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Warbux 
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,12:30 pm |
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A cousin of mine recently reported to me that after spending over one year in the employof a local super market, he was still making less than $6 per hour. Oh my! I have employed people in my business for over 40 years and my coment would be if I couldn't do better than that for them, in 2003 after all, I probably would close or sell out.How on earth can you have a friendly smile in every aisle while paying the smilers $6 per hour? So, to make it, 2 in the family have to work. That makes $12 and hour, $480 week, $24,960.00 annually for the family. So, 3, 4, or 5 have to work to support a family. So, today I talked to a person working at a local discount store who makes $6 per hour. She is fortunate, for that is a part time job and she has another full time job to carry her over.
So, someone tell me, please, how a person is to exist on $6 per hour. I am listening. Hey...! THIS IS A REPUBLICAN TALKING. I NEED AN ANSWER.
Warren Jensen
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minnow
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,12:50 pm |
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Well, these are entry level, unskilled positions that require little in the way of training and experience. You can't rely on others to provide you with a comfortable living just because you're working.
Imagination is key...the ability to adapt. Money is all over the place if you know where to look. You can make $100,000 a year cleaning carpets in Rochester, or by even washing windows in residential neighborhoods.
You can go to one of the local CC or trade schools in the area adn get into something like heating and cooling. These guys are living in $300,000 new homes. You can learn construction or some facet of it. The options are endless.
You're not poor...you're just out of ideas...imagination. Don't look to others to provide what you can get for yourselves. This isn't a dress rehearsal...it's real life.
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LisaMarie
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,12:55 pm |
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My sister has been working at a local gas station for over three years and still isn't even making $8/hr. She's been denied raises the past two years because the store "can't afford it," but since then they have repaved the parking lot TWICE and added a new pizza kitchen. :rock:
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hoosier
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,12:58 pm |
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Nice post Warbux. people have to realize that a family of four, with one person making 10 bucks an hour working fourty hours a week, 20,000 bucks a year, are living in poverty. I noticed the jobs you mentioned are in the service industry. You are right, we have way to many of these types of jobs in Albert Lea. We need high paying industrial, and high tech jobs. Without those, who has the money to spend on the service industry? I have lived here for nearly 10 years, have not worked in AL yet, worked in Owatonna, Austin, and Glenville. Come on, Glenville? My last year at Glenville High School, I was head custodian, with my overtime, I made 31,000. Thats ok, if your spouse has a good job, if not, for a family of three or four, that would be barely enough to survive. Thank god my wife has a good job, other wise, I would have had to looked for another, higher paying job, or just barely make ends meat.
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Frustrated
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,4:05 pm |
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A person needs to be smart enough to realize that most jobs at gas stations and grocery stores are not careers. People should realize that staying in a kids job for 10 or 20 years is a serious mistake. There is absolutely no good reason for an employer to pay extra for experience that does not add value - it only increases the cost of goods and services. As we grow older we need better jobs with better pay, retirement plans and health insurance - especially if we intend to raise a family...
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minnow
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,5:41 pm |
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yup...good call.
In a year or so I want to hire some help. I want someone to do the grocery shopping, prepare meals, do dishes and clean up. Maybe do a load of laundry.
And perhaps a driver or chauffeur for about 15 hours a week.
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Mamma
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,7:39 pm |
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Hell, Minnow...you're looking for a mother. 
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,7:55 pm |
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My girlfriend works 8 hours for a charitable gaming organization and 8 hours at a bar as a bartender she makes 9 bucks an hour at one and 8 bucks at the other.she works 16 hours a day 5 days a week and 8 hours one day a week. to raise her kids and take care of her family. She is a single mother of two, with her mother who is handicapped living with her. She is here working for the gaming organization which helps keep expenses down and the store makes the mall rent and utilities and that is about it. 
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Minnow's Mother
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,8:07 pm |
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Minnow if you would get off the couch and start working off some of your Michelin tire, then maybe you could take care of yourself for a few more years! Get rid of the fat and tone up them muscles, because toned muscles will better carry your frame. Otherwise, I am not letting you move back in!
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churla
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Posted on: Sep. 09 2003,8:48 pm |
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so warren what do you pay for wages?also heard when that other grocery store came back in town they hired some that had been full time back as part-time.
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