'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters

Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters by CoolGuySteve on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:16PM (#20901370)

How many volunteers are doing it because they need the hours?

Does WH pay employees who can't show so they can still cover their bills?

Is it ethical to pay someone $7/hour (the average wage of a WH employee) and then ask them if they would volunteer to travel to work in a hurricane?

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Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters by wcunning on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:28PM (#20901405)

Citation on the average wage? Federal minimum is $7.25/hr, and at least in my midwestern town, McDonald's is paying $11.25/hr, starting, so that seems shockingly low as an average. Or is that the average of the tipped staff, before tips?

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Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters by CoolGuySteve on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:35PM (#20901436)

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Waffle_House%2...

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Waffle-House/salaries

But really, if the employee was making $11.25/hour, would that somehow make it more ethical? $22k/year is still borderline impoverished for a 3 person household: https://www.thebalance.com/federal-poverty-level-definition-...

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Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters by Scoundreller on Saturday September 07, 2019 @09:28AM (#20903633)

Does it?

Here’s the kind of house that $35k BUYS you in Cleveland:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2840-E-122nd-St-Cleveland...

I can only assume the neighbourhood and/or it’s schools are atrocious, but damn.

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Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters by diminoten on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:31AM (#20901790)

Wouldn't it be $44k/year?

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Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters by pessimizer on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:43AM (#20901826)

The usual estimate is 2000 hours/year.

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Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters by diminoten on Saturday September 07, 2019 @01:30AM (#20901985)

Yes, per person, and two people who can work in the household.

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Re:'Waffle House Index' is a real thing during disasters by falcongod082 on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:38PM (#20901648)

I don't think it's ethical to pay that little period, but I don't see Waffle House commercials talking about this either, so if the company isn't trying to profit off of it and the employees want to do it I'm all for it.

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