Don’t worry guys, a GoFundMe will be able to give him the retirement money McD successfully cheated themselveds out of.
82-year-old Las Vegas McDonald's worker can't afford to retire after decades of service
Submitted 3 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Damage@feddit.it 3 months ago
Uhmmm… At this point, what if you guys set up like a GoFundMe for everybody? Like you all agree to put a part of your wages into this common GoFundMe, which is a small cost all in all, and when the time comes, each worker gets their own payout! You could even have it pay monthly, to make sure that nobody can waste all their fund too early and end up destitute.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We could call it “Social Security”. Before there was GoFundMe, there were taxes that could be used in a similar fashion for expenses society finds valuable.
I’ll be the evil right wing swine here and say it out loud - I don’t expect you to be able to retire from a part time minimum wage job, but that’s also the reason we have ’safety nets’ that are supposed to ‘catch’ you in these cases. It shouldn’t be a surprise that you can’t retire from a McDonalds gig but don’t let your outrage redirect you from the “one in four adults do not have any retirement savings”, or the (implied?) social security is insufficient
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 months ago
We have a retirement pool at my job where when someone retires, everyone in the pool donates them an hour of pay.
Not enough to live off of for the rest of your life, but it’s a nice little bonus. I think we’re at like 95% participation, too.
Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 3 months ago
They didn’t work at mcdonalds until they were 67 years old. They worked for 30 years as a radiation monitor at a nevada test site that should have provided a pension.
Where did the money from 35 years of that income (1964-1999) go? where did the pension go?
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Now it’s a feel-good story about community!
Asafum@feddit.nl 3 months ago
And then another news outlet will write a misleading headline that makes it sound like McDonald’s gave them the money! All will be whole again.
Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This dude didn’t start working at mcdonalds until 2009 - 15 years ago. They would have been 67 years old, already retirement age. They didn’t work retail prior whatsoever, so this isn’t a story about how retail pays like garbage (it does.)
They worked as an assistant to a handyman from 1999-2009. Before that they worked as a radiation monitor at a test site from 1964-1999.
Today radiation monitors make ~60k/year. I’m guessing in the past they were paid more than this proporitonally. Why couldn’t they save up money? It’s not like nevada is very HCOL. It’s not like they were making minimum wage flipping burgers.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Username checks out.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
At 82 he’s gonna croak or have health expenses out the wazoo soon enough
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My grandma lived to 103.
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
What age did she get to retire from McDonald’s?
LowleeKun@feddit.org 3 months ago
If you ask CEOs 82 is way too soon to retire anyways
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Old enough to run for President!
Damage@feddit.it 3 months ago
CEOs are on the clock 24hours a day after all, and keep working way into old age! Not to mention all the investment they usually do, that’s a lot of work, and they do until they die!
essell@lemmy.world 3 months ago
McDonalds is not a well paying job?
I am shocked. Shocked I tell you. Maybe not that shocked.
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, if they wanted to be able to have a life after working full time for decades, they just shouldn’t have been poor. Duh!
Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Or perhaps they could have applied their time to learning a trade or skill that paid more than a minimum wage, entry level job meant for teenagers?
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 3 months ago
No no no, you mean, dedicated 82 year old worker is extremely enthusiastic to go flip burgers everyday ! She doesn’t want to retire because she loves her job and would be bored otherwise !
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
reminds me of when republicans said the elderly should go to work in the worst days of the pandemic in order to save the economy
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 months ago
I strongly encourage all elderly Republicans to work with the public during a pandemic
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Damn boomers won’t move on from their posh jobs and make room for up and coming millennials!
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
A true statement, even if it doesn’t apply here.
People can be completely fucked at the same time that others are hoarding wealth. Consider those who own multiple homes while young families can’t purchase one. Our elders are fucking us over. Said the guy who will soon be an elder.