EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT
A well-off boomer from the tree-lined streets of Betoota Grove has today taken to Facebook to voice his displeasure about the recent changes to the minimum wage, which will increase from $24.10 per hour to $24.94 an hour.
Despite not dining out that often, Greg Phillips, 62, says this wage increase is ‘just going to be added onto the customer’s bill’ and will make things harder for all the poor business owners who are doing it tough, sparing no thought to the minimum wage workers who are probably doing it a lot tougher.
Though business owners are hit with plenty of gratuitous expenses, such as high rent, business insurance and electricity rates, to name a few, Greg’s fury is directed purely at the minimum wage workers who need money to survive, and not the huge corporations and greedy landlords.
Which is why he firmly believes that they don’t deserve that juicy 84c extra an hour – because how hard can it be to make a bloody coffee!
What’s more, is that Greg is lucky enough to have a highly paid position in a large company, where he’s somehow managed to secure himself a senior role where he’s essentially paid six figures to do nothing.
In fact, nobody really knows for sure what Greg does for a living, but he’s been at the company long enough that he’s been able to Steven Bradbury his way into management – and all without being able to do the most basic technological tasks, like adding an attachment to an email.
“Nice work at keeping inflation high. $25 an hour is ridiculous. You watch, it’ll be passed onto the customers!”, says Greg, because god forbid a business makes slightly less profit.
“Should be $15 an hour!”
More to come.
