My first job was at a Swensen's Ice Cream Parlor. I earned $2.85 an hour (minor's minimum wage) plus tips that we split equally among the staff. The owner allowed us a free ice cream cone and drink on our break. Our boss was a troll but my coworkers were so fun!
In 1992, I worked in a local pizza place for $3.10 an hour, six days a week. After the girl that managed the place left 6 months after I got there, I was told to start coming in one hour early and staying over an hour everyday after work to close up shop, so I did. My pay did not go up. They told me they didn't pay overtime, that coming in early and staying over was part of the job. I worked there a total of 9 months. After 3 months of staying over I said "pay me for every hour I work for you, or I quit." They waited a week, and after seeing my check was still the same, I quit.
Get the hell out!! I worked there too as a kid, but probably a long time before you did. $2.65 an hour. I could not look at ice cream for years after that but now love it again.
$11/night cash, off books, to dishwasher/cater waiter/whatever else was disgusting, at an Elks lodge. No tips, only got a paid meal once. I was 11yrs old, did that off and on 3 years.
My first job was a lump-sum when I was 15 (it was for an article I wrote in the youth supplement of the national paper... About a boyband member's hair style, because I love writing about things that matter like that). It was around the time the Asian Monetary Crisis happened, but I was paid the equivalent of 29.89% above (!) the monthly minimum wage in the capital city in 1998.
It wasn't even on purpose. I sent a nasty/smartass email to the editor telling him to get his facts straight, and he challenged me to write my own article. I had no idea you could make so much money being a smartass! Ha.
I felt like that kid from "Almost Famous", OMG. It my "rock star" money. LMAO. I'd never had that amount of money in my bank account in my life! (Even as someone who actually saves her allowance/house chores wages.)
Hey Ryan! Which Swensen's? I loved the Caramel Turtle Fudge and the Watermelon Sherbet with the seeds in it! Mmmmm! Our after hours parties we're legendary (when the boss wasn't around, of course! ) ?
$250\wk plus full health benefits after 90 days.
ReplyDelete$3.25 an hour.
ReplyDelete$5. I felt rich, because the minimum wage at that time was $3.65.
ReplyDeleteThat's $5 per hour. Oops.
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteWe need to go way back on this one.
How about $1.35 per hour!
That's from way back when the minimum wage was $1.25 per hour!
1979. I was 14, lied about my age to get a job at a store in a mall in Detroit. $3.35/hour - minimum wage.
ReplyDeleteMy first job was at a Swensen's Ice Cream Parlor. I earned $2.85 an hour (minor's minimum wage) plus tips that we split equally among the staff. The owner allowed us a free ice cream cone and drink on our break. Our boss was a troll but my coworkers were so fun!
ReplyDelete$1.65. Movie theatre concession stand
ReplyDeleteWaitress at a highway diner, some year in the 20th century: 1.80/hr....PLUS TIPS!
ReplyDeleteAbout 1.2/real hour, if I only worked the legal hours, and days, and non-festives, it would be 3.5/hour.
ReplyDeleteMinimum wage at a dish and housewares shop.
ReplyDeleteI think like $5.50/hr
ReplyDeleteWhatever minimum wage was back in 1978. First real job was at McDonald's.
ReplyDeleteIn 1992, I worked in a local pizza place for $3.10 an hour, six days a week. After the girl that managed the place left 6 months after I got there, I was told to start coming in one hour early and staying over an hour everyday after work to close up shop, so I did. My pay did not go up. They told me they didn't pay overtime, that coming in early and staying over was part of the job. I worked there a total of 9 months. After 3 months of staying over I said "pay me for every hour I work for you, or I quit." They waited a week, and after seeing my check was still the same, I quit.
ReplyDelete$2/hr plus full benefits. For a steel company. Giving away my age. Thought I was rich!!
ReplyDeleteGet the hell out!! I worked there too as a kid, but probably a long time before you did. $2.65 an hour. I could not look at ice cream for years after that but now love it again.
ReplyDelete3.50 and I was stoked! Until I got my first check and realized that 3.50 was more like 2.50 after taxes and SS.
ReplyDeleteI did gift wrap at Macy's for $5 an hour in 1983.
ReplyDelete$11/night cash, off books, to dishwasher/cater waiter/whatever else was disgusting, at an Elks lodge. No tips, only got a paid meal once. I was 11yrs old, did that off and on 3 years.
ReplyDeleteForgot... flat rate pay whether I was there 3 hours for a dinner event or 12 hrs for a wedding.
ReplyDeleteIn the mid-80's, 2.75 an hour at an airline parts packaging service/business. I typed stencils that went on the packaging.
ReplyDelete1994 $4.25 at The Limited
ReplyDeleteMy first job was a lump-sum when I was 15 (it was for an article I wrote in the youth supplement of the national paper... About a boyband member's hair style, because I love writing about things that matter like that). It was around the time the Asian Monetary Crisis happened, but I was paid the equivalent of 29.89% above (!) the monthly minimum wage in the capital city in 1998.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't even on purpose. I sent a nasty/smartass email to the editor telling him to get his facts straight, and he challenged me to write my own article. I had no idea you could make so much money being a smartass! Ha.
I felt like that kid from "Almost Famous", OMG. It my "rock star" money. LMAO. I'd never had that amount of money in my bank account in my life! (Even as someone who actually saves her allowance/house chores wages.)
Cool first job!
ReplyDeleteHey Ryan! Which Swensen's?
ReplyDeleteI loved the Caramel Turtle Fudge and the Watermelon Sherbet with the seeds in it! Mmmmm!
Our after hours parties we're legendary (when the boss wasn't around, of course! ) ?
2.30 an hour at a fast food restaurant in 1976.
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