My co-worker got an Outstanding evaluation at the grocery store where she works. Want to guess what

[haele]

98. Like the song in the 1954 musical "Pajama Game" - seven and a half cents -

We did Pajama Game for the high school musical in 1974...

"Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn't mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that's enough for me to be living like a king!"
.....
"Only five years from today!
I can see it all before me!
Only five years from today!
Five years! Let's see..thats 260 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time
and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $852.74!
That's enough for me to get
An automatic washing machine, (maybe, on clearance. No washer, though)A years supply of gasoline, (if you have a Honda Civic or a Prius and don't have a 100 mile commute...)Carpeting for the living room, (if you ask a contractor who just ripped out someone else's old carpeting if you could have it ...)A vacuum instead of a blasted broom, (okay - probably a bissel, but not a high-end dyson or kirby)Not to mention a forty inch television set!" (they're always having sales; you could get a 42 inch plasma for around $600)..........

"Only ten years from today,
I can see it, clear as daylight,
Only ten years from today!
Ten years! Let's see..thats 520 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time
and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $1705.48!
That's enough for me to buy...
(Song lyrics call out "A trip to France", "a motor boat and water skis" and "a foriegn car" - which you might get by with if you hunt for the lowest prices - but expect to do some work on the boat and car to be able to get them running well enough to register and insure.)
.......

The "twenty years from today" lyrics I'll ignore. No company hires anyone for twenty years if they can help it anymore; costs too much to keep an employee around that long, even if you don't give them a raise from that point. But the song indicates buying a house in twenty years on the $3411.96 that the seven and a half cents added up that long would get.

Amazing that musical made it unscathed through HUAC - A cheating boss adds a "wage increase" to the production cost to the customer to skim off the top for his own profit, and the striking union wins their promised increase when it's found out! Solidarity!
(Even if it did have a silly love story...)

Haele