It's not really the job specifics that baffles me. Just the singling out of one industry. It seems like an open door to political pandering to one significant employment demographic after another.
It would seem to offer an advantage to small burger chains who are exempt as the relative savings in labor might offset some of the lack of economy of scale.
Just a bizarre development I think.
As you might guess, I really don't like the idea of industry-specific minimum wages.
Why not grocery baggers? Crossing guards? WalMart workers?
Why target one industry?
I don't quite understand it either.
Having worked in fast food until I was about 30, there are a lot of misconceptions about the workers at fast food places.
There are a lot who support families on that wage, as I did when I started at $1.65 an hour in 1976. But my rent was $165 a month so...
And it is pretty physically demanding work.
And this is not really that big a lift for the franchisees. All the fast food places around me were paying at least $17 an hour.
My wife showed me some Instagram posts where it showed before and after pictures of an In n Out menu board. The price of the burgers went up a quarter.
Lots of studies have shown that increases in the minimum wage do not really affect employment, so after the dust settles, we will see how this one shakes out...
This one could have gone in the Economics thread.
Newsweek is reporting that Plumpjack group, which was founded by California Governor Gavin Newsom who is still a partner, is currently offering a position at an hourly wage of $16, the State minimum, in at least one of four Restaurants they own. The State minimum that is for almost all businesses including restaurants other than large fast food chains which, starting this week, are required, for some reason that no one has ever been able to explain to me, to offer a wage that is 25% higher at $20/hour than Newsom's restaurant (or any other business).
The basic WTF here is not about the level of California's minimum wage but the choice of California to single out fast food workers who do not possess particularly high level of skills. Nor do they work, for people who believe such things are pertinent, in a role with a particularly value to societ such as say teaching or care giving (except personal care givers who California also singles out for highr wages). In fact, I would guess, that among people who think such things are pertinent, making fast food might be judged a societal negative. Go figure.
To be fair, Newsom put his interest in Plumpjack into a blind trust in 2016. Still....Awk Ward! LOL
I'm more north than Melvin, and I noticed some cut lawns during my lunchtime walk today.
I have finished my indoor spring cleaning and I'm starting to do clean up outside. I'm mostly picking up sticks from under the trees and started working on cleaning up the mulch beds around the house. It's a little to wet to do much else. I need to put the snow blower away and get my other lawn equipment up and running. I will hold off mowing as long as I can but will probably start by mid April. I'm making a list of all the shit I have to get done around the outside of the house this summer. Oh the joys of home ownership. LoL
This is the dry season here and the grass barely grows. But our landscapers are out every week anyway, cleaning up the leaves and sticks and debris, and giving the lawn a quick once-over, which also helps keep fast-growing weeds at bay.
Yeah, I posted (maybe in here) about a neighbor on his mower. I think that was in February when we usually have about 3' of snow on the ground. I realized he was picking up the lawn debris.
I shouldn't laugh but we got about 14" of snow over the past few days. I heard him cranking away with the electric start on his snow blower while I was clearing my driveway. He never did get it started and cleared it with a shovel. Apparently his lawnmower won't bag snow.
@mayhem, same here, although in southeast Texas Spring is in full swing…… mowed three times already and broke out the snow shovel to scoop up the pollen………..
Melvin - " So, explain to me why some people around me are already using their lawnmowers, when the grass has barely grown?!?!?!?!?!"
My lawn tractor has a bagger, and I use this to clean up the yard of leaves, pine cones, etc in the spring. It's easier/faster than raking and it also partially chops up debris for adding it to my compost pile.
What the fuck...
Spring is only one week old and here in the northeast portion of the country, grass is just barely starting to grow and some places north of me still have snow on the ground. So, explain to me why some people around me are already using their lawnmowers, when the grass has barely grown?!?!?!?!?!
@mayhem8, we had one just this morning, only a member on here for three weeks. No idea why she targeted us.
This is probably as much of a WTF for others as it is us, but we had TWO SFs reach out to us with interest yesterday from 2 different sites. We are probably one of the very few couples not really looking for SFs. I can see some of the other 80% or so couples saying, "WTF! Why couldn't they have written to us?" ;-)
FWIW - No, I'm not flattering myself thinking that they were reaching out to me (the male half ;-)
And, from the East Asian desk of WTF News:
A university student in Taiwan who had his legs amputated in hopes of receiving a $1.3 million insurance payout has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, local prosecutors say.
The 23-year-old, identified only by his last name, Zhang, plunged his feet in a bucket of dry ice for more than 10 hours to get them so badly frostbitten that he would need a double amputation, the Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau said in a Thursday release.
The bureau said a friend of Zhang's from high school, identified only as Liao, persuaded him to carry out the insurance scam.
Liao, also 23, suffered losses from trading cryptocurrency, and he tricked Zhang into signing a legal note obligating him to pay about $800,000, investigators said.
Zhang, when admitted to hospital, claimed that he froze his legs riding around Taipei on Liao's motorcycle the previous night. Doctors apparently became suspicious when they noted that "His legs bore no shoe or sock marks, and his injuries appeared symmetrical, which were inconsistent with a naturally occurring frostbite injury." The weather on the night of January 26 was also nowhere close to below freezing, with its coldest temperature at about 42 degrees Fahrenheit, prosecutors added.
Just days before, Zhang bought several expensive policies for life insurance, travel insurance, and accident insurance, prosecutors said.
Local media, citing prosecutors, reported that Zhang had claimed $7,200 from one insurer, but this money would be seized.
What's particularly convenient is that the "Border of Ukraine and the Federal Russian Republic" that Putin keeps referring to as where the supposed detained terrorists were heading is actually at a very significant distance from the front lines of the current war - er, excuse me - "special military operation." The intervening terrain being under Moscow's control and full of mercenaries hired by Putin, many of them foreigners.
I wonder what Russians are hearing about this event from their former spook Dictator in Chief? Last Tuesday, three days before the attack, Putin reportedly mentioned the warnings from the US of a possible Isis terror attack on "large gatherings in Russia" saying, about the warning: "All this resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilize our society,"
<======= Hoping this thread doesn't get moved to Politics
currentrider,
Something very similar occurred to me when I read the news about the theater.
The answer to the Slavic background of the suspects is in plain sight. Namely this is Putin going back to his roots in the good old tradition of Russian false flag operations.
There was a similar circumstance that was instrumental in first bringing Putin to power. In that case it was apartment bombings. These occurred in numerous cities in Western and Northwestern Russia, including St. Petersburg. While these were blamed on Chechens, the geographic locations and dispersal of the attacks were questioned at the time. in the St. Petersburg incident, several witnesses reported seeing suspects fleeing the basement of a soon to explode apartment building, who clearly appeared to be ethnically Russian. Subsequent to Putin ascending to power and making a few token reprisals, the bombings ceased. No suspects were ever caught.
My theory is that the suspects in custody will quickly confess to links with Ukraine, and will shortly thereafter suddenly die. The smart money is on their falling through closed windows.
ONE you just cant make this crap up since CL closed down.. they are all here and have no clue what real swinging is about!
Va,
I haven’t read any reports yet so this is just me speaking out my ass, but I think that previous theater massacres in Russia involved Chechens and there currently is a definite ISIS connection in Chechnya. I will surprised if this attack turns out to not be Chechens funded by Afghans.
The WTF angle of this is - what's ISIS's Afghanistan branch have going on with Russia? I had no idea that ISIS would even consider such a thing. This is apparently the attack US intelligence warned of some weeks ago.
At least 133 killed in a terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow.
All suspects detained however appear to be Caucasian and have slavic names. So... I must really be missing something about the demographics of ISIS recruiting.
Back with my previous wife, we had a guy come over who wanted me to fuck him while he was fucking my wife.
Yeah, no thanks...
And here is the latest message of the day.
hello how are you
Have you ever used a strapon on a man or had a man wear sexy panties and stockings for you
Those bags- leaving them for you Flip. They're mostly Labrador, but they've got some Maui Waui in them.
Or maybe it's the other way around...? All I know is there ain't no Pitbull in a bag.
You guys are walking past bags of cash and drugs and not picking them up? We are definitely different lol
