I hate Assh*les

[Jessica Leigh]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

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.

yep... wow... az has had the same minimum wage for 20 years?

a guy i used to work with at a french restaurant was hit in the 80s for almost $50,000 in back taxes. the restaurant got a huge fine too... now, they monitor our sales and make sure we declare our income as somewhere between 8% and 11% of our sales. considering how much we tip out, we normally walk with about 11 or 12 percent. at pf changs they would counsel you if you were out of the 8-11 percent range... they were psycho!