pinochle wages

a really low paying job, like a Mcjob. A job that only brings in, if your lucky 2/3 of what you need to live on a month. But you keep it because there isn't much else out there.

I'd have more money if I didn't make pinochle wages

by just s guy June 12, 2012

welfare wages

Its the pay that you get from a job that pays so low that you qualify for some type of government public assistance and if you didn't get the public assistance to go along with the job, you would not be able to subsist on the job alone. These types of jobs typically pay up to $3.00 above minimum wage.

Welfare wages is the type of total economy that the US moves closer to with each passing year.

by Curly Stooge July 1, 2016

Suicide Wages

when your employer pays you an amount of money that is substantially much less than a living wage

I worked at XYZ corporation, and the pay was so abysmal that I questioned my reason for existence.

Fortunately, I was able to realize that this job was not worth the necessary effort to show up the next day.
I quit and moved on with my life for brighter horizons. Joe whe did you quit??? .... Mary I'm not working for Suicide wages for anyone.... I don't care if he's family

by Mister Spock 95 April 5, 2024

Starvation Wages

Compensation set so low that it systematically fails to meet the basic requirements for human survival, despite full-time employment. Starvation wages are not accidents of the market but deliberate features of late-stage capitalism—calculated precisely to keep workers alive enough to work but desperate enough to accept any condition. They represent the point where the wage form itself becomes a mechanism of slow violence: you work, you earn, you still cannot afford food, housing, healthcare, or rest. The term deliberately evokes its literal meaning: wages that produce starvation, whether immediate (literal hunger) or structural (the starvation of possibility, of dignity, of future). Starvation wages are the economic foundation upon which hyperslavery is built.

Example: "He worked forty hours, took home checks that didn't cover rent, ate once a day, and was told to budget better. He wasn't underpaid; he was paid Starvation Wages—compensation calculated to keep him alive but never free."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

wage cage

The establishment where a person is forced to attend during working hours.

See you later honey, I'm off to the fucken wage cage to earn us some bread.

by Zonal K June 24, 2018

heat waves

A DNF (dreamnotfound) fanfiction on ao3 (ArchiveOfOurOwn) has gained massive amounts of traction on twitter and amongst shipper fans. It involves a blossoming romance between totally super gay multi million subscriber youtuber Dream and succesful and totally absolutely not gay youtuber GeorgeNotFound.
(They're both straight. This is all in good fun. Don't be weird.)

DnF Shipper 1: Hey have you read Heat Waves???
DnF Shipper 2:"I burn you?"
DnF Shipper 1: "You melt me."
Both: FKWAJIFNHLMWOA:FK<{AOF

by HS27 November 14, 2020

Wage gap

The wage gap is a real idea of women being paid less simply because of being women. It is a big problem for feminism, however, it actually has roots in intelectual stuff, because

1. Women are paid less because women work less.
2. Women take more time off.
3. Women are less competetive.

As You can see, feminists shoukd stop whining about this.

Woman: I hate the wage gap!
Man: Hey, VSauce, (NAME) here.

by Ayourmomhot January 29, 2022