Jack_sad

On early jobs:

"The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous. The next summer, I was up to $5 an hour, so I thought I was king of the world. Then I moved into the restaurant business. There's this chain of restaurants called PoFolks; it's all home-style cooking, meaning everything's fried—fried green tomatoes, fried okra, catfish.

"When you're waiting tables, your wage is half of minimum wage, and the rest you make up in tips. But these were "po folks" who were eating there. One time, I chased a couple out of the restaurant who didn't tip me. [They gave me] A dollar bill. A dollar bill. They had been running me ragged the entire time; they'd clearly never eaten at a restaurant before."

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