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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Last night was "surf and coop."
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:23:03 -0400
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On 3/14/2025 6:05 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-03-14 2:49 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2025-03-14, Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> Employees are required to pay them more if their tips don't bring
>> them up to $7.25/hour.  Still a pittance, especially considering
>> how hard they work and what they have to put up with.
> 
> 
> How hard they work and what they have to put up with?  I realize they 
> have to hustle and have to deal with idiots but my sympathy my be a 
> little restrained when I think back to some of the jobs I had as a kind 
> that paid peanuts. I was a paper boy who had to deliver a heavy bag of 
> papers on a two mile route regardless of the weather. I was out on the 
> hottest days of summer and the coldest days of winter, in the heavy snow 
> and pouring rain. I made next to nothing doing it  and I also had to go 
> around and collect every week which  took 5 times longer than delivery, 
> and trying to squeeze that 60 cents a week out of adults.  Then the 
> summer I was 14 I worked for a house builder making basements for $1 and 
> hour, sweating my ass off in a huge hole in the ground and and pushing 
> around a bug  construction size wheelbarrow loaded with gravel or 
> cement. I picked strawberries in a field in the glaring sun for what 
> amounted to about 55 cents an hour.
> 
> I had a much better summer job while I was at university. I worked in 
> the furnace room of an alloy smelting plant.  I rarely had to work more 
> than 15-20 minutes  every hour but when I did it was usually hotter than 
> an oven. I had to wear long johns and a heavy wool coat to protect me 
> from the heat. I got burned almost every day on the job and one day 
> someone was  killed in the job. Hell I was  replacing a guy who had been 
> injured on the job and was off for four months. I later worked for the 
> highways department in various positions. Four people I had worked with 
> were killed on the job.  And servers have to carry heavy trays and be 
> nice to people?
>>
>> Let's see some server jobs available near me.
>>
>> $14-$20/hour
>> $14-21/hour
>> $15-$50/hour
>> $20-35/hour
>> $15-25/hour
>>
>> Now, maybe there's some kind of bait-and-switch, where these are
>> estimates that include tips.
>>
>> Shit, McDonald's is offering $17/hour for "Crew Team Member" jobs.
>>
> 

Hard to put that into perspective.  In 1966, I earned $5760. At that 
time, I had a decent used car that was paid for.  i got married.  We 
bought a house and furnished it. In 1970, I earned $8300, had a 
different used car, same house with two kids and my wife was always a SAHM.

My first house is now valued at about 20X what I paid.