Its never enough. With all the women reporters doing emotion driven feature stories, i am so tired of this crap.
This is still a place you can make decisions and changes to give yourself a better life. Maybe put all the energy of b1tching and whining into actually improving your life in quantifiable ways, these people could actually make some real positive changes for themselves.
To his credit, the cook mentioned in the stories is taking culinary classes so that he can go on to be a (presumably) better-compensated chef.