"So you think you're better than me?"
Posted on 12/25/2008 5:42:17 AM PST by jimbo123
When the rich get a sniffle, their doormen get pneumonia.
Doormen say their tips are down drastically this holiday season as well-heeled residents deal with the stock market crash and waves of layoffs on Wall Street.
"A lot of people who live here work in the banking industry and on Wall Street," said Luis Delgado, a doorman at a building in West End Ave. and W. 81st St. "They have been hit. Many faced layoffs."
Delgado keeps careful track of who tips him and how much - for his finances, of course. Only 30 of the 90 names on his sheet had entries the other day.
"You feel it, but one needs to understand," he said. "It's a bad economy."
The other day, Delgado said, he helped a family of four get a cab in the bitter cold. After he loaded the luggage in the trunk, the man handed him just $2. Delgado said he accepted it graciously.
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“They have been hit. Many faced layoffs.”
Is it really that hard to save a portion of your income when you’re earning millions of dollars each year? I mean, I can save on the $30K or so I live on each year. Wall Streeters can’t plan for hard times?
(My Mailman got a box of cookies, and my paperboy got $10.)
Of course.
Liar.
‘Just wondering for whom these doormen voted. I have a feeling they are getting what they voted for in the forms of democrats who are largely to blame for the subprime crisis.
Well, at least the doormen are unionized workers with secure jobs. The pay is pretty good for a job that only requires a high-school education - they get about $40K a year, plus health benefits and vacations.
If they opened these types of jobs up to all applicants, there would be a million guys applying.
Turds of a feather flush together....
These guys make about $19.00 an hour to stand or sit around BS-ing with each other most of the day.
It may be one job where the unionization doesn’t add all that much cost: NYC is of course a highly taxed and expensive place to live, you don’t want just any Joe signing for packages, in and out of your apartment, or letting people into your building. And longevity is a plus.
It’s sad, but then, they wanted change and now they have it.
What’s a paperboy?
Chuckle, I know, I know.
some guys in the Doorman Union owe a long overdue acknowledgement to Ronaldus Magnus. This should have listened then and known better than to trust liberals in a recession.
Hi ETL
Sorry, I’m new here but could you please be more specific about how to get to your “smoking gun” page.
Thanks
btw, yours is blank ;-)
Thanks for the interest, and have a great Christmas season!
"So you think you're better than me?"
They don't report the tips, or if they do, not much of them.
With the Payroll Tax and Income Tax they don't pay, it's like they're making $150,000 a year. All this with no College Loans to repay or being accused of being part of the Evil Rich. Taxes are for chumps, like you and me.
One other thing, they all voted for Obama. Take that to the bank.
A trip to NYC is a giant sucking sound. Through expensive hotel rates, taxes, tolls and parking the dollars get sucked out of one’s pocket rather quickly....cab fares are not too bad though.
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