Be a bus boy for 54 years on minimum wage

[Killer Instinct]

What kind of Cream of Wheat c00nery is this?

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

This whole story boils my blood

my pops pushing 65 a cab driver he making more than this my moms is 60 and is a nurse

i make more than both and i am 24

fukk this cac for paying him peanuts

but breh clear has to be autistic or something no way you can have this low ambition for yourself

and his grandson following i think is probably the most WOAT of it all, no generational knowledge or wealth passed down. wonder where the father was..smh

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

:Helecombebreh:

 

[Laidbackman]

His son says he can retire anytime, and will be safe. But the job doesn't pay a pension, and his wife still works security. His boss says he put away 50 a mouth for him for years. But with this inflation, you can put away 500 a month, and still come up short, if you still have to make rent or pay a mortgage. Even if he doesn't have to pay either one of those, he will still have bills. Nonetheless if he still has to pay rent or a mortgage, then his option to retire doesn't sound quite as feasible as his son was saying. It doesn't sound like this man planned on working there all these years either. It appears he got a little too comfortable, and now he's deciding to make the best of it. I went into this article thinking this man was happy to share his story. But it turned out he was reluctant about talking, and only shared his story if they paid him. Tbh, this reporter should have minded his business. And making that, "he doesn't think like a Black Panther" comment, almost made me not want to read this article.

Although there's some truth to people retiring and dying soon afterwards, that mostly happens to people who don't stay active after retirement. This dying after retirement, although we've seen this happen, is a little exaggerated, because most people don't die soon after retirement, unless they go out on disability with some kind of terminal illness, or like I said, don't stay active. Dying soon after retiring stands a better chance of happening when you work too long, and don't retire when you should. Then when you do retire, you feel too old to try to enjoy anything else, and you could have trouble adjusting to that new life. It seems like this is what this man is up against. However it may not be as bad as he thinks. So making a statement saying that people die right after they retire, was a poor choice of words, and was probably something he said to make himself feel more content. It's almost like that movie "The Green Mile", when that old man was finally let out of prison, then couldn't adjust, then committed suicide. You'd rather come out like Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence did in the movie "Life". That's how you enjoy your new freedom. You don't want to be stuck in a dead in job too long either, like this man if you can help it. It's sad to hear a man practically saying if he stops busing trays, he'll die.

It seems like the only job an old schooler like this man should have for 54 years, is a job paying him a pension and benefits, like a lot of jobs did back in those days. But it could have been worst. I forgot, he still has social security. Perhaps that's what his son was talking about. However social security base your pay more on your salary, instead of how long you worked. But when it comes to a mans choice, I guess it's different stroke for different folks.

 

[DEAD7]

He didn't/doesn't want to move up/progress...
His life, His choice... why is everyone so upset?

 

[kj614]

He didn't/doesn't want to move up/progress...
His life, His choice... why is everyone so upset?

I think because even without moving up, tenure usually includes wage hikes

 

[Taco]

See: this sounds like an argument to keep people poor. "Look at those third world children playing in the mud near a corrosive waste site. Look how happy they are without videogames, education, food, protection, or a chance at living to be 45. You Americans wouldn't understand."

definitely ain’t it fam but Ight.

 

[DEAD7]

I think because even without moving up, tenure usually includes wage hikes

Never heard of such a thing for bus boys, but if so, and he didn't receive it, they did him dirty.

 

[invalid]

Not at the beginning. All Black people were relegated to a few select Chicago neighborhoods. The middle-class AAs that wanted to get out of the slums that were being created fought their way out, but they were by far less than 1% of Black Chicago at that time. Not to mention their houses were bombed quite a few times, they were vastly overcharged, and White flight took the value out of quite a few homes.
We were everywhere, but in incredibly small numbers. The 60s were when the spread to the North and West suburbs really began.

This is not factually correct and is the narrative to which I was speaking.

Blacks were represented in almost every neighborhood in the city before the Great Migration. Although a significant majority of blacks were redirected to the black belt during the first, second, and third waves of the migration north, there were still many blacks living outside of the black belt between 1910-1950, specifically in Englewood, Morgan Park, Austin, Garfield Park, Old Town, and Rogers Park. There are documented histories of black families in these areas. Not even mentioning different suburban areas that had longstanding black populations like Evanston and Lake Forest. Many black Chicago historians, like Timuel Black and Lerone Bennett Jr., have ran this narrative that all blacks who lived within Chicago city limits were push to the south side and that simply is not true. I personally know many families that have challenged both of them because of their own families histories, one of which I know for a fact lived in Morgan Park around the time of the Great Chicago Fire and never left. My own maternal side came to Chicago from Ohio in 1910 and settled in West Englewood. They never lived anywhere near Bronzeville. However, they did buy a second home in 1940 in the Washington Park neighborhood.

 

[LurkMoar]

im sorry but this man wanted to do the same job for 50 years while getting paid shyt, he deserves whatever he gets.

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

King livin in his own simulation

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

But the customers help us a lot, tip-wise,” said Derrick Rumbult, known as “Breezy,” another Jamaican native, who has bussed tables here a mere 38 years.

Loggan, after 54 years, along with his fellow bussers, still makes about minimum wage. (Management says this averages out to roughly $14 an hour with tips, before taxes.) What he doesn’t receive: a pension, health care, a typical 401K plan.

Again, none of this is unique to restaurants.

It’s just a little more pronounced here.

Winston Brown, another busser (for the past 38 years), taps his chest and a red light glows through his white coat — “I’m on dialysis,” he says. “Medicare only. We make just enough to pay bills — sometimes. When I started here, there was one Walker Bros., this place, and now there are seven of them. And what do we get? We get to pay our rents.”

Any savings?

He laughs sardonically.

I asked Ray if it was true he brings Loggan his old clothes.

He said, yes, occasionally: “A lot of the guys, you see them in the same pants every day, or in clothes in need of repair — many of them don’t have a lot of clothes to wear.”

Well, then why not pay them more?

He said they get annual bonuses.

This story is utterly disgusting. How many mufukkas workin minimum wage for 30+ yrs? smfh

The audacity to put mere and 38 years in the same sentence

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Brehs need dialysis and working 38 years for a rich white dude with no healthcare?

If I ever move to the the US I'm making sure that I have money enough to fly back to the UK just in case I get sick.

 

[kwazzy100]

America always promotes not complaining and working hard for a reason.

I know, right.

Good in theory, but for 54 years? and can't afford shyt like health insurance, a good home, car...what's it's REAL worth to you?

 

[UpAndComing]

Unions are very important for this very reason. Grandfather retired with a pension from boilermaker union and doesn't even have a h.s diploma. Same with my grandmother who was part of the machinist union.

So both your grandfather and grandmother did trades? I wanna find a woman who does trades so badly



How did he like being a BoilerMaker? I heard its alot of traveling