In America you can break your back at a fancy restaurant and they're legally allowed to pay you like less than $5 because of tipping culture, or you can work fast food and they're legally allowed to pay you $7.25 and you will never get tips. I'm amazed every day I wake up that we haven't begun another revolution.

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

$29 minimum!? ($18.40 in USD). In my state it's $7.50 (USD), and most fast food workers like me get $11 after tips...

Edit: For my line of work and hours it's $11 and $12.70 on weekends in Australia (converted to USD)... Still a bit more than most fast food workers get in the U.S...

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We also have free healthcare. You Americans are getting shafted from so many directions

[–] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm seriously considering immigrating elsewhere when I've finished university... It's nearly unlivable here.

[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Do as soon as you can if you want to - coming back is often an option. It's a lot more difficult to courage up to later on life, when you tend to have much more connections and emotions to whatever you're about to leave.

It's not always a bad thing to stay, of course, people have their reasons to both proceed with emigration and shaking it off, but it's much easier the sooner you go with it.

[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you. I vaguely remember almost 30 but can’t remember what context that was so didn’t want to overstate.

[–] Cheez@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I always try to bring up our award to shut down the "but the well tipped waiters will lose money if you mandate a minimum wage" argument.

As though a minimum wage has to stay $7.

Our waitstaff get $35/hr on weekends and somehow we still have enough small cafes to bankrupt Starbucks.