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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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I cleaned rooms at a retirement village, assisted living and apartments, you guys have no idea what you can look forward to in your old age, lol.

I also did labor for a concrete finishing company in Kansas when it was 110 degrees, best shape I was in my whole life, I loved it, slept like a baby at night, ate whatever I wanted, but still couldn't drink, I love my beer and wine, but if I drink more than four, I am sick. I have a very fragile constitution when it comes to drink. When I do drink I am a hoot. I am a great dancer as well.

I use to tell my friends, because I was a very conceited thing in my early prime, "I may not be the best looking thing when I enter the room, but by the time I leave everyone will think I am.". Age has changed some of my attitude, but not all.

I am now babbling, but I just had some Tangerine Dreams and I feel like telling stories.
 
tekkychick said:
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.
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At that point in time, minimum wage was about 3.25 an hour. I made 65 per day working as a simple deck hand on the boat, 28 days on, 14 days off. We got paid 32.50 a day for our days off not to exceed 14 days. After 6 month I was a tankerman and loaded and unloaded petrochemicals and got paid 75 per day and 37.50 for 14 off days. I loaded Cyclohexane, Tolulene Alcohol etc. They fed us and gave us a clothing allowance. Christmas bonuses were two weeks pay and yearly bonuses were one months pay. We also had the use of an apartment owned by the company in New Orleans on Magazine above a clothing shop. It was pretty good for a while.
 
Rana said:
I cleaned rooms at a retirement village, assisted living and apartments, you guys have no idea what you can look forward to in your old age, lol.

I also did labor for a concrete finishing company in Kansas when it was 110 degrees, best shape I was in my whole life, I loved it, slept like a baby at night, ate whatever I wanted, but still couldn't drink, I love my beer and wine, but if I drink more than four, I am sick. I have a very fragile constitution when it comes to drink. When I do drink I am a hoot. I am a great dancer as well.

I use to tell my friends, because I was a very conceited thing in my early prime, "I may not be the best looking thing when I enter the room, but by the time I leave everyone will think I am.". Age has changed some of my attitude, but not all.

I am now babbling, but I just had some Tangerine Dreams and I feel like telling stories.
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Ohhhh...yes I do. My grandmother was in a retirement village, and I also work with the developmentally disabled.....while that's not exactly the same as a Nursing Home....it's close enough to know what to expect.

My best Physical Condition?....the Army...post Basic Training. I came home before I went to AIT...I had about a week. I met up with some friends and we decided to explore a cave that was across the river from our town....we walked across the railroad bridge and down the train tracks about three miles when we came upon the area where the cave was.

Now as a disclaimer....all throughout my school years, I was the fat, uncoordinated kid....always the last guy to finish wind sprints in football practice, always the last guy chosen for anything requiring speed or agility.

So...here we are....looking up at the mouth of this cave....it's on the side of an embankment about 300yds up...steep grade....but not so steep you have to climb like a cliff...just kind of crawl to keep your balance. There were three other guys with me....one of which was my best friend and fellow "fat guy". The other two were skinny as a rail and pretty physically fit for beer drinkers and dope smokers. I made it to the mouth of the cave before any of them...and it astonished me....I was always the guy who lagged, and here I was at the entrance with the two other guys right behind me and my best friend about 1/4 the way up. I had no idea how.much I had changed over 8 weeks.
 
Steelplate said:
Ohhhh...yes I do. My grandmother was in a retirement village, and I also work with the developmentally disabled.....while that's not exactly the same as a Nursing Home....it's close enough to know what to expect.

My best Physical Condition?....the Army...post Basic Training. I came home before I went to AIT...I had about a week. I met up with some friends and we decided to explore a cave that was across the river from our town....we walked across the railroad bridge and down the train tracks about three miles when we came upon the area where the cave was.
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Now as a disclaimer....all throughout my school years, I was the fat, uncoordinated kid....always the last guy to finish wind sprints in football practice, always the last guy chosen for anything requiring speed or agility.

So...here we are....looking up at the mouth of this cave....it's on the side of an embankment about 300yds up...steep grade....but not so steep you have to climb like a cliff...just kind of crawl to keep your balance. There were three other guys with me....one of which was my best friend and fellow "fat guy". The other two were skinny as a rail and pretty physically fit for beer drinkers and dope smokers. I made it to the mouth of the cave before any of them...and it astonished me....I was always the guy who lagged, and here I was at the entrance with the two other guys right behind me and my best friend about 1/4 the way up. I had no idea how.much I had changed over 8 weeks.
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I thought about you after I wrote it, I know you have seen some "stuff"

I was a softball playing, reformed cheerleader, soccer player, always a team sport player, honor student who was a child of the 70's, feminist, mother, grandmother, wife, reformed church goer, lol. I am one of those liberals that makes the far right pray for me. I get a lot of conservstive's prayers. I do appreciate them.
 
Rana said:
I thought about you after I wrote it, I know you have seen some "stuff"

I was a softball playing, reformed cheerleader, soccer player, always a team sport player, honor student who was a child of the 70's, feminist, mother, grandmother, wife, reformed church goer, lol. I am one of those liberals that makes the far right pray for me. I get a lot of conservstive's prayers. I do appreciate them.
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Amen sister. You have this liberal's prayers also.

Actually, when I get to that point in my life where I need someone to wipe my ass? I will not be depressed, I will not feel defeated or demeaned. I will demand respect from and I will give respect to my caregivers. If one does that...and helps the caregiver as much as possible to do their job? A bond is created, you become one of the "easy ones", and life can be OK in a situation like that...both for the person in need of care and the caregiver.

Of course, if my mind goes before my body(I pray NOT), all bets are off....you cannot control confusion, fear and dementia.
 
Big Macs Would Only Cost 68 Cents More If McDonald's Paid Workers Double

http://www.alternet.org/print/news-...rkers-double-without-big-increase-food-prices

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Steelplate said:
Amen sister. You have this liberal's prayers also.

Actually, when I get to that point in my life where I need someone to wipe my ass? I will not be depressed, I will not feel defeated or demeaned. I will demand respect from and I will give respect to my caregivers. If one does that...and helps the caregiver as much as possible to do their job? A bond is created, you become one of the "easy ones", and life can be OK in a situation like that...both for the person in need of care and the caregiver.

Of course, if my mind goes before my body(I pray NOT), all bets are off....you cannot control confusion, fear and dementia.
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My parents are in their 90's, their bodies are giving up, but their minds are sharp, my mom's more than dad's but they are still coherent. Knock on wood!
 
We need to work on getting them better jobs rather than trying to make my big mac cost $12 or cause most of them fired...
 
Damocles said:
We need to work on getting them better jobs rather than trying to make my big mac cost $12 or cause most of them fired...
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In the OP...I believe that the cost was $.68/Big Mac, and that was giving similar raises from the CEO on down to the newbie.

Of course, I can't verify the accuracy of that statement...
 
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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A lot of jobs are hard. Working at McDonalds isn't anywhere near the top of my toughest jobs list.

Work as an apprentice lineman. Then tell me how hard it is to flip burgers.
 
Damocles said:
We need to work on getting them better jobs rather than trying to make my big mac cost $12 or cause most of them fired...
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That's very true but it's also beside the point. It's their right to negotiate for their conditions of employment. Not to mention I have absolutely no problem with a Big Mac costing $20.
 
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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Oh yeah, well I once worked as a cashier at Flower Time, and I was always assigned to the outdoor booth because they trusted me not to steal, and during christmas tree season it was freezing in that booth, AND I was forced into making out with the hottest yard guy there to keep warm in between his packing up christmas trees.

So...Okay? Yeah.
 
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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No Annie, trust me, I well understand that there exists a large number of beaten down Americans who have been taught to be "grateful" for their scraps. Without people like you, this whole thing doesn't work.

The day you lose your feelings of gratitude is the day they hope never comes. They also work very hard to ensure that it does not happen.
 
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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wtf are you going on about.......one, unskilled and busting your ass are not mutually exclusive, if anything the less skilled you are the MORE you have to bust your ass.....two, I said nothing about them having it easy, anywhere....
 
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