In Reply to: Re: Overflowing drain in store posted by The Nit Nurse on May 09, 1996 at 00:12:32:
: : i spent a shit summer in a McDonald's branch and could not stand to work
: : there a moment longer than I had to. I was paid #3.20 an hour for a job: Lucky old you, a school cleaner is paid 1:60/hr, a security guard 1:20/hr
: and a garage forecourt attendant doing night shift a whopping
: great 2:10/hr. Average wage of a counter assistant in the retail
: sector is around 2:80 to 3:50/hr
So let's all be happy with our lot in life because there is always someone
out there who is worse off than we are! If this is what you are trying to say,
then I find your statement not only an illogical one but an insult to all low-paid
workers and McD employees.You have probably never worked for McD in your life so you have no idea how harsh
life can be for their workers. But let me (as someone who spent two years of his
life slaving away for this company) tell you that considering the amount of work
that McD extracts from its workers, their total disregard for health and safety
of their employees, the constant stress that their employees have to endure etc etc,
their workers deserve much higher wages than they get.Of course all those people that you have refered to are very poorly paid. But
it would be wrong to conclude from this that McD's employees are well paid just
because their hourly rate might be marginally higher. Afted all, even if you
doubled a next-to-nothing wage, it is still next-to-nothing.By the way, McD workers are paid such extremely low wages despite the fact that
according to McD UK president's own admission in court, they perform a physically
much harder job than his own. Interesting hey!