My friend’s kid got a raise because he showed up to work on time 2 days in a row (his first two days of work). Isnt showing up on time for work a requirement?
Welcome to the “everybody gets a ribbon” society.
How much was the raise?
either way if it was 25 cents or a dollar, that’s lame.
Not sure. Kids 17 making around $10 hr to hold a sign.
Back in my day I was paid less than minimum wage to shovel shit. Minimum wage was around $4.25. True story.
I started off at 5.50 an hour sorting through peoples dirty bottle returns. Minimum wage at the time was 5.25 or so. Worked hard the whole summer and my boss told me one day “you make all of the older and more experienced workers look slow” and at the end of the summer I was bumped up to $6. Now that is when you give people raises, not for showing up on time 2 days in a row. Boss must have some lazy trash working for him.
10 bucks holding a sign…wow. I guess rain or shine he has to be out there though. Gets to work on his skin cancer/tan though.
Isnt showing up on time for work a requirement?
Depends where you work and who your boss is. Where I work, showing up
on time is optional. There are several people who show up 15-30 mins late
every day, and there are no repercussions.
Maybe the manager knows he’s got a good one and wants to keep him.
Who knows how many other people flunked out before.
Still, disappointing.
Back in my day I was paid less than minimum wage to shovel shit. Minimum wage was around $4.25. True story.
Back in my day I had to get up at 5AM and walk 2 miles through snow to shovel shit for free. And I liked it. True story.
dude, of course he got a raise for that. I bet the average person in that job runs off with the sign halfway through the day. Boss was probably so shocked that he stuck it out that he had to do something to keep him.
I’d say take your curmudgeon act somewhere else, but I know it’s so popular around here.
Back in my day I was paid less than minimum wage to shovel shit. Minimum wage was around $4.25. True story.
Back in my day I had to get up at 5AM and walk 2 miles through snow to shovel shit for free. And I liked it. True story.
Back in my day I had to get up at 4:59am and walk 2.1 miles through acid rain to shovel yellow cake uranium, and I paid them $5 for the experience. I loved it, and true story. You kids today just suck so much ass.
I can remember $3.10.
Up hill both ways?
Not sure. Kids 17 making around $10 hr to hold a sign.
Whenever I visit the USA and see those people holding signs on corners I feel extremely sorry for them. Sure it’s better than begging on the street but what a horribly demeaning and boring job. Worse because it’s out in public.
Then I think, ‘is that really cost-effective marketing’?
“I bet the average person in that job runs off with the sign halfway through the day.”
I get that and I bet you are right 9 times out of ten. I am not criticizing the kid, he did what he signed up for. Last time I checked thats what your supposed to do, honor your commitments. My post was a general comment on the decline of society as we know it when you get rewarded for mediocrity.
I am a whopping 33 yrs old yet I had a paying job before I was in high school (I did not work for my parents, actually I did that too they just didnt pay me since I grew up on a farm and that was expected). I know many people before me had it much worse than me. Hell many people my same age had it worse than me but at least when I said I am going to take this job that job etc. I finished it.
I’ve pitched cow shit, horse shit, chicken shit, pheasant shit, pig shit and cleaned toilets for cash. I’ve poured concrete (this was the first and only job I worked over 80hrs a week loved that overtime plus I was to tired to spend it), worked for a bee keeper (yes I got stung), thrown hay bales (I think that was worse than all the shit I scooped) shingled briefly and served coffee. The point is no matter how shitty the job (pun intended) I never walked off because it was to hard and I never expected someone to give me a raise for a job I agreed to do.
The “average person” who takes a job holding a sign and quits probably is going to end up standing on a corner holding a sign anyway.
“curmudgeon” I’d hate to play scrabble against you.
I get what your saying I really do but I am pretty sure if I was given the choice at 13 yrs old to do physical labor scooping shit in private or stand out in public holding a sign for more than 2x pay of scooping the shit I’d put up with the boredom. Of course I am probably just reminiscing through rose colored glasses.
Here’s my true story for you. I worked for food service at the university. They had a policy where you got an extra $.20 an hour if you had a meal plan because free meals was part of the compensation. During the summer my rate got bumped back $.20 an hour.
The following semester they got rid of that rule. My rate stayed at the $.20 lower rate while all of those who went home for the summer returned at their previous semester rate (ie Because they didn’t work during the summer, they never got their rate reduced.). I had to beg to get my $.20 back and was told that I finally got it because my manager was tired of hearing me whine.
I worked my ass off at that job and eventually got the dish room to a point where I could do the work of 5 people. That’s not an exaggeration. What they used to get done with 6 people I could get done with just me and one other person. I got no raise. In fact, I made less money because I could get the work finished faster which then reduced my hours.
In the end, I found out that the conference center guys got paid roughly the same and they just sat on their ass, legitimately, all day. Set up a room…wait 4 hours…take it down. I quit my job and took a job there.
I’m an asst director of a summer camp; it is hard to get counselors to show up on time. We have a sign-in sheet they have to initial in the AM; I feel like I shouldn’t have to do that with HS/college students.
General lack of responsibility, it is.
Honestly. It depends on the job, the env, the number of hours you have to put in, the availability you need to provide,etc…
Fred.