"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 5/19/2013 3:51 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Cheryl" > wrote in message
>> eb.com...
>>> 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.
>>
>>
> I can quote it if you don't remember.

I do remember. I was replying to something that isn't even here. It had to
do with someone, I think it was you, saying that they didn't know anyone who
would take a job that with tips would equate to minimum wage or something
like that. I was saying that they would only take such a low paying job if
they could not get any other job. And that is the case in some areas. I do
know some people who have had to do things like that.