STRIKE! FOR FAST FOOD?
Today (8.29.2013) in areas across the country team members
at various fast food restaraunt took part in a strike. Why one might ask? Because
they want $15 an hour. Having worked in
the fast food/quick service restaurant indursty during and even after college I
do think they need equal pay or at least better pay than minimum wage is needed.
It’s simple you can’t live off 7.25 an hour or whatever minimum wage is today.
Some might say well they should just go get a better job, go
to school or should have gone to school,
shouldn’t have made poor life choices, should have would have could have. Lots of reason led people to work in the fast
food restaurants. Truth is you don’t know the person serving you behind the
counter story and truth is you most likely don’t care. You just want the quick bite to eat for less
than $5.00.
If you have every work fast food then you know that it’s no
easy task. You have people that yell you, you work all day on your feet, move
heavy boxes, stand in the back cooking in the hot kitchen and cleaning up puke
from the kid the customer brought in who was sick. And that’s only a small
portion of what they do. That’s not everything that they do.
Perhaps with low pay we don’t give them enough credit for
what they do. After all if there was not fast food restaraunt then we would not
be able to get our quick lunch for $5.00 and would be eating PB&J. Have you ever thought of not having fast food
restaraunt? What a world that would be.
Now, perhaps there are those that don’t deserve the equal
pay because they don’t work as hard or hardly at all. But isn’t this the case
with all jobs no matter were you are working? But there are some who put their
heart and soul into it all, who actually like working in that environment and
who perhaps even go to school for it. What about them? After all it is because
of fast food workers that we are able to get our quick bite to eat without
having to go to some fine dining or sit down restaurant just to eat.
If $15.00 is to much why now raising the cost of minimum
wage a bit, so that the college students, high schooler's and those who have
work there can at least have some to live on and not work 70 hours at week.
To those who still think it’s wrong to raise the cost of
minimum wage, maybe you should try working in the fast food industry (and I
don’t care if you have a PHD or college degree) just see what it is like or be
reminded of what is like.
Fast food work after all someone is gotta do it as long as
we want a quick bite.
