Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines)

shouldn't the federal minimum wage apply to everyone who is doing work in the US? This seems like fraud

I would just unplug the camera and computer. Every day. Even if I wasn't buying anything.

Fuck this business.

Boo for OP who didn't name and shame

this should be straight up illegal.

At that point why even have a cashier? Just put a POS and have people swype to enter like a subway.

Good thing they build a wall so these mean immigrants are not stealing jobs.

This shit has got to be outlawed. Companies are doing this across the board. Literally skirting labor laws, outsourcing jobs that should be going to us citizens, all to just continue pouring more money into the tops pockets. When will we have all had enough?

I would not shop here. If I saw this, I would turn around and walk out. Go somewhere that they value work.

This feels cyberpunk. Some netrunner will hack the system and give free meals away because fuck the corpos, right?

"It's stealing time!"

• every semi competent criminal

Are there movements in the US or globally to force all business into worker coops? Unions are good but I think this is their ultimate limitation, that employers can just offshore their jobs

Having no actual person guarding your business is a recipe for theft. If this catches on it will be so much easier to steal from places. I'm ok with this

Unplug the display & camera, get meals for free?

Japanese Fried Chicken? JFC

Looks like this is "Japang". Terrible reviews online and described as actually a "ghost kitchen".

Why not just have a kiosk at this point

Ah yes, it's the minorities who are stealing jobs. Not the lack of regulations blocking corpos from outsourcing work.

Working as a graphic designer in the US since the early 2000's, every employer I ever worked for eventually used Fiverr to pay someone overseas a fraction of what they paid me to do the same work. This doesn't seem meaningfully different.

Not saying this is okay, just that it's not even remotely (no pun intended) a new problem.

Theyre stealing our jobs without even being here! /s

I’m honestly surprised the corps haven’t done this to all of their drive-thrus.

What happens when you join the zoom id listed?

Okay but like... how are they gonna count out my change?

Ok what the actual fuck?

I'm almost certain this has been tried before multiple times and always ended badly. I see no reason to think it would be different now.

I just wouldn't go to that restaurant. Plenty of other places to go.

This is going to be the response to "work from home"

Is this real? Is there any proof of this actually being a thing?

So … they do ask for tips, right?

Not knowing the law in the US I guess it is fully legal. Given that there is no union or chain responsibility in the supply chain or similar to GDPR in EU you guys are fucked until someone abuse the system one way or another.

On the other hand it shows work from home is feasible even with these kind of things.

I HATE THE ANTICHRIST

Does this mean I can give the cashier a 50 cent tip and I can get her number for laters?

Jetsons predicted this

This is a particularly suited post for this magazine and the image just completes it

I hope it's just supplemental. Like have one cashier and when it's busy have one remote in to help for a period of time (card only payments) then log out. Could have a 3rd party company manage a group of online employees to rotate between places worldwide.

Still don't think I'm cool with it but seems inevitable unless AI just replaces all of them quicker than expected

I have bad eye sight...I read the screen behind her as "Japanese fried children" suddenly I knew I had misread that. Like there's no way New York would stoop that low and be that cruel to children. I corrected myself before any other thought occurred actually. But it was momentarily disturbing.

Fuck that place.

If a remote worker can actually do the job at a high enough level, then the writing is on the wall.

Globalization will eventually take over those roles and laws that try to prop up a local worker will end up like Oregon's old law that says you can't pump your own gas.

The only way to 'win' is to equip the local guy with skills that absolutely cannot be done remotely, or educate him to do things at a level unmatched by the remote worker coming from another culture.

At $3 an hour, assuming she works 8 hours per day for 5 days a week, she would be considered very wealthy in the Philippines.

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If my initial reaction is “that’s too bad”, does it make me greedy?

Like, I don’t think US workers are more deserving as human beings than anyone else… but a part of me knows hardcore globalization would hurt people geographically close to me… I’m like some national relativist or something?

I feel like I should want everyone to win regardless of where they were born. And $3/hr is huge vs. the $6/day min wage in parts of PH. Know friends’ friends are farming rice for six bucks a day.

this is simply cool and good

I'm not a fan of this, it's definitely not great, but I've tested the AI drive through lanes, not the worst possible future.

Yeah it’s definitely dystopian that someone in the Philippines gets to earn a living 🙄