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06-23-2006, 09:27 PM
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Re: who makes just min. wage?
Me, when I was on Jury Duty.
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06-23-2006, 09:57 PM
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Re: who makes just min. wage?
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My first job when I was 15 was in a Burger King (it lasted all of 2 months before I couldn't take it anymore and quit). They paid me minimum wage, and that was on Long Island, NY, where the cost of living is the highest in the country. Most of my co-workers were not kids, they were older, and were making between minimum wage, and at the highest, $6.50 an hour, and thosee were the ones who had been working there for years and years and years. The raises were ridiculous, something like 10 cents an hour (ooh big money) every year. [/ QUOTE ] Sorry, but no one should be working in Burger King at minimum wage for years and years and years. If they are, that is their fault, and their fault alone. They should be glad they were getting 10 cent raises. You do realize why the raises are so small? Because the owners were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts ... they don't expect people to stay in those jobs for years and years and years ... they expect them to be filled by other people as people move on. "You are so mean," you say? No, because anyone that wants to better themselves over the years and years and years they are working at Burger King can do so. They can take the GED, go to college, go to a trade school, etc. Failing to do so, they get zero sympathy from me. NCAces
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#15
06-24-2006, 12:44 AM
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Re: who makes just min. wage?
I believe something between 5% and 10% of the workforce actually makes minimum wage. The reason that it is such a big deal for Democrats is that union wage scale is calculated from the minimum wage. So when Congress increases the minimum wage $0.50, for example, they really couldn't care less about the 8% of poor black youths who become unemployed, they care about their Union cronies, whose pay goes up by many multiples of what the minimum wage went up, and who don't have to worry about losing their jobs, since they are protected from competition in the first place. Until they force the employer offshore or out of business. Then their members reap the rewards their Union bosses have sown.
Edit: Except, of course, government unions, which never go offshore since their employer never has to suffer losses, since the taxpayers and the Intaglio presses are will pick up any tab necessary.
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#16
06-24-2006, 01:05 AM
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Re: who makes just min. wage?
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I believe something between 5% and 10% of the workforce actually makes minimum wage. The reason that it is such a big deal for Democrats is that union wage scale is calculated from the minimum wage. So when Congress increases the minimum wage $0.50, for example, they really couldn't care less about the 8% of poor black youths who become unemployed, they care about their Union cronies, whose pay goes up by many multiples of what the minimum wage went up, and who don't have to worry about losing their jobs, since they are protected from competition in the first place. Until they force the employer offshore or out of business. Then their members reap the rewards their Union bosses have sown. Edit: Except, of course, government unions, which never go offshore since their employer never has to suffer losses, since the taxpayers and the Intaglio presses are will pick up any tab necessary. [/ QUOTE ] What industry's unions base wage scale directly on min wage, where a min wage increase would automatically increase the union scale? I can name 5 major unions that dont.
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#17
06-24-2006, 01:59 AM
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Re: who makes just min. wage?
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"You are so mean," you say? No, because anyone that wants to better themselves over the years and years and years they are working at Burger King can do so. They can take the GED, go to college, go to a trade school, etc. Failing to do so, they get zero sympathy from me. [/ QUOTE ] Many of the long-timers there were marginal people who probably had iq's just slightly above being retarded. I seriously doubt they could have gone to any kind of advanced school, or even obtained their GED's.
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#18
06-24-2006, 02:17 AM
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Re: who makes just min. wage?
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Me, when I was on Jury Duty. [/ QUOTE ] Second Thought: Actually BELOW minimum wage. Leave it to the government to pay below their own so called minimum wage law. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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#19
06-24-2006, 02:58 AM
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Re: who makes just min. wage?
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[ QUOTE ] Me, when I was on Jury Duty. [/ QUOTE ] Second Thought: Actually BELOW minimum wage. Leave it to the government to pay below their own so called minimum wage law. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] jury duty pay arent wages, you are not an employee of the court
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#20
06-24-2006, 03:45 AM
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Re: who makes just min. wage?
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[ QUOTE ] "You are so mean," you say? No, because anyone that wants to better themselves over the years and years and years they are working at Burger King can do so. They can take the GED, go to college, go to a trade school, etc. Failing to do so, they get zero sympathy from me. [/ QUOTE ] Many of the long-timers there were marginal people who probably had iq's just slightly above being retarded. I seriously doubt they could have gone to any kind of advanced school, or even obtained their GED's. [/ QUOTE ] This was my experience also when I worked in a cherry factory. There is a sizeable portion of the workforce that makes just enough to pay for food and shelter and aren't blessed with the requisite talent or intelligence to progress up the pay scale. Their work is hard and draining. Their housing is spartan at best, they have hardly any opportunity for recreation, and can't afford health insurance. A lot of them are really nice people even. Anyone who would fault a person with an IQ of 75 for failing to self educate is an [censored] in my book.
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