When we're good, we get noticed....LOL.
I made minimum wage for a total of 6 months. $4.25 an hour.
After 6 months, he bumped me up to $4.75 an hour, and eventually $6.00 an hour. All of this before I turned 19 years old.
He realized I was a good worker, and bumped me up to make sure I didn't leave for something else.
I work for a company 3 years now. Only one guy has been here longer. All those workers that came and went sucked?
The company I came from, the owner went to school with the owner of the company I work for now. They grew up together. Both of them are greedy evil assholes ask anyone. If their employees knew how to organize I assure you they would. I worked for the other guy in the 90's and went back in 2010 for a couple years. When it was all said and done only one guy has been there the entire time. So no job security anymore. No 30 years and retire. And that can be a huge fucking problem for someone who's in their 50's. Good luck finding another job.
I also worked for a huge international company where we made 6 figures but then they doubled the number of people in our group and so we all made $50K.
Long story short, corporations don't value workers anymore. Not in America. First they do away with unions then the middle class disappears.