Quote Originally Posted by ggiese
When I was growing up, it was not a bad thing to work in a restaurant - or mow lawns - or clean horse stables. It was a way of making money - I don't care how much it paid, it paid cash... And now those jobs aren't good enough for our youth???
When I was 18, summer time before going off to school, I worked for a moving company. I was the grunt doing the hardest work because I was new. Sitting with the gear shift up my ass because I wasn't good enough for a seat in the cab, 16 hour days. I made $7.50/hr starting and was up to $8.50/hr after a month probabtion period. If I wasn't going off to school I could have been up to $9.50/hr after 6 months. Today, same company, all the grunt crews are illegals, $3.50/hr off the books and that's all the time, not for a probationary month. The drivers are legals or Americans and that's it. It's not that people think they are too good for a job, it's they can't live off what they will get paid because illegals work for nothing and live 20 to a house and do nothing but drink in the yard or work. There is no logical argument that makes it ok.