Yaworski
Hawkeye
When I moved to Pittsburgh in 1967, no one knew about 7-11 or Circle K.
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When I moved to Pittsburgh in 1967, no one knew about 7-11 or Circle K.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
I was talking to an HR person from a steel mill and she told me that young people were shocked that they weren't allowed to have their phones on the production floor. I worked in a steel mill, if you are distracted, you can easily die.
Dancing and swinging, mop in hand? Reminds me of my pole dancing days!
Neon Vernon
Single-Sixer
Dancing and swinging, mop in hand? Reminds me of my pole dancing days!
Pics or it didn't happen!
This will tell how old I am. In high school I worked at a full service gas station. Saturdays I worked 12 hours and made $6 for the day. After school I worked 3 hours and made $3. I thought I was doing good. Gas was about $.24 a gallon.
Exactly! Know a young man that started in McDonald as a 'do you want fries with that?'. He is a regional Manager now somewhere in Florida.
Gwitness
Single-Sixer
starting wages.....you don't really expect to start at the top do you?
Gwitness
Single-Sixer
At the large aerospace company I retired from, use of a cell phone on the factory floor was grounds for a corrective action memo [CAM] * with obvious exceptions.
Gwitness
Single-Sixer
My first real job started me at $2.35 an hour ....I worked two hours at that rate, my immediate supervisor came out and assessed my work, and said....you're now making $4.50 hr. to a 16 year old high school kid in the 70's I thought I was rich, I held that job until I graduated.
Recently in the news there was a story about a Costco employee who got paid $32 an hour but had saved over a million his 401k.
Apparently Costco employees get very good 401k packages. The company knows that employee retention is worth better benefits so they aren’t constantly training new hires.
Apparently Costco employees get very good 401k packages. The company knows that employee retention is worth better benefits so they aren’t constantly training new hires.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Sounds like you were getting ripped off on Saturdays.
Buccees has VERY LOW TURNOVER…LESS THAN 5%.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
One of the complaints I've read about Buck-ees is that you are expected to be constantly working.
My God! Young people are expected to actually work during the time they are being paid to work? Quick, call a liberal democrat and have them stage a protest.
Gwitness
Single-Sixer
oh dear God......
Busterswoodshop
Hunter
Doesn't that suck , when your employer expects you to work , when you are at work ?
Remember who are likely to be holding these jobs and complaining.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
Who said anything about "acting busy." At places like Buck-ees there's always something to do. The Jews see to that.
The 'problem' I see with Buck-ess is it is the absolute ultimate example of what is actually wrong with our economy and will eventually lead to our down fall.
We have been indoctrinated into just buying all this crap... we over spend. We have too much money.... and the Chinese are getting richer and more powerful everyday off of us.
they are laughing at us just like all these evil drug cartels .... the only reason they are rich and powerful is we continue to by what they are sending in.
We have been indoctrinated into just buying all this crap... we over spend. We have too much money.... and the Chinese are getting richer and more powerful everyday off of us.
they are laughing at us just like all these evil drug cartels .... the only reason they are rich and powerful is we continue to by what they are sending in.
I started working in a grocery store when I was 15. $1.70 per hour. I worked whenever I could. I took Government in summer school. The teacher was a good teacher who taught other thinkable stuff that wasn't in the book. one day he said you guys think to have it made and are ready for life. I'll bet there isn't $50.00 in the entire class. We did the count around the room for each person.......30 cents, I.75, 95 cents, 2.45 and so on until they got to me....$97.00. I blew his theory......he said where'd you get that much money?? I said "I work!!". LOL!
After a lay-off when I had just married I got another job at a national grocery chain. Maybe $3.00 per hour. I'd come in at 3:30 AM and me and another guy would unload the semi of produce and start filling up the produce dept after we did the truck. I moved pretty good and one morning one of the night stalk guys who I really didn't know said to "come here". He said "Hey man......you got any speed??" I said "NO......brother, if I were on speed you wouldn't even be able to see me"! LOL! I was on pure cane sugar though! My Produce Manager said once to his wife about me "Gary is the only worker i had to tell to take a break!".
I see workers now do work filling stock one or two pieces at a time and leaning on work cart, checking their cell phones all the time and while their pushing work carts around. I think at almost 74 I could out work a lot of them. When I saw the starting rates for Buc-cees employes.....I was truly shocked. Never been to one yet though!
After a lay-off when I had just married I got another job at a national grocery chain. Maybe $3.00 per hour. I'd come in at 3:30 AM and me and another guy would unload the semi of produce and start filling up the produce dept after we did the truck. I moved pretty good and one morning one of the night stalk guys who I really didn't know said to "come here". He said "Hey man......you got any speed??" I said "NO......brother, if I were on speed you wouldn't even be able to see me"! LOL! I was on pure cane sugar though! My Produce Manager said once to his wife about me "Gary is the only worker i had to tell to take a break!".
I see workers now do work filling stock one or two pieces at a time and leaning on work cart, checking their cell phones all the time and while their pushing work carts around. I think at almost 74 I could out work a lot of them. When I saw the starting rates for Buc-cees employes.....I was truly shocked. Never been to one yet though!
I worked after school in 1972 at a minibike, go kart motorcycle store. The owner felt that he was providing us an education so only paid us 50¢ an hour. All my money went towards go kart parts. Once the go kart fad wore off, so did the 50¢ an hour bullcrap. I got into the manufacturing industry and made a nice career of it.
I look back now and again and laugh at myself for that insane wage but it was an avenue to my addiction. At the time, the federal minimum wage was $1.65.
I look back now and again and laugh at myself for that insane wage but it was an avenue to my addiction. At the time, the federal minimum wage was $1.65.
LDB
Blackhawk
Too bad someone didn't turn the SOB into the feds. Lousy bum.
I go to convenience stores and buy gas. Sometimes I use the restroom. In rare cases I buy a bottle of bottled water or a cup of black coffee.
I don't understand people who think convenience stores have food. Nothing they sell there qualifies as food in my book. Just refined sugar, wheat and chemicals. No wonder they look so fat and sick. Convenience stores are full of crap that's bad for you and millions flock to them several times a day to get sugared up.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
More importantly, the Jews own the convenience stores and mix the blood of Christian babies into the Slurpies.
The.Tumbleweed
Blackhawk
When I first started working, the minimum wage was $0.90/hr. If you worked a full 40 hour week, your pay, after taxes, was barely enough to buy gas for your car, and maybe have some left over for food.
It was a good thing to be still living at home with mom and dad.
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The.Tumbleweed
Blackhawk
These kids don't want to work. Hanging with their buddies is more important.
One time, I was in my early 40's, and had JUST thrown 300 bales of hay in the loft of the barn. I was completely spent.
A neighbor kid had wandered through, and I asked him to throw the last 3 bales of hay, and I'd give him $20. He was more interested in hanging with his buddies.
That was more important to him than $20 for 5 minutes of his time. There just isn't a good work ethic in a majority of kids, and it's getting worse.
coachk64
Single-Sixer
First job in the summer before 6th grade, working at the Exxon station on Wacker Drive in Altus, OK. Pumping gas, washing windows, vacuuming out cars, sweeping the lot. No idea what minimum wage was, but I made $0.75 per hour for four hours a day, six days a week so a total of $18 per week. I was wealthy beyond my wildest dreams (not much imagination at that age, apparently). Since then I've only been out of work one time, for almost a month when I first got out of the Maines in 95. And have never felt nearly as rich as I did at age 11.
Yaworski
Hawkeye
In 1956, minimum wage was $1 and you could get lunch for 35 cents at the local diner. Methinks you are being hyperbolic.
