if we raise the minimum wage to $10 do you think your taxes are going down one cent?
I wonder if you know that in some places in california minimum wage is already $10 and throws your whole argument out the window
whenever I see someone who actually is a responsible/hard working employee at a min wage place I always tell them to go apply at AT&T, Sprint, Verizon or a bank.. even a banker or teller..
they require no previous experience just want good personalitys and bankers for chase start usually around the $17+ hour mark, Wells Fargo $20+ hour(chase bankers make more through commission than wells fargo bankers), even tellers make $11+ a hour and in places like San Francisco they even start tellers around $12-14/hour
AT&T, Sprint and Verizon while not to ME career jobs, people CAN find careers in them (more so Verizon and AT&T). HR, Training, Management... a HORRIBLE sales person at these jobs will at least make $45k a year (I dont know about sprint but the worst sales person I worked with at AT&T and Verizon never made less than $45k in a year and I worked with dozens of employees at both jobs through different stores
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Places like banks youll never work more than 40 hours( many reasons) and you usually get benefits if you are at least a banker.
My personal opinion for people getting hired at other places is that most people resumes suck. Not so much the work/school background. But the actual resume is HORRIBLE. Not presentable at all. Almost everyone I know doesnt even know what a cover letter is.
Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo... Credit Unions.. they are ALWAYS hiring because they usually promote within. Same with the cell phone companies I listed. Companies that make large profits, but at least pay the workers decent, with benefits and can open up new branches/stores non stop and need people to fill them.
The only reason I left these companies is because since the age of 21 ive ALWAYS made around 60-65k a year. I am 26 now. I just felt like I had to hop off the tread mill of making the same amount. Not to sound cocky but my sales are way too good to just be making $60-65k a year. But I am in top 0.0001% of sales at the jobs I listed (literally, was ranked #1 in Verzon West Coast sales just recently of January, I left in March, thats out of 8500 sales reps...) so I left to make my own business (@
Liquid can vouch, I was making a custom computer company called KingCPU but it flopped hard cause of many reasons I can blame on myself and the people who took 1 1/2 months past their deadline to complete my website)
TLDR;
People working min wage jobs need to apply at other big corporations that DO hire. Even entry level jobs like customer service rep over the phone or tellers. When Wal-Mart and McDonalds start losing employees and no one wants to fill the positions and they start losing business because customers have no one to serve them they will learn. Obviously this will NEVER happen. But its what should happen..
Also to note, McDonalds are owned by individuals(me, you, your momma too can buy a McDonalds if we had the money) where Wal-Mart is not. Not saying its right, but might have something to do with it.
that's fukking criminal. I know @midwesthiphop is eating good....i know he doesn't regret leaving up north
getting a 3 bedroom next year with a mortgage payment less than $500 a month
just found out am getting a unexpected raise today too
i make way more than min wage tho
is all the complaints about cost of living and how more govt. intervention is needed(in this thread) comes almost exclusively from progressive states 
CA & NY. No connection is being drawn as to the high cost of living in progressive states and the lower cost of living in conservative ones, we just need to bail the state out(in CA.) and give the "poor" more money.
