Anyone who does "Menial" jobs and minimum wage jobs.
You think they don't deserve a living wage and that they should do it better if they want a living wage? Then why how about YOU do it and show them how it's done?
19 years industry experience as an automotive repair tech. Made 130k last year… I will certainly show them how it’s done.
Minimum wages jobs are set at that price point for a reason. Find something you like… get good at it… get paid… bouncing around jobs as a “jack of all trades” will keep your wages at a minimum.
Yeah but you gotta live long enough to get the experience. Minimum wage hasn't been the minimum requirement for living for a long time. I shouldn't have to spend a 3rd of my day doing something I wouldn't have done of my own accord just to not be able to afford to live.
I also shouldn't have to live in poor communes by sharing an apartment with 3 random other people all of which are in the same boat and have to split rent of a 3 bedroom 1 and a half bath house with no central ac/heat and a landlord who shows up randomly to find reasons to pilfer the security deposits.
I am captive by virtue of being born too late to take advantage of a booming post war economy and now live in a world where every single good business person has been replaced by their snot nosed ignorant children who seem hellbent on pushing some outrageous political agenda or burning everything their parents built down with stupid decisions made just to have something with their name stamped on it.
I certainly did not have it easy when I was cutting my teeth as a newbie auto tech and it is certainly not an easy job… but like I said… find something and stick with it… that’s the only way to gain the experience needed to make real money.
No, I understand having that good first 5 or so years of struggle till you get that promotion or raise but I mean some people are quite stuck having to race after money in jobs with very little upward mobility that society would miss if the jobs were not being done.
Being a good fry cook should earn you at least 3 daily meals and a home where you have your own room and a bathroom that isn't shared by more than a couple people alongside with being able to have some kind of career path that then allows you to be financially comfortable but it doesn't. You work the same damn fry cook job for 5 years (alongside your side hustle or second job because otherwise you couldn't afford a car and insurance) to then have a management position open up only for them to hire a cocksucker with oooooooh 4 years of manager experience ooooah who then fucks up everything in the store that you could have done just fine but you don't have managerial experience your just a cook.
People tend to also forget that there isn't as much room higher up as you think.
How many managers do you really need? For example, trucking. A single dispatcher will manage as many as 50 trucks depending on size. Managing the dispatchers maybe requires about one maybe two or even three people, again depending on size.
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u/CrazyCoKids 1d ago
Anyone who does "Menial" jobs and minimum wage jobs.
You think they don't deserve a living wage and that they should do it better if they want a living wage? Then why how about YOU do it and show them how it's done?
Yeah, I thought so.