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Book Review of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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Helpful Score: 3


As one of the working poor in the United States who has spent a lot of the last 20 years as a server this book was so insulting I couldn't finish it. The writer is astonished that no one "finds her out" that she is just pretending to be one of us "lower class" people. She wrote about the restaurant business like they are all homeless alcoholics making $6 an hour. Obviously she just wasn't very good at it... I never made less than $25 an hour serving and not all in expensive restaurants- I made the most at an all-night diner. The book was just insulting and not done well in my opinion, it doesn't really give a clear picture and is completely false in many ways.