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To: Kaslin

My minimum wage job was back in 1972.

Dishwasher/porter in a hospital. Paid $1.76 an hour (I think minimum wage was $1.60). Time and a half for holidays and anything over 40 hours a week.

Part time job while I was in high school.

Many a week I when over 40 hours - but that was because I was willing to work double shifts on weekends.


37 posted on 06/22/2021 5:43:23 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: PeteB570

One of my first minimum wage jobs was a dishwasher at a busy restaurant at Logan Airport. This was late 1970s so would have been $2.65/hr. Typically the manager would have two dishwashers on the dinner shift. But the guy I was paired with was a lazy bum and I ended up doing most of the work. When he was out sick, I could easily keep up with the dishes all by myself. The manager noticed and bumped me to something like $3.50/hr and let me work the shift by myself. That lasted a few months until I had to go to boot camp for the Marines. She was sorry to see me go!


44 posted on 06/22/2021 5:49:20 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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