Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Michael Bordenaro" channel.

@laurynelove7093 Fast food jobs were never meant to be careers. Look at what Chik-Fil-A does, they get high-school kids, train them how to be useful workers, and then they go off to college. That's what fast food jobs are all about. If you're doing it as an adult, it's either because you had a financial disaster or you just ain't worth hiring for anything else.
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@Network126 Teenagers are children until they hit 18. Of course, plenty of teenagers out their in the 20's, 30's and 40's these days as well, who cannot figure out how to take care of themselves
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@HackersSun sit down office jobs required good language skills, critical thinking, and the ability to show up on time and dress appropriately. All skill that are missing from a lot of the workers in fast food.
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State Regulations probably play as big, if not bigger role in driving away middle-class jobs.
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@goro9942 "Meanwhile wages haven't even kept up with inflation" That's kind of the point of the self-induced inflation like we have today. The federal government is printing lots of money to devalue the debt we already have. And in the process everyone's wages are going down. If you voted for the current person in the white house, then look in the mirror.
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@CarlosLopez-eg9im They said that, but notice they didn't change the law. Classic misdirection
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Well, this was foreseen when Obamacare said that if a worker has more than 30 hours a week you must offer him medical care. This shouldn't be a shock, really.
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@keyisersoze Or, consider that these jobs are meant for high-school/college kids for spending money or to pay their way through college. If you have no skills, you simply aren't worth $40K a year. You paying your bills is not the responsibility of your job.
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If you think people are eating poorly because of fast food, you're detached from reality.
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@fgjf1079 The cost of regulation. You can't say "the government needs to pass a law" and then get upset over the the consequences of that law.
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@sci-fi.tsunami "THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS." It's up to you to figure that out. How you pursue your happiness is your business. If you can't figure it out, that's a you problem, not an us problem.
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@lonniejackson4225 Or you could just stop trying to tell people how to make a living Nobody is telling people how to make a living. But if you work in a no-skill industry like fast food, you're essentially competing with 100 million people in the united states.
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@RedtheTiger1851 If you business margins are so low you cannot pay your server more than $2.13 an hour there is a fundamental problem with your business What do you believe that fundamental problem is? Have you ever run a restaurant? Do you understand what drives labor costs? If not, you're just repeating words you heard someone else say. After all, if the problem is fundamental , then it should be easy to explain right?
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@michaelm4597 Greed is a silly excuse. If you charge too much for something no one will buy it.
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@Worldsminebp Many people worked their way through college. It means you have to focus on study and work, and no time for anything else. If you can't do that, then college may not be for you.
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@mattm9619 then don't complain about the homelessness You lack of effort in life doesn't make it everyone else's problem. If you're going to college make sure it's a major that will actually pay you money. Following your dream is not a way for an adult to live. Didn't your father ever sit you down and say Son, how will you support yourself now that you're 18 ?
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Fast food is a hard job because it requires no skill and doesn't require much training . Forcing businesses to pay $20/hour is really a symptom of a state's economy being hollowed out. Lots of high-end, high-skill positions, lots of low-skill, low-end position, and nothing in between. It demonstrates a state that is poorly run, highly regulated and business owners are likely moving out of the state.
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@TedK4307 Zillow does this a lot when they want to profit from price manipulation.
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Property taxes are a function of how big your local government is. Perhaps it's time to trim all the workers from the local payroll. We shouldn't consider government jobs as sacrosanct. If we can't afford that many people with taxes, the right thing to do for the citizens is to cut expenses.
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@michaelm4597 Because what you perceive as "greed" is probably just about rising costs for raw materials and labor. If you run a business, there are considerable risks involved. If you're not going to make a profit, why start a business in the first place. One man's greed is simply another man's business plan. If you don't like the product or their price use a different vendor, if you don't think your job pays enough, find another one, or improve yourself so people will beg you to take their money. Take charge of your life, put yourself in a position to win. Get educated in a useful discipline. You can't sit around without skills and then get angry that life is passing you by and everyone is doing better. I highly recommend Jordon Peterson's book "12 rules for life"
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@frenchfred3 A lot of it is people aren't required to find a way to pay their way through life. They're on the Scarlett O'Hara plan: they depend on the kindness of strangers.
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@Alexa-uk8lj They can hire adults, but are you willing to pay $25 for a chicken sandwich? If the answer is no, then stop complaining.
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@mattm9619 "and they absolutely deserve to" You're born into this life with nothing, and it's up to you to figure out how to make something of yourself to support yourself. Why can legal immigrants come to the US with nothing and can figure out how to take care of themselves, while people born in the US with every advantage can't figure it out?
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@MrEjohnston "A fast food restaurant manager can make 6 figures" Yes, and to do that they need experience in fast food plus they have to have the drive to work 12-18 hour days to ensure things are running correctly. It's open to everybody except those who won't learn the business and believe that you just apply you get the job.
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@lonniejackson4225 Actually most professions will get you money to pay well. Carpenter, Plumber, Electrician, Computer Scientist, Engineer, Accountant, Real Estate Agent and many more. BTW, fast food worker is not a profession. If you're on the left hand side of the bell curve, you're going to struggle at everything.
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@lonniejackson4225 First, let's clear something up. Nobody deserves anything in life. Basic economics 101 The greater the supply (assuming demand isn't changing) the less value, and prices will be less. To put that in a context you might understand, if you're looking for computer scientists, the demand is so great that companies will pay these people a lot of money because (a) few people are intelligent enough to do the work (b) the computer scientist can point to changes he made buy automatic processes that it saves the company of millions of dollars a year, so companies can justify a starting salary of $100K. There is more demand than supply. OTOH, if you're talking about people with no skills, there are billions of people on the planet with that resume. The net result is you become interchangeable which means that your salary is minimum wage or lower.
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@Jamestown23_ There's no bashing, just an understanding that fast food is not a career, it's a stepping stone to better things.
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@insanityraging6832 While that's absolutely true, fast food is a career for less than 1% of the people who work there.
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@UmbreonMoonlight What you're actually advocating for is a repeal of the federal minimum wage and having it done at the state level. But hopefully you understand that minimum wage laws essentially price people with no skills out of the market. After all, if someone is making $40K per year, then they need to deliver 80-100K of value to the company.
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@lonniejackson4225 regardless of how easy the job is to do, someone has to do it If the job is that easy, it will be replaced by automation. That's just how this stuff goes. When you look at the fully loaded cost of a full time employee making $20/hour, that's $40K plus employment taxes and such so that's a net of $50K per year. If that can be replaced effectively by $20K of automation, the job disappears.
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@F1NTheRebel Even college 4 year degree is no guarantee of higher wages, particularly since a lot of marginal people pick easy degrees that have no applicability to solving business problems. If you don't understand what job you'll be qualified for with your degree, the likelihood of getting hired, and starting salary, then you're not ready for college.
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@Worldsminebp There are certainly career opportunities in restaurants. What percentage of your employees avail themselves to those opportunities?
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@JoshL1976 Most people who are successful migrate to where better paying jobs are.
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@lonniejackson4225 The people who started fast food restaurants weren't teenagers The people who started them did hire teenagers though.
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@Jamestown23_ I'm not putting anyone down for working fast food. If I needed the money, I'd do it as well. Good luck with your back, man.
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@Celticmoon79 And you only eat there after school hours right? As you know, breakfast is the big money-maker for fast food restaurants.
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@UmbreonMoonlight It may not. In which case you move to an area where a minimum wage job will let you do that. Moving is tough, but you'll find people who want to achieve success will go to where the jobs and money are.
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@UmbreonMoonlight That's a tough one; is there anything you can do get a better paying job? You sound like an ambitious guy.
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@normandy2501 If "over here" means California, you have to pin that almost exclusively on the Democrat party. Republicans don't control any part of the government there.
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@goro9942 QE was put in place to aid the recovery from the housing/liquidity crash of 2009. It made the stock market go up, but we never really recovered from that recession.
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@Christina-g4s They make something of yourself. If the pay isn't enough to attract workers, then the restaurant will either pay more or they'll go out of business.
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@Christina-g4s They work in fast food because they have no skills. At $12/hour, employers can tolerate no to low skills. The problem is at $20/hour, they're not worth hiring , so most will lose their jobs, and the restaurant will get by with people who may not have high skills but work hard without imagining they are entitled to a much higher wage. The bottom line is California has doomed a generation of no-skill workers to a lifetime of unemployment. It's really awful is doing to their own people.
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Won't make them work any harder, we won't get any better service. Kind of a waste. Well, maybe all those people considering a sociology major will skip college and just work at the Golden Arches. It will save them a lifetime of debt.
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