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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is $3 an hour legal? I thought American minimum wage was $7 or something.

What the hell is wrong with your country?

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The minimum wage is lower if you have a job where you can get tips. Your employer is supposed to pay the difference up to regular minimum wage if you don't make it, but that often just opens a conversation of "well, why aren't you working hard enough to get the right tips" amerikkka-clap

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

“We need to talk about your flair”

[–] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is, of course, rooted in racism and slavery.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trotskyists have the right idea about focusing so much on publishing and distributing their own newspapers. Unfortunately those papers are filled with unapproachable Trotskyist rants, usually about big global issues, and contain basically zero real journalism. A free leftist local newspaper with a website and a print copy handed out at a few busy transit stations every morning could, for example, actually send a reporter to report on local goings-on in the town hall and so on. Given how so many local news outlets have closed over the past couple of decades and left many towns and cities without any local news, the average person might actually want to read such a paper.

[–] Juiceyb@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

margot-disgust I can excuse labor exploitation but I draw the line when my chicken tendies get more expensive.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And invariably these increases end up being “the $2.75 hash browns are now $3.15” and the reactionaries act like that’s the straw that will break the customer’s back.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Large Sons and I used to be able to take a $20 to Waffle House and we would each be able to eat enough greasy fried potatoes to have diarrhea all day.

Now only 3 of us can and my youngest large adult son, Durk, hasn't clogged a toilet since all this started.

this is not the america I have been fighting for.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tipping sucks if you aren’t attractive. Knew pretty girls who made good tips on their looks alone while less attractive girls barely made half of what they did.

[–] bunnygirl@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Federal minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.25.

Some states have a higher minimum, but even in a state like New York it's only just over $5

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Think of how devastating that extra .75 cents an hour is for the poor small business known as Waffle House, they 'only' make about 2 mill per year per franchise location in profit

If you have 10 tipped servers, you're looking at almost 15k a year in extra costs! Too burdensome

[–] bunnygirl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

normal country

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

usians are the most propagandized people on earth

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Not by $3/hour, to $3/hour. ? Huh??? What???