Gen X parents on blast after calling their teenaged son ‘entitled’ when he grumbles about earning $11.50/hour: 'That was my starting wage in 1984'
Do you remember your first job? You probably washed dishes at a restaurant, stocked shelves in the mall, or scooped ice cream from your local sweets shop. It wasn't glamorous, but every two weeks, your paycheck would come, which (as a teenager) meant that you were rolling in riches! Even if the bottom line on your paystub was only a couple hundred bucks, you felt like a king.
Nowadays, a couple hundred bucks doesn't go very far does it?
The family in our next story fell victim to a classic misunderstanding at the hands of inflation. While many of us still think that the 80s was 20 years ago, it really was a full 4 decades in the past, making the current minimum wage (which hasn't changed much since the windbreaker days) all the more abysmal. With tempers flaring and a generational feud in the works, one teenager working at his first minimum wage job watched his minimum patience wear thin.
Scroll down for the full story of a teenager's lament over $11.50 an hour. Afterwards, here's another work tale about a tech support guy who finally snapped.
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