Restaurant job that pays $16/hr?!

[Shame]

Strippers?

 

[Corporate Thug]

WARNING: a bunch of snotty/self righteous/holier than thou people eat there

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: kranky
It's always been my belief that in businesses with many low-paying jobs, it would be better to double the pay and do it with half the people. That way you could keep talented people and I think talented people who are motivated to keep their jobs can do double the work of someone making squat and doesn't care about how they do.

they tried that in france with 35 hour weeks and high minimum wages. it doesn't work. you and other socialists think you're so smart...but you guys are nothing but ideologues with no a fvcked up view on society.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: griffis

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
A shift supervisor would not get it and neither would a cook. Barista to manager sounds like too big a jump unless she had some previous experience. $16 an hour is easily doable for a good waitress at a busy place, so that would be my guess.

Um some cooks get paid at least that, as long as experience is involved.

16/hr would be a management position for sure though probably management training

do you realize $16/hr is $33k/year?

 

[Strk]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Neighbor of mine is a waiter at Morton's. He probably pulls down 100k a year.

I don't know about $100k, but at a place like Morton's, he's probably doing very well.

As for the claims of waiters and waitresses making $20+ an hour, it's kind of important to point out that's only on certain nights.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: kranky
It's always been my belief that in businesses with many low-paying jobs, it would be better to double the pay and do it with half the people. That way you could keep talented people and I think talented people who are motivated to keep their jobs can do double the work of someone making squat and doesn't care about how they do.

they tried that in france with 35 hour weeks and high minimum wages. it doesn't work. you and other socialists think you're so smart...but you guys are nothing but ideologues with no a fvcked up view on society.

Are you really replying to my post? Because what I said is as far from socialism as you can get. It would be in the business' best interest to pay more and not need as many total employees. Businesses ought to do this in their own self-interest. They would attract and retain better quality employees who would have a job they would want to keep, instead of a revolving door of low-paid people who couldn't care less about keeping the job since there's another low-paying job opening up every five minutes.

With better retention comes lower training costs, lower cost of benefits (as there are fewer employees), less absenteeism, less theft. They would be more competitive with higher quality employees.

As far as I am aware, that is pretty much a 100% free market view of things. I never suggested a higher minimum wage ought to be mandated by law. So how exactly is that socialism?

 

[MasterOfKtulu109]

16/hr at a restaurant isn't uncommon. I made nearly 15/hr delivering pizzas when it was busy on the weekends.

 

[imported_griffis]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: griffis

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
A shift supervisor would not get it and neither would a cook. Barista to manager sounds like too big a jump unless she had some previous experience. $16 an hour is easily doable for a good waitress at a busy place, so that would be my guess.

Um some cooks get paid at least that, as long as experience is involved.

16/hr would be a management position for sure though probably management training

do you realize $16/hr is $33k/year?

Assuming a 40 hour work week yes, but most people work at least 50-60 in management at restaurants. It's not uncommon to see people making in the 40's working at a restaurant. Seeing as you are working all the damn time, its not really worth it.

 

[Ryan]

If you deliver pizzas, 16 bucks an hour is easy