How's That $15 Minimum Wage Working for Ya'?

[GURPS]

Some designs are well intended but they don't account for how the user will USE them.

if you build something 'fool proof' only fools will use them
never underestimate the power of stupid in large groups [insert picture of congress]

 

[kwillia]

every time the ketchup bottle doesn't work right

I carry a battery-operated emergency beacon light for these kind of "immediate response required" emergencies.

 

[Lurk]

I wonder how that would work here - I wonder if Japanese culture is too polite to bother the server unless it's necessary. I can easily see Americans abusing a system every time the ketchup bottle doesn't work right, or they need an extra napkin - instead of telling the server five things, just call her five times.

In Japan the server will not bother you unless you call for them. Sometimes it's quite comical to have patrons standing, shouting and waving their napkins to get attention.

 

[crabcake]

The mini-kiosks in Red Robin, Olive Garden, et all, were more designed to allow a customer to finish their meal cash out quick and depart without having to wait for the server to serve your bill take your card, disappear, return, wait for your signature.....

Do they also dispense the little Andy's mints? Or is THAT where OG is seeing the savings.

 

[Larry Gude]

Any minimum wage must be, MUST be disconnected from the employer and this is because any minimum is disconnected to any given business be it neighborhood, competition, accessibility or what have you. If we want people to be paid X per hour, at minimum, then the society, be it the city, county, state or federally, should be paying for it. We want it to be $15 an hour? Great. Kid goes to work at Wendy's, works his 3 hour PM shift, company does his paycheck, pays him, reports hours online, reports his hours to the authority, kid gets a second paycheck, direct deposit, whatever the minimum is. If a given store is surrounded by good potential employees, they can get away with paying as little as possible, call it $1 an hour. Kid earns $16 total. If they aren't surrounded by help, they're gonna have to offer more be what it may. In the mean time, business by business, there is no need to factor in paying a mandated minimum that does not and can not take into account store by store realities of help and what it might need to be dealing with.

Employers will hire more people. Will be far less inclined to buy a million dollar machine if they can get help for a buck or two and society has salved it's conscience to see to it that the minimum we want people to get is being met without incentivizing companies to find ways around it.

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

I carry a battery-operated emergency beacon light for these kind of "immediate response required" emergencies.

One of those really bright strobes that divers and/or aircrew have?.....and hopefully never have to use.