Trump: “Ore... Ida?”
Aide: No, sir. It’s “Ne-VA-da”.

If you send things back multiple times at your OWN restaurant it gives the people you’re with the impression that the food is not good. The very people you are trying to impress.

Who the fuck is such an asshole that he sends back fries?

Now that this story is public, he’ll never ketchup in the polls.

I don’t work for Harvard, but my office is in a Harvard building so I use their dining facilities almost every day. There are a ton of people here during the summer, whether it’s students, faculty, or people like me who work nearby and have clearance. I see the same staff working all year round, regardless of any…

Are you trying to say that working in a kitchen is 1/3 of a workday as in 1/3 of 8 hours? Because if so you either worked in a kitchen where all they did was serve fucking cereal or they did all the prep while you just came to look at them. That is not even close to being true chump.

Motivated 14 year old? That’s funny. Let’s break this down. You want to find 600 kids who are motivated by doing food service work at less than a living wage. And since they’ll be working during school hours, they’ll have to be high school dropouts as well. I’m trying to picture the kid that is so motivated to work a…

Weird, it’s almost like bargaining as a.... collective.... might be a useful way to allow people to gain lower middle class wages and basic health benefits without being fired? You may be onto something.

Yeah! Let the poor people starve! That’ll teach em to respect the free market!

So, in effect, get rid of minimum wage and sweat shop labor is okay?

Yes, so your point that cafeteria workers deserve to live in poverty is made. Good job.

I disagree. Hamno is right, the union’s largest point of leverage isn’t their value as employees as much as it is the value to Harvard’s PR having them not be on strike. Harvard is ridiculously wealthy and owns humongous amount of the Metro Boston area; not only can they afford this but given the cost of living in…

Don’t worry. If you believe that certain people who work certain jobs don’t deserve to live—and that’s exactly what you believe if you think food servers don’t deserve a living wage because “a motivated 14 year old” could do it—you’re in no danger of ever going full liberal.

I guess we will see what the market does... but at some point, the working force needs to make a livable wage. $35k and healthcare in the Boston area isn’t insane or unreasonable.

The problem is you’re asking the wrong question. You’re basically asking: what’s the lowest wage at which this job can be performed?

It is illegal to hire 14 year old children. Do you think a 14 year old is going to work an 8 hour day preparing and serving food to college kids for the next 60 years of their lives? Everyone deserves a living wage. Do you think that the overpaid higher-ups at Harvard have tough jobs sitting behind their desks? Any…

What you’re saying is that, because the job is low-skill, the people who perform the job don’t deserve to make a living wage. They didn’t go to college, so in the summer, they can just starve, I guess.

So now you’re the arbiter of how much someone should be paid based on its difficulty level? I could argue that there are a lot of jobs that are objectively easier than working in a dining hall who get paid a lot more.

So what is the list of jobs out there that deserve a sub-living wage?

What does that matter? $35,000 is barely enough to live off of. Why shouldn’t someone working a ful time job get a livable wage?