6. "Yes. $4.25 at Kroger's in Ohio 1991-1992" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Apr-09-19 03:37 PM by Marbles
Out of curiosity, I checked the minimum wage in Ohio. I could only find the rate increases from 1991 through 2009. As of January 1, 2019, Ohio raised their minimum wage to $8.55.
10. "$5.75 and some of those birds were assholes. ASSHOLES. " In response to Reply # 0
I worked for a big box pet store...shit, I will never forget the day I applied.
I was hanging with my new group of friends that I made riiiight before I graduated. It was a mix of black and white skater kids kind of based on the Jackass template before it was a thing.
We were just wasting our time senior year in our last summer as kids. We were broke as fuck and just bouncing around town being big kids with no real place to be. That day we were kicking it at the shopping center and in a moment of "fuck being broke, we need money" we started walking into places and applying...like, as a group of dudes.
anyway, long story short, I got called back, and had a job two weeks later. Most of the animals were chill but I got bitten by a ton of hamsters and the big birds like the parrots were fucking jerk assholes that would playfully bite or maliciously bite and then laugh about it.
13. "yes, $5.15" In response to Reply # 0 Tue Apr-09-19 05:37 PM by DJR
For a company that made and installed signs. Some days I was outside digging holes and using augers and pickaxes to get the rocks out of the way. It wasn’t easy work.
I’d work 40 hours a week and get less than $200 after taxes, smh. Certainly motivated me to get my degree.
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17. "Dishwasher senior year of HS. I think it was $4.75" In response to Reply # 0
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
21. "RE: Quick Question(s): Was your 1st Job Minimum Wage?" In response to Reply # 0
Junior Counselor at a Summer Camp - since I was younger than 16 it was legal to pay less than minimum wage. Think the rate at the time was $4.75, I made $4.25.
24. "I used to do yard work starting about 1984. Rate was $2/hr, but I was 12..." In response to Reply # 0
Also babysat for $2/hr.
My dad still has the business card I made in 7th grade print shop. Pretty funny. Didn't even need the area code on the phone #.
Mowed lawns but charged a flat rate for that depending on lawn size.First customer negotiated his price at $6/hr, with me pushing my mower a half mile to his house and using my mower and gas. jeeze.
Shoveling snow was where the big cash was... snowy day my brother and I could make $200 each easy, count on that 3-4 times a season and we made out alright for the non-yard work season.
Worked at an overnight summer camp summers 93 and 94, way I recall it I netted about $2k for the 8 week season with one day off/week. Comes to under $2/hr since we lived there, but that includes sleeping time, plus of course they fed us. And the work was basically taking little kids hiking and camping and teaching them to canoe. So overall I wasn't too unhappy with the pay.
25. "Some other legit oldheads in here who got that $3.35 per hour start..." In response to Reply # 0
I was a cashier at A&P.
Then, I went to bus tables at a restaurant in New Orleans. The place was called Algiers Landing. That gig paid $2.10 p/hr because they figured we'd make the rest up in tips. It was a nice place with a nice clientele. That clientele included some of New Orleans' early heavy hitters and even cats with mob ties. The manager was an Italian guy named Mr. Draco. Anyway, I was making between $75 to $100 in tips per night as a busboy.
The restaurant had eight different dining rooms. When I became a food runner a few months later, I serviced each of the dining rooms. Each server would tip me in that case. As a busboy, I worked one specific room. Thus, tips from only one or two servers who were assigned to that room for the night.
Also, my tips as a food runner went up by another $50 to $100 depending on the shift. That brunch buffet shift was the moneymaker. I remember collecting $500 in tips on Easter Sunday of '89. The server, for that dining room we worked, tipped me $500. He'd collected almost $2k. RIP to Perry!
27. "3.35 or 4.25 depending on the task" In response to Reply # 0
Mid 80's, I got hired to be on the remodeling crew at Lionel Playworld, a big box toy store. We built shelves and rearranged stock, and it paid $4.25, but if we wanted to pick up some extra hours cleaning or pricing items, we had to reclock in at $3.35.
29. "Rec league baseball umpire, $4.25/hr" In response to Reply # 0
the upside: I had a job "in baseball" when I was sixteen the downside: getting screamed at by angry parents when I called their 12 year olds out on strikes for 4.25 an hour
My second job was 5/hr with a free meal, as I worked a parking lot during concert events. That was way better.
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