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This is funny. I worked close to minimum wage at a restaurant before. There was no wage negotiation. We had people coming in every single day looking for a job

by aestra 13y ago

This is funny. I worked close to minimum wage at a restaurant before. There was no wage negotiation. We had people coming in every single day looking for a job to work minimum wage. I would have been replaced in an hour, there was no leverage. What was I going to do?

WalterBright 13y ago
Reading your post closely, I infer a couple of things. First off, you were being paid more than minimum wage, and could be replaced at an hour's notice with someone willing to work at minimum wage. So at some point you successfully demonstrated a higher value than those others, thereby getting a higher wage. Secondly, you are no longer there at that wage. So you did something to demonstrate even higher value and a higher paying job. My advice: do more of that, since it was working for you!
- aestra 13y ago
  Minimum wage, as I recall (it was a long time ago) was around maybe $7 an hour, I was being paid around $7.80. Whooooooooo.... Yeah, the reason for that is because you get a nickel and dime raises when you learn a job. That is pretty much the highest any non-manager employee got in the restaurant. I was simply shocked as to how many people came in every day looking for an application. Every single day. It was amazing. These weren't teenagers either. Yeah, I'm not working in the restaurant business anymore because I'm a software engineer now. However, not everyone can become software engineers, and there is still a market for restaurants. I know I enjoy them myself. There is also a latency between age of employment and age that one usually acquires skills to be hired as a software engineer and not everyone has rich [read: middle class] parents to support them through that time. I also don't need your career advice. I would like to also point out I would never steal from my employer, or anyone else, it still goes against my morals.
  - WalterBright 13y ago
    > I also don't need your career advice. That's cool, but you asked and I answered, and I correctly inferred that you didn't need the advice. Glad to see you doing well, and Peace, dude! (I started out at min wage jobs, too.)
    - aestra 13y ago
      I didn't ask anything. The question was rhetorical. I am not going to go to the courts and say "my employer is paying me the wage they are legally allowed to pay me." That's ridiculous. That was the point My somewhat snarky comment was due being felt as if I was being talked down to. >Peace, dude! I'm a woman. Please don't presume the gender of an unknown speaker. It's rude and excluding.

by aestra 13y ago

WalterBright 13y ago

Reading your post closely, I infer a couple of things. First off, you were being paid more than minimum wage, and could be replaced at an hour's notice with someone willing to work at minimum wage. So at some point you successfully demonstrated a higher value than those others, thereby getting a higher wage. Secondly, you are no longer there at that wage. So you did something to demonstrate even higher value and a higher paying job. My advice: do more of that, since it was working for you!

aestra 13y ago
Minimum wage, as I recall (it was a long time ago) was around maybe $7 an hour, I was being paid around $7.80. Whooooooooo.... Yeah, the reason for that is because you get a nickel and dime raises when you learn a job. That is pretty much the highest any non-manager employee got in the restaurant. I was simply shocked as to how many people came in every day looking for an application. Every single day. It was amazing. These weren't teenagers either. Yeah, I'm not working in the restaurant business anymore because I'm a software engineer now. However, not everyone can become software engineers, and there is still a market for restaurants. I know I enjoy them myself. There is also a latency between age of employment and age that one usually acquires skills to be hired as a software engineer and not everyone has rich [read: middle class] parents to support them through that time. I also don't need your career advice. I would like to also point out I would never steal from my employer, or anyone else, it still goes against my morals.
- WalterBright 13y ago
  > I also don't need your career advice. That's cool, but you asked and I answered, and I correctly inferred that you didn't need the advice. Glad to see you doing well, and Peace, dude! (I started out at min wage jobs, too.)
  - aestra 13y ago
    I didn't ask anything. The question was rhetorical. I am not going to go to the courts and say "my employer is paying me the wage they are legally allowed to pay me." That's ridiculous. That was the point My somewhat snarky comment was due being felt as if I was being talked down to. >Peace, dude! I'm a woman. Please don't presume the gender of an unknown speaker. It's rude and excluding.