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I guess you could ask your cable company if they would offer you all the HD channels at the basic rate.
You could go into a BMW dealer and ask them to sell a brand new 3 Series to you for the same price as a Ford Focus.
You could go to McDonalds, give the cashier a dollar and tell them you want them to make you a Big Mac combo.
Ask the same question to a person running a business and see what they say. Why should it be any different with an employee? You don't buy dollar store products and expect top shelf quality, do you? You get what you pay for. Plain and simple.
A lot of cities have rent-controlled apartments. Some of them are pretty new and nice by me. You're not living high on the hog, but you may not be entirely on the streets either.
A lot of cities have rent-controlled apartments. Some of them are pretty new and nice by me. You're not living high on the hog, but you may not be entirely on the streets either.
If that's the case that is very nice, I haven't heard of anything like that here in California. I don't see how anyone could afford to live on $8/hr, at least without many roommates or living with friends or parents. I think people just want to earn a liveable wage, not necessarily high on the hog and that's why I don't see how anyone could afford to take a job at $8/hr. After taxes, your contribution to benefits (if you even get any) etc it probably costs money to take the job.
For $8 dollars I wouldn't even pick up the phone to speak to you...let alone get out of bed to go to that job. Lunch brought from home every day and getting to the job and back would cost more...are you kidding?
In other words, when it comes to the amount of effort you put out on your job, would you say that your employer...."gets what they pay for", or would you give 100 percent effort regardless of whether you were making $12,000 a year or $30,000 per year?
Just wondering, y'all
20yrsinBranson
In the past, I would have worked hard for $8 an hour. In a few days I will be getting a B.A. in Geography. After that, jobs that pay that little will be worthless to me. I look at it like this. I'm getting my degree so I can get a job where I can make really good money. Otherwise I would have dropped out of school. If I had to take a job that pays that little, given the degree I'm about to receive, I won't work that hard. If it's a job that has a future, that's in my field, and it pays very well, I will work hard. For me, it isn't an ethics thing. It is a matter of "I didn't go to school to work at a minimum wage job. Otherwise I would have dropped out of high school".
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