welfare vs wages

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Hey Simon, if you took a 2nd job at say Wendy's and worked just 2 and a half days you'd have the $100 bucks. But go ahead and join the strike, see how that works out for you.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/bu...00-cities.html

Dell, he can't take a second job because these fast food places only assign hours a week at a time and are very inconsistent in how they do it, so it's not like he even knows when his days off will be so he could apply somewhere else to work on those days. It was that way when I worked fast food back in the 1980s and it hasn't changed, as far as I know. You get your hours the week before. During the summer, some weeks I'd work 10 hours, some weeks I'd work 39. There was absolutely no rhyme or reason. I was 16, so it wasn't a big deal, but by 23 I'd been living on my own for years and there's no way I could have survived on the schedule I got when I worked fast food.

I imagine this guy would be thrilled to work 40 hours every week for one company. Or at least work a set schedule so he could get a second job. But fast food offers neither of those options. Ergo, the strike.