when was the last time you worked for minimum wage?

[vash]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/23/BAFJ11UH46.DTL&tsp=1

[Tidybuoy]

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.

[Pazuzu]

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.

[Rick Lee]

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.

[URY914]

1977, I think it was $2.10/hr.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

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.

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

[trekkor]

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



KT

[Hard-Deck]

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

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by Snapper33

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
Working at a Schwinn shop

[trekkor]

What's minimum wage now?

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


KT

[Hugh R]

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

[scottmandue]

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


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

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.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by URY914

1977, I think it was $2.10/hr.

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

[alf]

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

[Superman]

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.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by Superman

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.

[tabs]

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

[Moses]

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).

[onlycafe]

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

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

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

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.