Unions And Democrats Sacrificing More Entry Level Jobs on Their Progressive Alter - Granite Grok

Unions And Democrats Sacrificing More Entry Level Jobs on Their Progressive Alter

human sacrificeThe professional union driven “strikes” being fomented by professional jack-asses around the nation are the culmination of several layers of manufactured failure and outrage.  First, the Democrats have been ruining the economy and expanding the part-time employment culture–that’s planned failure.  And now that these people feel trapped (as intended) the unions are organizing them to revolt against the injustice that their political flunkies may have created for just that purpose.  That’s planned outrage.

But the unions are not interested in blaming democrats for the plight of entry level workers, they are blaming businesses.

The problem is, well–I’ve already talked about the problem, as recently as September 1st.  Many of these businesses get all their supervisors, managers, and higher paid staff from the ranks of their entry level employees, a point Skip brought up last night right here.

I rose up from entry level to a very respectable income which I later used to get other jobs and skills that lead me to where I am today.  4-bedroom colonial, affordable mortgage I am paying for, wife, three kids, two dogs, and yes–I do have a white picket fence.  Not rich, but comfortable and in a good place financially in case something big and expensive happened.

It all started at $2.35 an hour, took some hard work, no college degree (or the debt) and I am employed and supporting myself and my family.  Along the way I often worked a second or third entry level job when it was called for but all exercises in acquiring skills and experience accumulated through hard work and a desire to support myself an my family.

But this is a different day, yes?  Can’t be dwelling on the dusty old past for guidance.  Could striking outside fast food venues change the employee- employer dynamic?  You’re damn right it can, and will.  There will be fewer jobs.  Here’s what I wrote back in September.

So what did California Unions just do to thousands of McDonald’s employees by trying to organize them to strike for a day?  They made them obsolete.  They sent a message to Fast Food companies that in the age of DemocratCare, increasing regulations, hiring costs, government enforced politically correct human resources formula, and an obsessive desire to regulate wages outside of market forces, that replacing workers with technology solves a lot of problems.

McDonald’s in Europe are in the process of adding 7,000 ordering kiosks to replace cashiers.  Customers will use automation to order, giving them compete control and giving McDonald’s (and I suppose the NSA) a goldmine of data with which to make their own operations more efficient.

A kiosk doesn’t need insurance, is never late for work, doesn’t have personal problems, will never be a teenager, won’t show up hung-over, unwashed, disheveled, unshaven or late, will never be too busy talking to other employees while customers wait for attention, and costs a fraction of what even a non-striking fast-food worker costs the company in total.  It can more accurately deliver advertising and options, offers, specials, and in any number of languages, in a form factor and interface that fits nicely with the current arc of personal technology innovation by incorporating that technology into the point of service.

Over at Michael Graham’s page he’s got a picture of what the 15$/hr fast food employee looks like and he and I are on the same page.

That is your future, sorry, was your future.  You are now an unemployable un-skilled worker who was replaced with a kiosk because in the real world a franchisee who busts his or her ass 80 hours a week does not have the margins to pay everyone double so some of you will have to go.  Probably the person who went on strike without thinking about the real world dynamics of their industry.  Yeah, greed will dot hat to you.

And do not be outraged if the menu prices go up, taking a huge bite out of your monthly government handout now that you have no job.

As for the robot burger makers, see the Michael Graham post, that’s a ways off but an investment worth investing in if you know the unions will be agitating your remaining employees every three months.

So where does that leave us?  If you are not offered a jobs registering people to vote democrat by Organizing for Acorn, or paid to demonstrate or appear at an Obama event, may I suggest an entry level job selling, or assembling Kiosks ond/or robot burger makers.   Thanks to the unions, that business is about to take off at your expense.

You might have to move to China and learn Mandarin, but then, you should have thought of that before you let a well-paid union organizer with special dispensation from side effects of the Democrat agenda from Pope Obama convince you you were being used by the man.   But look on the bright side.  You were used, by the unions.  And now you are out of a job.

 

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