Minimum wage my ass.

[CLdrinker]

So my wife is picking up dinner and she sends me this.

Decent living for a kid effing off at a fast food job.

 

[LazyLavey]

Ain't like when I was a kid washing dishes at Casa De Pizza or slinging hot dogs at Dannys Dogs

Seems the fast food workers are no longer kids.... comprende?

 

[77charger]

My first job at pavilions when i was 16 was 3.35 an hourThink weekly part time pay was about 60 bucks.Then on top of that we were required to pay union dues but didnt get any benefits from it either.

 

[checkrd past]

my first job was cleaning a machine shop after school.Minimum wage was 2.90, he started me out at 3.00 an hour and I thought was on easy street

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Dam, I know how to cook But you fuckers would laugh at me in back cooking .

 

[HocusPocus]

My first job was all All American Home Center in Downey, I was 16 but lied about my age because you had to be at least 17 to work there, even was able to fake my work permit thanks to a friend who worked in the office at school. I believe it was $3.25 an hour but I loved working there, who would have figured I would still be working in Hardware.

 

[THE WIDGE]

My first job was all All American Home Center in Downey, I was 16 but lied about my age because you had to be at least 17 to work there, even was able to fake my work permit thanks to a friend who worked in the office at school. I believe it was $3.25 an hour but I loved working there, who would have figured I would still be working in Hardware.

I lived down the street from All American, used to go all the time as a kid and adult. Grew up in Downey

 

[Looking Glass]

So my wife is picking up dinner and she sends me this.

Decent living for a kid effing off at a fast food job. View attachment 985319

With, "SLEEPY@THEWHEEL" those wages are NOT Crazy High, Actually God Bless them for Working!!

 

[HocusPocus]

I lived down the street from All American, used to go all the time as a kid and adult. Grew up in Downey

I lived closer to Pico Rivera but my older brother lived in Downey so we used his address so I could go to Warren High, this was from 1975 to around 1978 before we moved to the High Desert. Great place to work for sure, sucks they ended up closing.

 

[nowski]

My first job was all All American Home Center in Downey, I was 16 but lied about my age because you had to be at least 17 to work there, even was able to fake my work permit thanks to a friend who worked in the office at school. I believe it was $3.25 an hour but I loved working there, who would have figured I would still be working in Hardware.

I think an old buddy of mine worked there back in the day, does Ted Johnson ring a bell?

 

[530RL]

In 1978 minimum wage was 2.65 an hour.

I took a commission gig selling glow in the dark necklaces at a double header Rick James concert at the Arizona State Fair. I paid .75 cents for them and sold them for a buck. I sold just over 2,000 necklaces over 6 hours.

The next night, a Sunday was Lawrence Welk and I think I sold 10.

I was hooked on capitalism and learned the most valuable business lesson in my life in two short days.

 

[HocusPocus]

I think an old buddy of mine worked there back in the day, does Ted Johnson ring a bell?

Doesn't sound familiar but I am better with faces than names.

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

So my wife is picking up dinner and she sends me this.

Decent living for a kid effing off at a fast food job. View attachment 985319

I'm just sorry you had to eat that shit..

 

[Angler]

LOL, I worked at age 14 for a $1.00 an hour, actually working in a machine shop making collets.

 

[jeteater1]

Bus boy 11th and 12th grade at Domenico's Pizza Pasadena

 

[nowski]

I started keeping score at the bowling alley's (late 60's) when I was 9, it was about $2.50 an hour after tips. PBA came to town so I signed up to keep score for the tournament. They said no way when this little kid stepped up to the plate. The house backed me and was given the opportunity to keep score for the tournament. I kept score for Dave Frame when he rolled a 300, pretty cool for a young kid...

 

[WYRD]

If I calculate all the hours I work I only make about $2 an hour

 

[RitcheyRch]

First job was a bus boy/dish washer at Mike's Pizza in Mission Hills, CA. I don't remember the starting pay but I stayed long enough to eventually be the manager before moving on to the Mike's Pizza in Van Nuys.

 

[boatnam2]

That converts to a $13.50 2 item combo lol.

 

[was thatguy]

My first paying job was packing parachutes for 50 cents each on jump weekends.
My Dad had his own skydiving club.
I was 9 YO.

 

[boatnam2]

First gig was $2.75 at KFC, i use to leave work every night with a least two buckets of chicken, tatters and all the fixings. i would head over to my girlfriends apartment, many single moms trying to raise a family on a single income, i was like the robinhood of chicken.

 

[FreeBird236]

@ 12, I pumped gas at a Mobil station on weekends for $1.00 an hour, I was in hog heaven.

 

[HB2Havasu]

So my wife is picking up dinner and she sends me this.

Decent living for a kid effing off at a fast food job. View attachment 985319

It is hard for employers these days to get anyone to work for even those inflated wages when the Feds keep pumping people with $400 per week unemployment checks to sit on their ass all day.

 

[Nanu/Nanu]

I detasseled corn in the Midwest for $5 an hour as my first job, it was miserable but I had money to do things my friends couldn't.

 

[was thatguy]

It is hard for employers these days to get anyone to work for even those inflated wages when the Feds keep pumping people with $400 per week unemployment checks to sit on their ass all day.

Ahem! Excuse me, but my supplemental amount was $600 a week.
But before you guys lynch me, in my defense I got zero stimulus money!

I do know guys that worked 1099 with an LLC (most Directional hands have an LLC) that got $85K “loans” that are soon coming due. Most of them fucked off the cash and got lazy, and now are puckered all up.

 

[Taboma]

Ain't like when I was a kid washing dishes at Casa De Pizza or slinging hot dogs at Dannys Dogs

Seems the fast food workers are no longer kids.... comprende?

Oh, you must be talking about MacDonald's and a few other FF places in Kingman

 

[C-2]

$2 hr, 2 hours per day at age 14 in 1980 scrubbing used dough pans at a Graziano's pizza restaurant. But hey, it got my foot into the door and soon I was making sandwiches for the big time minimum wage of $3.35.

The deal with pizza - it really hasn't gone up in price. Back then I thought you had to be rich to afford a $15.00 pizza, lol.

 

[Familyties]

1968 worked at McDonald's making real milk shakes for $1.10 minus .10 per hour for food. Minimum wage was $1.65 but McDonald's scored a student wage of $1.10

 

[Rajobigguy]

My first job was all All American Home Center in Downey, I was 16 but lied about my age because you had to be at least 17 to work there, even was able to fake my work permit thanks to a friend who worked in the office at school. I believe it was $3.25 an hour but I loved working there, who would have figured I would still be working in Hardware.

I lived down the street from All American, used to go all the time as a kid and adult. Grew up in Downey

I loved All American. I was a customer of theirs since they were in the small shop on Firestone close to Downey ave. When they moved to big location down the street they were one of the biggest home centers around at the time. The employees all knew me by name. Like you guys, I grew up in Downey, went to Alameda elementary, South junior high and Downey high school. My wife went to Downey high for one year then they moved and she finished out school @ Warren.

 

[WYRD]

My first paying job was packing parachutes for 50 cents each on jump weekends.
My Dad had his own skydiving club.
I was 9 YO.

That's not the job I'd want to be paying piece work on.

 

[NicPaus]

My first job was at Lightfoots garage organizing and being a scrub for $5 a hour. Was across the street yesterday and looks like he could use another to fill that position. Shop was a mess compared. I did have a side hustle making a few grand a week.

 

[sirbob]

My first job was buying our neighbors tractor and mowing lawns for $5 a yard.

I could do about 2 an hour so I guess. I was making 10 an hour - but I had to pay $50 a month for the tractor!

The first summer went so well, I bought a snow plow for it and plowed driveways at night after school.

 

[Wolskis]

1968 worked at McDonald's making real milk shakes for $1.10 minus .10 per hour for food. Minimum wage was $1.65 but McDonald's scored a student wage of $1.10

Those were the good shakes.

 

[lbhsbz]

I mowed lawns...had about 6 regular customers up and down my street. $10 for the front and $10 for the back. $120/week for about an hour/day after school starting when I was big enough to pullstart the mower on my own. When I moved to Mammoth in 6th grade I shoveled snow...we lived in a Mobile home park that first winter and it snowed like a bitch that year...the mobiles could only handle about 4' of snow on the roofs before the park would come out and shovel for you, charging $300 for a double wide, $200 for a single wide. I did them for $200/$100 and kept busy just about every night. $100/day wasn't bad for a 12yo kid working after school.

 

[ChevelleSB406]

My first job was splitting time between a mechanic shop and engine builder when I was 16 over the summer, then spent a summer at minimum wage at Carls Jr, and then friends finally got me into In N Out. That was my high school AND college job. In N Out proves two things, you can pay a way higher wage than current minimum wage and be profitable, however, the quality of people and the production they expect out of each person will be entirely different than the staff at most of these places.

Minimum wage was 4.75 when i started, I started at 7.25 I think, that was raised to around 10 bucks within my first year, and up from there. You show up for your shift 20 minutes before it starts, and you actually start work 10 minutes before you are on the clock helping to transition. You bust your ass all day, take care of shit before being told to, and help your coworkers out no matter what, all shift. If you didn't like the full throttle work environment, 200 other kids wanted your job. My stores never posted a wanted sign, you go to the file of referrals if a new hire is needed.

 

[Bobby V]

My first job was splitting time between a mechanic shop and engine builder when I was 16 over the summer, then spent a summer at minimum wage at Carls Jr, and then friends finally got me into In N Out. That was my high school AND college job. In N Out proves two things, you can pay a way higher wage than current minimum wage and be profitable, however, the quality of people and the production they expect out of each person will be entirely different than the staff at most of these places.

Minimum wage was 4.75 when i started, I started at 7.25 I think, that was raised to around 10 bucks within my first year, and up from there. You show up for your shift 20 minutes before it starts, and you actually start work 10 minutes before you are on the clock helping to transition. You bust your ass all day, take care of shit before being told to, and help your coworkers out no matter what, all shift. If you didn't like the full throttle work environment, 200 other kids wanted your job. My stores never posted a wanted sign, you go to the file of referrals if a new hire is needed.

There is a new IN N Out being built by my house in Yorba Linda on Imperial Hwy. Sign on the fence says $16-$18 a hour.

 

[ChevelleSB406]

There is a new IN N Out being built by my house in Yorba Linda on Imperial Hwy. Sign on the fence says $16-$18 a hour.

My old neck of the woods, did they end up with the library site or is it in all that new development area, the old real estate and Pancake house/Kookooroo area?

 

[Mr. C]

My first job was all All American Home Center in Downey, I was 16 but lied about my age because you had to be at least 17 to work there, even was able to fake my work permit thanks to a friend who worked in the office at school. I believe it was $3.25 an hour but I loved working there, who would have figured I would still be working in Hardware.

Knew the place well, you were checking out of Warren about my sophomore year. Grew up on Wiley-Burke behind Furman park.

 

[Bobby V]

My old neck of the woods, did they end up with the library site or is it in all that new development area, the old real estate and Pancake house/Kookooroo area?

Library site. Looks like they are going to tear down the old Pancake building and build something new.

 

[Cobalt232]

My first job was for $4.25 per hour in 1979 at Main Photo Service in Santa Ana when I was 15. I grew up in Irvine and it would take 2 busses to get there and 2 to get home. Originally, I was the janitor then moved to black and white printing. The other guys would leave me all the crap orders and the Highway Patrol work.

Fast forward 30 years and my company bought them out.

 

[OldSchoolBoats]

First job was a lifeguard at Hurricane Harbor. Made $8.25/hour and thought I was a baller........lol. Did work 48hr weeks during the summer while all my friends screwed off. Got to screw another lifeguard a few times in the parking lot and had a couple G's in my bank account when going back to school in the fall.

 

[hallett21]

My first paying job was packing parachutes for 50 cents each on jump weekends.
My Dad had his own skydiving club.
I was 9 YO.

We’re you good at it


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[Flippindough]

Why would you want to work when you can collect $600 a week from unemployment? Grooming our future! 18 months ago we had a line for Maintenace techs for apartment buildings at $16 an hour, $22 hour now absolute crickets.

 

[Cdog]

You call that food?

Gross!!

 

[Looking Glass]

Ahem! Excuse me, but my supplemental amount was $600 a week.
But before you guys lynch me, in my defense I got zero stimulus money!

I do know guys that worked 1099 with an LLC (most Directional hands have an LLC) that got $85K “loans” that are soon coming due. Most of them fucked off the cash and got lazy, and now are puckered all up.

can they File on these Loans? They are Playing with "FIRE"

 

[THE WIDGE]

Knew the place well, you were checking out of Warren about my sophomore year. Grew up on Wiley-Burke behind Furman park.

spencer Williams, west middle, warren high 92. I’ve run into sooo many people that grew up in Downey. Great place back in the day

 

[boater250s]

spencer Williams, west middle, warren high 92. I’ve run into sooo many people that grew up in Downey. Great place back in the day

Rio San Gabriel, East Junior High, Downey High, grew up on Muller St behind Stonewood Mall. Great city to grow up in.

 

[Waterjunky]

$3.75 an hour doing grunt farm labor at about 12.....
Didn't really figure out the money making thing until after College. There were better and easier ways to make a living.

 

[Christopher Lucero]

It helps to pay the lowest paid more: in the economic terms, "a rising tide lifts all boats".

If you can artificially add more water and there is no downside, then why not?

 

[Jay Dub]

In jr high I started mowing yards. Pulled the mower with my bike around the neighborhood. In high school I started working part-time at a independent car dealership that sold MB, Porsche etc. I was the grunt. Parts and tool fetcher. P/U and deliver vehicles. By the end, I was changing oil, doing brakes. After closing we could work on our own cars. All for about $5 an hour pay. During high school I also had about 4-5 yards I kept up on a weekly basis. This paid much better than the dealer. probably made $500 a month cash when you add in odd ball plantings/trimmings.