Posted on 02/08/2017 8:54:19 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
JoAnn Wise thinks she wasn’t treated well.
In an op-ed published Tuesday by The Washington Post, Wise writes, “I already know what Trump/Puzder economics look like because I’m living it every day. Despite giving everything I had to [labor secretary pick Andy] Puzder’s company for 21 years, I left without a penny of savings, with no health care and no pension.”
Wise worked for 21 years at Hardee’s, which is one of the chains Puzder leads as head of CKE.
“In 1984, I was hired as a cashier at Hardee’s in Columbia, S.C., making $4.25 an hour. By 2005, 21 years later, my pay was only at $8 an hour,” she writes. Dear reader:
“That’s a $3.75 raise for a lifetime of work,” Wise adds. “Adjusted for inflation, it’s only a 2-cent raise.”
Already, the left has jumped on Wise’s story:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
Nancy pelosi is still saying she won’t work with bush ;)
Maybe she would have had a better life if Hardee’s had an “up or out” policy. Every fast food worker either qualifies for and takes on a new position up the ladder or is fired after a year. Somehow I doubt she’d go for that. She’d rather blame Puzdner for letting her stay in her comfortable rut.
Wow I remember working two minimum wage jobs at the same time over the summer and Christmas vacations when I was in college, and before that, when I was a teen.
This concept that someone owes you a career is very strange.
Cashier at Hardee’s is hardly a career.
She should have improved her skill set and advanced herself.
Hey she has a pension so it’s all good.
In 1980, I was hired at a hot dog stand, in suburban Chicago, making $4.75 an hour. By 2001, 21 years later, I was making somewhere about $38 an hour (but not at the hot dog stand)
The hot dog stand worked around my schedule, as I was going to a local community college. Within a few months, I was making $5.50.
About 6 months in I was an assistant manager making $6.50
By the spring of '83, I had left the hot dog stand and was working in a factory as a welder for $8 an hour.
By '87 I was in another factory, welding for $12 an hour.
10 months in, I was shuttled between the welding shop and the machine shop. Filling in in the machine shop, when they were back logged, until the weld shop was backlogged. I also worked with the model makers for building the jigs and fixtures, as I had machining experience, but knew what was required to build the parts that the fixtures would hold.
In '88 I was next up to be a "Master Welder", making $15 an hour, but left and took a cut in pay to $5.50 an hour, to become an apprentice in a building trade.
Today, I make a whole bunch more than $15 an hour, have a pension, a 401k, and very good medical insurance.
ALL BECAUSE I chose to leave the hot dog stand. (Of course I chose to leave the hot dog stand BEFORE I was ever hired for the hot dog stand. Fast food was just a job to get me through school)
I love what I do, but it is physically demanding. I have to fight the extreme cold, or the extreme heat. Snow, or rain. Often times driving 60-80 just to get to work.
If I could work fast food, flipping burgers or working a cash register, for the pay and benefits I get, I would.
But since a cashier or burger flipper doesn't get paid what I do, I do what I do, so that I can make what I do.
There are SOME women that do what I do. But relatively few. They get paid the same hourly and get the same benefits.
And because they are women (aka a minority), they are the first hired and the last laid off.
Only been President two weeks and hasn’t even had all of his cabinet approved yet. That’s another facet of this completely ridiculous Democrat meltdown.
(Plus, she started working at Hardee's in '84. Reagan was President then. So it was his fault for 5 years)
looks like she didn’t teach her son anything he’s at Mickey D’s...
Twenty-one years as an entry-level cashier and no other source of income?
She should write a book about how she did it!
“I can’t make it on this, dad!”
“Of course not. And no one expects you to, son. So move up or move along...or make it work like this woman did for 21 years!”
I wont sign up for the WAPO. Some blanks parts to this.
this was 11-12 years ago. she had to leave because she had COPD. Prior to that, it was her choice to stay.
what has she been doing since ? SS disability ? new job ?
Ummm. OK, granted I was coming out of grad school, but as Joe Walsh sang, "Life's been good to me so far ... "
"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet riches to men of understanding, but time and chance happeneth to them all."
I started at Hardee’s in 1976 and left in 1977. I never expected to stay there. Back then they had pretty good roast beef sandwiches.
there are some people that really cant handle more then entry level work. there are many reasons but the biggest is motivation. the only reason anyone should stay at a job like that is they cant find real work.
FWIW, Carl’s Jr. is one of the few places that seems to actively recruit young people with Downs Syndrome. I’ve been to a number of them over the years where they have brought me my food.
I think the founder of the company had a downs syndrome child but there is a good chance I am wrong. if any on knows please say something.
I’ve seen servers in other establishments just lately, not necessarily Downs, but evidently of a limited sort. Very attentive, and adequate to the task, I should hasten to add.
Cold hearted economics says they will depress the wage scale.
I started at Roy Roger’s which was bought by Hardees. They specialized in Roast Beef sandwiches and “Pappy Parkers” fried chicken. Hardees eventually got rid of the roast beef and changed the chicken recipe for the worse.
NYT Book Review article author was complaining about getting less pay for doing the same work as men - while she was working for Hillary!, and the hypocrisy of it completely escaped her.
My first official job I worked at a minimum wage as a cashier at a movie theatre in 1998 and basically everyone there was under 25 years old (and most 16-20). I did that for about 18 months. ~20 years later I make 50x that amount. Since when were cashier positions supposed to be anything but entry level jobs (or staying busy retirement jobs)?
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