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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (739422)9/14/2013 3:21:36 PM
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>> I actually saw a guy at Wendys once I think was worth $20/hr......he was an absolute dynamo............I saw him stay still only once .....and even then for maybe 10 seconds waiting on my baked potato, the guy was running in place.

This is the way it was back in the day when I was growing up. My dad didn't tolerate slackers even at a dollar an hour. Inflation adjusted, we would gross what a McDs or Wendys does today, and it would have been unusual to write 20 paychecks in a week.

There is a side benefit to this kind of work, though. We had a high school girl who worked for us and it is true, she never went to college, probably because she couldn't afford it. But she now manages a dozen hotels in the Northeast. She told me not long ago what she learned working for my dad was more important to her career than anything else she had done. She's not the first to tell me that; I recently talked with a guy who became a fighter pilot after working through high school at our fast food joints. He commented to me, "I wish my kids could have gotten that experience." Both of these kids were highly responsible employees, and could be counted on to deliver when they said they'd do something; I'm not sure that basic character trait is as common today as it was then, though.
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