Seattle Space Needle workers insulted by advice to 'Live on Less'
Source: KIRO-TV
Space Needle workers say instead of getting a raise, they got a presentation on “How to Live on Less.”
The webinar was emailed to Space Needle workers last month. Click here to see it.
... Part of the presentation advises workers to budget and “Make it Fun!” Some tips include:
- “Learn to cook gourmet, not pay gourmet.”
- “Learn when your local museums, parks, and other places of interest offer free or discount days.”
- “Be creative.”
Unite Here 8 is the union for Space Needle workers. The union says the last raise for employees was a 35-cent raise four years ago.
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Walmart puts charity bins in the break rooms so the more well-to-do employees (not the Waltons, mind you 
) can donate food & clothing to the less-well-off employees.
And wtf? Which expenses are curable?
I know I do, and I live on about $12,000 a year.
of course, I have a house that is paid for. But why is that? At least partly, because when I was househunting, I only looked at houses that were less than $60,000. Found one that was $57,000 that looked okay, but I wasn't quite satisfied, so I looked in a few more places, way up to St. Joseph and Plattsburg. Finally ended up in Kansas where there were lots of houses under $40,000, even, amazingly enough many under $15,000 (most of them, though, were already occupied by renters and they were packed like cordwood into these crowded neighborhoods with no yards. I looked at a few of them from the outside and said "ugh".
My realtor said something like - "don't look at the cadillacs when you are on a chevy budget." (perhaps one way to "avoid feeling deprived"
My bank was trying to tell me I could afford a $70,000 house on my $23,000 salary.
Companies are just sociopaths......They just don't give a shit about you......Unless they're made to....And nobody's makin' them.........
I think this should be a Constitutional amendment. Congressional pay should always be minimal wage, and they should not get health care unless they have legislated universal health care for all Americans.
After that Amendment is passed, they should be shown this presentation.
That is all. 
I imagine some of these workers have access to the outside. 
