when was the last time you worked for minimum wage?
 

I can't agree with the Governor on this one. However, I would agree to put the legislators on minimum wage until they do their job.

State law gives him the right, and he apparently warned them earlier (not in this article, in other's I've read). It won't happen, but if he pretends that it will (he'll be back) then maybe the budget will get cleaned up a bit over the next week.

1986 at Ponderosa Steakhouse, washing dishes and bussing tables. $3.35 an hour back then and they were the only place in town that would hire 15 yr. olds. I was rich back then too.

1977, I think it was $2.10/hr.

You got minimum wage at 15? Lucky! I was making $3.00 when I was 14 and 15 (same time period).

Same with me, $3.35 doing food prep in '84.



KT

1984, $3.35/hr as an assistant pressman for the town newspaper. Bought my first car with it, a POS Mustang II.

Same wage, same year, for a whole 60 days, then got a raise, haven't been back since:D
Working at a Schwinn shop:cool:

What's minimum wage now?

I start employees with no experience at $10-15.


KT

1970 I think $1.75, of course when I was in the USMC I'm sure I worked for less than that.

Stockboy (I mean stock person) at J.J. Newberry.


We go through this every year with the budget... just so much political grandstanding BS. :rolleyes:

Arhnold is just using this to get a little face time.

BTW the legistrators are the first ot get their pay cut, big surprise that they always manage to pass the budget at the last minute.

LOL, I was ready to make the exact same post but I couldn't remember if it was $2.10 or $2.15.

$3.50/hr in 1986. Got a job cleaning the meat market at the local store the day after I turned 16.

Brilliant idea. I say we lay them all off. Make them get a real job. Save the taxpayers lots of money. We're better off without gubmit anyway.

Though I'm sure you intend sarcasm, it wouldn't hurt. Make legislators spend their LONG vacation working along side their constituents at REAL jobs. Might help with their detachment from reality and the average American.

One has to work to get minium wages....

I started working as a laborer at 13 years old. The boss said if I could keep up, he'd pay me minimum wage. I kept up and he paid me minimum wage plus 50 cents.

By high school I was making about double the minimum wage. The worse the job, the better the pay (generally).

1966.......$1.40 per hour.

I think in 1974 it was $1.65. I worked during the summer when I was in HS as a laborer on a new golf course project. My job was to take a wicker basket and pick up root fragments the big tractor left behind, fill said basket, walk back to truck, empty basket, repeat.

But a bottle of beer was 35 cents, so, you know, I got a little something for the effort. which was nice.:cool:

Funny, I don't recall ever making minimum wage. My first job was mowing lawns starting at 12, I typically made between $20-30/hr depending on my level of motivation. Even the crap job as a cook at BK in HS I think paid a bit over minimum.

Question, who pays only minimum wage in this day and age? Around here you can start at $9/hr as a convenience store clerk or working fast food.

The first job I ever had was selling Avacados on the street corner when I was 12...$3.00 an hour...that was more than double minimum wage.

BTW..I was working for myself...

I more than doubled my pay the following summer. In 1987 I was making $7 per hour at the Wendy's across the street from Ponderosa. We had negative unemployment in the town at that time. Supermarkets had packed crates sitting in the aisles. The summer of 1988 I was making $10 per hour in cash plus tips as a mover. That was back-breaking work though.

Hugh, add up the room and board, medical, dental, tax free housing income if you're on BAH and it's good jack actually. You probably made more than minimum wage.

Jan, Feb, Mar, April 1964 at 18 living on my own in Hawaii, working in a gas station and surfing every day and weekends. $1.25 an hour.

I know of a few SB owners who would [currently] be doing well to be averaging minimum wage! And then there's the corporate exec pay scale - $1 million if you run the company well, $10 million if you run it into the ground. Sign me up, I could use a bigger garage.

Ahh yes, working the drive-through at McDonald's back in 1985. Now they outsource that job!

I think (and hope) it is just a scare... Permanent workers just get their wage temporarily cut; retired annuitants, permanent-intermittents, student assistants and temporary help get terminated. Seeing as I am still in a transitionary phase, waiting for my diploma to be released from UC Davis, I might just have to start collecting aluminum cans on city streets. ;)

never made minium - First job I had 17 years ago I was making 7/hr to start and quickly got it up to 9/hr

1977

Can't hurt.

It's ultimately only a stopgap/time-buying measure anyway. The State of CA is GOING to go bankrupt and fail - the only question is when.

1974 - summer job working in a fiberglass shop. Shooting gelcoat, chop, rolling, etc. Can't remember how many 48 x 48 tabletops we made for the govt. a slight perk: got to keep a few "2nds" of tabletops, PLUS a dune buggy body that "for some reason or another" did not release from the mold perfectly and took a bit of gel coat with it. (Someone forgot to wax the mold)...Oh well, who needed the gold metalflake finish anyway? Working with many stoned bikers on the night shift. "Don't stand in one place too long around the molds as they roll through"...you'd get glassed to the floor by the overspray. My jeans could actually stand up by themselves after driving home and "setting up"...We'd wash our hands with acetone...ah, the good 'ol days.;)

In 1988...just out of Aerotechnical school as an aircraft mechanic at a small shop, in the north side of country...4.25 \ hour.

In H.S. worked in a liquor store/deli located in Montecito CA. Made $3.25 hr but drank much more than that... Also did construction labor, carried stone block for a mason, brutal on the body, for $12/hr cash. I only managed that gig for a summer before my body called it quits.

High School, 1989 or so at $4.25 at a hobby store building RC cars and Airplanes.

Never. My first job in High School was for a home builder. I don't remember what minimum wage was back in the early 70's, but I know I made more than that.

1982 - 1986 Usaf

At Slipko's Food King, in Niagara Falls, NY. Maybe a buck sixty five? I think I made $525. that year. In 1964. Bagboy and shelfstocker. High school job.

At A&T Hamburgers, Southgate, MI, back in 1976, I had a Camaro to support...

today.