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These McDonalds workers can't make ends meet because...

that's a dumbass breakdown. a line item for every bill and then food/school/shopping all lumped into "other?" retarded.

also some are only working part time
 
$40/month on contact lenses? Also lol at $210/month cable/phone bill when your income is $415.
 
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I wish my health insurance was $20/month. That's about 15x lower than what most people probably pay for a small family.
 
How dare those plebes try to utilize cheap entertainment? Next thing you know they will want to go to movies, eat out at restaurants or even, gasp, take vacations. $25 a month each for a family of four is absurd. I'm so angry right now.
 
vshah said:
also some are only working part time
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Most fast food jobs are part time. That's just how they schedule their employees. There are usually a couple full time positions and rest are to fill in busy periods. And because the schedule can vary so much, it's hard to get a 2nd job to fit your schedule. They get paid so low because society wants the menus stay low, and society wants it low because society gets paid too little. It's a stupid situation we have created without an exit solution. And that's why American is mostly an illusion for the masses who are buried in debt without a way out. Even the people that look ok really aren't.
 
vshah said:
that's a dumbass breakdown. a line item for every bill and then food/school/shopping all lumped into "other?" retarded.

also some are only working part time
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Hi vshah,

Seems you have the same processor as mine, which Intel Chipset Drivers version did you install?
Which generation is your processor?



Thanks
Camelia
 
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HendrixFan said:
How dare those plebes try to utilize cheap entertainment? Next thing you know they will want to go to movies, eat out at restaurants or even, gasp, take vacations. $25 a month each for a family of four is absurd. I'm so angry right now.
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not sure if serious?

taps sarcasm meter...
 
SheHateMe said:
I love how there is a line for a 2nd job when the first job is 73 hours a week. lol
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Who is working 73 hours a week? Most of these people look like they are barely working part time.

This just in, when you work very few hours at minimum wage, you will not have a lot of money 😱
 
Alienwho said:
I wish my health insurance was $20/month. That's about 15x lower than what most people probably pay for a small family.
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The most affordable plan at McDonald's charges hourly workers about $14 a week, which comes to $727.48 annually. In return, they get $2,000 worth of coverage per year. If they step on a nail or come down with the flu, they might be covered, but the costs paid by the insurer may not even equal their premiums. If they are diagnosed with cancer, or even appendicitis, they are as vulnerable as someone with no insurance at all.
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http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/05/news/companies/mini_meds_insurance_mcdonalds.fortune/index.htm

IME, health insurance plans offered by most eating establishments are terrible and not worth considering.
 
goog40 said:
$40/month on contact lenses? Also lol at $210/month cable/phone bill when your income is $415.
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Yeah $40 buys a box for me and each one lasts two weeks. Six in a box means 12 weeks. That's 3 months per box. Assuming you buy one box per eye, that's a little under $30 per month total.

Luckily I use the same lens for both eyes (zero prescription just fix astigmatism).
 
Wish my car insurance was $100. And $20 for health care?

Kudos to anyone who can live on minimum wage. Especially the guy working on his degree. It's certainly not easy. However, I'd like to know what the deal is with the guy who's worked at McDick's for 21 years and makes only $610/mo. At Illinois minimum wage, he's only working 18 hours a week between the two jobs. Might want to rethink your life choices at that point.
 
It seems today's society places a status symbol on what phone your using, I'm perfectly happy with my $35 phone, yes it's camera is next to worthless and yes texting is a pain without a QWERTY keyboard but I rarely text and I have a Fuji camera that takes great pics. Another advantage is if it gets dropped it usually survives and if it doesn't get another $35 phone, slide in the SIM card and your set. I do realize that for some the advanced features of a smartphone can be a real benefit, specially those who move about during the day during work, (GPS, email,web access ect) but for the most part the cell phone has become a status symbol, lot's of younger folks would rather eat Ramen noodles every day than get caught using (Gasp!) a flip-phone..
 
mmntech said:
Wish my car insurance was $100. And $20 for health care?

Kudos to anyone who can live on minimum wage. Especially the guy working on his degree. It's certainly not easy. However, I'd like to know what the deal is with the guy who's worked at McDick's for 21 years and makes only $610/mo. At Illinois minimum wage, he's only working 18 hours a week between the two jobs. Might want to rethink your life choices at that point.
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Hell no...give him other peoples money damn it! He's earned...err...he's entitled to it!
 
BUTCH1 said:
It seems today's society places a status symbol on what phone your using, I'm perfectly happy with my $35 phone, yes it's camera is next to worthless and yes texting is a pain without a QWERTY keyboard but I rarely text and I have a Fuji camera that takes great pics. Another advantage is if it gets dropped it usually survives and if it doesn't get another $35 phone, slide in the SIM card and your set. I do realize that for some the advanced features of a smartphone can be a real benefit, specially those who move about during the day during work, (GPS, email,web access ect) but for the most part the cell phone has become a status symbol, lot's of younger folks would rather eat Ramen noodles every day than get caught using (Gasp!) a flip-phone..
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Its the plan thats expensive, not necessarily the phone. You can get a brand new, high end smartphone for 299 brand new in the Nexus 4. Using it on AT&T will cost you 100 per month or so, on T-Mobile, about 50. Maybe less, not sure what there lower tiered plans below that off the top of my head.

Plus there's the devices on MVNOs, Virgin Mobile et al. Less than 200 bucks for the phone, ~35/month. You can still have 90% of the benefits of a smartphone without a $100+ bill.

If you're trying to live on a MCDs wage and you have a 100 dollar cell phone bill, you are an idiot.
 
JEDI said:
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/news/economy/2013/07/17/mcdonalds-worker-budget/

alot of them have ~$100 monthly phone/cable bills.
one guy sends his kids to a charter school. but there isnt a bus that goes there, so his kids cab it there. 😱

and WTF is this 'other' category?!
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You would manage your budget so much better in that situation.

WOW.

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Bateluer said:
Its the plan thats expensive, not necessarily the phone. You can get a brand new, high end smartphone for 299 brand new in the Nexus 4. Using it on AT&T will cost you 100 per month or so, on T-Mobile, about 50. Maybe less, not sure what there lower tiered plans below that off the top of my head.

Plus there's the devices on MVNOs, Virgin Mobile et al. Less than 200 bucks for the phone, ~35/month. You can still have 90% of the benefits of a smartphone without a $100+ bill.

If you're trying to live on a MCDs wage and you have a 100 dollar cell phone bill, you are an idiot.
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Yep, the plans, I didn't know about MVNO's, just Google'd it, very interesting. I still like that I can drop my $35 phone on the concrete and it might take 50 tries to damage it, the older Nokia's were particularly tough, just don't get into texting, the 3 letter per key arrangement is brutally slow LOL..
 
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