McDonald's, KFC, Burger King workers protest in NYC

Excerpt: " Pamela Waldron makes $7.75 an hour as a cashier at the KFC in New York's Penn Station, where she has worked for eight years. 

That's just 50 cents above the New York state minimum wage. The 26-year old nursing student, and mother of two, says she has asked for a raise but her pleas have gone unheeded for weeks. "

I highlighted parts to emphasize that this is a woman who is in nursing school and has worked at this KFC since she was 18. Reading between the lines, we can assume that she has been a student through all or most of her time with KFC and probably has not been working full-time, and that she does not expect to be working at KFC forever.

I am sure shee had some marketable skills and knowledge, she should find a job that pays better.

Probably got a Ph.d in Vagina Studies

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Betcha Ms. Pamela you drew a lot of attention to Burger King and they will be VERY BUSY tomorrow, thanks for the free advertising for them babe. good job..... 

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Hey Pam, try looking for a better paying job or try to work hard enough to be considered for a KFC manager position. I love these people. They deserve a better wage because well, they just do. Don’t work harder to get ahead, just ask for more money. Typical democrat mentality. We are so screwed as a nation.

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Yo Pammy, let me ax you a kestion... you be having some skills, yo, so lemme ax you this....

Why you not find a better job?

Why you not put your fat trunk on the market?

You think your worth more than $9 an hour? Then prove it.

Start your own bitness and pay yourself what you worth, girl.

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 Pamela Waldron doesn't seem to understand this yet, but her entire job depends on people choosing not to take an extra five minutes to pack a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch. If ObamaCare raises employee costs which get passed to the consumer, or if they strike for higher minimum wages, or whatever new regulation comes around, customers won't just pay the higher price automatically. They will substitute. The result would be that the high end restaurants would still exist, but the fast food industry would be gutted, and only vending machines would be profitable. 

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3 weeks after 0bama's re-election, McDonald's, KFC and Burger King get hit with workers' protests, just a couple of weeks after Hostess gets taken down by its workers.. Wow, so many coincidences.. 

0bama, unions and coincidences, what a trio! Four iconic American companies, hmmmm... 

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You can bet THIS is what the ‘community organizer’ in the WH was orchestrating with his co-conspirator agitators right after his re-election. OWS wasn’t effective enough, I guess.

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Yes, it irritates me, too. You’re right - this is not the kind of job one should expect to support a family on. She mentions her husband works to support her family. Well, that’s the way it is supposed to be, Pamela.

Considering the employee turnover that exists in the fast food industry, I would say after working there 8 years - this woman ought to be at least an assistant manager by now.

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So will she still have a job tomorrow ? Cause if I was her boss I would fire her a$$ the second she walked out.

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I would say this. Fast-food is ok to start out at....but you need to plan on staying less than four years and moving up to something else. If your life plan is to stick to Fast Food....unless you can get up to shift manager or store manager in eight years...I wouldn’t be sticking around. I will admit that a shift-manager does make a good salary at McDonalds....but if you aren’t there by your late twenties....you aren’t going anywhere.

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"If this was some where else I might agree with you. The volume of business is enormous. I read once people who owned a 24 hour pizza shop in Penn station made 20 million dollars a year. Since it is in the most expensive place to live in the world. The cost of transportation for workers is outrageous. Everything in NY city is nuts. I lived there. Just imagine how many times more money than an average Burger King or McDonalds in a city of 15 million. If these fast food places want quality workers they should give them a raise. IMHO. "

It’s a fast food joint. They’re all over NYC. There’s probably one within walking distance of Pam’s home. A couple of my kids worked fast food in high school. You know why? They could walk or ride their bikes there. And I live in suburban Philadelphia. If you decide to make fast food your career then you need to get into management if you expect a living wage. Otherwise, it’s a job for kids and retired people. 8 years and still a regular shift worker? Shame on her.

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"I almost got thrown out of my college economics class for pointing out that Ebenezer Scrooge (Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”) must have been paying a fair wage to Bob Cratchet. There was no slavery. If Bob Cratchet could have made more money someplace else he would have gone someplace else."

 Wasn’t Scrooge ALWAYS a stingy old ba$tard and if he was, why would Bob Cratchit bother to ask him for anything when he knew what the answer would be.
Seems to me, Bob was just as big of a loser as fast food workers...they have had years to find a better job.

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Fire them and put up HELP WANTED signs as they protest outside. They will be killed by the stampede of those seeking jobs.

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 This is why America needs to be free from New York. New York is the liberal centroid, the point from which Marxist collectivisims oozes. The Great Satan is on the Hudson.

-- I wonder how many crying eagles proclaiming NEVER FORGET this guy has posted about 9/11

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They want a “living wage” on a job skill set for a semi-literate high-school student?

MOVE OUT OF NYC so you can afford your rent. You don’t belong there if you can’t feed yourself.

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I worked fast food for 6 months in my younger days. I HATED it. It was that hate that motivated me to find another job...as an assistant drug store manager. Several years later I was running an “area” of 5 stores.

Her condition is the result of the democrat/progessive brainwashing. Is she worth more than $7.75 per hour? Only she can determine and then find an employer that will pay her what she is worth. It is her choice to succeed or fail.

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I sincerely pity these people. Not because they're not making a "living wage," but rather because they lack a work ethic and cling to a sense of entitlement that unless changed, will prevent them from ever realizing their highest potential. 

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 The economic narcissists in this country just don’t get it. And they’ll only grow in number and continue to demand more stuff from producers.