One million applicants for 62,000 jobs? It happened to McDonalds in 2011.
After sifting through about one million applications, McDonald’s hired more than 60,000 workers nationwide, and over 1,000 in Chicagoland, in conjunction with its National Hiring Day earlier this month.
That is about 16 applications for each job.
Which makes the next story very ironic.
Fast-food workers in Oakland and throughout the East Bay walked off the job Thursday to participate in protests as part of a nationwide movement aimed at boosting their pay and benefits, an organizer said.
Beth Trimarco, of the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, said protests are taking place at fast-food restaurants in about 100 cities across the country today.
Trimarco said about 200 people participated in what she called “a very spirited demonstration” at the McDonald’s restaurant at 14th and Jackson streets in Oakland during the lunch hour today.
If the rate of application for each of those jobs holds up to what was seen in 2011 there should be 3,200 applicants available to replace the striking workers.
Ya know. It doesn’t seem like a wise move to me to do a job action in the middle of a depression. Especially given that there is no way Congress will enact a $15 minimum wage. And they have not factored in technology. At what price point does it become cost effective to replace those workers with robots? McDonalds knows. Do the workers?
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I have better idea let the unemployed vote on the fate of those who sent jobs overseas and alowed other countrys to dump their products over here below cost to destroy their jobs here! The best way to do this is to vote for candidates in democratic primarys who will send these culprits to re-education camps and open up their jobs! You have no anwser to the unemployed except self serving B.S. and voter surpression! I do.
Cap* has one answer for everything–a bullet in the brain.
I suppose that never gets boring if you have the wrong sort of mind.
At what price point does it become cost effective to replace those workers with robots? McDonalds knows. Do the workers?
McDonalds already has machines to fill and enqueue drinks.
It won’t be hard to make robots do everything there, in our lifetime.
As an added bonus, they’ll never get my order wrong, either.
(Contra Captain*, US manufacturing output is quite strong.
Jobs there are down because of efficiency of process.
“They sent our jobs overseas” means that the jobs were crap in the first place, is the thing.)
Sigivald,
We are at the end of a cyclic process.
New methods of manufacturing iron generate a lot of profits. As time goes on competition comes in and profits decline. Eventually profits become static at a rate just sufficient to support the system.
Then something new comes along oil/electricity and the cycle starts over.
We are at the end of the computer cycle.
The artificial biology cycle is not yet sufficient.
It has nothing to do with “sending jobs”. Technology diffuses.
Kondratieff Waves: Secular Decline
yep, threatening people who don’t vote your way with a death camp isn’t voter suppression at all.
You have no problem with the police shooting unemployed minority kids or stoping food stamps to starve children by your own admission because their parents jobs have gone away :but you want me to care what happens to you instead?
We do appreciate have a leftist mind on full display around here.
Keeps us focused.
If you are offended we are doing well.
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