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Minimum wage - ten cents increase

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  • #62
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    This could be beleivable if he's over 50 now!

    I am sorry how dear I not believe his story. Hopefully his uncle who is still delivering bread aged alot slower than Gooey.


  • #63
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Gooey Looey wrote: »
    It costs jobs. I started working at 12 delivering bread every Saturday with my uncle. He's still delivering bread but has no help. The minimum wage cost this job. There are no part time summer jobs for teens and the teens are of the attitude that if a job doesn't pay minimum wage is not worth doing

    Is your uncle Auld Mr Brennan?


  • #64
    Gooey Looey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Gooey Looey


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    This could be beleivable if he's over 50 now!

    Not far off the mark!

    Of course it was one day a week and summer hols until the age of about 18. Something like this just isn't available for today's teens


  • #65
    Gooey Looey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,297 ✭✭✭Gooey Looey


    Plumbthedepths wrote: »
    I am sorry how dear I not believe his story. Hopefully his uncle who is still delivering bread aged alot slower than Gooey.

    He's close to retirement age, has a short run closer to home, no longer works long days not that it matters

    Are you going to comment on the 10c increase minimum wage or are you just here to troll?


  • #66
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Gooey Looey wrote: »
    He's close to retirement age, has a short run closer to home, no longer works long days not that it matters

    Are you going to comment on the 10c increase minimum wage or are you just here to troll?

    We are on After Hours. Trolling is more fun


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  • #67
    Vittu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Vittu


    All I know is that the more you earn the more work, responsibility, stress come with it.

    If your boss drives a nice car it's by earning it or it's on finance.


  • #68
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,682 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Also, as we have seen during COVID, supermarket workers and food processors etc are more important to society than Fintan or Sorcha who tweets all day for a PR company on 90k a year.

    Wages have never been set based on value to society, but on the rarity of skills and the capacity of an employer to pay.

    That's why essential workers like supermarket staff have low wages, while non-essential entertainers like pro footballers get sky high wages.


  • #69
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Also, as we have seen during COVID, supermarket workers and food processors etc are more important to society

    Yes, and that's why we built a society where they can be easily replaced so that the show is kept on the road.

    Would you like the food sector of the economy to be union-riddled and overpaid like others? How would we guarantee shops would stay open in that case?


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