I hate Assh*les

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Originally Posted by Jessica Leigh

no- california is an awesome state to work in. state minimum wage is over $6/ hr and san fran has it's own minimum wage of $8 i think. here in AZ we don't have a state minimum wage so we go by federal which is $5.15 BUT federal allows employers to take a $3.02 tip credit for employees who receive tips... therefore, i make $2.13/ hr... in a 40 hr workweek my paycheck is less than $90 but then they take out my taxes so if i made $600 in tips that week, i owe $120 in taxes, so my paycheck is gone, and at the end of the year i owe the government $30 for that week. it's totally retarded. the cost of living has gone up so much since 1998 but servers still make the same wage in my state.

Arizona is a right to work state if I remember correctly. Anyway, I was a waitress in the 80's when dear President Reagan decided to come after us, or have the IRS come after us because he thought people in our industry didn't report enough of our earnings to the IRS. I was a 24 year old single mother at the time. And I made...$2.13 an hour. I worked at that place for about 5 years and the company ended up getting audited for the IRS. So one day I get this 30 page bill in the mail in the IRS saying I owe them thousands of dollars. Then they turned around and told the state, who I got a similar letter from. I think we settled but it took me a good 5-6 years to pay them. Back then, we also had health benefits. Those slowly went away too.