand your confusion. There are plenty of other places that pay living wages and don't rely upon squeezing profit from poverty.

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    PlantinMoretusHamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 1:50pm

    It's frankly immoral that anyone who works full-time at a legal job doesn't earn enough to live decently.

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      seroevoPlantinMoretus
      10/11/13 2:33pm

      It's immoral that anyone working at McDonald's would have multiple children, let alone one. (I'm assuming they are not twins. The article doesn't state.) She's been there 10 years, so it's likely that at least one of those children was born during her tenure there.

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      mrblacksheepPlantinMoretus
      10/11/13 2:40pm

      someone else mentioned it, but if McD's raised their line workers' pay to a "living wage" it would necessitate a significant increase in the cost of their nasty food which would lead to fewer McD's and fewer people working - so it's kind of a catch 22

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    OnyxBlackmanHamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 12:40pm

    lol, Man there are some terrible fucking people commenting on this story.

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      BahamaBobOnyxBlackman
      10/11/13 12:59pm

      Isn't that the truth

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      nancyOnyxBlackman
      10/11/13 1:29pm

      They are the folks who the GOTP have managed to convince they are only 2 pay-checks away from being in the 1%, when in reality most of them are probably one cancer diagnosis from bankruptcy.

      They've spent the past 30 years voting against their own self-interest. Now that our country is reaping this whirlwind they've sown they refuse to see what they helped create.

      I have no sympathy for them. And they are not worth engaging.

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    redboxersClintonHamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 11:42am

    for a single mother of two, if this job is her only source of income after 10 years, she's doing things wrong. Unless of course Jeff Stratton is the father of her children, then I sort of get it.

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      etfpredboxersClinton
      10/11/13 11:47am

      Should she get a 2nd and 3rd job?

      How in the hell is she supposed to care for her children?

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      redboxersClintonetfp
      10/11/13 11:53am

      the person below you answered much better than I could.

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    HoorayBeer!!Hamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 11:38am

    While the pay is shit, McDonald's is franchised so isn't the location owner the one paying her checks and not McDonald's the corporation? Also, 10 years of working there? Come on lady, you can't tell me there couldn't have been other jobs or opportunities in the past 10 years that could have helped you better yourself. Why sit on your hands for 10 years thinking the only thing that could better your situation is a raise at your current job?

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      SkeveHoorayBeer!!
      10/11/13 11:44am

      Not all Mcdonalds are franchised. I worked there in high school/college and the one I worked at was corporate owned (as were most of the ones in my area). I can't speak for the actual one she works at, but most of them are corporate owned.

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      GregSamsaHoorayBeer!!
      10/11/13 11:47am

      I'm gonna paraphrase James Baldwin: "Unless you've been there, you have no idea how terribly expensive it is to be poor." Your comment proves this point quite nicely.

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    911DucktailHamilton Nolan
    10/11/13 12:07pm

    the woman Stratton replaced had a base salary of $563,000/yr and combined with other benefits made $2,200,000/yr. I wonder if it would be possible for that woman who was arrested(!) to make Strattons base salary for a year in the span of her lifetime

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-1…

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      hilikusopusHamilton Nolan
      10/11/13 12:21pm

      Clearly, the solution to fast food labor issues is robots. Or Automats.

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        MikeOfTheBeasthilikusopus
        10/11/13 1:02pm

        I'm not sure that's a great idea either.

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        Prooferhilikusopus
        10/12/13 1:19am

        Oh, I so hope for the return of Automats!

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