Minimum Wage

[tmleadr03]

Fast food workers are striking saying they need to have their wages doubled. They just can survive on what they make. Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!!


I have NEVER earned minimum wage. My first job was at Subway and I made a whooping 75 cents over minimum wage to close the shop. Minimum wage is a starting point (should be abolished anyways) and if you make yourself work more you will make more. It is for people entering into the workforce.


Now I hear about these people bitching about how they don't make enough and I laugh. My last paycheck was Oct 2011. Cry me a river. Don't like how much you make DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Work a second job, go to school, learn a trade, stop bitching and do something.

[TFOGGER]

I am self employed, and if I looked at my hourly pay, I'd probably go postal. Just a tick over $7 an hour, take home...

Tenacious, or just stupid? I've been doing this for almost 17 years now, and didn't draw a paycheck for the first 4+....

[Zundfolge]

Well the laugh will be on them ... double minimum wage and half of them will be instantly unemployed. Dumbasses.

[tmleadr03]

I am self employed, and if I looked at my hourly pay, I'd probably go postal. Just a tick over $7 an hour, take home...

Tenacious, or just stupid? I've been doing this for almost 17 years now, and didn't draw a paycheck for the first 4+....

Sigh. I didn't want to hear that.


I WILL cut myself a paycheck this year, if for no other reason then to say I paid myself after one year in a fixed location....

[Aloha_Shooter]

I made minimum wage when I pumped gas and when I was flipping hamburgers at Jack-in-the-Box. Honestly, half my min wage coworkers at Jack's didn't deserve much more than $1/hr. Used to have this argument all the time in college, primarily with kids who had never associated with anyone who had worked for minimum wage much less done that kind of job themselves but wanted to feel good about supporting a "living wage".

[roberth]

Minimum wage is part of the command economy, the government is the last entity that should determine how much someone should be paid for a task. The employer should make that determination and if no one will that the job at the offered rate the employer will have to increase the compensation.

[merl]

Like it or not they are doing something about it. They can demand more from their bosses and their bosses would say GTFO. So instead they take it public and rely on public opinion and sympathy to pressure their bosses (who should still say GTFO). I don't think they realize that they are rather low skilled workers and easily replaced.

[Great-Kazoo]

Sigh. I didn't want to hear that.


I WILL cut myself a paycheck this year, if for no other reason then to say I paid myself after one year in a fixed location....

Talk to your accountant regarding a quarterly bonus, vs actual paycheck.

regarding "minimum wage" In some business if not most unless you bring a lot to the table your entry salary is no where near what a skilled employee receives. Should the entry workers demand higher pay too? This is akin to the college mentality of "i have a degree" i need to make $$XX starting pay.

Start at the bottom and either work your way up, or to a better paying job.
Today's young American worker is going to find them self in the same job market as younger folks in England, Greece & France. UNEMPLOYED.

[Mtn.man]

I make WAY under minimum wage, being self empoyed.
Pres
COE
COO
foreman
QC manager
Accountant
payroll
Deliveries
material handling
purchasing agent


Oh well, let em bitch and then get a real job.

[Jamnanc]

Get a different job if you don't like yours. Work harder, earn more.