Be a bus boy for 54 years on minimum wage

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I'm gonna post this every time 1 of these stories is shared. it makes me sick
Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn

"These stories are typically shared for the purposes of poor-shaming, typically under the guise of inspirational life advice. “This man is proof we all just need to keep walking, no matter what life throws at us,” insisted Denver ABC7anchor Anne Trujillo, after sharing one of those stories of a poor person forced to walk thousands of miles a year to survive.

A healthy press would take these anecdotes of “can do” spirit and ask bigger questions, like why are these people forced into such absurd hardship? Who benefits from skyrocketing college costs? Why does the public transit in this person’s city not have subsidies for the poor? Why aren’t employers forced to offer time off for catastrophic accidents? But time and again, the media mindlessly tells the bootstrap human interest story, never questioning the underlying system at work."
 

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he wasted his entire life working for racist cacs who don't respect him, to play a old timely c00n that makes rich whites feel superior and comfortable as they eat. America will have a hell of a reckoning for what they have put blacks through.

Nobody made this c00n ass nikka to stay there for 50 years.
 

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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
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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 :scust:
 

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What course can you take that a company would take you serious and hire you ?


mmaaannnn, too many books out there to read. Too much info out there to not learn skills to make you decent bread. 10 bucks on Udemy. I think a lot of people just lack exposure.
 
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