Kelly O’Neill, a college student who needs a career to help
pay for her education has felt the crippling effects from the downward sloping economy.
She quit her job at Applebees with hopes of a higher paying job with more hours,
but found the opposite.
“I worked four shifts a well and I was down to two with
people tipping less,” O’Neill said, “So I quit and moved on hoping to finally
be able to pay my bills.”
O’Neill eventually was hired at Qdoba which she thought was
the answer to her prayers, but turned into a nightmare.
“Qdoba paid less hourly than Applebees,” O’Neill said, “The
people tipped less and now I was more broke than I had ever been.”
It was hard for O’Neill to quit her job at Applebees
thinking she would be making more money to find out just the opposite.
“My work colleagues at Qdoba had to pick up more hours
because their spouses had gotten laid off,” she said, “We had to take the hours
we were given and had little room to complain.”
O’Neill remains an employee of Qdoba and hopes to raise her
hourly pay with the time she spends working there.
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