Hunger, homelessness and sickness are all things that most people would associate with a third world country. This is however the underground society of the U.S. There are hungry and homeless people here at home and the worst thing about it is they are not bums on the street. They are hard working people with full time jobs and quite often an extra part time job on top of that. To just get a glimpse of this is one thing but one girl decided to take it one step further and she joined the life of these people for a short time and then she wrote a book about it. After a thorough reading of her book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich very clearly conveys the sad state that these minimum wage workers are living in.
There are many hardships on these people working minimum wage jobs. First there is the problem of getting a job. Take applying at Wal-Mart for example. When Barbara went undercover in Minnesota she applied at Wal-Mart. The application process is overly painstaking. They first make you go through
The pay is outrageously low so the work should be fairly easy. This however is not the case. It is the exact opposite. These jobs are more physically demanding than most others. The hours are exceedingly long and the work is dreadfully hard. In the restaurant business in Florida Barbara never got a break. While house cleaning she had to crawl around on her hands and knees without water until the house was done. Then if you miss a day you not only don’t get paid that one day but your salary may be docked for the next two weeks for missing that day. While cleaning houses Barbara’s boss Holly was walking out of the house and tripped and broke her ankle. Her boss then told her to work through it. And she did it. She finished cleaning the house.
the application process which includes an aptitude test. Then you are given an interview in which your “unacceptable” answers are inquired about. After that you must wait a week for a drug test which takes around an hour and forty minutes. And after all of t
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