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Reps for T-Mobile are not making minimum wage. Almost nobody in the US earns minimum wage at this point, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of labor. You can make $15/hr

Reps for T-Mobile are not making minimum wage. Almost nobody in the US earns minimum wage at this point, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of labor. You can make $15/hr as an entry-level cashier - your first job, zero job history - at CVS and Walgreens, with tolerable health/dental/eye insurance. And if you're not entirely braindead you can trivially become a pharmacy intern (then tech) and start at $18-$20, with benefits. They'll pay for your licensing. You can make $18-$22 to start as a telemetry or video tech, with zero experience. Hospitals are filled with people sitting in rooms watching video monitors making sure patients don't fall over or hurt themselves, it pays 3x the minimum wage and requires zero experience. If you're making $7.50 /hr at this point, you're either living somewhere very barren (almost zero economic opportunities), or it's your own fault.

lrvick 3y ago
I think you may have missed the point. Even so, retail sales jobs are often heavily commission adjusted which makes this not so cut and dry. Sell sell sell, or you are well below the poverty line and quickly replaced by someone more willing to cut corners on the activities that are not profitable like carefully checking ID.
dmoy 3y ago
> Almost nobody in the US earns minimum wage at this point, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of labor. Almost nobody makes federal minimum wage. It's gotta be at 2%+ making state minimum wage though. CA for example has a minimum wage somewhere north of $15, and like 10% of the population makes minimum wage or less. That right there pulls the number for the whole country up to at least 1% making minimum wage, because CA is >10% of the population. (Extreme example, since CA also has the highest real poverty rate in the US (SPM, not the hilariously undercounting OPM)).
singleshot_ 2y ago
Sounds like a great gig! How do the pharmacy techs at Walgreens enjoy working there?

lrvick 3y ago

I think you may have missed the point. Even so, retail sales jobs are often heavily commission adjusted which makes this not so cut and dry. Sell sell sell, or you are well below the poverty line and quickly replaced by someone more willing to cut corners on the activities that are not profitable like carefully checking ID.

dmoy 3y ago

> Almost nobody in the US earns minimum wage at this point, it's less than 1/2 of 1% of labor. Almost nobody makes federal minimum wage. It's gotta be at 2%+ making state minimum wage though. CA for example has a minimum wage somewhere north of $15, and like 10% of the population makes minimum wage or less. That right there pulls the number for the whole country up to at least 1% making minimum wage, because CA is >10% of the population. (Extreme example, since CA also has the highest real poverty rate in the US (SPM, not the hilariously undercounting OPM)).

singleshot_ 2y ago

Sounds like a great gig! How do the pharmacy techs at Walgreens enjoy working there?