“...I am bringing home about $400 every two weeks (I’d like to get more hours, but I’m lucky if I work 32 hours a week).”
I used to work two fulltime jobs while attending graduate school. What’s your excuse, honey?
“All I can afford to eat for lunch is a cup of coffee and a bag of potato chips.”
I used to eat rice with uncooked onion and Korean Korean teriyaki sauce for flavoring. You can get a 50 pound bag of rice and that will feed you for weeks. In other words, SHUT UP!
A lot of immigrants used to have their 2 or 3 kids in a two room apartment and eating wholesome, but bare quality, food and both parents each worked 60 hours a week to create a life for their kids.
My first job was in field service in power plants...long hours, jobs all over the west. You couldn’t maintain a home because you were always on the road.
A colleague was so cheap he’d buy cases of peanut butter and saltines at discount prices and live on that...and bank the per diem food allowance. He’s probably a multimillionaire today.
Public whining is so unbecoming. What a shame that nobody is ashamed anymore of saying anything in public. Not many years ago, the author of this essay would have been so ashamed that she wouldn’t be seen in public after publishing it.
There hours were cut to 32 thanks to Obamacare.
Pray America wakes up
Who the hell do some of these Americans think they are, thinking they
are entitled to have only one job and earn a respectable living!
She has time to work many jobs to make the income she desires. Heck,
if someone came into my office requesting more work because the other
job isn't enough hours, I would hire that person in a heartbeat.
That's what Americans call "Work Ethic" and I'll be damned if I feel
sorry for some lazy-assed person who wants somebody else to get the money for them!
Audacity, asking the President to force a company to pay them more money.
It 's the same President who is causing all the problems using Zerocare
to make companies cut worker wages, hours, and benefits.
So there lady. Get out of America, you are nothing but a lush!
Chicken salad sandwiches cost very little money to make and take up very little time. It costs next to thing to bring a Thermos flask of coffee instead of buying coffee at work. Yet she persists in spending money she doesn't have eating junk. My guess is she's lying about her food situation. One look at her photo tells me that she's taking in too many calories rather than too few. If she's really taking in $400 every two weeks, she's eligible for $200 in food stamps a month, as well as cash benefits. She's also eligible for CA's Medicaid program.
Vladimir998, strikes at the reality of today’s entitled society. I bet Sam Walmart ate the same way as he was starting WalMart those many years ago.
http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/history/sam-walton
JoMa
An apple or banana would be a cheaper, healthier choice.
Interesting that there is absolutely NO reference to her level of education or what skills she might have.
IF this is another dropout who didn’t think they needed high school & MIGHT have obtained a GED, then she is lucky to even have a Wal-Mart job.
IF you spend your life doing nothing to advance yourself, then I don’t have one ounce of sympathy.