[steelhead_trout]

“The problem here is that there is a move afoot to redefine what an entry level job is and what the pay should be. I worked for $2.85 an hour when I first started working...and I was damned glad to get it.”

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I worked for $2.50/hr. and thought that was fine. But that was back in the 1970s. $2.50 in those days was probably like $10 now, adjusting for inflation. Postscript, I had a summer job in 1979 that payed $4.50/hr. and people thought that was like “wow.” That’s probably close to $20/hr. in 2014 money.

[Lazamataz]

Curiously, Willie, *I* (in that timeframe) had a job paying *8.25* an hour.

WHILE I attended college.

And I did it without unions or light rail!

Wonder how I did that. Hmm. Maybe I had a marketable skill, and then met the needs of an employer.

[SZonian]

I don’t believe it’s W-M’s place to adjust for inflation or any other failed monetary policy of our government and then pay their employees...the problem as I see it is that folks have been conditioned to believe that they’re worth more than they really are.

I knew going in that I had absolutely NO experience in my new job...and obviously, my employer knew that as well...why should they have been forced or coerced into paying me more based on inflation, something they had no control over?

Again, there is a mind set being created by use of the vocabulary and these folks are conditioned to believe it...because it’s so oft repeated and then sugar coated with examples of wealth and the OWS nonsense.

I barter with my employer...he uses his cash to gain my skills, effort, knowledge and work...W-M is doing the same, it’s not their fault their employees are either too stupid or too dumb to realize this.