Posted on 08/09/2021 8:51:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Thinking about taking a part time job now. Debating what type of fun part time, I would like to have.
I think kids could work 12 hours per weekend starting with Fridays. Age 14. No interference with school work.
I’m 66 and I’m not retired. I enjoy my job...................
At 66 year’s of age is anyone going to take orders from someone their kids went to school with.
Won’t be long before the radical lefties start demanding $20 per hour.
Another nail — maybe the final nail — in the economy’s coffin.
Good for them, they have to live too.
$15/hr is not much money, some of you should try it if you think it is excessive. You will change your mind in a hurry.
Its better for the market to set wages rather than the government.
Any stats on how many grocery workers there are now?
Automated check-outs and automated warehouses will get ever more popular as wages rise.
I was in Aldi’s yesterday. Didn’t notice much sticker shock, except in the meat dept.
Sirloin steak was $9.99/lb, up from $7.99 two weeks ago, which from up from $6.99 a month or so ago.
So, the whole “prices have been rising without the minimum wage rising” argument just got shot down by their own damn numbers!
Grocery stores and restaurants (where inflation continues with fervor) have already been paying well above minimum wage!! Over $13 BEFORE the plandemic and now over $15 after the plandemic!!! What that means is since these workers, through the years, demanded pay raises their companies complied and then raised the company product prices to pay for those exaggerated salary demands (resulting in inflation, regardless of minimum wage)! Now imagine the amount of inflation if EVERY worker demands minimum wage to be $15, and then experienced workers demand a comparative pay raise!!!
This crap writes itself if you actually pay attention and note the details!
"Maybe it is because I'm the manager, " he said. Got to talking and he'd just taken the job. Owned a car dealership in his previous life and mentioned he was bored with retirement and needed something to do. The money was just the icing on the cake.
My employer started paying us an extra monthly stipend if we opt out of the company insurance . . . it is just about enough to pay my wife and my medicare premium.
Between that, a decent raise and letting me work from home four days a week, I told them I'd enlist for another year.
A young kid at 20 at one of my favorite pizza joints on tells me he works 50 hours a week. Great money except he’s in Florida so he probably makes 9. Still he seems happy.
Not yet. We had extraordinary numbers today.
Wow. 6,48 a pound at Publix in Florida. You must live in a rich area where even subpar Aldi’s is expensive. Sorry about that.
I’m lucky in that I have an abundance of shopping choices near me so I can shop the sales and still pretty much stay on budget. Those who aren’t so lucky are stuck downgrading their food selections or limiting what they buy. Every Tuesday my local Fresh Market sells ground chuck for $2.99/lb. Other stores sell it for at least $4.99/lb.
I had my first job as a sack boy at a grocery store in 1963. The job paid 90 cents an hour. Supposedly. The manager clocked us out at 9PM. We worked off the clock for another hour mopping, cleaning, etc.
And I stopped tipping the paid waitresses!
$15/hour = $30,600/year
If you work and earn $35,000, you have exceeded the $18,960 limit by $16,040. You lose $1 for each $2 earned in excess of the limit, so you lose ~$8,000 of your annual benefits. Your annual income from Social Security will be reduced to ~$5,000 because ~$8,000 of your benefits will be withheld.
Ain't that a kick in the pants?!
Where’s the beef???
I’ll say.
While in high school, I bagged groceries at 85¢ an hour (plus tips).
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