In Oregon<\/strike> Maine, where they are proposing raising the minimum wage, along with eliminating the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers, the worst boss in the world wrote an editorial saying that her<\/b> workers hated the idea of being paid fairly.<\/p>\n
Her workers responded by resigning en masse and described their dysfunctional workplace, and their dysfunctional boss, in exquisite detail<\/a>:<\/p>\n Oh hey, it\u2019s a Maine story (about the minimum wage, no less) that doesn\u2019t directly involve Gov. Paul LePage!<\/p>\n Five servers at a restaurant in Portland called Five Fifty-Five have quit in one hell of a mic drop, giving their notice in a Portland Press Herald op-ed.<\/a> The inciting incident was when their boss, Michelle Corry, wrote an op-ed that claimed to speak for her employees about the citizen-initiated ballot referendum in the state to both increase the minimum wage to $12 and eliminate the tip credit (also known as the \u201csub-minimum wage\u201d). It\u2019s the latter point that had Corry in such a huff.<\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n Opponents of eliminating the tip credit say that doing so would bring about a restaurant industry apocalypse and there would be much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth. Restaurant owners in states like California, Washington, Oregon, and Minnesota, which pay their servers a guaranteed living wage and, at last check, had not devolved into a Road Warrior-esque hellscape, say \u201cUm, not so much?\u201d<\/p>\n