I recently saw a sign in a restaurant reading, “the whole world is short-handed.” And here in California, it’s going to get a lot worse in a couple of days, when the $20-per-hour minimum wage kicks in.
Gee, in 63 my minimum wage job while going to college was $1 per hour as a fill in teller. By that standard today’s part time tellers should be making, on a yearly basis, 40 hrs per week times 52, times 20 ...40K with the pension, vacation, and the year end 10% bonus. There was no medicare deduction and SS was like 3%.
Of course the real wage came five years later for me, $100 a day once a month as an E1.
I wish today’s whinners had something to whine about.
I read about this. Thousands of pizza delivery drivers are losing their jobs in California.