Burger King Staff QUIT En Masse

Buh Bye BK.

Good for them. These are dead end jobs. We should all be striving for better

Good, corporations have suppressed wage for long enough, it's about time workers received a good minimum wage and better rights!

Poor corporations

It's interesting that the times of being easily replaced at a minimal wage job (or any job for that matter?) has come to an end.

I don’t blame them! Those are shitty jobs and I doubt the employees are treated well. When the sky was falling last year everyone still wanted their fast food. They should be paid fairly.

The manager who started the exodus must actually be a good manager since her employees followed her out. They could have easily blamed her for the problems.

The only thing worse than a corporate owned fast food joint is a franchised fast food joint. Those fuckers are the absolute worst to work for, up to and including wage theft on a regular basis, not to mention the sexual harassment. The parent company turns a blind eye to it all and pretends it doesn't exist. This includes McD's, Wendy's, Burking King, Hardee's, etc.

What are all these "missing" employees living on?

Can't blame 'em. Between the Covid risk and putting up with abusive customers, service jobs must be a nightmare. Burger joint jobs used to be for high school kids getting their first job.

Exactly R10. Dealing with assholes all day, then when you add shit pay and the covid risk...fuck that.

The same thing is happening in the UK, add on the effects of brexit taking away the cheap labour that's been keeping the wage suppressed for almost 2 decades and it's a great time for workers.

Why is the media trying to make this into an end of the world thing?

At the Burger King I go to, there’s three employees suffering from obvious mental retardation. Key guys, who I’ve seen work the same shift together. The manager understandably seems frustrated dealing with them because they don’t follow instruction very well and are easily sidetracked. I found it odd because usually in businesses with shift work, you might see one or two in different intervals to fulfill some sort of handicap quota.

Now I’m starting to think it’s because they can’t get anyone else to work there.

OMG the trash in this country might have to actually cook dinner!!!

Bravo!

They mentioned on the radio that there was no air conditioning in the cooking area and there were other bad working conditions

Working in those places has effectively been slavery, the only reason they're paid is so companies can say they aren't unpaid slaves, but for what they've been getting paid they may as well be working unpaid. Now Amazon and other companies are building "worker villages", society really has been regressing and hopefully covid has changed that.

Good. They can use their leverage to negotiate a living wage.

Hold the pickle

Hold the lettuce

Want a burger?

Best forget us

Apparently the employees wanted to have it their way.

Expect the press to kick start another race issue to disguise this issue that affects everyone, black or white or asian or whatever, who isn't rich or influential.

Here in Norway even fast food eployees get a living wage. They have the same employment rights as everyone else, including 5 weeks paid vacation. Then again, fast food here is very expensive. Must be at least 3 or 4 times the American prices. But I think it's worth it. The workers deserve a living wage, as does everyone else working.

Now how will I get my paper crown on my birthday?

Starbucks doesn’t seem to have a problem retaining employees

Maybe it’s because they pay a reasonable wage and offer decent health insurance

R25 true. I had a lot of friends who worked at Starbucks when we were younger and most of them stayed with until they got a job in their chosen field. My local SB has a lot of the same faces, I don't notice significant turnover.

A Big Mac sandwich in Norway costs $7.06 USD compared to $4.33 in the US. The minimum salary in Norway is as of 2021: 167 NOK (roughly 19.50 USD) vs. 7.25 USD in America.

Thought of this scene while reading the article....

[quote]Here in Norway even fast food eployees get a living wage. They have the same employment rights as everyone else, including 5 weeks paid vacation. Then again, fast food here is very expensive. Must be at least 3 or 4 times the American prices. But I think it's worth it. The workers deserve a living wage, as does everyone else working.

Yup, get ready for $25 cheeseburgers, America. You want low skilled people to have a better wage and health care? That's the result.

The staff was working with dehydration because there was no working air conditioner and the owners wouldn't fix it. Good for them.

Oh ffs, r29. Take your Breitbart talking points somewhere else

R29 The cost of living is going up anyway, has been for decades, so why not allow others to be able to afford comfortable lives like most could up until the 90s.

R29 bullshit. Stop paying CEOs tens of millions of dollars. Start cutting costs at the top.

R29, if franchise owners quit skimming off money to pay their drug dealers and their baby mamas, and their BMW's and Benzos, then maybe they'd have enough money left over to pay a decent wage to their workers.

Idiots @ R31, R32 & R33. Are you too dumb to realize that service employees will be no better off once prices for literally everything get adjusted for inflation? They won't be able to afford to buy the very same $25 burgers they flip all day.

LOL @ R33. No fast food franchisee is making millions.

[quote]if franchise owners quit skimming off money to pay their drug dealers and their baby mamas, and their BMW's and Benzos, then maybe they'd have enough money left over to pay a decent wage to their workers.

Oh my sides. Baby mamas? Drug addicts? Oh honey, you are confused. That's 90% of the service industry work force, not business owners.

[quote] The manager who started the exodus must actually be a good manager since her employees followed her out. They could have easily blamed her for the problems.

She's a modern day Cesar Chavez.

[quote]I had a lot of friends who worked at Starbucks when we were younger and most of them stayed with until they got a job in their chosen field. My local SB has a lot of the same faces, I don't notice significant turnover.

Which speaks volumes about getting a job "in their chosen field".

$25 burgers? Fuck off! Someone else will sell them for less AND pay a decent wage. Supply and Demand you fat ignorant fuck. Piss off back to Breitbart and Newsmax you useless pile of bat shit.

I hate Starbucks, but they don’t seem to have any problem paying decent wages and selling coffees.

The bottom line is, you assholes can’t force people to work for whatever you feel like paying them. The free market cuts both ways.

To the asshole at R35: every god damned fast food hell hole could shut down today and never reopen, and the United States would still be much better off. The increased unemployment that would have to be paid to newly unemployed workers would dwarf the savings the country would realize in health care costs by not eating the crap people like you try to pass off a "food."

These corporate bosspigs need to rethink their business plans.

Their antiquated slave labor model just isn’t going to work anymore. They’re going to whine their way into bankruptcy.

R41 let’s hope they don’t get bailed out again. I’m looking at YOU Richard Branson, flying off on your rocket that cannot even make it into space. While you get billions from the taxpayers.

The worst thing about those jobs is not even the work, the lack of healthcare or the salary, but the way the employers are treated by their customers and management.

R42 While also playing a massive part in privatizing the NHS in the UK! He's an absolute scumbag!

[quote] Good for them. These are dead end jobs. We should all be striving for better

You sound very UN-American.

It's hard to find good slaves anymore.

I find it very funny that the Repugs think they can just insult people into taking their terrible low paying jobs.

So what? They can already get robots to make the burgers and serve them to you.

So all the employees in Massachusetts quit?

Those of you trashing fast food jobs... you sound very entitled.

Many "rich" people got their start in the fast food business.

Lots of high school kids get money for college by working in fast food.

And there are those who need money for food and a home, who find income from working in a fast food restaurant.

Those of you who have never been there, will never understand.

[quote]Yup, get ready for $25 cheeseburgers, America. You want low skilled people to have a better wage and health care? That's the result.

Completely untrue. You're just lying at this point. Increasing fast food wages to $15/hour would increase a $7.00 meal to $7.31. Add in health insurance and we're talking maybe $1 to $2 more per meal per person to cover the cost.

R47 The media is taking that tact too. Makes me sick

A lot of people who were laid off from shitty jobs created other income streams and side jobs. These people are NOT returning to the daily grind of being bullied, insulted and harassed 24/7 by the public for minimum wage. So COUGH UP if you want people to do the worst jobs. Customer Service sucks, I know and I’d have to be desperate to consider another position where I get shit on for a few coins.

Yeah good for them, r2 until your ass wants a whopper some night after your pseudo boyfriend dumps you and nobody is working there.

R53 It’s not just minimum wage. I know a few Comms professionals who got laid off in March ‘20 that have created nice freelance gigs for themselves. More than a few have no desire to go back to office hell especially with the increasing number of hoops in the hiring process

These low-paying service jobs used to be part time jobs for high school and college kids. Even mothers looking to make some extra money part time. And now it seems in certain areas and small towns these are the only jobs available to certain people. Pretty sad.

What can our legal department do about this?

Install vaccination certificates! Allow only ones with vaxx ID in! Establish this as company policy right away!

That's totally unnecessary, R58.

Just close the dining room and make the establishment "drive-thru only."

This was the case during most of the pandemic, so if the workers are still concerned about COVID, then just close the restaurant and keep the Drive-Thru open.

People dealt with it for most of last year, so just keep doing it.

Certainly, that's better than closing the whole place down. Right?

R13 because guess whose side the media is on?

In other countries, fast food workers get a living wage, low cost-to-free education, free health care, robust pension and more paid time off.

[quote] In other countries, fast food workers get a living wage, low cost-to-free education, free health care, robust pension and more paid time off.

Take your filthy socialism words elsewhere. Our Lord, Jesus Christ doesn't like them in this Christian country.

Jesus was NOT a capitalist. IF you READ the bible and other sources, you would understand that Jesus was for UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, including portable water.

[Quote] That's totally unnecessary, [R58].

What's in it for you? Even if you don't care about your own health?

BK is lucky they only quit and put up that sign. They should have burned the place down.

[quote] Flores said the Burger King had employees working in the kitchen with no air conditioning for weeks. At one point, the kitchen reached over 90 degrees. Flores ended up in the hospital for dehydration. She said her boss reacted, saying she was being a “baby.”

This is a real crisis in America that is being swept under the rug. It’s going to get worse if things don’t change.

[quote]… including portable water.

I think you mean “potable” water.

Also r63, I’m pretty sure r62 was satire

There is no connection between labor costs and prices in today’s corporate world.

Wages are set at the lowest they can get away paying people, and prices are set at the best profit point.

Any pseudo connection is just lies told by corporate pigs who are trying their best to suppress wages, not because it will increase prices, but because it will decrease profits.

Prices will only increase if it will increase profits. They will lower prices if it sells enough more product to increase profits.

I’m not talking Mom & Pop places, mind you. They have different economics. Just corporate chains.

Everyone is hiring. Everyone is looking. The hiring process takes time. Corporation wants to expand the hiring process to multiple interviews. so you blame it back on them.

R47 - it’s “Tack”, not “Tact”.

Meant to say: R52 - it’s “Tack”, not “Tact”.

In the future, BK will just create fabricants like Sonmi 451 to staff their sites, and feed them all recycled soap drinks.

I know a woman who’s a conservatory trained violinist who supplements her income with all kinds of “menial” jobs. There are a lot of people like that.

[quote]Yup, get ready for $25 cheeseburgers, America. You want low skilled people to have a better wage and health care? That's the result.

Actually, I can go to one of the best burger places in a big city where the employees are paid well, everything is artisan and high quality and its still only $15. Stop being a drama queen. And I would much rather have fresh baked bread, custom ground beef, Gruyere cheese and roasted tomatoes than some shitty saw dust Mc Burger. Quality over quantity.

Burger King only highers top quality candidates at affordable prices. We pass on the savings to you. - The Management

[quote]Maybe it’s because they pay a reasonable wage and offer decent health insurance

That's a recent development if it's even true.

[quote]Burger King only highers top quality candidates

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