POLL: What is the min wage where you live?

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What is the min wage where you live and or work?

  • Don't know, care, or want to vote.

  • <$4/hr

  • $4.01-$5/hr

  • $5.01-$6/hr

  • $6.01-$7/hr

  • $7.01-$8/hr

  • $8.01-$9/hr

  • $9.01-$10/hr

  • $10+/hr

  • No min wage


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Feb 19, 2001
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My friend who was in a PhD program at MIT tried to apply for a Panda Express job. He and another friend who's doing his MS with me right now also applied and both didn't get anything. LOL. GG
 

TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
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LOL you take what they write down there seriously? Come on, they write down tons of shit for requirements on most any job and most of the time you don't need 1/2 that stuff even for high paying jobs. For min wage jobs they often take any warm body they can find. The requirements they list are just their ideal candidate. If you take that attitude you will NEVER have a job.

Many of them say don't apply unless you have that experience. It's usually "high class" restaurants.
 

TridenT

Lifer
Sep 4, 2006
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My friend who was in a PhD program at MIT tried to apply for a Panda Express job. He and another friend who's doing his MS with me right now also applied and both didn't get anything. LOL. GG

lol wow. But to be honest, they probably didn't accept him because they want people to stick around FOREVER. The less often your employees change, the better.
 

Capt Caveman

Lifer
Jan 30, 2005
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You'd be surprised how many minimum wage jobs require 2+ years experience.

Just trying to be a fucking bus boy requires 2 years of experience. WTF IS THERE TO BE EXPERIENCED ABOUT?

Sure. You have an excuse for everything. Why even try to get into UW? You'll still have a reason for not getting a job.
 

JimW1949

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Mar 22, 2011
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Most companies want to hire people with experience. I guess I can understand that in one way, by hiring someone who is already trained they don't have to spend the time and the money it takes to train you. But if nobody will hire you because you have no experience, then how do you get the experience so that someone will hire you?