Author Topic: is it normal to hate your minimum wage job (Read 4618 times)

Waru · August 21, 2018, 02:54:35 AM

Quote from: King T�ny on August 21, 2018, 12:57:55 AM

minimum wage where I live ($8.25) at 40 hours a week lets you rent for a whopping $350 a month... the lowest around here is 3x the price of that.

Even where I work, as a base worker you're making minimum $11 which is still only $470 a month to have towards rent. Better have a roommate in your 1 bedroom apartment lol. To live on your own you would need to be making at LEAST double that to have enough for rent. Get forgeted if you're going to school too and you cant mentally or academically afford putting 40 hour weeks in with the load of school too, you'll be living with mommy/daddy until college is over. A lot of people pay their way through with overtime which I think is loving bananas because 40 hour work weeks are already handicapped. spending 23%+ of your entire existence a week being at a place you dont want to be at with people you dont want to see/interact with is horrible.

raises are bullstuff too. You have to have at least a 2% increase every year. I get a 2% increase. that's it. They give out 4% for kiss asses. I sure am glad to get a whopping .22 cents!! in only 16 years time I will be able to afford to move out.

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Writer The Wolf · August 21, 2018, 03:34:58 AM

I've had a job with no benefits, and no vacation, working at minimum wage with crappy managers that don't care for over two years.

Nothing makes you want to watch humanity burn to ash like a fast food job that doesn't care about you.

Mardalf · August 21, 2018, 05:13:42 AM

I think everyone should have the experience of being single and with no loans/ect and hate your job it's freeing not caring if you keep your current job lol

although 14/hr isn't bad at all there's opportunity around every corner

hootaloo · August 21, 2018, 07:23:33 AM

yes when i was doing min wage jobs i was basically selling my sanity for 3 bucks per hour i would come home every day exhausted and just go to sleep ngl im not surprised young me literally walked out on two part time jobs not to mention the managers at both of those places were all the ultimate example of starfish managers who decided to spend their life harassing teenagers doing stuffty parttime jobs at big chains

the only time doing part time is kinda fun is when you have a friend there but hell probably would be fun too if i had a friend there

Tactical Nuke · August 21, 2018, 08:06:55 AM

yes, the whole point of minimum wage jobs is to use them as a jumping-off point for your actual career

hootaloo · August 21, 2018, 08:07:32 AM

Quote from: Tactical Nuke on August 21, 2018, 08:06:55 AM

yes, the whole point of minimum wage jobs is to use them as a jumping-off point for your actual career

no its not what, i mean it could be but???? like my career isnt jumping off at the fryer or grocery store my brother. i wasnt even in college yet

Tactical Nuke · August 21, 2018, 08:13:08 AM

regardless of when you're working the job future employers look at your past experience to determine whether or not you'd be a good hire
minimum wage jobs are the only jobs where they don't necessarily do that because you're being paid so little that they're not making a huge risk in hiring you
that's why they're jumping-off points

hootaloo · August 21, 2018, 08:15:31 AM

i dont have them on my CV because the jobs are highly irrelevant to my expertise but yeah i could understand for other ppl like my buddy does CHR management & it would definitely be useful for him to have on CV

The Murderous Cop · August 21, 2018, 09:23:10 AM

Quote from: King T�ny on August 21, 2018, 12:57:55 AM

this is something i can actually agree with

King T�ny · August 21, 2018, 12:47:43 PM

Quote from: Waru on August 21, 2018, 02:54:35 AM

minimum wage where I live ($8.25) at 40 hours a week lets you rent for a whopping $350 a month... the lowest around here is 3x the price of that.

Damn.

Minimum wage is like less than 10 dollars here and the average for rent is about 700 a month.

otto-san · August 21, 2018, 12:48:56 PM

Quote from: Tactical Nuke on August 21, 2018, 08:06:55 AM

yes, the whole point of minimum wage jobs is to use them as a jumping-off point for your actual career

in practice this isn't really the case. people working in minimum wage jobs are definitely disproportionately young, but half of them are still 25+ (source)

tho regardless, business operates by profit, not ideals, and what makes profit is paying your workers as little as possible while squeezing out as much productivity as you can

King T�ny · August 21, 2018, 12:51:38 PM

Quote from: Waru on August 21, 2018, 02:54:35 AM

raises are bullstuff too. You have to have at least a 2% increase every year. I get a 2% increase. that's it. They give out 4% for kiss asses. I sure am glad to get a whopping .22 cents!! in only 16 years time I will be able to afford to move out.

What's more annoying is that my raises I noticed do not matter.

So for example minimum wage is 9 dollars.

I get a raise and now make 9.22

Then minimum wage gets raised to 9.50.

I make 9.50 instead of 9.72.

So my loving yearly raise meant nothing.

King T�ny · August 21, 2018, 12:54:22 PM

Quote from: Tactical Nuke on August 21, 2018, 08:06:55 AM

yes, the whole point of minimum wage jobs is to use them as a jumping-off point for your actual career

This is simply not true.

There are a lot of dangerous factory jobs that offer minimum wage and you have to be at least as old as 21+ to be able to even work there and you need at least previous working experience for it.

Please remember that minimum was suppose to be the minimum standard of living. Back in the 1950s a minimum wage job could feed a family of 4.

Aide33 · August 21, 2018, 01:38:37 PM

Quote from: King T�ny on August 21, 2018, 12:54:22 PM

This is simply not true.

There are a lot of dangerous factory jobs that offer minimum wage and you have to be at least as old as 21+ to be able to even work there and you need at least previous working experience for it.

Please remember that minimum was suppose to be the minimum standard of living. Back in the 1950s a minimum wage job could feed a family of 4.

is tony going full communism or is it just me

King T�ny · August 21, 2018, 06:25:07 PM

Quote from: Aide33 on August 21, 2018, 01:38:37 PM

is tony going full communism or is it just me

Communism, capitalism and socialism don't work.

We are at late stage capitalism and we are starting to see the negative effects of capitalism.

Back in the 1920s capitalism was great. now we know it's not so much.