Sorry if I don’t agree with the whole “we need to live and min wage should be $15” whole bit. Actually, I am not sorry at all. Don’t tell me that there are people with families who are struggling to make it. YOU decided you want kids, figure it out. Why do I have to feel sympathy for something you wanted to do? I don’t know that I can have as many kids as I want to because of the expense. EDUCATED people think about things like before doing it and then complaining that the job doesn’t pay enough to support your decisions. I don’t have vacations all the time; we are on a tight budget and guess what? We live within our means.
I go to KFC and ask for mashed potatoes, I get mac & cheese. I ask for a croissant sandwich at McDonalds, I get a muffin. I ask for chocolate milkshake, I get it and it tastes like mint mixed. Wasn’t even bothered to wash the blender out. I mean THIS is what deserves $15 an hour? I can’t imagine the consequences if I had the wrong amount on a loan at my job.
I have worked for $6.25 an hour and guess what? I survived. I am out of college with minimal student loans at less than $7000. Six years of school and I am doing just fine. I didn’t use student loans to have fun in college. I did not buy books because I didn’t have the money for it. The library was good enough. Decisions, decisions. It’s all about what you do with what you have. This is not a yay me, I did fine, pat on the back. I just don’t understand this sense of entitlement.
The person who cannot get a simple order right thinks they deserve $15 per hour. The person who cannot be bothered enough to put their phone down so they can help the customer in front of them wants $15 per hour. THIS, this is not just a few times. This happens more times than I thought possible. Sure, the people who have phones attached to their fingers or are busy talking to their friend across the room are mostly kids, but when there is a protest for increasing the minimum pay, you are including these idiots too.