Bitten
Josh was barely able to pay his rent and other bills with the minimum wage salary he was making at a subway. a couple weeks prior josh had had an interview with the head of bac and had landed a job; today was his first day.
What Happens in Pirate Cove...
The unfortunate child murders; the _bite of '87;_ the sub-minimum wage; and the off-putting appearances of the animatronics. in fact, zack found the robots rather cute and comforting.
Runaway (Oliver, Chapter 1)
Instead of following his dreams, the curse of minimum wage pushed him onto the streets, and it wasn't long before he was pulled into the only job a boy his age with a fragile - even feminine - body could do in this town: he became a hustler.
The Accidental Artist
Someone would have to work at least 50 hours at a minimum wage job to earn the money you got from painting something on canvas for a few hours. that's sick!" "i know." "i'll tell you what you need: a manager. i can help you."
Febuary
I manage to maintain my composure as we eat and laugh with each other - though my minimum-wage-high-schooler wallet certainly doesn't like it, i do. and damien does, too, which is arguably more important. besides, he agreed to split the check with me.
Beware the Jerry
And also minimum wage slaves who will take whatever job they can get. at least... that was what i thought. but then, a few days ago... i received a strange parcel." "you mean you got a christmas gift?" suzie asked.
A Slippery Situation - Chapter 1
Surely, he pondered, the savings he'd scraped up from his countless, short-lived minimum-wage jobs over the past two years wouldn't be able to net him anything even remotely half-decent?
Peace in Solitude
Lord knows i live in a ghetto--it's all i could afford with this minimum wage job--and i didn't want to get shot out here. or maybe i did. it certainly wasn't my desire to live that was making me drag my feet, that's for sure.
For Scent-a-mental Reasons (Commission for Kwandry)
"just go, do the thing, go back," tahlyn whispered to himself, walking with the multi-species crowd of teenage girls, businessmen on break, minimum wage employees rushing to their next shift, and a hundred other people heading into the three story shopping
The Den: Chapter 1: The damn computer dies
"yeah yeah dude, so... um... how's minimum wage treating you? anyway, you've been a gay bar before, remember?"
The Wager
I gotta make the car and insurance payments, and my lovely minimum wage job barely covers that alone." "well that's all right. you don't have to put up any money," he said in a comforting tone.
Chapter 6
He worked a menial job for minimum wage under a boss he hated. he was treated badly but his customers and managers alike and being a salesman is just a kinder, gentler, word for common con artist.