Daily reminder to act your wage.
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I've been a postal worker in the UK for 10 years. When I started, it was quite significantly over minimum wage. Now it's so close to minimum wage that they've had to cancel our salary sacrifice benefits schemes because using them would take us below minimum wage...
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>“I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? ‘Hey, if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.’” - Chris Rock
The same is true when someone dates an 18 year old when they are a full grown (over 25) adult.
Yep, and make everything take forever until they start listening. Or just stop working as a collective. May Day 1889 needs to make a come back.
The French Revolution needs to make a comeback.
Minimum wage: * Minimum Effort during paid hours * Minimum Compliance * Minimum Care about the work * Minimum Access to my time
I agree with the sentiment but it *used* to mean the bare minimum someone could be paid and still have a life of comfort and not poverty. It's infuriating how long it stagnated.
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Minimum wage also means you don't need to put up with work bullshit. The worst they can do is put you at risk of an equal or higher paying job elsewhere.
As long as the job market is relatively good. In a bad economy losing a minimum wage job means it could take you months to find another minimum wage job. Unfortunately there's many of us who know what that situation is like and trying to survive the gap between jobs can be dev...
I'm going to give you Gen X advice, but it's worth even less than minimum wage. Early on, I worked with integrity because I believe it was an extension on myself. That said, I never worked overtime until my professional career. Since I was highly productive, naturally mgmt wa...
I would love to, however I respect customers too much to do them dirty. So I do utmost to make them feel well serviced. However I am late to work daily. I am paid very poorly and no increase for three years now, so I gotta steal back from employer somehow. I am sick of it all ...
I was a General Manager for a 3 location car wash chain that paid mainly highschoolers and most of the part timers minimum wage. Our state put a 5 year plan in place, increasing min wage by $1/yr every January. The owners (my bosses - two brothers) had given a few good employe...
EXATAMENTE
Mandatory post it note for every corporate employee
They Might Be Giants plays in my head every time this topic is discussed. The one point I think is most important for minimum wage positions is they should NEVER be *expected or required* to respond to any employer correspondence outside of posted working hours.
"You get what you pay for" goes for labor, too.