Posted on 07/23/2007 5:02:41 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
my 15 yr old is just waiting to turn 16 so he can go out and get a job.
My first job was a secretarial job that paid $2.35 an hour.
Damm. Ignorance would be better. At least that can be cured by edumacation.
Weren’t the temp! Thinkin bout “Supersized Big Macs” got er cranked up.
But what some would say is that because these people have so much, they obviously are shorting their employees. But the same issues apply here, that I posted, accept 8 times more.
A simple $1 an hour raise won't raise an employees lifestyle much. But $1 per man hour could make the difference between being in business and out.
I know! How I prayed for the diagnosis of ignorance but when all the tests were in it was the dreaded stupididus dumassimus,In it’s latter stages, I’m afraid it’s incurable.
They do have tattooed, pierced, ill educated and rude teens working there; lots of them. The word was that you could only be hired there is you knew someone who had worked there or was working there.
So she took a job as a waitress at a small tearoom and worked for her father as a researcher and transcribing.
I worked at an A&W as a cook. I remember sitting in math class the next day, elbows on the desk, head resting on chin, and smelling the grease on my hands.
That actually wasn't that bad of a job, all things considered. Living in Iowa, I worked detassling corn (for you city slickers, it was trying to get corn pollenated, for next year's seed crop). Basically you hit the field at 6AM, in 5 foot high corn, got soaked with dew, plucked the tassles out of the top of the corn, and then by midday, you were burning up to the heat and humidity in a windless cornfield, while you got all chafed from your wet clothes. Plus you got cut by the corn leaves, and had to walk miles. But....
It was a great incentive to study hard in school, to know I didn't want to be at age 30 and beyond with some extreme manual labor kind of job. Some people might like that, and that's ok, but I would rather use my noggin, than my back (and that is what I am doing now).
Much of that work has been taken by our friends from south of the border, though there still are some amount of Iowa teens doing that work. Mexico must really suck, if they would come 1000s of miles to do that crappy job.
Oh PUH-LEEZE! If I would have let the bruthas intimidate me when I worked a graveyard shift job at a hotel in Chicago while in Grad School”
Did the “bruthas” gang jump you and beat the hell out of you?
Did they come after you with knives?
Some of these illegals will kill you over a menial job.
And what effect does 30 years of abortion on demand have on the entry level labor pool...
May I suggest that you use your contacts and search out a better job for this obviously dependable worker. Perhaps one with medical benefits and a higher pay rate.
Just drop off a job application in an envelope preaddressed to the ‘new’ company.
Looks like a strap to me.
It had a weak moment. I’m sorry.
Here in San Diego you can not find anyone who works in any fast food place that speaks any English other than the usually middle-age manager.
When I went thru Oregon and into Washinton last year I couldn’t believe that there were ordinary white high school kids working at fast food places there. I was in the twilight zone. And high school kids pumping gas in Oregon!
I think this article is being put out to justify their hiring illegals for slave wages.
It may be, but it’s the thought that counts.
It may be, but it’s the thought that counts.
Mike Nifong is available.
LOL that was a good one!!
The Cato Institute has a report out that goes into great depth about the correlation between depressed wages due to influxes of illegal aliens, and the effects on the poor and working class children in this country.
Do you think the rise in the minimum wage may bring more teenagers and other underemployed groups into the working realm?
A wise observation - a sign of a successful leader.
This chain will simply need to pay its help more, even if it means raising prices. Teenagers expect more because of a robust economy and mom and dad bringing in more. McD's has plenty of resources to research an adjusted cost control model to accomodate this. It's all a part of free market economics, the Invisible Hand.
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