Have we gone too far?

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(03-26-2018, 11:45 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Lotta people making more than minimum wage at that event.  

Right, but not the people who stand at the gates and scan tickets, or check bags, or do a bunch of other things that don't exactly require a phd.  Event operations and gameday staff jobs are pretty much on the same level and pay-grade as flipping burgers.  I don't see what everyone finds so astounding about this.  I used to work a job like this for a team that paid players hundreds of millions of dollars.  I made less than $10 an hour and it wasn't my full-time job, because a normal bill-paying person can't afford to live on it.

Everyone either had another job, had 2 other jobs, was retired, was a student/living with parents, or was disabled, etc.  It's a very low paying job with seasonal hours and that's why it isn't the sort of job that is often staffed with able bodied men who are looking to get off welfare. I moved back to Pittsburgh in 2012 and applied for a security position at Heinz Field just to get the ball rolling and a woman who was barely 20 talked to me for 30 seconds, didn't even notice my resume, and told me everyone starts at $7.15 an hour. Yeah, no thanks. I had to get a real job. That's just the way it is, but I guess I could have complained that professional football players get paid so much, or something.

Have any of you actually been to a professional sporting event?  Have you looked at the people who staff the place? Also, why is the rich NFL supposed to pay these people more money because they have so much? Isn't that what people say McDonalds and Wal Mart should do? I don't see the difference, here.