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To: Ilaine who wrote (106376)6/4/2001 1:46:03 PM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
>>>"Connect the dots" to what? Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs. They're for inexperienced workers just starting up the job ladder.

The only time I ever was paid minimum wage, I was a waitress, or a cocktail waitress, and I made so much money in tips that the tiny little paycheck I got was an afterthought.<<<

Well good for you. My experience was not unlike your own. So good for us. We were the pimply faced girl teens or early 20s somethings with then little waists and good legs working for tips while either living at home, the dorm or double and tripled up with roommates in a cheap apt. Yes, those were the days. What fun. Some day we knew we could look back and laugh.

And I don't for one minute think it's like that (or was like that) for everyone. Did it ever occur to you that this is the only road or the end of the road for many people. There's no up the ladder? That's there's no Mom or Dad paying tuition or co-signing a student loan? No opportunity for part time enrollment in school or a job training program because there's no time when your working every hour you can at a wage you can't support yourself with anyway?

And connecting the dots had nothing to do with the above. It had to do with why workers can't get the number of hours they want from their primary employer because there is a concerted effort on the part of many employers to not grant close to 8 hrs. a day or 40 hrs. per week so they can avoid the incidence of over time and incurring a benefits requirement...which you still apparently believe isn't the case.
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