Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.

Kat

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:31pm
I couldn't resist. We're up to our necks in Sarbanes-Oxley stuff today...

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iVillage Member
Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:32pm
HAHAHAHAH!
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:32pm
You first!

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:32pm
LOL.. I definitely know where it's from!
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:33pm
Um, yes they DO have to report it.

Some don't, like silverunity's employees, but that doesn't make it right.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:40pm


This is too LLM..First of dont threaten our buisness. I have nothing to do with it and I had no idea if and when this has became a actual Law...From the last time I knew we made our employess report 15% of what they make when I was working it was 8%...As I see now after i actually read all the links in dh's files on line that is now a misconception. when did this come about and when??



iVillage Member
Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:44pm
Im not gettin gugly...LOL~ the angry face was a mistke..PLEASE!
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:45pm
"... but I didn't *know* that I had to stop for a red light, officer...."

OK-- sorry for being a little mean, but I just had to take a swing at it...

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:45pm
It's sad that restaurants get in trouble for tips being reported at 10% or less since I know for a fact many people don't tip well at all regardless of the service. Amazingly enough, I've heard the bigger the spender mealwise the less the tip. I also know that people who have never in their lifetime worked in the service industry tip notoriously bad. I tip too much for how much money we have, but I know that in a lot of restaurants these people not only share their tips with busboys/cooks etc, they get paid under minimum wage to account for the tips. And then I see someone leave 4$ when 6 people ate. Yuck.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:46pm
Oh, I'm not "threatening" your biz. I don't even work for the IRS. :)

Anyhoo, I'm not sure WHEN this became a law. But when I was waitressing back in the early 90s we still had to report 100% of our tip income. I think you made a snide comment about how I haven't been in the business for a while . . . well, some things HAVEN'T changed - like reporting all your income.

Just make sure your employees report all their tips to you, b/c you could be in a heap of trouble (as well as them) if you don't.

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