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Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet

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Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet

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Post by wavefunction »

rbanffy wrote: post #82
austenallred wrote: post #2

“Back in the day, [the wage] would have been a great number,” said Victor, “but because of Facebook moving in, everything is so expensive. I have to get payday loans sometimes. We barely make it.” They make a combined (rounded) $75,000/year. The real tragedy is that you can't afford to make it in the Bay Area on $75k/yr. I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.

> I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook. They could pay their cafeteria workers better. Of course, it's not only Facebook that's a problem. I doubt many cafeteria workers make 75K/year. That said, aren't social housing projects an option here?

>>I doubt many cafeteria workers make 75K/year

Isn't that 75k the gross from both adults in the family? And the worker even mentions facebook is their second gig so that's at least three jobs to hit 75,000.

I don't think people working that hard should be living hand-to-mouth.

Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet

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Post by pascalxus »

School-Cotton wrote: post #86
princekolt wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sad part is that California, being the largest state in the US, should be the last one to have this sort of housing problems...

This comment is wrong on many levels... 1/ State borders within the US aren't any sort of obstacle to commuting for work, so how big your state is is completely irrelevant (it's only a slight exaggeration to say that half of New Jersey is fully integrated suburbs of NYC). 2/ Even if it did matter, California is definitely not the largest state in the US.

But still, 95% of CA is undeveloped. Even in the bay area, you can see vast amounts of land that are undeveloped or underdeveloped.

I see prime real-estate near bart being squandered with these tiny little 2-4 story buildings - it's pathetic. From 580 you can see nothing but land in every direction - none of it being developed on at all.

Meanwhile, people are driving farther and farther to work to find cheaper housing, x10 the amount of traffic.

All due to politics - zoning and NIMBY.

Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet

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Post by mc32 »

One way to minimize the cost of living impact is to set up satellite offices. Set up a campus in Texas or Oklahoma. It's not like people would not take jobs there. I'm sure some globe trotters would not, but most jobs don't need the globe trotter kind of mentality.

Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet

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Post by tsunamifury »

mc32 wrote: post #163

One way to minimize the cost of living impact is to set up satellite offices. Set up a campus in Texas or Oklahoma. It's not like people would not take jobs there. I'm sure some globe trotters would not, but most jobs don't need the globe trotter kind of mentality.

Janitors, bus drivers, food service workers and security can't work from a "satellite office". This is about more than engineers.
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