Seattle raises minimum wage to $15/hr

[mrsleeve]

You prolly won't like billings. I don't and I love MT...........

[2mAn]

The difference between LAs traffic and Seattles traffic is that there are other freeways you can take in LA if one is shit, while in Seattle you have no choice. you're fucked. This is from a guy who currently lives in SoCal and spent the last 7 years in Seattle. I was also just in Seattle last week and thought to myself, this traffic sucks! The drivers are crazy here, but they also dont go 15mph UNDER the speed limit

[nando]

You prolly won't like billings. I don't and I love MT...........

Yeah i haven't been there yet. Supposed to go for a week sometime this fall to do some training for our group. Also get to spend a week in Anchorage...

[mrsleeve]

Aanchorage can be fun so I have heard, especially if you don't go in the dead of winter. Hey if your gonna drive to. Billings. (Yeah right) let me know when you will be passing through meet ya I mizou for a beer

[nando]

Ill probably fly but i'd be down for that if our paths crossed

[mrsleeve]

I would have to be home too, which is looking unlikely till about the 22ed of dec for about a week

[nando]

In the same boat. Taking the rest of today off and still have 62 hours this week, lol

What was this thread about again? Dirty hippies vs evil corporations or somesuch?

[BraveUlysses]

In the same boat. Taking the rest of today off and still have 62 hours this week, lol

What was this thread about again? Dirty hippies vs evil corporations or somesuch?

unrealistic whining about seattle traffic, get it right man!

[The Dark Side of Will]

Hmm...

http://www.startribune.com/politics/...270235821.html

“We believe that the industry is overreacting,” Wade Luneburg of the MN State Council of UNITE HERE Unions told the Star Tribune this week. “Putting [minimum wage] fees on tickets and passing the cost on to consumers directly is strange at best, and creates an ‘us against them’ mentality while ordering dinner.”

LOL. Out of touch propaganda spewing union rep is out of touch and spewing propaganda. Who the fuck is the business supposed to pass costs to? Send the bill to the Minnesota legislature? The service workers union?

[The Dark Side of Will]

Which makes you wonder--would they really care at all if he hadn't taken the extra effort to point it out?

You wouldn't do the same if his coffee supplier increased prices, or his dairy supplier did so as well. Or if the rent/lease increased. Or any other reason.

Not to mention that the potential for negative press or for this to be percieved in a negative light are so much higher than the benefit of educating customers why their bill went up a whopping 35 cents.

If your bill going up a whopping 35 cents is no big deal, why has it created such an uproar?

[The Dark Side of Will]

Those jobs are not made to be careers, they are to teach high school kids discipline and money management while living under mommy and daddy's roof.

Whaaa?

A business owner hires a floor sweeper because he needs the floors swept.
He does NOT hire a floor sweeper to teach discipline to some high school punk he's never met.

When I was a teenager, I ran a weed whacker for a local junkyard. He didn't hire me because he felt sorry for me... he paid me to keep the weeds down.

[ParsedOut]

Whaaa?

A business owner hires a floor sweeper because he needs the floors swept.
He does NOT hire a floor sweeper to teach discipline to some high school punk he's never met.

When I was a teenager, I ran a weed whacker for a local junkyard. He didn't hire me because he felt sorry for me... he paid me to keep the weeds down.

His point being...minimum wage isn't intended to be "lived on" and is only a starting point for people that have other forms of financial support. (ie. high school/college students).

[G-Man the Visionary]

Whaaa?

A business owner hires a floor sweeper because he needs the floors swept.
He does NOT hire a floor sweeper to teach discipline to some high school punk he's never met.

When I was a teenager, I ran a weed whacker for a local junkyard. He didn't hire me because he felt sorry for me... he paid me to keep the weeds down.

You'd be surprised how many people don't know how to show up on time (early) for work, appointments, circle jerks;D, etc... Usually these things are learned (discipline) as a punk kid running a weed whacker on time, or they lose that income.

His point being...minimum wage isn't intended to be "lived on" and is only a starting point for people that have other forms of financial support. (ie. high school/college students).

Yes. Thank you.

[Dozyproductions]

His point being...minimum wage isn't intended to be "lived on" and is only a starting point for people that have other forms of financial support. (ie. high school/college students).

However intended oh well. It's still idealism vs. reality. Race and life choices aside, people work 1 to 2 mcDonalds jobs to feed themselves and their families. I live by the border and see it all the time. The policies that create that problem aren't part of this issue btw.

[mrsleeve]

if your not 15 mins early your late