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> The layoffs come as fast-food workers in California are set to get a pay bump of close to 30% in April as the minimum wages rises from $16 to $20 an hour. It

> The layoffs come as fast-food workers in California are set to get a pay bump of close to 30% in April as the minimum wages rises from $16 to $20 an hour. It's not "close to 30%," it is "exactly 25%." Whoever wrote that needs to be sent back to middle school remedial math. As if I needed another reason to not eat at pizza hut. This sounds like a cynical ploy to get sub-minimum wage gig economy delivery drivers via third party services that they can then blame when the plan goes pear shaped.

voidfunc 3y ago
Reporting is dead. They probably reached out to Pizza Hut PR department for the exact figure and went with what corporate told them. The PR department wants to make the increase looks as unreasonable as possible so gave them the 30% line. The reporter then writes that in the article. Close to 30% is technically true, but it sounds like a bigger hike to the reader.
- karaterobot 3y ago
  To be fair (?) I think reporting is not as much the problem as the death of editorial and fact-checking departments. This is the kind of mistake that ought to be caught by a process. It's sort of like saying programmers are getting worse because so many bugs get into code, and then finding out that, actually, all the unit tests and CI processes were turned off because they were expensive; the programmers may be worse, but in the end they aren't really the biggest problem.
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kube-system 3y ago
I guess that is probably what that sentence intends to mean, but it also presumes that all fast food workers are making minimum wage. On first reading, I would have presumed that they were talking about two different statistics -- the change in minimum wage and the change in average gross wage, but given the context I presume that is probably not the case.
tlogan 3y ago
No fast food workers minimum wage increased from $15 to $20 which is 30%. Anyway bad reporting.. Minimum wage increased from $15 to $16 Minimum wage for fast food workers increased from $15 to $20

voidfunc 3y ago

Reporting is dead. They probably reached out to Pizza Hut PR department for the exact figure and went with what corporate told them. The PR department wants to make the increase looks as unreasonable as possible so gave them the 30% line. The reporter then writes that in the article. Close to 30% is technically true, but it sounds like a bigger hike to the reader.

karaterobot 3y ago
To be fair (?) I think reporting is not as much the problem as the death of editorial and fact-checking departments. This is the kind of mistake that ought to be caught by a process. It's sort of like saying programmers are getting worse because so many bugs get into code, and then finding out that, actually, all the unit tests and CI processes were turned off because they were expensive; the programmers may be worse, but in the end they aren't really the biggest problem.
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kube-system 3y ago

I guess that is probably what that sentence intends to mean, but it also presumes that all fast food workers are making minimum wage. On first reading, I would have presumed that they were talking about two different statistics -- the change in minimum wage and the change in average gross wage, but given the context I presume that is probably not the case.

tlogan 3y ago

No fast food workers minimum wage increased from $15 to $20 which is 30%. Anyway bad reporting.. Minimum wage increased from $15 to $16 Minimum wage for fast food workers increased from $15 to $20