82-year-old Las Vegas McDonald's worker can't afford to retire after decades of service
82-year-old Las Vegas McDonald's worker can't afford to retire after decades of service
A longtime 82-year-old Las Vegas McDonald's employee hopes to retire, but like many other seniors, he cannot afford to.Edward Eubanks has worked at the McDonald
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 !
Damn boomers won’t move on from their posh jobs and make room for up and coming millennials!
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.
Don't worry guys, a GoFundMe will be able to give him the retirement money McD successfully cheated themselves out of.
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.
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
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?
Now it's a feel-good story about community!
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.
"Decades of service"
Corporate propaganda and orphan crushing machine at its finest
Why? That seems like pretty neutral language to me.
It is an extra step to remove McDonalds from the situation in.
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 nevada national security 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.
For the record, the nevada national security sites mention a pension, so during his 30 years working there he should have gotten one, no? https://nnss.gov/careers/msts-benefits/
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If you ask CEOs 82 is way too soon to retire anyways
Old enough to run for President!
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 it until they die!
McDonalds is not a well paying job?
I am shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Maybe not that shocked.
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!
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?
Edit: This person I'd a Vietnam vet and we'll past social security. They are likely eligible for a military pension as well as social security. They claimed they could not save for retirement while working what sounded like a solid job, but are they just unaware of the retirement benefits they already have??