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post 1653792883 01-05-2022, 05:27 PM
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You're an EMT, you are making $15/hour. Local burger joint raises their pay to $15

Can someone explain to me the logic in getting mad at the burger joint for raising their pay and not at your employer keeping your pay at $15/hour even though they make 5k off a 10min ambulance ride?


I can usually get into the mind of a cuckservative and understand their thought process, but I am drawing a blank here
post 1653793043 01-05-2022, 05:29 PM
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I'd quit and work a much less stressful job at McDonald's for the same pay or more...
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wtf kind of trash place pays emt's 15 dollars and hour?
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Originally Posted By randombrah102⏩
Can someone explain to me the logic in getting mad at the burger joint for raising their pay and not at your employer keeping your pay at $15/hour even though they make 5k off a 10min ambulance ride?


I can usually get into the mind of a cuckservative and understand their thought process, but I am drawing a blank here
no one, left or right, cares if a company raises wages on their on will, what are you talking about lmao?

its hard to get in the warped mind of a lib, so ill assume you are talking about raising min wage, which is a completely different animal than what your post describes.
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The free market decides. Let them go to McDonalds then and it will work itself out.
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post 1653794223 01-05-2022, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted By randombrah102⏩
but I am drawing a blank here
Because you Liberals don't look to what the outcome will have in the future, you just look to the "here and now" moment of life.

When the problem does come to bite you in the ass later on in life, your party just deflects and blames businesses or the opposite party for your mistakes and incompetence.
post 1653794323 01-05-2022, 05:58 PM
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Depends on the benefits package. If being an EMT comes to with 0 dollar deductible health insurance and 4 weeks paid vacation each year then it's better than most $22 an hour jobs that have poverty benefits package.

Ive turned down plenty of job offers with high dollar amounts and ****ty benefits over the years
post 1653795603 01-05-2022, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted By exxtracool⏩
wtf kind of trash place pays emt's 15 dollars and hour?
Pays about that here in the fooking joke of a city that is Norfolk, VA.

Fast food pays $12/hr.

Wages here are atrocious. Too many retired sailors willing to work for peanuts.
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post 1653795753 01-05-2022, 06:33 PM
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A conservative will tell you that if you can make more money doing something you’re qualified for then you should go do that instead.

When people stop applying to be emts for $15 they’ll raise the wage or go out of business from lack of staff.

You’re welcome
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Originally Posted By Vhagar⏩
A conservative will tell you that if you can make more money doing something you’re qualified for then you should go do that instead.

When people stop applying to be emts for $15 they’ll raise the wage or go out of business from lack of staff.

You’re welcome
Whats with all the "reduced hours, no one is willing to work anymore!" signs from salty owners then?
post 1653797343 01-05-2022, 07:07 PM
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Do EMTs really make 15 bucks an hour?
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Originally Posted By randombrah102⏩
Whats with all the "reduced hours, no one is willing to work anymore!" signs from salty owners then?
they will have to pay more, some owners are stupid and stubborn tho
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If I trained to become an EMT and was only offered $15HR, I'd move somewhere else and earn more money. Or become a firefighter and make double that to do nothing except eat and do truck checks.

Source: I was a volunteer FF, and was coping about paid FF's.
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I’m not experienced enough in medical billing to speak to this specific scenario. My general opinion, however, is that raising minimum wage will probably lead to inflation, and devalue existing money. This might get balanced out eventually, but the initial impact will affect the most vulnerable entities (small businesses) the most, and will probably sink many of them.
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I feel like most people that are EMTs are doing it for it’s potential to open doors in the future. Employers know that and exploit them. For example, a lot of EMTs go on to be firefighters, nurses, etc.

When you take a job for the same pay at McDonald’s it’s a dead-end. I’d imagine it’d be pretty difficult finding a career as an adult with McDonald’s on your resume.
post 1653798293 01-05-2022, 07:33 PM
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You can get free food at McDonalds, id probably go to flip burgers if I was stuck with minimum wage.
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Originally Posted By exxtracool⏩
wtf kind of trash place pays emt's 15 dollars and hour?
Lots of places. I was going to be an EMT until I found that out, fuuuuuuuu that.

So when you call and ambulance for an emergency and the EMTs that will probably show up to save your life, are earning $15 hour!? lol wut
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This is just sad srs. What's the career goals of an EMT though? To get into a managerial position? Take their EMT experience and do what exactly? Is it usually just a temp job until you get into a medical related job, and you're a student otherwise? IDK but if an EMT's typical career doesn't lead to a nicer $50k+ salary job ($24/hr) then maybe people need to sit down, look at actual salaries of jobs in each industry they're interested in before devoting their education, career, life, to something that won't even get them into retirement.
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Originally Posted By chaunce54⏩
I'd quit and work a much less stressful job at McDonald's for the same pay or more...
Would you get the same hours, benefits and stability working there? Not everything is money.
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Originally Posted By exxtracool⏩
wtf kind of trash place pays emt's 15 dollars and hour?
Alot of them if they arent in a huge metro area, assuming they aren't volunteers.
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I'm a former computer programmer and would much rather make fries for $15 per hour than stress over deadlines.
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Originally Posted By Motiviert⏩
I was a full time firefighter for almost 121 years. This exact reason is why I'm now just volunteer. I spent 11 years to make 11.61 an hour.
You’d think that after you hit the 100 year mark you’d be set to retire, sad
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Originally Posted By FrostF⏩
Depends on the benefits package. If being an EMT comes to with 0 dollar deductible health insurance and 4 weeks paid vacation each year then it's better than most $22 an hour jobs that have poverty benefits package.

Ive turned down plenty of job offers with high dollar amounts and ****ty benefits over the years
theres no difference, but id rather the money so i can choose what to do with it
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Originally Posted By randombrah102⏩
Whats with all the "reduced hours, no one is willing to work anymore!" signs from salty owners then?
This may come as a shock to you but franchising is not "money making money for you."

It requires alotttttt of work. People tend to point out the millionaire CEOs of the corporate body but most burger joints are owned and operated by hardworking middle class people.
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Originally Posted By randombrah102⏩
Can someone explain to me the logic in getting mad at the burger joint for raising their pay and not at your employer keeping your pay at $15/hour even though they make 5k off a 10min ambulance ride?


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Originally Posted By chaunce54⏩
I'd quit and work a much less stressful job at McDonald's for the same pay or more...
That's the joke. McDonald's starts paying $15/h, other low skill jobs that are higher skill than McDonald's will demand more money, and a chain reaction starts, this includes businesses charging more for their services or goods. In 5 years the McDonald's poverton is back where he started.

It's unfortunate OP that you can't understand something as simple as this.

But liberals are like Sith Lords, they only deal in absolutes. The minimum wage must be $15/h, nevermind that the cost of living varies greatly from state to state. $15/h in WV is baller money.
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Originally Posted By EDcellent⏩
If I trained to become an EMT and was only offered $15HR, I'd move somewhere else and earn more money. Or become a firefighter and make double that to do nothing except eat and do truck checks.

Source: I was a volunteer FF, and was coping about paid FF's.
My brother is a FF and he makes 35k. Unless you are in a rich county or metro you arnt making jack as a first responder. EMT's pay like $12.
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I heard from people in the industry that smoke season is not from global warming but rather from firefighters just letting the fires burn. They get paid 24/7 with hazard pay during fire season. Their low pay explains it.
We need to pay them more but as a bonus in November to those who worked most the summer, proportional to months work and inversely propotional to how many trees burned.
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I thought it was universally known that EMT's pay is crap despite the intense training they go through and having to see stuff daily that would put a normal person in a mental house.

We all know that they deserve way more than they make. We think its crap that you can work at a burger joint and make as much as an EMT.
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