Poll: Minimum Wage hike might DECREASE your pay. What will you do?

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Poll: Minimum Wage hike might DECREASE your pay. What will you do?

Delivery Tycoon

Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 8054

5/28/07 6:02:09 PM

The President is likely to sign the minimum wage hike in a week or less. Read the story: Senate Approves Minimum Wage Hike in War Funding Bill

If the new higher minimum wage causes your store to DECREASE your pay, then pay you LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE as a "Tipped Employee" who must report tips to show their income is at least min wage with tips included, what will you do?

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Choices

Votes

%

• I will quit and leave pizza delivery forever that very day.
(Baby Huey, JustAnotherPizzaGal, Tippy, Road Warrior 7, CoonMan)

5

24

• I will move to a store that pays at least min or better if I can find one.
(gregster, adrbrown, Bludragon, DominosVibe, pizza4tips, geebzx)

6

29

• I will b---h and moan about it and stay for a while then decide.
(Jesse, board master, TurtleFan)

3

14

• I will stay anyway, this is the only job for me.

0

0

• I am already a ‘tipped employee‘ and it‘s working out for me as is.
(Kmbrly)

1

5

• OTHER or We are all doomed when this happens and it‘s the end of the world!
(thebutcher, Pizza Roadie, Dominwhore, Snowflake, pizza pimp, Pokeraddict)

6

29

Total votes: 21

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Delivery Tycoon

Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 9778

5/29/07 2:54:50 AM

I didn't vote. I couldn't decide how to vote.

I've been a tipped employee for the last ten years or so.

I basically stayed, because I got steady hours and the hours I wanted.

The tips have been up and down, but basically predictable.

I don't expect many driver's wages to be reduced, but rather stay at pre-hike levels, with the possibility of token hikes of 25 cents or less, on merit, over the coming years, until the hikes just stop dead.

At least that's how it was for me.

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Veteran Poster

Joined: May 2006
Posts: 1377

5/29/07 4:41:29 AM

So glad my state doesn't allow tip credit bs.

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Moderator

5/29/07 6:16:35 AM

Before I would quit, I'd do everything in my ability to get rid of the tip credit. This includes sending a very detailed report about sidework to the state DOL, getting a bill passed to eliminate the tip credit, telling customers about the sub-minimum wage, and using the tip credit to rally a union drive in my shop. Productive b---hing and moaning. Then I'd move to a better paying store if I could find one. There's no way this hazardous job can be worth less than minimum wage and, besides, PH makes us do far too much in-store work.

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Loyal Poster

Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 776

5/29/07 6:55:55 AM

yea, it should be signed this week. Sux

This might put me out of business. I already ordered new menues with a price increase.

What really hurts is that cheese prices just shot through the roof the last month. Over 20 cents per pound. That is costing me about $150 per week extra over a month ago, now the first raise of this forced minimum wage is going to cost me nearly $200 per week.

I only make about $400 to $500 per week as it is. I have not been able to aford health insurance for 2 years now, and I barely pay my bills. Shoot, my drivers already take home more than I do.

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Apprentice Poster

Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 380

5/31/07 12:09:56 AM

I could not vote on this because Michigan min. wage is already above federal wage.

Loyal Poster

Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 952

5/31/07 12:37:29 AM

I hate it! 95% of delivery drivers are smarter and more lucid than the rest of society. Drivers are the only co-workers I've ever had that had any sort of common sense.

I could be unloading trucks with fourteen 25-45 year olds, one of which could create a sentence worthy of dignifying. Yet drivers are the only ones to realize how not to be a peg in the corporate cog all the while having the capacity for coherent sentences.

Most "workers" forget that America was built on paying for GOODS and SERVICES. They're corporate robots, conversing about the latest sensationalism to puke from MTV, BET, or whatever distraction keeps them from thinking too deep.

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Apprentice Poster

Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 316

5/31/07 12:50:07 AM

If your store goes to a sub min wage your only choice is going ot be to walk out as a group in protest (or unioned) and hope you can find something better. With gas where it is I don't see a better choice unless you only work rushes and work in a small area.

Veteran Poster

Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 1589

5/31/07 1:00:13 AM

Pokeraddict writes:

<< If your store goes to a sub min wage your only choice is going ot be to walk out as a group in protest (or unioned) and hope you can find something better. >>

Depending on the local economy, picketing the store doesn't always mean you have to find something better.

At my store, we picketed for five straight days, and nobody was fired. Sure, the higher ups did eventually drive us to the point of quiting, but that was nothing new, and definitely not a direct result of the unionization.

Apprentice Poster

Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 316

5/31/07 2:16:56 AM

We had a couple of walk outs years ago that got exactly what we wanted. The key is that you have to get everyone involved. If only 1/3 of your drivers walk then your message will never be heard.

Delivery Tycoon

Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 7216

5/31/07 1:31:00 PM

Getting the whole driver crew to feel they are a united unit with rights (and wages!) worthy of defending is crucial... and possible!

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Delivery Specialist

Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 4296

5/31/07 3:04:16 PM

Voting without the FACTS is what got us an OIL Man in the White House thats now about to declare a new Minimum wage.
Some of us older guys (and gals) don't have the options open to you younger peeps.
That's why I resort to Sniper tactics rather than standing up in front of a Tank, to get my point across.

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Veteran Poster

Joined: May 2002
Posts: 1069

5/31/07 3:23:45 PM

pieshofur writes:

<< That�s why I resort to Sniper tactics rather than standing up in front of a Tank, to get my point across. >>

That's cool, as long as everyone in the shop is aware they are in a war, and are fighting it with you, using their own tactics. Otherwise, a sniper is just a crazy guy in a tower pizzing people off.

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Delivery Tycoon

Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 8054

12/27/07 7:43:55 AM

gregster writes:

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If the new higher minimum wage causes your store to DECREASE your pay, then pay you LESS THAN MINIMUM WAGE as a "Tipped Employee" who must report tips to show their income is at least min wage with tips included, what will you do?

� I will quit and leave pizza delivery forever that very day.

� I will move to a store that pays at least min or better if I can find one.

� I will b---h and moan about it and stay for a while then decide.

� I will stay anyway, this is the only job for me.

� I am already a �tipped employee� and it�s working out for me as is.

� OTHER or We are all doomed when this happens and it�s the end of the world! >>

Bump

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