Usually when Jon does that he explains to the audience at the end of the show: “For the rest of the interview go to blah blah website…”
He didn’t do that this time around.
Jon was kind of being a dick on this episode.
Has the OP seen this video? http://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/water-cooler/jarrid-tansey-dough-pours-in-for-pizza-delivery-guy-after-belittling-at-car-business?google_editors_picks=true
Jarrid Tansey: Dough pours in for pizza delivery guy after ‘belittling’ at car business
Sorry for not replying sooner.
I’m aware of the story- it’s a “feel good” story that creates the impression that there’s karma in this world.
There are ten thousand other delivery drivers who experienced the same mistreatment and got zero donations.
The solution, believe it or not, is a livable wage.
Also, now, because of one :smack:-head, the car business is going to suffer, and someone not involved in the incident will likely end up losing their job.
Disproportionate retribution and disproportionate restitution for one delivery driver, (and good for him) is just a sugary story with little meat.
Real talk, since the corporation steals the driver’s tips and has cut their wages and compensation repeatedly in the past 10 years, your best bet is to tip the driver a few dollars, or get the pizza yourself- it is the simplest solution that you can offer, where it really shouldn’t be up to you to fix it anyway.
In reality, the corporation should just pay a fair wage, and then, stuff like what happened to this guy would have just been a bad day at work, instead of a day where most of the money he was going to make got destroyed by a :smack:-head.
I deal with shitty people every day, but my wage stays the same, that’s why I can shrug it off. It’s a big effing deal to the driver.
Pick one to work part time replacing Rubio.
As someone who also worked for a top 3 pizza chain for 10 years, two points:’
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Minimum wage increases definitely cost jobs. I managed through two minimum wage increases. Our prices did not go up, and our labor cost allowance also did not go up. Guess how we hit our labor numbers? On the good side, we were forced to become much more efficient. One of the often less talked about effects of minimum wage laws is that it might actually make the economy more productive and efficient. But anyway, when I started we’d employ three phone people, a cut table person, a dough master, 2-3 pizza makers, and a dishwasher. When I left, we had cut a phone person, no longer employed a cutter(drivers and myself did that), no dough master(morning manager does it), no dishwasher(drivers do it), and cut 1 pizza maker. There might be larger economic effects that cause there to be no overall job loss, but there’s no question that the individual business that sees its labor costs rise will either pass it on to the consumer or cut labor.
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Internet ordering is used because it’s more convenient for both the business and the customer. In theory, anyway. It can be labor saving too.
I’m not sure why Rubio would deserve a pitting here though, even if he’s not totally right. It’s more a case that he, not being a fast food manager, doesn’t realize that customers screw things up. Anyone who has stood behind someone taking 10 minutes just to withdraw money from an ATM should recognize the problem when they think about it. And ATMs are a lot simpler than ordering pizza. But anyone who expects politicians to understand real world problems even a smidgen is expecting too much. Marco Rubio is not unique in this respect.
The guy who should be talking about minimum wage is former Republican Congressman Bobby Schilling, who is one of ours, a pizza restaurant owner. Marco Rubio, on the other hand, has done nothing except politics. Everything he knows is purely out of a book.
“Damn it, why did they have to ask me about Libya and not this?” -Herman Cain
Why on Earth would you even* start *to make a pizza before making sure the credit card charge went through? 
If you’re losing money due to this, that’s on you, dude!
Look, as we all know, Porn Does Not Lie, Praise Porn, Amen. Pizza delivery guys get all the pussy they can handle. They expect to be paid too?! :mad:
See posts #27 and #36. That’s why.
True. It’s liberalism at its best, rather than its worst. Liberalism at its best says, “We are our brothers’ keeper, so we should all pay to make the life of low income people better.” Liberalism at its worst says, “People are poor! This is an outrage! Someone other than me should have to pay for this!”
However, there is one fiscally conservative reason to support the EITC over the minimum wage: economists prefer a negative income tax for efficiency reasons. And economics= conservatism.
adaher, please never speak about what words mean if you don’t understand what they mean, and you just insert your own definition.
You can’t prove that by supply-side’s track record.
The point is that the scientific consensus says that the EITC is a better approach to alleviating poverty than the minimum wage.