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[rocknload]

Bridgette went through my clothes this morning while I was asleep and wore the clothes I was planning on wearing to the interview to... high school. This means I have to go to it in the oxymoronic state of formal slacks and no bra.

Goddamnit.

Edit: "If you want this job, it's yours." Manager man, that's the best news I've heard in a week.

... Actually, I don't feel any less stressed, because evidently my life is about to become complicated and shit, but whatever. I GOT A JOB.

More editing: It's really quite hilarious listening to my brother and his guy friends explain that they think I got the job based on what I look like, while managing to make sure their lectures aren't remotely complimentary. Thanks, guys, really. Thanks.

Comments

[halfling-rogue.livejournal.com]

I read that as your minimum wage being ten bucks an hour for some reason.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Ha.

I think they finally passed a law to bring it up from the 5.15 it'd been for forever. I'm not sure what it's at now, probably six-something.

[halfling-rogue.livejournal.com]

Really! I think it's still 7 back in Ottawa.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of torn between thinking our minimum wage is good or bad! Because I make a lot more than it working for my father--but the job I had before it was waitressing, in which they gave us around 2.13...

[halfling-rogue.livejournal.com]

2.13 is criminal. And I mean that almost as literally as I can: isn't it illegal to have it below a certain point?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Waitressing is a funny thing! In the United States, we have a really fun system with which to pay them. And by fun, I mean the restaurant doesn't actually do it; instead, servers live almost entirely on the tips they make! Some restaurants, that's a living wage. In others...

[halfling-rogue.livejournal.com]

That's retarded.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Tipping is mandatory! REMEMBER THAT IF YOU EVER VISIT OUR COUNTRY. It normally worked out for me okay.

... Then there was that night when I literally made one dollar.

[halfling-rogue.livejournal.com]

I WILL OKAY. o_o

I will never waitress, for a variety of reasons. This is just the most pertinent one, now.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

It apparently only works like that in the States! And even some special states, like California, actually pay like seven or eight bucks plus tips. I'd work a job like that in a heartbeat, man.

[halfling-rogue.livejournal.com]

The point of minimum wage is that there is a sane minimum wage! Seven is good.