working minimum wage stinks, but it doesnt really affect me. havent got a minimum job since i was 16

i always thought min was 9

we've been hiring everyone at 9

... the more you know

The longer I'm on RS, the more I agree with 89blkcivic. WTF??? :p
Yeah, back in the day, if we wanted to spank it and there was no access to your dad's or your friend's dad's porn, we had to rely on Sears catalogs and a lot of imagination............ :D

We're still at $8 an hour? Fuck, I used to make that at KFC .......... in 1992!?!? Then again when I started working, min. wage was like $3.50. You worked an 8 hour shift and got paid for 8 hours - including breaks.

Minimum wage should at least keep up with the cost of living.

this is encouraging kids have "hustles" on the side..... :D

The Hate U Gave Little Infants Fucks Everyone

If you got zilch for skills, then you get minimum wage.

If you want more than minimum wage...GO TO FUCKING SCHOOL. Don't complain about minimum wage being too goddamn low.

Holy shit, minimum wage is $8? How do these smaller businesses stay alive?

I like the Herrow Kitty poster on the wall..

Thats not a wall, its a window?

What's minimum wage in HK?

I think the Mcds in Taiwan they still pay $3CAD/hr lol

minimum wage in korea is around $3 as well.
students in korea rarely work, they just study study study till they get a real job.

Man, this topic has so many roots, it stems into everything. Min. wage should be on par with the cost of living. If not, then what? More homelessness? More welfare? More debt?
It's not as easy as lowering or raising the min. wage because if you do one or the other, something else has got to give.

If the cost of living is $8.00/hr then that's the way it should be. But if it isn't then hike it or lower it. But it's just that ... a minimum wage. I rarely see jobs being posted at $8/hr and when I do, it's for people who want to paint houses or some brain dead job anyways.

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most expensive city to live in, lowest minimum wage

ironic

real prostitution

Like others have said it doesn't affect me haha. I haven't even ever worked for minimum wage before. Pretty much the first job I ever had started at $15 fuck $8.

I agree fully w/ all the comments against a higher minimum wage

min wage goes up, price of everything goes up
so who really gets fucked is the people who went to school or worked their way up through a company to get better pay

my pay doesn't go up if the min wage goes up, so fuck'em

^lol same, what's wrong with $8/hour anyways? Those flip kids who work there all have nicer phones/shoes than me!

Reality is "Dont work for Asians". They WILL pay you minimum wage, whatever minimum wage is set at. Thats why i work for the whiteman and my first job was $16.5. Whereas my friends worked at Daiso in Aberdeen and got $6.50.

Dont raise minimum wage. There are just as many jobs that pay more than it compared to jobs that pay minimum. It depends on the person to find those higher paying jobs. Survival of the fittest motherfuckers!

Exactly. Even without any post-sec education, I really can't see anyone over 18 making minimum wage.

I guess their point is that if the minimum wage is increased, then as a standard everyone else's wage would be increased at the same linear rate?

in many other countries, there's no minimum wage.

we are lucky here already.

What kind of cost of living do teenagers have anyway? Everything is provided by their parents!

No minimum wage hike!

I've never worked a minimum paying job even when I applied for my first one. There's tons of jobs out there that pay atleast $10 starting.

by outsourcing to india and china

Most employers don't pay minimum wage anyway. Most usually pay 9/10 dollars as starting for common jobs. If you want a higher pay then go to Alberta, Mcdonalds is hiring people for 14-16 dollars an hour. Increase in pay will result in increase of products being sold etc etc. :) Oh and as for "working for asians", most of them do under table dealings, no tax or whatever.

You mean countries in Asia? That's why a lot of things are outsourced there. Cheap labour FTW!

some ppl cant afford school maybe?