President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

A person can start work tomorrow at Walmart for $14/hour, Target for $15/hour, Buc-ees for $16/hour (that’s real, and I know someone who quit Walmart to go work for Buc-ees), or something else at $9.25/hour.

For a certain type of person, there’s a higher level of comfort in blaming “gub’mint unemployment checks” than there is in dealing with the fact that the salary market is outpacing them because they have unrealistic beliefs about what people will accept as a salary.

 

Has anyone stopped to wonder who's dumber: Josh Hawley himself or the idiots who think he, the Subhuman Pile of Crime and all the other cultists are "fighting for us and fighting for this country" when it's really a case of people with such empty lives that they live vicariously through the so-called victories of their "heroes"?

 

Sign at my local supermarket says they're offering jobs starting at $17 an hour. Now, that sum in New England is probably close to what $14 is in less expensive parts of the country.

 

Sunni Hostin is a fool. These individuals don't represent Octave.

 

You're being facetious (I think), and so am I, to an extent. But, this IS happening, and will, more and more. Again, I'm seeing it in my work.

Lately, the younger people are getting the top managerial jobs, practically right out of college, while the 40- to 65-year-old crowd makes up the actual physically-working work force. I have a guy in my store in a coach position (the store-level job immediately below that of store manager) who looks like he's 15 years old. And I'm certain he's not more than 23. In the departments he leads, most of the actual workers are 40+, with a couple of 18-year-olds thrown in.

Everything seems backwards. And in a very real sense, this reversal throws off the effectiveness of the operation, because, typically, the younger, stronger, faster people would be doing the most physical work, while the older crowd would be in management positions. It's a model that makes more sense, career-progress wise, seems fairer and more right, and is actually operationally correct and more effective. But, make no mistake, it is changing in a wholesale way.

 

I don't think all Chick-Fil-A franchisees share corporate's politics. One in New Hampshire supports same-sex marriage, I think.

 

If a person is looking for someone to service his lawn, should his goal be "get the most service for the best price" or "make sure what I'm paying is a living wage for my lawn guy"?

 

If you say “I’m only going to pay so much for this service” but nobody is willing to provide that service for such a price, then you either do it yourself or raise your offer. That’s the free market at work.

 

Why does the person on the other side of the desk matter?

 

Rules For Thee And Not Me.

 

They quit shooting themselves in the foot quite so publicly. You will have to pry my Chik-Fil-A out of my dead fingers, politics be damned. You don't know anyone who has been eating there longer than I have.