Bill DiamondJan 29, 2023
flexghost.

The McDonald’s US regional president says a California proposal forcing businesses to pay a living wage is “job destroying”

He made $7.4 million last year.

McDonald’s has lucrative real estate holdings world wide and added to their assets with $15 BILLION in PPP funds distributed to the fast food giants

If you can’t pay a living wage and rely on the taxpayer to make you viable then you have a garbage business model

And I don’t want to pay for it.

Jan 28, 2023 at 3:11pmWeb
Show threadAllistar 🦋Jan 28, 2023

@flexghost And McDonald's workers in Denmark make about $22.00 an hour.

For such a small country, wouldn't McDonald's opt not to do business there because they are allegedly "losing money"?

Consumers there aren't paying significantly more for the product either.

Wouldn't McDonald's also avoid blue states like MA since they have a $15 minimum wage?

Oh yeah, they don't because they fucking MAKE $$$ in states and countries that mandate higher wage

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-cost-denmark/

Is a Big Mac in Denmark Pricier Than in US?

McDonald's workers in Denmark make about $22 an hour, but how much do they pay for a Big Mac?

Snopes
Show threadflexghost.Jan 28, 2023
@Allistar well said and Thank you for the link ❤️
Show threadAndyHJan 29, 2023

@Allistar @flexghost

How could McDonald's pull out of the lucrative high population BLUE states?

Show threadflexghost.Jan 29, 2023
@AndyHarrison @Allistar I’m going to just say it… Wendy’s fries are better
Show threadAndyHJan 29, 2023

@flexghost @Allistar

I don't' remember the last time I ate fast food, unless you count Subway or the Cuban place "La Bamba" close to me in Burbank.

Show threadRoryJan 28, 2023
@flexghost Definitely! It's a pity that this McDonald's "talking head" doesn't try to live on the same income his employees live on... If he did, you'd see how quick he changes his tune...
Show threadflexghost.Jan 28, 2023
@customer228 I’m sure he’ll be on that dumb show where he does exactly that for a day
Show threadJustKathyJan 28, 2023

@flexghost

95% of McDonald's stores are franchised. I wonder how much PPP funding actually "trickled down" to franchisees.

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/foodservice/mcdonalds-number-of-restaurants-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%20the%20US%2C%20out%20of,restaurants%20located%20in%20the%20US.

Show threadBlippy the Wonder Slug (MOVED)Jan 28, 2023
@flexghost
Show threadflexghost.Jan 28, 2023
@BlippyTheWonderSlug lol what a nonce
Show threadRichardOntarioJan 28, 2023
@flexghost Note that McDonald’s is IN the real estate business Food and toys are just a vehicle to that end
Show threadPeter LichotaJan 28, 2023
@flexghost
They’ve got good washrooms, which is the only thing I go in there for!… 
Show threadflexghost.Jan 28, 2023
@DrSprockets define good and what level of wall-feces is acceptable
Show threadPeter LichotaJan 29, 2023
@flexghost
Sorry about your experience! What I should said was, they’ve GOT washrooms as that’s all I’d go in there for!… My Bad!… 
Show threadGrumbleJan 28, 2023

@flexghost

It's self-destructive for our society to tolerate public statements like that from business leaders.

Skip the Big Mac - eat the rich.

Make sociopathic greed shameful again.

Show threadflexghost.Jan 28, 2023
@grumble209 ❤️
Show threadSoozcatJan 28, 2023
@flexghost I get tired of the phrase "can't pay a living wage." It's "won't pay a living wage." When the C-suite folks are making more in a year than most of us will ever see in our lives, not paying your people decent wages is a choice.
Show threadJude🇵🇸Jan 28, 2023
@Soozcat @flexghost If they 'can't pay a living wage' their business model is not viable.
Show threadMorganaJan 28, 2023
@flexghost I agree with you…. Basic minimum wage of at least $15.50/hr or better yet agree to a countrywide living wage that would break the poverty cycle….
Show threadMartha HowellJan 28, 2023
@flexghost
They pay a living wage elsewhere around the world without any increase in their prices. Only in the US are we dumb enough to prop up their wage structure with our tax dollars to their underpaid employees.
Show threadflexghost.Jan 29, 2023
@MHowell the media is owned by the corporations bellyaching so the media carries their false allegations
Show threadMartha HowellJan 29, 2023
@flexghost
I would like to hear the Dems counter the R proposals to reduce Medicare and Social Security by proposing a minimum wage increase. Want to keep people off welfare and Medicaid? Pay them enough to live on without taxpayer support! (I realize that raising the minimum wage isn't going to zero out assistance, but we need to normalize talking about how $7.25/hr is corporate welfare, disguised.)
Show threadCatherine is not complacentJan 29, 2023
@flexghost and in the next breath he said, people just don’t wanna work, am I right?
Show threadImpossible BlueJan 29, 2023
@flexghost Those corporate hounds and industry lobby groups are so good with their bluster. But #McDonald’s in #California will survive profitably while paying a #LivingWage - as they do in Australia, Scandinavian countries and elsewhere - if their business models are any good.
Show threadShadow HeartJan 29, 2023
@flexghost McDs was also bad about wage theft at least when I worked there so really F'em.
Show threadCathy Caine Jan 29, 2023
@flexghost How many employers don’t care if their employees have a place to bathe and get a good night’s sleep before they come to work?
Show threadValkyrie KerryJan 29, 2023
@flexghost I haven't eaten at McDonalds in a long time. Pure junk.
Show threadCoffee PinewoodJan 29, 2023

@flexghost

Suddenly, the rules of the 'free' market don't apply, huh? This greed is destroying us all.

Show threadIce NineJan 29, 2023

@flexghost

Just had a look, at our most expensive town to live in, there's headlines in the paper stating they're paying the huge rate of US$18.18 per hour. /s

Show threadnonlinearJan 30, 2023
@flexghost funny, job dignity is now job destroying.