Minimum wage did this. If they have to pay more than the natural rate for that labor they are going to hire as little as they can. Eventually things will slow and they will get through the queue but you will have to wait. But the company had no downtime for expensive labor.
The alternative was hiring a lot of people at an extremely low rate, meaning you end up with more labor than you need by a lot when things are slow, but at least you aren’t paying much for that excess labor and your customers never wait so they are likely to return. The consumer really wins there but someone will have to be paid a low wage.
Have you been to other countries where they actually pay people a living wage? Cashiers can even sit. Imagine that!
Somehow big chains in some European countries can pay their employees a living wage and still make a profit, yet, in the US, the employees should be eating dirt in order for businesses to be profitable?
And as someone buying things in general, I prefer to go to stores and businesses where employees are at the very least paid minimum wage, if not more. Even if this will cost more. I know those business will be better for the community.
You are eating the lies of corporations if you think they cannot afford to pay their employees even minimum wage.
Yeah I’ve heard of those places. They don’t even provide urine sacks and catheters! You have fifteen minutes a few times a day to walk allllll the way to the bathroom to relieve yourself. Shocking treatment.
Yeah that’s because they have a few very well paid people who figure out ways to crowbar their overlords’ impossible goal of eternal growth into reality.
Whatever that means in practice, these filthy plebes will have to live with it.
Minimum wage did this. If they have to pay more than the natural rate for that labor they are going to hire as little as they can. Eventually things will slow and they will get through the queue but you will have to wait. But the company had no downtime for expensive labor.
The alternative was hiring a lot of people at an extremely low rate, meaning you end up with more labor than you need by a lot when things are slow, but at least you aren’t paying much for that excess labor and your customers never wait so they are likely to return. The consumer really wins there but someone will have to be paid a low wage.
Have you been to other countries where they actually pay people a living wage? Cashiers can even sit. Imagine that!
Somehow big chains in some European countries can pay their employees a living wage and still make a profit, yet, in the US, the employees should be eating dirt in order for businesses to be profitable?
And as someone buying things in general, I prefer to go to stores and businesses where employees are at the very least paid minimum wage, if not more. Even if this will cost more. I know those business will be better for the community.
You are eating the lies of corporations if you think they cannot afford to pay their employees even minimum wage.
EDIT: Poe’s law. I may have eaten an onion.
Yeah I’ve heard of those places. They don’t even provide urine sacks and catheters! You have fifteen minutes a few times a day to walk allllll the way to the bathroom to relieve yourself. Shocking treatment.
You say that, but grocery stores keep posting record margins.
Yeah that’s because they have a few very well paid people who figure out ways to crowbar their overlords’ impossible goal of eternal growth into reality.
Whatever that means in practice, these filthy plebes will have to live with it.
Fucking lol, what a bootlicking moron.
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“natural rate” lol
The hate you must feel for those employees while waiting in line. Enough diving in mad brains for me today.