Posted on 07/12/2017 5:38:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of my daughter’s is a lower level retail department manager for a national book chain.
She earns $11 something an hour and gives 110% to her employer and more importantly to her customers. She manages the children’s department.
Several mothers have told her that they want to go see her at the bookstore. They know her name and seek her out for recommendations and to have some fun.
She brings tremendous value to the company. I know that she’s got the eye of the store management and hopefully regional management. Hopefully, her reputation might bounce her up to a different position with higher wages and responsibility. In the meantime, she’s on the stepping stone. That’s what entry jobs are supposed to be.
Why not shoot for even more than $15? If the job is going away,anyway...DUH!! What’s wrong with these people? Entry level jobs were never meant to compete with the higher-paid jobs.
Until the USA gets a grip and cuts immigration to nothing, both legal and illegal, then I am for the minimum wage. You can’t have open borders and no minimum wage that is a one way trip to Brazil style economics.
The Chamber of Cronies and K Street has corrupted the Congress into keeping the borders open and as a result labor has very little value. There are to many people chasing to few jobs.
“In the meantime, she’s on the stepping stone. That’s what entry jobs are supposed to be.”
Exactly right. They were never intended to be lifetime jobs with which one could raise a family, but due to importing of millions of unskilled uneducated unassimilated third world democrat voters, that is just what has happened.
the love of money is the root of all evil.
more money solves very few problems, because the root problem is not usually money.
I’m doing my part. I’m no longer chasing any job. That feels wonderful. Now I have to demand that my wife raise my allowance to $15 per hour or I won’t do my chores.
Exactly.
Just tie the minimum wage to inflation and de politicize the damn thing.
Oh, please, keep us informed of the successfulness of that endeavor.
When my kids started their first jobs, I was actually upset at how much they were making.
I think the current minimum wage is too high. Perhaps they should have a staggered wage.
Min wage should be zero so the employer decides what a job is worth and the market determines if he is correct or not. But if the government decides there must be a minimum wage, for kids below 18, it should be 60% of that for people above 18.
There would be an incentive to hire kids and give them a jump start and my kids wouldn’t end up having more disposable income than I do. For many years we had virtually none because we were too busy paying for them.
My wife still gets all excited when she can go to the store and spend $20 without worrying about it.
If I was in the robot business, I would be contributing handsomely to the $15-per-hour activist movement. I would be giving as much as I could to the most militant, loud, violent, extreme groups in it.
” Again, making $21,000 a year as a cashier is no great shakes, but it’s better than going on welfare, needing unemployment compensation or idleness. “
Because that puts the unemployed and welfare recipient directly into the hands of the Democrat party. Everything the Democrats do is meant to destroy the human spirit and make the affected dependent on the Democrats for his next meal.
“She brings tremendous value to the company. I know that she’s got the eye of the store management and hopefully regional management. Hopefully, her reputation might bounce her up to a different position with higher wages and responsibility. In the meantime, she’s on the stepping stone. That’s what entry jobs are supposed to be.”
That’s wonderful. If she is that good and is adding value to the store, she will be rewarded for her work ethic.
I paid my own college tuition, as well as a large portion of that of two siblings, partially with cash earned before 18. I wouldn’t have enjoyed working my ass off for 60% of what my coworkers were making.
Maybe -- or perhaps they'll say "thanks for the memories," and cut her position into 3 for greencard holders.
The photo is quite telling. Nicely dressed white young adults holding professionally designed protest signs demanding $15 an hour minimum wages. Someone is paying them to protest. I wonder if they are getting $15 an hour to agitate against businesses that can’t afford to pay the demanded amount. I wonder who is paying them to protest. I wonder if it is someone with the consonants S, R, S. Can I buy a vowel, Alex? I would like an O.
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Until the USA gets a grip and cuts immigration to nothing, both legal and illegal, then I am for the minimum wage. You can’t have open borders and no minimum wage that is a one way trip to Brazil style economics.
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You can’t have WELFARE and open borders...
Even if govt were to throw the immigration doors wide open, w/o welfare, the influx would be min. to null.
Course, we’re discussing 2 areas where govt has NO AUTHORITY to begin, so the debate is moot.
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