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Did anyone catch the fast-food strike interviews on Chris Hayes' new All In program the other night?
story and vid here
I feel their chosen strikers were a poor representation of why the industry "deserves" a pay increase. The young gentleman striker is very well-spoken but claims to have been in the fast food industry for SEVEN FREAKING YEARS, and is only making $0.10 more per hour than when he started?!? Twenty years ago during college I got a job busting suds in the kitchen of my friendly neighborhood Applebee's for a similar ($7) hourly rate, and within a year I went on to cook, bus tables, wait tables, train new area managers then finally tend bar so I could stand and drink all night and make the big bucks. I still went back and washed dishes when they needed a shift filled, but rarely did I make less than $10/hr since the managers knew I'd have that station so spotless throughout the night that I'd be out of there within an hour of close - instead of 3am like some other workers that got behind on the stacks of riblet bones, ramekins and brutus glassware. While I take every opportunity to brag about my dishwashing prowess like some 4 TDs in a single game Al Bundy, I'm trying to say is that I can't help but think these kids need to be educated a little more that
they have the power to be proactive -- start envisioning a 5 year plan beyond their current entry level careers.
And the kid had to be a plant. Too smart to make $7 hour.
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