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All I'm getting in this thread are a bunch of posters that haven't a clue to what it means to work at minimum or close to minimum wage. Nor is there a clue that many of those workers are over 50 and grateful for the jobs, part-time or full. Why? Those minimum wage jobs are starting close to $9 an hour, over $10 within a year.

Those jobs carry the ability to purchase healthcare and other benefits, working over 18 hours per week. Those living with parents, spouse, or some other supplement, can avail themselves to these benefits.

No, it doesn't help the single person, regardless of age. They can't afford to pay for the benefits, so they do without.
 
Annie said:
All I'm getting in this thread are a bunch of posters that haven't a clue to what it means to work at minimum or close to minimum wage. Nor is there a clue that many of those workers are over 50 and grateful for the jobs, part-time or full. Why? Those minimum wage jobs are starting close to $9 an hour, over $10 within a year.

Those jobs carry the ability to purchase healthcare and other benefits, working over 18 hours per week. Those living with parents, spouse, or some other supplement, can avail themselves to these benefits.

No, it doesn't help the single person, regardless of age. They can't afford to pay for the benefits, so they do without.
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Annie...have you been in a shoe box for the last 20 years? $9.00/hr is significantly below the historical level of minimum wage standards for the last 60 years when adjusted for inflation and currently $9/hr has virtually none of the purchasing power you mentioned.
 
Socrtease said:
Which proves my point, you know NOTHING about being a public defender. My first day on the job I got to review the case file for the two JURY trials I had in the next two days. Both domestic violence. I had no senior attorney go with me, because they all had trials for the next two days as well. I was trained to try cases in law school. I tried cases as clinic student and I argued motions while working for the death penalty defense unit. No one shadowed me for my first week, like they would at a restaurant or Walmart. No one got me up to speed on my cases, or sat with me while I met my clients. I met my client for my first trial on my second day 2 hours before he went on trial. I met my client for the next trial at lunch that same day. From day 2 through day 6 I had one jury trial a day. I was making 16.72 an hour as a licensed attorney. Everyday I went to work those 5 days, someone's liberty was on the line. Granted, that probably isn't as earth shaking as making sure the fries were done but when that week was over, no one was convicted, not a single defendant went to jail. Every day in the US thousands of New public defenders go to work and do the same thing I did, I they are worth a fuck load more than the fry guy.
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Meh.....I vote for the fry cook. ;)
 
Mott the Hoople said:
That was hyberbole you moron you ever hear of it? It's pretty freaken sad when you can't emphasize a point with a rhetorical flourish without some idiot taking it literally!
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Lmao... Sure mutt, in other words, you now realize your two positions are incompatible and thus are resorting to 'it was hyperbole' nonsense
 
Annie said:
I'm just sort of guessing here, they'd need to see results before change. Promises from those folks won't be cutting it.
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Certainly you aren't doubting the pledge of a liberal.....if they all signed a petition promising to eat there I'm sure they would all do it......
 
I don't understand why you guys think McD workers are unskilled......do you realize how hard it must be to paint that paste on a bun and make it look like it's really meat!.......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
I don't understand why you guys think McD workers are unskilled......do you realize how hard it must be to paint that paste on a bun and make it look like it's really meat!.......
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Tell you what....get behind the counter once during rush hours and tell me how easy it is. I've seen it, they are busting their asses.
 
Steelplate said:
Tell you what....get behind the counter once during rush hours and tell me how easy it is. I've seen it, they are busting their asses.
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I've done it. I also worked on the American river system on Barges. You have to take apart and put together barges every lock and dam, you have to go out on the tow and crank on huge turnbuckles that the industry calls ratchets, or tighten the cables with hand drawn winches. You have to carry 100 feet of one inch steel cable coiled up, a ratchet and a chain sling every time you go out to put barges together for the first time. You have to paint the tow boat in sweltering heat AFTER you have chipped off all the old paint by hand, and that is done EVERY year. Yeah, those poor Fry cooks.
 
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Socrtease said:
I've done it. I also worked on the American river system on Barges. You have to take apart and put together barges every lock and dam, you have to go out on the tow and crank on huge turnbuckles that the industry calls ratchets, or tighten the cables with hand drawn winches. You have to carry 100 feet of one inch steel cable coiled up, a ratchet and a chain sling every time you go out to put barges together for the first time. You have to paint the tow boat in sweltering heat AFTER you have chipped off all the old paint by hand, and that is done EVERY year. Yeah, those poor Fry cooks.
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Ya want a medal? I was a welder in Louisiana...when I got laid off from that in a slow time.....I worked in a creosote pit for a company that manufactured telephone poles that needed to be cleaned out to meet EPA regulations. In my teenage years, I picked tomatoes in the Summer and shoveled snow in the winter....

Btw...I think I call bullshit on your 100' of one inch steel cable. You want to revise your numbers or should I do some research on how much 100' of 1" steel cable would weigh? I looked it up....it ranges from 1.85lb/ft to 2lb/ft....so that means you were carrying between 185-200 lbs.
 
Socrtease said:
I've done it. I also worked on the American river system on Barges. You have to take apart and put together barges every lock and dam, you have to go out on the tow and crank on huge turnbuckles that the industry calls ratchets, or tighten the cables with hand drawn winches. You have to carry 100 feet of one inch steel cable coiled up, a ratchet and a chain sling every time you go out to put barges together for the first time. You have to paint the tow boat in sweltering heat AFTER you have chipped off all the old paint by hand, and that is done EVERY year. Yeah, those poor Fry cooks.
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Beats shoveling hazardous waste.
 
Steelplate said:
Ya want a medal? I was a welder in Louisiana...when I got laid off from that in a slow time.....I worked in a creosote pit for a company that manufactured telephone poles that needed to be cleaned out to meet EPA regulations. In my teenage years, I picked tomatoes in the Summer and shoveled snow in the winter....

Btw...I think I call bullshit on your 100' of one inch steel cable. You want to revise your numbers or should I do some research on how much 100' of 1" steel cable would weigh? I looked it up....it ranges from 1.85lb/ft to 2lb/ft....so that means you were carrying between 185-200 lbs.
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It has a 3 strand poly D core. You are right, it was not 1" solid steel that would be impossible.
 
Socrtease said:
I've done it. I also worked on the American river system on Barges. You have to take apart and put together barges every lock and dam, you have to go out on the tow and crank on huge turnbuckles that the industry calls ratchets, or tighten the cables with hand drawn winches. You have to carry 100 feet of one inch steel cable coiled up, a ratchet and a chain sling every time you go out to put barges together for the first time. You have to paint the tow boat in sweltering heat AFTER you have chipped off all the old paint by hand, and that is done EVERY year. Yeah, those poor Fry cooks.
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So - either that job paid a lot better than a fry cook's job or you were really stupid to be doing it instead of going for the easy life in the restaurant business.

Back in 2000/2001 I was hiring kids out of college with 4 yr degrees that thought $50,000 was a low starting salary; and they were right, we paid more than that.

Wages have changed over the years, since most of us were starting out. But minimum wage has not even kept up with inflation. Sad.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Really? Is it that way where you work?
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I assume you meant "Is that the way it is, where you work" and Yes it is.
I've been a line worker and I've been a supervisor.
You either do the work that's required and you do it to the expectations.
If you disagree with the way it is, you can either leave or wait until you get fired.
 
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