https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq Made by Michael Shing en-us 2020-10-08 18:25:56 UTC 2025-10-16 15:39:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4c2.png 21034391 https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815004847 The purpose of writing Serving In Florida is to bring light and attention to the low-wage American Workplace. Showing how Americans who have a low-wage have to "break their back" to continue living the way that they are. (Last paragraph)]]> 2020-10-08 18:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815004847 21034391 https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815018811 People who have a low-wage job generally don't have a lot of money so they have to work long hours like a "morning shift...[and he] "pulled a triple" " (Page 2, Paragraph 4).]]> 2020-10-08 18:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815018811 21034391 https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815026976 The day to day life of someone whom had a Low-wage income has to sacrafice things to do other things. Wehther it be to pay rent and go out of their way to do so, "So I take the $500 deposit I have coming from my landlord, the $400 I have earned toward the next month's rent; plus the $200 reserved for emergencies, and use the $1,100 to pay the rent and deposit on trailer number 46 in the Overseas Trailer Park, a mile from the cluster of budget hotels that constitute Key West's version of an industrial park."(Page 5, Paragraph 3) or to put food on the table and get clothes for their backs. They dont have the luxury of spending the money they earn on things luxurious. ]]> 2020-10-08 18:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815026976 21034391 https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815056818 The physical pain that some of these people unfortunately have to endure is sad, and most often they will "comfort [themselves] with the Aleve commercial in which the cute blue-collar guy
asks: If you quit after working four hours, what would your boss say? And the not-so-cute bluecollar guy, who's lugging a metal beam on his back, answers: He'd fire me, that's what.."( Page 3, Paragraph 1)]]> 2020-10-08 18:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815056818 21034391 https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815103643 Because a low-wage means you don't earn lots of money, people need to work more and longer to make ends meet. Meaning that they deal with not only stress and mental pain but also physical meaning that they could"...start tossing back
drugstore-brand ibuprofen pills as if they were vitamin C, four before each shift, because an old
mouse-related repetitive-stress injury in my upper back has come back to full-spasm strength,
thanks to the tray carrying."(Page 3, Paragraph 1)]]> 2020-10-08 18:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/21034391/1l7fvi9u4u3n1mzq/wish/815103643