Republican right-wingers are bad at math, are they serious? (minimum wage) (interviews, dollars)

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by freemkt

At my workplace there are no internal advancement opportunities expected for the next 15 years or so, when my boss eventually retires.

In that case, I think you need to leave and find a job with a better company where there is more opportunity. Why are you still there?

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by freemkt

Which won't hire me because I have no marketable job skills and my credit is indefinitely trashed because I'm unwilling to declare bankruptcy.

Well, that's YOUR problem.

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

That's like being a lumberjack and refusing to travel more than 200 yards to cut trees. You're going to run out of trees.

As a lumberjack you need to go further, and in your case, to another employer.

That is the problem in a nutshell. They are unwilling to do what is necessary to advance. I call that, "laziness," if not "stupidity."

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by Mircea

Can you provide a list of the names of idiots who would work for less than $7/hour?

I have a few bridges to sell them.

(gulp) I must admit that there was a brief time when I worked online with Amazon Mechanical Turk for what amounted to less than $2 per hour.

Yeah it sucked but it was better than not paying the rent on time.

[freemkt]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

If you're stupid enough to live in an expensive city while making minimum wage, you should be sharing a room with four other people to make sure everyone doesn't forget to breath during the night. Two birds, one stone.

If you were there first - before newcomers made it more expensive - why should YOU WHO WERE THERE FIRST have to move?

[marigolds6]

Originally Posted by UbbyJuice

^^^^ This

I can't speak for other places, but for ex. here in Denver, just casually browsing the Craigslist "housing" and "rooms / shared" sub-sections, the average "room available" around here seems to rent for $600-$900/month. Keep in mind this is just for a room, in someone else's house or apartment (ie. usually a total stranger), with a shared bathroom and limited privacy. The right-wingers in this thread that claim you can rent a room for $250-$300 a month are full of it or delusional/out-of-touch

I have to re-iterate again, we are in the year 2017, not the 1950's.

Again, you don't use "average". If you are making minimum wage, you look for cheap, not average.
https://denver.craigslist.org/search...labilityMode=0
(The min 2 is to remove all the $1 ads)
And that is a very high cost of living area. Take a much lower cost of living area like St Louis and the number doubles (despite a much smaller housing stock)
https://stlouis.craigslist.org/searc...labilityMode=0

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by freemkt

If you were there first - before newcomers made it more expensive - why should YOU WHO WERE THERE FIRST have to move?

Math.

Unless being an original inhabitant comes with a stipend, it doesn't help you deal with rising COL.

[marigolds6]

Originally Posted by Mircea

Cell-phones and internet are neither rights nor entitlements. Use a land-line instead.

Cell phones cost less than landlines now.

There is no way you are going to find a different job without internet as well. Cheapest option by far is a smart phone with a decent data plan.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

If you're stupid enough to live in an expensive city while making minimum wage, you should be sharing a room with four other people to make sure everyone doesn't forget to breath during the night. Two birds, one stone.

Last I checked, expensive cities still have a customer base that want groceries and fast food etc as well, so if people are "smart" who work in those professions and move away, then no restaurants or grocery stores....

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by WannaliveinGreenville

When I visited Laguna Beach, some years ago, the maid came to my hotel room. We got to talking and I asked her how she could afford to live in Laguna for minimum wage? She said: "I live with 7 people in an apartment. We share the rent."

That is illegal most places unless they are all related to her, good old occupancy laws and all.....