What’s reasonable for full time employment in the United States in 2023?
I don’t know what the number is…but that’s the answer
People who crap on CMs missed a couple of points consistently:
1. It’s full time…we’re an overworked county and to extend that to a second job overruns it.
2. These are adults with every costs that adults have. If they’re miserable at home - if does Disney no good. Just like anywhere else.
And with what's happened with inflation and central Florida costs in the last year and a half, what they got isn't going to improve anything for anyone - it just helps keep those four adults living in that one bedroom apartment from having to find a fifth person to move in so they can continue to afford to live there.
It's easy when you're upper-middle class or above to not realize that when things get tight and you start switching to store brands and going more to places like McD for meals out every now and then that for people who were already just hanging on with store brands and when McDs was their night out all along, they aren't left with a lot of options when those prices rise and they have nowhere further down the ladder to go for things.
These people weren't looking to realize their caviar dreams - they were just looking to stay put - something both Disney and fans need if WDW is going to continue to be a thing.
Funny how what is "fair" and what is "reasonable" only seems to matter to some people on subjects like
this.
I don't think $25 to park in a giant flat parking lot and having to walk half a mile to the entrance of a park to start my day is "reasonable". I don't think express monorails down in the middle of the day as a cost saving measure is reasonable when ticket prices are over $120 either but Disney has found no shortage of people willing to accept all of this so I'd say "reasonable" went out the window when discussing Disney a long time ago.
Nobody likes to see the lower wage people getting closer to them and eroding the value of what they see as their own worth but that's what inflation does and the argument isn't about what those people should get - it's about what you are owed for your own cost-of-living increases.
Not for nothing, when I worked at McDs as a teen, an Extra Value Meal for a Big Mac, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Double Cheese, etc. was $2.99. We regularly had alternating 2-fo-$2 deals on those three burgers, too.
The very same McDs location now sells a Big Mac meal for $10.09 and a single Big Mac costs $4.69. (and that's cheap by the national average)
Federal minimum wage back then was $4.25 an hour and that's what I started at during those $2.99 meal days. Today it's $7.25.
Think about that.
The cost of that very same basic meal has more than tipled while minimum wage has not even doubled.
One hour of work at McD's paying not a cent over minimum wage would cover a meal and then some back then. Today, it would be barely more than half what you'd need.
And when I worked there, it was staffed about 60% teens I went to school with, 20% seniors and 20% adults working part time to supplement their full-time employment.
Now, no matter what time of day or day of the week, I don't see the teens or seniors behind the counter anymore.
That ain't progress. It's regression.
talk for guests, visitors, tourists etc, who have been over charged all along and since it has now become obvious it will now be made to look like bargain's are being offered without true change to the exorbitant pricing.
