Unemployed?

SamIam · 02-14-2012, 10:00 PM

I will be unemployed most likely sooner rather than later. The owner of the Bates is fortunate that jobs are so few around here. Otherwise, he'd spend eons finding a new manager.

The job is awful - 14 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week. You get paid minimum wage for 8 of your 14 hours and the rest of your pay comes as free rent on your apartment at the motel - worth about $500/month these days. We may not have any jobs, but boy do we ever have cheap housing. So, let's see... the remaining 7 hours a day times 20 = 140 hours for which you get "paid" about $3.56 an hour. Hot damn! There are no benefits, no sick leave - nothing like that, but you do get one entire week of vacation per year. The other 51 weeks you live on busy Highway 160/Main Street, breathing in exhaust fumes and calling the cops on drunks.

I considered applying for a second or two, but even if it was between doing that and being homeless, I'd pick being homeless. At least I'd retain my sanity.

Hard times allow employers to act like the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age.

View Poll Results: Unemployment....
employed and happy	14	41.18%
employed but need something better	10	29.41%
unemployed, desperately seeking	3	8.82%
unemployed, would lke to work	4	11.76%
unemployed and ok that way	3	8.82%
Voters: 34. You may not vote on this poll

02-14-2012, 10:00 PM	#39
SamIam Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Not here Posts: 2,655	I will be unemployed most likely sooner rather than later. The owner of the Bates is fortunate that jobs are so few around here. Otherwise, he'd spend eons finding a new manager. The job is awful - 14 hours a day, 5 or 6 days a week. You get paid minimum wage for 8 of your 14 hours and the rest of your pay comes as free rent on your apartment at the motel - worth about $500/month these days. We may not have any jobs, but boy do we ever have cheap housing. So, let's see... the remaining 7 hours a day times 20 = 140 hours for which you get "paid" about $3.56 an hour. Hot damn! There are no benefits, no sick leave - nothing like that, but you do get one entire week of vacation per year. The other 51 weeks you live on busy Highway 160/Main Street, breathing in exhaust fumes and calling the cops on drunks. I considered applying for a second or two, but even if it was between doing that and being homeless, I'd pick being homeless. At least I'd retain my sanity. Hard times allow employers to act like the Robber Barons of the Gilded Age.

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