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I don’t know what the cashier’s earning, and [b]I hope it’s a living wage[/b] (naive hope). That said, you weren’t the AH, she was, and as several others have noted, I would know immediately that the person being asked to bag her own purchases would be a woman, likely between 30 and 60. I hate that kind of sh!t and find it disturbingly sexist. If one can bag groceries for a man making valid purchases, that courtesy — that job requirement and duty, let me correct myself — should be granted without pert, obnoxious, manipulative little asides to everyone.[/quote]

I happen to disagree with the concept that every job out there should be paying a living wage.  [b]Minimum wage jobs were never intended to be full support jobs.[/b]  Minimum wage jobs were originally designed to be supplemental income.  These jobs were for people who were in a household that already had one primary wage earner and they needed to supplement.  Whether that was a SAH parent who needed extra income, a teen or dependent who wanted personal income, or even a primary earner who needed to earn money, these jobs were intended to augment household income.  It was not intended to be one to raise oneself on.  The fact that we are turning jobs like supermarket cashiers into full-time, personal or family support jobs is the concern.  People should not be looking into these minimal wage, unskilled jobs to be primary support.  For one thing, it means that it takes those opportunities away from people who do need the supplemental income and it also puts a higher burden on the employers and customers to support these individuals and possibly their families.  If you are an adult that needs to support yourself or your family, a minimum wage job should be a stepping stone to something more rather than a career.  Think, it is part of the journey, not the destination.

I think it is wrong to make minimum wage jobs into living wage jobs.  I think what we need is free job training for individuals who need to support themselves or their families to advance beyond  minimum wage positions.[/quote]

Maybe not, but people are depending on them now.  It's not like there are a ton of living wage positions that people are passing up because they want that sweet grocery bagging job.  Salaries should reflect today's reality, not the 1950s.[/quote]

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