Before that...early 90's when a big sale was a pair of big speakers, krell or levinson gear and a turn table.

I remember my first "whole house audio" system. Volume controls speaker selectors. The second one was so cutting edge...it had IR receivers in each room next to the volume controls so you could point remotes into them and control a tuner or cd player at the head end. The head end was usually a cabinet with about 12 wires in it :).

This was the good old days..1 day install....

McDee is already experimenting with automated tellers. Others will follow.
There will be negative job growth and the few wage earning employees will support the many unemployed people at home.
Greece all over.

And you people completely ignore Human Nature. Someone making low, medium or big bucks whose employer initiates a bonus program often increases their performance and many continue at that pace because they're motivated by the proverbial carrot on a stick but some will revert to their old ways after they become tired of working harder. When everyone makes the same money, there is no motivation to perform better because they know it won't matter- they'll just do the minimum and when a union has enough power, they make it almost impossible to fire employees who slack off. That screws the rest of the employees and it definitely screws the company.

You want to use one company as the shining example in an area where you have ~4000 restaurants? With Microsoft and Amazon as two of the major employers and Microsoft being the single largest creators of millionaires? Try this in a depressed market and see how well it works.

Read this- it's in your area, but you don't seem to know how much wages affects a restaurant. From the link- "No major city has ever seen an across-the-board 60 percent increase in its minimum wage. Restaurants employ about a quarter of Seattle's minimum wage workers. Labor typically accounts for about a third of a restaurant's costs."

How would you deal with adding $4/hr to the pay of people making $11/hr when you can't guarantee an increase is revenue?

[Link: npr.org]

BTW- it's apparently not the fast food location that raised the pay, only the salmon house.

It's not a terrible idea to share the wealth but there's a big difference between doing it voluntarily and being forced to do it through legislation. One is an informed decision and the other is caused by politicians who don't give a rat's ass about the financial performance of the companies who are being forced to pay more.

And an AV system was a stereo (at any level of quality) that had a TV or VCR connected to it, usually with a lot of noise if the audio came from the TV.

Here's an idea... Bring back the 90 day pay raise. So many companies have navigated from that, that it's insane.

Heck, the last company I worked for gave me a slap in the face. When I was hired there was no benefits nor a 90 day pay raise. But after I've been there for 5 months, all the new employees were to have benefits from day 1. WTF is that?

I say, start an employee off at $10.50. Tell them that there is a point system or something that they would be evaluated with over the next 90 days. Tell them at if they score this, that there will be an x % of raise at the 90 day mark. Give them a piece of paper denoting what will be looked at for performance. So that the employee has something to strive for.

Perhaps the 90 day evaluation should be the first to become law. Before the minimum $15 an hour pay.

KOT

The "cool boss's" decision was supposedly an informed decision, and look what hell that caused. You can expect so much more hell from decisions by politicians!

Automated cashiers has been around for at least a decade, you point has ZERO validity!! The ignorance in the country is overwhelming.

What is wrong with a livable wage in this country? The same douche bags that go on about this also shop at Wal-Mart. Either we are subsidizing the poor or billionaires, pull your heads out of your rectums already.

Where has this idea that a living wage must come from 1 job? It used to common for people in low wage, low skilled jobs, like waiting tables, stocking shelves, or packing fish, to work multiple jobs.

Or those jobs are starting, bottom of the totem pole jobs.

What's jacked up is that the economy has gotten screwed up to the point where there are so many low wage, and probably not full-time, jobs now.

It also used to be common for one person to do that same job for 12hrs 6 days a week which is why unions were formed. But remember the good old days of post WW2? VA loans aplenty, single income home ownership, an economic boom that lasted into the early 70's.

Nobody complained that people made too much money.

I've been trying to find where anybody got some actual vindication here other than 'told you so.' As if it was some prescient wisdom that somebody would quit the company.

So far, that has happened. But a bunch of stuff has happened both good and bad.

An update on that precious Seattle CEO and his company:

[Link: foxnews.com]