Toronto Mike

No Quarter... Or Dime

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There's an awful lot of chatter about our minimum wage hike to $8 an hour.  For one thing, Ontario MPPs just gave themselves 25% raise while throwing the working poor an extra quarter.  This 25¢ raise reminds me of the time McDoug rewarded me with a great deal less.

As a teenager, I worked 18 months for the local McDonald's.  I knew cooking at McD's wasn't a career but a job to earn a couple of bucks after the CNE closed in September.  I remember my performance review with the salary manager we called McDoug.  We were in his office and he went through the standard reports and concluded by letting me know I was going to be rewarded with an extra 10¢ an hour.  I was smart enough to know what 10¢ an hour would mean to my extravagant lifestyle.  If I put in 18 hours one week, I'd earn a whopping $1.80 before taxes.  The end result wouldn't be enough to buy a large fries.

Being a smart aleck teen I actually told McDoug I'd have felt better receiving no increase at all.  About a month later I left the world of fast food for a lucrative run with Oshawa Foods.

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