It’s that time of year when everyone is counting down: Dick Clark, VH1, ESPN and probably most of all – calendar manufacturers.
We don’t pride ourselves on being followers, but as we sit on the eve of New Year’s Eve, SnagABlog is joining the popular countdown movement. We don’t have a giant crystal ball, free Champagne or even a single stupid noisemaker. But we do have plenty of reasons to be proud – here are five of the 2007 highlights for hourly workers.
1. A tip for presidential wannabes
Hourly workers, specifically restaurant workers, stole the spotlight from the presidential race after a big hubbub over a tip that a diner waitress may or may not have received from Hillary Clinton’s entourage. The morale of the story: The one who delivers that chicken fried steak to the table is just as important as the one eating it…even if a Secret Service agent is cutting up the meat.
2. Hourly jobs go green
The United Nations reports that because of the efforts of Captain Planet, Al Gore and other members of the green revolution, millions of environmental jobs will power the economy in the near future.
3. Waging war
The federal minimum wage gets bumped up from $5.15 to $5.85, and will continue to increase to $7.25. For a full-time hourly worker, that’s an annual pay raise of more than $4,300, or enough for a Wii and an autographed Scott Baio photo on eBay.
4. 007 at the workplace
Ivy League grad, hourly workplace spy and author Alex Frankel writes “Punching In: The Unauthorized Adventures of a Front-Line Employee,” an undercover look at what it’s like to work at companies including UPS and Starbucks. Do we finally find out why the coffee chain calls a small a “Grande?” You’ll have to read and find out.
5. Patting ourselves on the back…eight million times.
SnagAJob.com tallies its eight millionth registered job seeker. And you better start blowing up those balloons and scanning the Yellow Pages for clown-magicians – because we’re getting really close to that nine million mark celebration.
Happy New Year from SnagAJob.com!
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