min wage, a number, not valued

[gillybeanz]

Why are min wage jobs like this, are they all like this?

I have Masters level quals and lots of people in my min wage job have degrees.

Now, we don't expected to be treated at a level like this with a min wage job as the degree isn't relevant or needed.
However, it would be good to be respected for the work we do, even though it holds very little responsibility.

I wonder if it will improve when the min wage is highered to £10 an hour or if it will be the same.

Does anyone else on a min wage feel like this?

Depends on how you are treated. I work a minimum wage job part time for what was a family business. Was made to feel valued and part of the team. Company has just been taken over by a much larger company with over 50 branches...now things are different and I feel more of a number.

When it is "highered"?

Oh, dear.

Nope. It isn't about what you are paid but where you are viewed in the hierarchy. And th culture of the organisation.

Davies

What do you think about min wage jobs then?
I know my English isn't perfect, but am tired and posted rather than finding the right word.
Maybe it's when min wage is raised? to £10 an hour.

I believe you should treat people as you would like to be treated. Nobody walks around with a salary tag on. Just look at over paid celebrities and footballers. A thank you costs nothing. This applies to unpaid volunteers too

There is no one answer to this.

I have known companies who pay minimum wage who treat their employees amazingly. I worked for one.

I have known companies who believe the higher wages entitles them to treat their staff like shit.

And vice versa

Well if the min wage gets raised to £10 per hour, then the supervisors wage raises proportionally eg to £14 an hour, and because of that, Mr Asda has to increase the prices of all his good because all the shelf stackers and hauliers are taking his profits ....so because the prices have gone up Mr Landlord now has to raise his rental because his services and living costs are through the roof too.

Not simplistic is it, everything has a knock on effect.

No it won't change, attitude is minimum wage for minimum skills.

Minimum wage goes up, and everyone else's pay goes up. Everyone will be in the same position

Mr Asda could always take less, so that the people at the bottom could have more.

Mr Asda could always take less, so that the people at the bottom could have more

Tories don't think like that.

Shareholders don't like that NotSuchASmugMarriedNow1

Some of the most intelligent, skilled people I ever knew worked in a very 'unskilled' job and chose to. Some of the most stupid people I ever met were the students who would work there in the summer and often look down on the permanent staff as well as being crap at the job because they didn't think the job was important enough to do properly.

It was a low-paid job, but in the 1970s you could still live without subsidy in these jobs that would be NMW today, so if you didn't care what ignorant people thought about low-paid workers they were easier to ignore.

Nowadays many intelligent, skilled workers don't have the choice about taking these jobs, but have to. The problem isn't just the employers but anyone that looks down on NMW workers as somehow lesser to them.

Minimum wage could be raised to £100 an hour. It would make no difference if youre still working for a shit company.

Your wage isnt the problem. Your employer is

If your degree isn't relevant or needed, why did you mention it at all? Do you think you should be treated with more respect than people who don't have degrees?

iceland

Of course not, if you look at what I said.
people with jobs where they use their degrees tend to be treated and valued by their employer far more than those with or without a degree working at grass root level.
It's wrong, everybody should be given the respect and recognition for the work they do, not less because it's a low wage job.