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A tweet saying “100k a year to take someone’s order at Taco Bell <thumbs up emoji>. Totally makes sense.”. It has a reply saying “Where the hell did you get that number? If someone’s working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year.” the reply has 2 likes.
Apparently
Lots of great comments in here but somehow no one brought up that the federal minimum wage is still only $7.25/hr.
Some moron on Facebook was talking about how Trump raised the minimum wage because major brands like Walmart started paying $15 an hour (or whatever specific amount) at the lowest they offer new hires. I told her that, no, that’s not what “raising the minimum wage” means. She insisted that because of Trump’s brilliant economic prowess it allowed these companies to pay more.
Like, yeah, turns out of the federal minimum wage is so low that basically no one wants to work for it then people need to pay more to get workers. (I’m aware people still work for the actual minimum wage in case that isn’t somehow abundantly clear.)
People can work for less, under the table or via wage theft. Very common in the lowest tiers of sex work, in house cleaning services, and in the agricultural sector where human trafficking is common place
Goodwill pays less than the federal minimum wage to disabled people.
Lol that’s amazing. And sad.
It’s sad how little people know about how their world works. I always knew they knew less than they let on, but hoo boy are they just putting shit like this out there these days. Proudly ignorant.
I promise I’m raising my kids better. Almost done with the first! Shame there’s such a gap between em though…
She’s not even ignorant. From the back and forth it was clear she knew that the federal minimum wage is still $7.25. It’s like willful double think. I hate it. I’ve since emotionally detached from online “debates” and I feel better.
It’s for the best
Most Americans are idiots.
“Imagine how dumb the average person is. Now considers half the people are dumber than that.”
is a line I never hear from people who think they’re in the bottom half.
7.25, including tips.
Usually with tips it’s like $2.13 or something. For wait staff that gets tips they’re allowed to be paid less hourly. Their total pay for the day still has to be at least the federal minimum wage though.
Tips are so weird.
They’re weird because of the Jim Crow South. Ain’t that fun? Go on, dig into it. I’ll wait here in Jim Crow 2: Electric Boogaloo
Which, by the way, was the whole point of the Boogaloo Boys. Yall remember the fascists in Hawaiian shirts? Yeah. This has been planned for a while.
The federal tipping wage is only $2.13. If that plus tips isn’t at least $7.25 then the employer is suppose to bridge the gap. That’s hard to track especially with cash tips so I’m sure you can guess how often that happens…
Wage theft is the largest form of theft in the US. Business owners think it’s abhorrent when they get robbed, so they steal 100x the amount from their employees to make it right. You slap their face, they amputate your limb.
Also, I have seen this happen at multiple chain casual dining restaurants, if you do manage to track it, and they have to make up the difference more than once, they will fire you on the spot. They claim that only bad servers can’t make tips. The fact that this exclusively happened to male servers is not important according to Big Boy.
I know of two restaurants who did this during the pandemic while denying affordable health insurance to their workers.
Yeah I remind people all the time. One of em closed. The other’s still going cause it’s literally the only Indian place in like 50+ miles