Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
I literally went from being unable to play my rent to being on a plane the next day, being paid peanuts.
There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.
For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.
No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.
Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.
High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
Low pay is a serious problem, and its victims need a genuine solution.
I do not support a livable wage.
Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.
If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.
People can't live on $7.50 an hour.
In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.
I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.
The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.
Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.
I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.
We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.
