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I don't know how normal this is across the country, but in my area fast food workers are paid starting at about $15/hour, they are not the service workers getti
by rootusrootus 4y ago
I don't know how normal this is across the country, but in my area fast food workers are paid starting at about $15/hour, they are not the service workers getting the sub-$3 "tipping assumed" base wage.
- eyelidlessness 4y ago$15/hr was considered a living wage when that movement started approximately a decade ago. It’s not a living wage now. People aren’t getting rich on $15+tips, they’re trying to pay their bills and afford their car or transit to get to work to serve you.
- rootusrootus 4y agoSure, we can agree that $15/hr isn't enough to be considered a living wage. But it is comparable to other low-skill/manual labor jobs that don't have any exposure to customer tipping.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoSo fuck ‘em don’t pay them because tipping is bad?
- rootusrootus 4y agoI'd like to think HN is above this kind of nonsense.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI looked back and tried to take the most charitable interpretation of your original response as I can imagine. Here’s what I came up with: I actually do want underpaid workers to be paid a living wage, but I’m consciously posting ammunition for people who want to selfishly deny them that. I don’t want to misrepresent you, but I’m grasping for more charitable interpretations than that.