SamuelRSmith said:
12-16 hour long days? That's nuts! Seriously, the amount of people that moan about 8 hour days here. Considering that in the UK you're also entitled to 20 minutes break for every six hours work, 11 hours break between each working day, and atleast one day off a week. Again, these are minimum, and are usually considered bad breaks, especially the one day a week one. What for minimum wage, national insurance, and long term illness in the US? |
It is supposed to be $6.55, but I think I was only getting paid $5.75 once the raise took effect over the summer, but it is about to get bumped up over the summer to $7.25.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/flsa/
National insurance? We don't even know what that is here. We do get unemployment benefits though (if you qualify).
Long term illness coverage? We don't know what that is either.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
