I understand someone wanting $9.50 an hour, that's about what it would take to live where I do, but then again I don't understand why people get jobs at fast food restaurants when they have greater financial need than a high school dropout. The trouble is people don't like the idea of actually doing physical work -.-

I guess it would depend on what your responsibilities were working at the restaurant, for me since I was the oldest I had to replace the oil in the fryers and do maintenance on them (dissembling the front console and looking for shorts), as well as training and evaluating crew members on the various stations we had. I was put on the night shift where I would have to close the store at 2 am and wouldn't actually leave until around 3 or so (cause of the cleaning), and since I was the only one with a car I would have to drop everyone off THEN try to get enough sleep to go to my second job in the morning (6 am). I was responsible for counting and recording ALL the cash drawers as well as the store's safe, if something didn't add up it's an automatic suspension. I've dealt with customers just like OP on a daily basis, making side remarks on where I was and what I was doing, but when in fact there was so much more to the job that goes overlooked. All this and I was still getting only 8 dollars an hour. As I was working in fast food, I had a college education, three years working in behavioral health and substitute teaching... and the only reason I couldn't get a job was because there wasn't any available- (a large number of departments were reducing staff). So yeah, there was a reason.

Fast food is a joke. How can people eat that crap. It's barely edible.

"I hand people food through a window all day, I want fifteen dollars a hour"

We get mad at people for not having gainful employment and abusing the system. We get mad at people for having gainful employment and exercising their rights. People who have gainful employment, regardless of the job..*all* add something meaningful to society.

Wtf is with people necrobumping these days, it's a goddamn epidemic.

Yeah maybe if they didnt put pickles on my damn bigmac when i said no pickles then it would be okay for a raise. But they don't they f it up. [spoiler]hate pickles[/spoiler]

What about the higher-ups and the people who do make more money working for fast food companies? Couldn't you say the same thing about them?

It's funny how they complain but the military isn't

Can't take you seriously, with those grammatical mistakes. *you're

It depends on where you live. Minimum wages in the US are VERY low, around $7.25. Canadian minimum wage is higher, at around $10.50. UK is going up every year around £4.50, but that still isnt very good at all. If you work at McDonald's and want to make more money, either change jobs or vote for a different party in the next federal election, they might be able to bring the minimum wage up a bit.

Maybe if we paid people at fast food jobs enough to actually sustain a lifestyle above the poverty line they would work harder.

$7.25 an hour is pretty bad for minimum wage, but these people may need to switch jobs. If they want $15 an hour for making burgers then I would love to make a little more working at my hospital. They should be grateful that they have a job in the first place. There are so many unemployed people in the country who would love to take their jobs.