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Re:The financial mistakes behind why a startup laid off 400 ... by StudentStuff on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:23PM (#17730233)
You'd need to be in a large city for Home Depot to pay that, and even then in places like Austin and especially Boise, many people make less than that per hour. $10 an hour after a bachelors degree isn't uncommon in economically depressed parts of the US.
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Re:The financial mistakes behind why a startup laid off 400 ... by Spooky23 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:10PM (#17730417)
I drove by a Home Depot near Utica, NY advertising $15/hr a few months ago.

Utica isn’t exactly a big city or prosperous place.

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Re:The financial mistakes behind why a startup laid off 400 ... by Xeronate on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:40AM (#17730720)
No you don't. I'm from a small town in Ohio and my first job was at Home Depot for $12 an hour 6 years ago.
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Re:The financial mistakes behind why a startup laid off 400 ... by zenexer on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:01AM (#17730795)
Minimum wage is around $12 here in MA, if I recall correctly. There’s been talk of increasing it to $15.
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Re:The financial mistakes behind why a startup laid off 400 ... by cannonedhamster on Friday August 10, 2018 @09:21PM (#17737782)
It just became $11 in 2017 and that's only for non-service workers. Tipped workers still only make $3.75 and STILL have to pay taxes as if they were fully compensated. Tipping needs to go.
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