Be a bus boy for 54 years on minimum wage

[Crimson_Dynamo]

What's wrong with putting in an honest day's work. What else should he do? Go on welfare and food stamps. He's happy where he's at. I'm sure the tips he gets offset his low wage.

I'm sure there were slaves on plantations happy where they were at.

This dude is a step above a lumpenprole for unambitiousness and unconsciousness when it comes to his situation and surroundings.

 

[King Poetic]

since 1964, he go from what $.50 to 8 or 9 bucks

damn shame...

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

And he busing tables so not tip even

At a place like that, waiters probably tip out the bussers

 

[At30wecashout]

a lot of you nikkas in here have Wilmette connects. I've never been there and dont know any black ppl who have.

After the economy took a shyt, I wasn't able to find any jobs in the city. I've worked in Willmette, northbrook, glenview, Skokie, and Evanston and the jobs were much easier to come by than in the city. Folks out there don't wanna work the service jobs so there is very little competition.

"nikkas," were jamming the proverbial doors of this thread to shyt on an old black man. These Coli gimmicks have sullied the term militant so much.

I been saying this since day one. Bizzare. I remember how the race track used to be about "black issues" but a great deal of it was finding out just how high someone's pro-black horse is.

 

[Arithmetic]

That picture.

 

[At30wecashout]

I’ve seen him there too. My grandparents live in Wilmette. Eat there all the time. There and Sarkis Grill.

It’s weird though he was only making $14. Trying to fill service sector jobs in the North Shore is pretty hard because the towns are so expensive, they can’t sustain lower income residence. So you see a lot of black folks from Rogers Park or Latinos from Highwood or Waukegan coming in to fill those jobs. They even have a hard time filling regular firefighter and police officer positions. Those dudes are coming from five or six suburbs over.

Live in Gurnee traveling all the way to Winnetka to be a police officer.

Facts. They can't fill those jobs. I tried to put some many people on when they don't have shyt going for them. It sucks not being able to work in your own community, but pondering that shyt don't pay bills. Those jobs have zero competition so I see brothas from the city out there all the time. The Fedex opening up in Niles was a godsend (I worked there for a spell) cause you could get decent pay and work around school or another job. Speaking of school, working in the burbs lets you get that in-district tuition for Oakton in Skokie, which is incredible for tech and HVAC. It's not all bad, but we gotta share that blueprint with folks.

 

[BruhManFromTheFifthFlo]

Breh whole Bloodline lawst :Damnasty:

 

[x2y]

I read this story last night and was disgusted. Props to him for keeping a steady job for 54 years, but got damn. I just don't understand that whole crew not wanting to do better. Doing a decade plus without as far as I know getting better pay. What a mind fukk man. They even threw the no father and single mother thing in there.

 

[#1 pick]

If this was a white dude, do yall think that this would be a story in such a major publication?

These are the negroes that they like. White supremacists

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

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.

Yeah my grandparents retired from factories. Worked 30 years but they made 20+/hr in them.

Not sure what this old man was/is doing.

 

[Elle Driver]

This old man still working and don’t even have a retirement, no healthcare, nothing. So if he get sick he done for. That is fukked up.

 

[Iceson Beckford]

There is a restaurant down in Brunswick that is exactly like this but worse. All the waiters are black old men with bowties and at the request of the patrons can start singing for them. My yellow bougie aunt loved that place. I never want to go back there. I was uncomfortable.

 

[Crimson_Dynamo]

Deadass.

 

[Trot LaRoc]

My main beef isnt what he did but that the next generation is supposed to be put in a better situation but dude grandson is stuc in the same cycle. That is the shyt that bums me out

Like a previous poster said, this is why unions were are so important.

My grandad worked an union job as a longshoreman in Duval as a guy who only had a high school education....started out in the projects on the East Side....That job helped him put all his 8 children thru college including my pops who ended up maxing out at 6 figures as a software tester.

Thats the way shyt is supposed to be not just passing down the same low expectations to your children

 

[I Really Mean It]

Here we are shaming another brother for working and trying to make a living.