I think this is a little unfair to the longterm workers. Intellivision just sees them all as lazy. I think they were once young hopeful employees who thought one day hard work would lead to promotions or better pay and for some reason it never happened.
Or in some cases, upper management leaves such workers trapped to keep crappy jobs filled. If a new position opens, management hires from outside instead of promoting within their own ranks.
I can easily imagine a hypothetical situation where a fast food worker took classes at a community college for an Associates Degree hoping to leverage that to move up to managment, and getting passed over by Human Resources in favor of hiring a manager from outside.
Not true. I never said all longterm employees are lazy. I just gave an example.
My point is low skilled jobs are pretty easy to do by young people, so for the sake of companies keeping their businesses going while still having decent service, I don't see much difference between focusing on high school part timers and those 20-somthing transition people vs. that veteran low wage workers who have been there a while. As I said, it's not the young people making the big stink about supporting a family and collecting food stamps while working and McD's. They are just joining in because it's a big organized protest, so might as well join in for the ride.
As for people getting passed by for promotions, that's life. Some people get good jobs that pay a lot, some don't. It's a combo of luck, skills, location, and job field. Kissing ass can work too. Also, jobs always have a pyramid effect where you have a small handful of top cheeses, more managers in the middle, then tons of lower ranked people. It's impossible for lots of people to be higher ranked (let's say a middle manager) because they wouldn't have enough people to manage. You can't make everyone all get promoted at the same time.
Also, companies hire from the outside for numerous reasons. One factor is simply wanting new blood and fresh ideas. Another is simply they don't feel the current crop of people have the skills to do the job. It may have nothing to do with money.
Probably, these longterm Burnedout workers should have just quit and moved on. Or they should quit now and seek a better opporunity. However, if they put down roots, they may be stuck. They may even be staying on only for the health insurance. Or they don't want to lose the seniority they've accumulated and if they hang on they might just barely gain a retirement pension.
What ever the reasons are for someone being stuck, that's life. There's reasons why someone may be forcing themselves to stick around a fast food joint job, but that's too bad. If somebody doesn't like it, move on. Considering they are even sticking around making McChickens goes to show they should actually be happy McD's is offering a job. Take away many of these low level jobs and they wouldn't even have one.
Just like those handful of seniors sitting in that greeting chair at Walmart. The probably get paid $10/hr to sit there doing nothing but stare at the wall. They don't greet, they don't do bag/receipt checks for theft, if someone walks out the door and the security alarm goes off, they hardly even ask to check to see if everything is ok. Blind eye. Zero value. If anything, they should be lucky WM even offers that job because no other retailer or restaurant I know has so many people just standing or sitting there doing nothing.
Just because someone is in a crappy job forever and needs to stick around, people can't expect the business to bail them out. People should get themself out of the mess, or not get into the mess in the first place.
Sure, it would great if I was in a mess and expected my company to jack up my pay to cover me. Up to me. If I want a raise, I have to prove to them I'm worth it.... a combo of showing them what a good job I'm doing and hoping there isn't anyone else out there that they can replace me with if I bolt. I might win, I might lose.
All these fast food guys are worried because they know deep down their skills are low, they deserve low wages and if any of them tried to negotiate a $15/hr raise with the boss mano-a-mano they know they could be replaced with another low skilled person in 2 seconds. And that's if the boss doesn't just try to save the bucks and spread around the load to the other 8 low skilled people working there on a typical shift.
Just like my example above when I was young a messing around with lousy summer jobs paying min wage. I stuck it out for summer cash, but went to school, got a degree, then got some low starting jobs out of school like everyone else. I had school debt like everyone else I knew and didn't even have my own car yet until my bro gave me his clunker later which I had to ditch a few years later as it was falling apart in year one (thank you for that gasket leak repair bill!). Had to go into more debt to buy my own car. Not like I was a Harvard grad getting $200k from Morgan Stanley. But a combo of working hard, knowing friends that helped me with interviews for future stuff, not blowing away cash on stupid things and not going into a credit card debt blackhole is the best way to build up money. Aside from a mortgage, car loan, student loan and needing to buy furniture when I first moved out on one of those 12-month payment plans (crap ass brown couches and bedroom gear), I've never had any other recurring debt. Every other bill was paid off monthly. Even now, when money isn't an issue anymore I still make sure I still look for deals and always pay off my monthly credit card bill on time.
People have to stop whining and be responsible for themselves. Life isn't fair and never will be, but whining about companies to jack up their fast food joint wages is a joke. If anything, why nag them? The government has more money than any corporation out there. Just protest them to give monthly social assistance payouts.
