kitchen helper. general helper. bus boy. the job is still available. to decide whether they will hire me or not. signing all these 318, 724, wow. with few other options and deeply in debt from the journey here vincent took a job on one of those post-it notes. the best i can find is a bus boy job. i had to work 12 hours a day. i got one day off. and i did earn some money but it s not enough. it s been 16 years since vincent first got here and today he s still trying to dig himself out. every morning he catches a train from brooklyn to chinatown.
our country s oldest chinatowns. and it s here that many chinese immigrants begin their journey. china may be booming, but there are a growing number of poor workers at the bottom who believe they will have a better shot in america. just below the manhattan bridge, there s a row of cramped store fronts. employment agencies where newly arrived workers seek their first job. men like vincent chou. i ve spent a lot of time in new york chinatown and i ve never noticed all these employment agencies until today. but there s so many of them. what do they do? that s how we find a job, especially new immigrant come here first, to look for the first job. when i got here i just walked into one of these employment agencies. and they have position. like waiter, busboy, cook, dishwasher.
over and over again probably since i was 15 is wait tables, bus boy. i always lived on tips. you knew if you worked hard and you gave great service you have an excellent chance to earn extra money. that s fundamental capitalism especially when you break into the work force. for 1800 employees who belong to the union scare hospitality group, they are going to live a life without the ability to get tips. danny myer will start removing tipping from restaurants. good. they serve 50,000 meals a week. they re going to build the tip-in. they ll say it will pump up to compete with the minimum wage, to keep their staff. number two, to be able to pay the back kitchen. so in dining that s illegal to do that. their salaries have gone up 200% in the past 30 years if you re serving tables. if you are back in the kitchen your salaries in 30 years have gone up 25%. he s trying to keep kitchen help as well leveling the playing field behind the scenes. this is the bernie sandering
me and my sister i never got along, except driving her crazy, that was the only time we got along. i don t think any of us got along with our siblings when we were growing up, now we get along. yeah, she started working at 11, dishes in a cafe, 16 at walmart, ten, 12 years old, picking strawberries. i love this one, i was paid to be a bus boy/dishwasher at my father s cafe since i was 12, and have been employed ever since. and lou says, washing dishes at a local restaurant, 12 years, a baby-sitter, donny ray, a twin brother, they both started to work at 16 years old. faye, picking blue berries for pocket change, many of these are saying baby-sitters, local paper boys, many of us were talking in
well, first of all, the baby-sitter still won t come to your house. i threw out a needy one, bob. i was a dishwasher, they wouldn t make me a bus boy, a dishwasher, i mowed lauren eed that, about 11 or 12. i worked on the garbage truck, which probably makes sense, age 14, one job i had i really enjoyed when i was in college, i worked for the funeral parlor. that is creepy. closed the caskets all by myself. that was five stories worth of caskets. but you told me that, eight years old i delivered papers under my sister s name because you had to be 12. 12 years old i was a dishwasher by hand, no machine. 13 years old, a cook, bus boy, waiter, bartender at 17. that was my troubled years. and then construction. and you were actually a good