re: Old people, when do you first remember people hating on fast food workers?

When it went from this



To this

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I'd end up flipping burgers like a loser.

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You sure proved them wrong.

True, but I often opine about scaling down and just saying screw it. Not quite living RV life, but there’s small towns with 5-10k people in the Midwest where min wage is like $13/hour, a decent looking home is $50k, and it’s safe.

Why work 60 hours to make $150k+ but live in an area where mortgages are $8k/month? Deal with crime, drugs, crap on sidewalks, graffiti, homeless, “urban” attributes.

Migrate to Mayberry. Work at a McDonald’s, life has no stress and health insurance is paid, Home is paid off, There’s got to be something local to poke, just retire early… who are you trying to impress and why do you care…are you also judging them on their profession?

$53k and 2 miles from McDonald’s. Bike to work, you don’t even need a car

Blacks.

I remember when fast food was a novelty. It was a treat to go to the first McDonald’s in Lexington. The place was clean, the workers were friendly and professional and the food was delicious.

Everything went into the shitter in the late sixties, early seventies when traditional values broke down. Our entire society changed top to bottom overnight, it seemed.

The political turmoil of the decade bridging that period was at the heart of the change, I think. The American work ethic was included as a victim of those times.

Suddenly, everything was about materialism. Get all you can while you can. Instant gratification, dependency upon government welfare and the rise of the left to contrast with the right were a few of the perturbations that shook our society to its core.

I don’t want to hate on anybody who has a job in our current society. Laziness is a cancer for this generation.

What I’ll complain about is the fast food worker that has zero pride in what they do and don’t give a shite about the average customer. On the flip side, we’ve seen our share of videos where a customer beats the shite out an employee because they forgot the pickles.

It’s hard to weigh the fricked-upedness of our society against any hating I do toward fast food workers.

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and thinking they shouldn’t be paid a skilled wage.

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And if they do, is it your business?

I’d hate on the company, not the workers.

The workers are there to provide you a service… I got home from the game last night and everybody was sleeping and I was hungry. I was thankful for McDonald’s at that point

I don't know that they do. I have never heard disparaging comments except when McDonald's workers were protesting for 15 dollars an hour some years ago.

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We celebrated going to fast food chains,

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