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Why do some people do minimum wage jobs? Have they no pride?

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well you don't get pride by cleaning the toilets of the rich and priveleged

2 days ago

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No education, no pride, no goals, convinced that they can't do any better. Sad.

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• It's because they're humble enough to accept a job that pays the bills, rather than being up their own backsides thinking they "deserve" a well-paid job - like you probably are.
  
  And His Girl, you need to stop being so judgemental. The majority of people on the dole are on it because they need it. You'd think by now, with so many people losing jobs, people would finally get out their own backsides and have the sense to realise that. Yet still they carry on believing the Sun so-called newspaper or their posh "I've-got--hundred-of-thousands-of-pound… broadsheets. What should we do, let people friggin starve? Have as many homeless people as America has? Use your brain.
• Consider the possibility they might do such poorly paid work because they HAVE GOT pride and want to stand on their own two feet and provide for their needs. The work is a means to an end and that end might be dignity, freedom from the demeaning experience imposed by the benefits system, a little more money being available for essentials or maybe something as simple as providing a step on the ladder towards a better paid job.
  
  There is the argument that employers will continue to pay the appallingly low minimum wage as long as others are prepared to accept that wage. There is probably some truth in that but there is another side to it. We, as consumers, are inclined to buy at the lowest price possible and to demand that our local services are provided at the minimum cost. That makes*us* the drivers of the minimum wage economy.
  
  I accept it's not as simple as that ... that some people have no choice about accepting minimum wage or that some employers target potential employees with few choices and no bargaining power. Another element must be that those of us who earn a good wage are comfortable in our wealth and are unwilling to concede a more equitable value being given to different jobs. We don't have to improve the wage of the low paid because we don't want to and because we know there is bugger-all they can do to MAKE us.
  
  If the world were suddenly deprived of one group of workers, I suspect I would miss lavatory cleaners before I would miss advertising account managers .... and we all know which of those is likely to be on the minimum wage.
• You look at someone doing a min. wage job as someone with no pride .. hmm well personally I see them the other way, they would rather do a min wage job than take from the state and that to me gives them a whole lot of pride.
  
  I've been there, stacking supermarket shelves, serving petrol, waiting tables and to be honest i've found it a lot easier to find another job while being employed as it says something to the people who interview you for other jobs .. it tells them you want to work.
  
  I think the people who sneer at min wage jobs are the ones who need to look at their pride.
• because unlike some lazy worthless people they want to make something of themselves and you have to start somewhere right?....I think the question you should be asking is "WHY DO SOME PEOPLE LIVE ON THE DOLE?"
  
  In an Ideal world we would all just be right at the top of the career ladder, but the world isnt like this...Therefore this is why hard working mums like start at the bottom!!!!
• Because everyone has to start somewhere,and because pride and dignity feature heavily in their decision.
  I`d much rather work for a minimum wage,and get experience than sit at home rotting on the PS2 and watching TV all day.
• That's a bit unkind, are you such a brain of Britain? there is a place in Society for all of us and your attiude would not help anyone!
• they need the money, most don't have a great education or their master's in asking stupid question's like yourself.

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• To support themselves, to support their familes and not to free-load from the state?
  
  Why do some people ask such brain-dead questions? Have they no cognitive ability?
  
  http://www.didtheydie.com
• in the current climate when job are hard to find any job is better than none
• this question is just a wind up eh?