Depends where you set "cost of living". There's a campaign here for a living wage of $18.80 which the campaign defines as "the ability to participate socially and even consider the future with modest savings"

MCD pays a higher minimum wage in other countries and still does okay. In NZ its $14.25/hr (~11USD) and they still made 30mil profit off a population of 4mil people. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1404…

I used to work at a gas station chain and they actually had contracted shelf locations with suppliers, down to the number of cans/bottles in a row. So usually CocaCola company products had the premium chest high spots because they could afford the bidding war. any station in the chain in the country would have pretty…

cute kid but "most beautiful girl in the world"? maybe where you're from. (not "you" specifically!) this kid to me is the most beautiful girl in the world. look at that smile! Those kids found some sunglasses on the side of the road and started playing with them. That's the face of joy right there. (from http://www.gab…

Thanks for the lol!

I couldn't believe how brazen that Tenaha operation was and how the officer was completely unapologetic at the end of it. It was literal highway robbery!

OMG. That article is amazing. They're sowing the seeds of revolution with behaviour like that.

Don't worry, I live in NZ and would have tucked into the plate too. not a setup I've encountered before.

This whole thing sounds like an open invitation for trouble from the Turkeyban.


I'll let myself out.

this will never get old

I think they're using a very generous interpretation of the word "friends".

"I hugely disagree with what they believe but I (begrudgingly) respect their right to run a business."

There was a fight about it but our right leaning government pushed it through regardless. We've now also got a problem with "zero hour" contracts that have no guaranteed hours of work. You could be rostered for 1 hour or 40 for the week. It's absolutely disgraceful and is being abused in the fast food industry. Often…

They've actually sneaked it on the books in NZ too with a "90 trial period" that can be put into your employment contract. allows the employer to fire you without reason and without recourse to the Employment Relations Authority.

That secret shopper story is so infuriating. Why do people put up with such lax employment protections? Not that its exactly the same but this lady got 4 grand after being fired for complaining about a rape joke. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/bette… The important bit is where the ruling states "Whatever the…

Israel is practising straight up Apartheid and has been for decades. I grew up in South Africa and it boggles my mind how more people don't come to that realisation. Israel was the only country in the world to recognise the racially divided "Bantustans" established by Apartheid South Africa because they saw in it a…

Dare I call it.... the Roofitini?

This looks some someone didn't bother to open the roofies capsule and just threw in a fistful.

Is that.... is that Adam and Steve?