Mentee calls out 50-year-old construction company owner for paying employees $17 an hour: 'Get a clue dude. You're not retaining employees'

• One man was uncomfortably confronted with this when he overheard his work mentor, who owns a construction company, attempting to recruit an employee. Realizing that he was offering only $17 an hour for hard physical labor, he was demoralized by the knowledge and needed to vent.

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  My mentor owns a construction company and pays his employees $17/hr.

  
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