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He is now the "Lead" Dishwasher, at a high level private business club..

He goes from 18-28 hours per week, no benefits, no support, to a solid 40 hours, uniform, full medical and dental insurance after 6 months, monthly bus pass, and 13.50 per hour, from 10.25 minimum wage.

He has just complete his first full week (as of tonight) and is exhausted, but exhilarated. The rest of the staff leave at around 10:30 pm, and he is the sole closer. He still washes dishes, but now they are fine china dishes and silver flatware, LOL.

He may not have dreamed of the title, but that's a nice bump in pay and benefits!

You'd think maybe Lead Dishwasher would get to rinse and dry only?

That's a big step to get off of minimum wage, especially by that much - with the bump in wage plus the hours, he is going to see a huge increase in take-home. Even more so is what that does to his head. I remember getting a salary bump to $2.45/hr. It was either 15 cents or 30 cents above what minimum wage was at the time. But more important was the fact that most others were still making minimum wage. I knew I was working harder than anyone and turning out much more (car clean-up at a car dealership) but it gave me a huge boost for that fact to be recognized in actual money.

Most excellent!

Wow! congrats to you and J!
Love,

Congrats!

I LOVED my stint in professional dishwashing! You feel accomplished in very specific, obvious ways, but your mind can still do other things while you work.

Congratulations to him!

A lot of folks down here would love to be making $10.25/hour.

Bob Juch wrote:Congratulations to him!

A lot of folks down here would love to be making $10.25/hour.

$10.25 Canadian = $9.09 US

And congrats to Big J from me as well.

Let's keep moving this good news thread to the top, and maybe make up a few new ones, as well. Then maybe we can lose those others.

Good on James!

Saucy, our boys are doing what we knew they would do even back in those dark days.

Hey, you never know. Some of the bests cooks/chefs started as the dishwasher.

Check out the pics on EFB to see the most recent pics of Son1111.

elwoodblues wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:Congratulations to him!

A lot of folks down here would love to be making $10.25/hour.

$10.25 Canadian = $9.09 US

And congrats to Big J from me as well.

I didn't realize the exchange rate had changed so much but they'd like to make at least $9.09 too.

$10.25 Canadian = $9.09 US

No 10.25 = 10.25 J is not working in the US getting paid in Cdn dollars and he is working in Canada.

macrae1234 wrote:$10.25 Canadian = $9.09 US

No 10.25 = 10.25 J is not working in the US getting paid in Cdn dollars and he is working in Canada.

exactly!

costs are higher in Canada, so it is all relative.

a1mamacat wrote:

macrae1234 wrote:$10.25 Canadian = $9.09 US

No 10.25 = 10.25 J is not working in the US getting paid in Cdn dollars and he is working in Canada.

exactly!

costs are higher in Canada, so it is all relative.

I think that was kind of the point of elwood's citing the exchange figures (What would Canada's minimum wage be worth in USD?) which Mac somehow missed... unless Canadian and US dollars can be used interchangeably in the other country despite the value discrepancy (Can they?)....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:

a1mamacat wrote:

macrae1234 wrote:$10.25 Canadian = $9.09 US

No 10.25 = 10.25 J is not working in the US getting paid in Cdn dollars and he is working in Canada.

exactly!

costs are higher in Canada, so it is all relative.

I think that was kind of the point of elwood's citing the exchange figures (What would Canada's minimum wage be worth in USD?) which Mac somehow missed... unless Canadian and US dollars can be used interchangeably in the other country despite the value discrepancy (Can they?)....

lb13

well anywhere in Canada, they will accept US $, but usually in the States, only the border cities accept it. Not worth the effort to go to the bank and get it exchanged LOL

a1mamacat wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

a1mamacat wrote:
exactly!

costs are higher in Canada, so it is all relative.

I think that was kind of the point of elwood's citing the exchange figures (What would Canada's minimum wage be worth in USD?) which Mac somehow missed... unless Canadian and US dollars can be used interchangeably in the other country despite the value discrepancy (Can they?)....

lb13

well anywhere in Canada, they will accept US $, but usually in the States, only the border cities accept it. Not worth the effort to go to the bank and get it exchanged LOL

I think you can use Canadian money in Myrtle Beach

I was replying to Bob, who said a lot of people in the US would like to be making $10.25. But even with the conversion Canada's minimum wage is higher than ours, and I don't think they have had the problems some people think we would have if it were higher.

I think that was kind of the point of elwood's citing the exchange figures (What would Canada's minimum wage be worth in USD?) which Mac somehow missed... unless Canadian and US dollars can be used interchangeably in the other country despite the value discrepancy (Can they?)....

No LB I didn't miss anything as a 50 year resident of Canada who moved to the US your salary is your salary in the country you live in. You can't take a number ie the Canadian salary and say oh but that would only be worth 9.11225 at Fridays exchange rate in the US. So the exchange rate is meaningless unless J went to Wash state.
My father-in-law when he would come to visit us would say, and by the way when I moved here the Cdn dollar was under 70 cents then, oh my you are paying so much multiplying everything by 1.5 and I said no I am paid in US dollars. When I went to Canada to visit it was another story

Terrific!!