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I just looked on the facebook page... 24k+ people are already attending? Good God!
 
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Hmm. $9 an hour is a good rate/work of two people? Under current conversion rates that's actually under minimum wage for the UK. In the job I just lost I was getting £6.32 an hour with paid breaks and travel expenses covered. >_>

I'm sure it all balances out somewhere. McDonalds is really cheep in the US I hear.

Oh and yeah, I've of course told my flatmates now. They'd be pretty suspicious by now otherwise. And don't worry Nunu. I get sad sometimes like anyone, and even might do silly things on rare occasions, but I get over it quickly. I'll never go and sink into some pointless emo dip.
 
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Colbert is the most epic person I know :D

Also squid, $9 would be 5.76 there, at current exchange rates. I dunno about other states, but in mine min wage is $8.25, and expenses and things are rarely covered. Your 6.23 would be around 9.8 dollars, and would be okay for our demographic, but isn't amazing.
 
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I get paid around $23 an hour with no benefits at one of my jobs. This pay rate is "Decent, but not amazing".

This would be around $21.57/hour in US Dollars at current exchange rates (lol your economy sucks compared to what it used to be)

And around 13.78/hour in pounds.

This is in an industry notorious for its crappy wage rates. Although when i supervise for that job, I get paid a whopping 60 cents more per hour for a lot more responsibility, which is where the crappy pay-rates rear their heads. The main benefit to supervising is you're first in, last out, so longer shifts which means more pay.

My other job... I don't actually know my pay rate ^^; I only just started and I haven't asked. It'll probably be a few dollars less, but I doubt it'll be under $20/hour.
 
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That's just obscene x.x
 
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I used to get paid $26 an hour to ride around on trains, deliver pamphlets out to people and make sure they were doing their jobs properly.

I miss that job, before it got crap. But like all good things...

I'll also note that the exchange rate difference doesn't affect our lives as much as it should, at least in terms of things we import. For example, games. We are still paying the same amount of money for games as we used to when our dollar was worth about half of the US dollar. Which means someone is pocketing the difference.

Unless you buy your games through something like steam. Like I do almost exclusively now, because it's usually at least 30% cheaper.

It's kinda like how prices for groceries went up during the big drought. The market has stabilised a lot more than it was now, but the prices haven't come back down because people are used to paying that much, and at the time it was a case of "Alright, the prices are higher, but I understand why..." Again, someone pockets the difference.

Capitalism, ho!
 
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Well, you all know I'm not a fan of capitalism :D

Also, I like steam because there's no sales tax as well (unless you live in Washington State, where Valve is based, then the sales tax law still applies) On a 40 dollar game, that can add up to around 3 dollars or so.
 
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I get like 2000 kroner a day where I work. Thats around 400 dollars a day, and the time is varying. Best I've done was three and a half hour work and getting the same pay, so that's a little over a hundred dollars an hour.:)
 
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Unknown Squid said:
Hmm. $9 an hour is a good rate/work of two people?
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No. No, that is not a good rate for doing the work of two people. IMO, at least. They were just cheap bastards. Unfortunately, they were the only place that was hiring.

I would have been happy at $7, $7.50 an hour just doing the work of one person. But, no, apparently it's not enough for me to work as dishwasher/janitor, I also had to do food prep and keep a constant eye on the lobby (yanno, using my magical eye that can see through walls, what with my other duties keeping me mostly in the back) to make sure is was pristine at all times. It doesn't sound like a lot, but when a fast food place gets busy, yeah, that's a lot of stuff to do. Especially when there's only 7 (6, really) people working; manager + 1 on cashier, one on drive-through, 2 on kitchen + deep fryer, myself, and one guy who sat around just picking his nose and scratching his ass all day. Note that this is during lunch and dinner hours, not late night or early morning.


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Thats around 400 dollars a day, and the time is varying.
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You live in Norway, right? Fuck, $400 a day and Sur- I mean, Urge? FUCK THIS SHIT. *moves to Norway*
 
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...and one guy who sat around just picking his nose and scratching his ass all day. Note that this is during lunch and dinner hours, not late night or early morning.
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Well unfortunately someone has to be stupervisor, usually it's the manager so in that respect you got lucky.
 
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Heh, this reminds me, sometimes at my job (sort of) I fill in for the role of "adult supervision", despite the fact that some of the people needing supervised are probably in their 30s x.x
 
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Try supervising people who have a very, very basic understanding of English. For some reason the managers at work think of me as a 'people person' and even though I'm not trained for it they get me to supervise and show some of the new people what to do. Doesn't happen as much now because I've put myself in a place where they cant do that without slowing production down, but goddamn it was annoying as all hell having to deal with people who didn't understand me all that well.
 
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Eh, I'm good with languages/communicating, so I can't really picture the issue, though I understand it can be a problem.

Then again, my boss and alot of the other instructers around campus don't have English as their first language, so I might have just grown used to it.
 
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You live in Norway, right? Fuck, $400 a day and Sur- I mean, Urge? FUCK THIS SHIT. *moves to Norway*
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It's the oil. All of fennoskandia is wealthy, but Norway has oil on top of everything else. They may not produce very much of it, but their population is only about 5 million and they have high taxes, which distribute the wealth so that everyone gets part of it.

Finland and Sweden may also seem to have higher salaries(although not as high as Norway), but high taxes mean that the difference is much smaller that it appears to be. For starters, we pay more for just about everything.
 
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Say what Wonder? Per day? That's more than the amount I currently live on over a month.

Your daily pay is more than I earned all week (40 hours), and I literally shed blood, sweat and eventually tears for it, and still got fired for being too slow. (That's the honest reason for it, I won't pretend otherwise. Although I am highly suspicious of their severely buggy productivity system as well. Oh, and the blood was also just a minor accident, not a job requirement...)

Don't take me as at all indignant there. Though a little jealous maybe. I'm guessing University might be a part of this?

Edit: Reads about oil. Ah. Explains some.
 
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Oil is useful. I know a guy in Alberta who's got a sweet (paying) job at the oil sands while still in uni. Pretty hard work though. No engineering from the comfort of a desk, it's field work.
 
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Don't forget that he also pays more taxes out of it, and most everything is more expensive, so it's not really as much as it sounds like.
 
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Assuming an equal five days worked, if the taxes were 50% of the income and everything was priced at 200%, he's still better off. :p

But don't take me too seriously. I'm sure there's more to it. Plus we're comparing what I'm guessing is a fairly decent job, and something I got in a 5 minute walk in group interview whilst wearing combats and a t-shirt. It's just fun to compare.
 
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Norway sounds like a great place to be right now. Scuse me while I pack. You won't mind me moving in, would you Wonder?
 
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Ok, before Norway becomes the ULMF country I guess I'll have to elaborate a little.

My job is at an event company, we do stuff for big business people, arrange parties and whatnot. It's a really fun job, but the hours can be brutal, starting at four in the afternoon finishing at two- three o' clock in the middle of the night. And yes, even by norwegian standards my job rocks.

The average pay for a college kid is around 22 bucks an hour. But you've all gotta remember half a litre of Coca Cola costs like 10 bucks here if you buy it at the cheapest grocery stores... And a movie ticket is like 20- 25 bucks. And most importantly... A litre of Vodka costs around 80 bucks here.

Now that that's over with, of course I was joking about not making Norway the ULMF country. We're allready halfway there! C'mon everyone^^
 
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