"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 5/19/2013 1:23 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> Maybe jobs are plentiful where you are. They aren't here! Not that they
>> could get away with paying less than minimum wage here. But there are
>> plenty of people working 2 and 3 part time jobs just to make ends meet.
>> And
>> plenty more underemployed and unemployed. This is one reason why my
>> husband
>> had to move to NY. He is back here now and employed. But he got lucky.
>> Countless others are not so lucky. It's also unlikely that there would
>> be
>> too many people out there who know all of the waterways that he does.
>> Which
>> is why he got the job.
>
> But all that has nothing to do with your statement that people only wait
> tables because they can't find any other job.

That is *not* what I said! I said they only take a low paying job because
they can get no other. We were not just talking of waiting tables. We were
talking of waiting tables for a low wage. Here, that would not happen.
Not legally anyway. Wait staff is well paid.