College kids quit over "sweatshop" conditions while Chipotles 2 CEOs paid $58M

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http://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/borough/article_489dbc28-3957-11e4-8ca2-001a4bcf6878.html

The hyperbolic use of the term "sweatshop" aside, the point being that a bunch of college kids quit en masse when they were forced to work 12 hour shifts without a break for $8.30/hour. The store was kept understaffed in order to increase profits.

And meanwhile, the two CEOs made $58 million last year between the two of them.
http://nypost.com/2014/05/02/chipotle-ceos-make-a-combined-58m-as-burrito-bowl-prices-rise/

What's upsetting me about this issue is less the sheer magnitude of the greed involved on the part of CEOs than the number of people who post on comment threads about this issue who think the kids should be just happy to have a job, and should shut up and stop acting "entitled".

THIS is the core of the problem we face in American today: Boot-lickers who think it's perfectly OK to make $58 million and pay employees $8.30/hour to work in a badly understaffed store for 12 hour shifts.

[NYC_SKP]

1. We are taught to aspire to that high salary, duped into thinking we can get there, and...

...and our whole culture of bullying included disdain for "losers".

The truth is that without "losers" there can't be high-salary winners.

No whom do you think the average asshole is going to want to relate to, the rich dudes or the losers?

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Entitled? to work for $8.30 and forced 12 hr shifts without breaks in understaffed stores to

increase profits so two CEOs who clearly ARE entitled, can collect $58 million in compensation for what exactly?

WTF is wrong with these people?

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3. That's what frustrated me yesterday

No matter where I saw this posted - our local paper (in a deep blue city like Philly), nationally, wherever, people were coming out of the woodwork to heap distain on the kids who quit. "If you can't handle food service work, don't work there" "if they think it's bad now, wait until they put in place their irrational plan to raise the minimum wage" "entitled brats will now want part of my paycheck" etc, etc, etc ad nauseum.

[KurtNYC]

4. An Irish man asked me "do you know the difference between Americans and the Irish?"

His answer: The American looks at the rich guy up on the hill and says 'some day I'm going to go up there and live like that guy.' The Irish guy looks at the rich guy up on the hill and says 'some day...some day I'm going to go up there and kick that guy's ass.'

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Unfortunately, the vast majority of both, do neither. eom.

[Taitertots]

5. The right thinks that if we don't shit on workers than they have it too good

They want everyone as miserable as they are.

[Initech]

7. The CEO to worker pay ratio is truly beyond frightening.

They get it all and we fight for what's left of the scraps.

[corkhead]

8. It is a free country and they are free to get their own CEO job that pays $58mil

Nobody is standing in their way. Free Enterprise and all.

Did I say freedom?

[GeorgeGist]

9. It's Freedumb™

[HuckleB]

10. Chipotle tries to give itself a halo by fear mongering about farmers.

I boycott them already.

[daredtowork]

11. Once money buys truth

Then the billionaires can say whatever they want: they are right. The rest of us are mere complainers. What can we really do? Have at them with a twitter storm?

Of course the OTHER problem we have in America today is the twitter storm won't be about how it sucks to make $8.30 an hour, since life sucks for everybody. The twitter storm will be over how mean it was when someone tipped over the ladder while a fireman was rescuing a cute kitten from a tree. Kittens are cute, the fireman was hot, and someone used the hashtag #justinbieber.

Easy outrage is what America is all about, and the saddest truth of all is one of the easiest thing to get outraged over is "complainers".