womanistgamergirl:cutiepatootiewithahellaradbooty:mysharona1987:There is no part of this diatribe th
womanistgamergirl:cutiepatootiewithahellaradbooty:mysharona1987:There is no part of this diatribe that is not amazing or 100% true.Yeah ok but people who work minimum wage didn’t go to college so they don’t have all the student loans to pay off so they don’t have to make more than 9 dollars an hour. These jobs are made for teenagers in high school and college trying to get a couple of extra bucks to go out with friends not a mom working at Walmart trying to pay all her bills which is not possibleOh my god. Look at all of this wrong. So much wrong. I’m actually impressed they managed to fit this much wrong in such a small space. Good job on that wrong. Let’s correct all that wrong though.People who work minimum wage jobs didn’t got to college?Honey, when I was working retail, I was in college. That minimum wage job was how I ate. My co-workers were either in college, in grad school, or had degrees but couldn’t find jobs in their field because the economy was so shit. Hell, most of the managers (who are also not making that much money per hour when you take into account how much time they have to spend in the store working) have degrees in business. Most of the conversations between associates centered on how the fuck we were gonna pay back all them loans or if we were going to the homecoming concert that weekend.These jobs are for teenagers in high school and college looking for some extra money?I don’t know if you if you see what you just did here, but I’m gonna point it out to you. Your first sentence says that minimum wage workers never went to college, but the second one says these jobs are for people in college. Make up your mind. Either these people went to college or they didn’t. Pick a wrong ass lie and stick to it, you’ll only confuse yourself trying to go down too many different routes at once.It looks like you’re just drastically misinformed and not willfully ignorant, so I’m gonna help you out a bit.Just in case you can’t read that, let’s go over some facts.Average age of a minimum wage worker is 3689% are 20 or older37% are 40 or older56% are women28% have children57% work full timeOn average, their earnings are more than half of their family’s total income.You’re right when you say that it’s not possible to support families on these wages, and that’s the problem. These people should be making a decent living wage because they are raising families with these checks. Even for the single people working these jobs, it’s extremely difficult to pay bills and support yourself. The easiest way to fix this issue? Raise the minimum wage!I can also see you and a few others frothing at the mouth to form the “but these jobs should be only worked by kids” argument. I’ve already detailed on my twitter account (yes those are my tweets) how that’s oh so wrong and I don’t wanna do it again here. So start here, follow the string of tweets, and throw that argument in the garbage.I really hope you and someone else reading this have learned something. -- source link