An employee at a major bank in Florida was so grateful we passed 15 an hour min. She makes roughly 19 an hour and her son works in retail. She said how pleased she was that they would earn more money. I stated "how we going to make more money"? She went on to explain her 20 years of service is worth a lot more than min wage. I responded the 15 an hour is like food stamps, designed to help the poorest among us. She than asked the manager when they raise the min wage 1.5 will she get more money. To which she was told no, just the annual raise if available. It was at that moment she understood. Telling me if she could work at the zoo for 15 an hour why would she work in a high stress office. To which I responded "you wouldn't". In hind sight I should have said those making 100k would prolly get raises.
Comments (391)
sorted by:
Not only is she not going to get a raise, she's going to have to pay higher prices on everything else! Yay inflation!
been there, done that, the state I live in passed a min wage increase to 15 over the course of a few years, every time it jumped up a dollar I wouldn't get the difference while the prices of everything started going up including fast food
Pro-tip: Fuck the system and don't spend. Time to collapse this facade.