The pay is lousy.

薪水少得可怜。

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For one kilowatt-hour of electricity, which is four million joules, I pay only a lousy ten cents.

为一千瓦时电，就是四百万焦耳，我只花区区10美分。

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So if you can, avoid laying them off and pissing them off with lousy benefits and lousy pay.

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The bill is quite explicit about who gets merit pay (and how two lousy evaluations mean automatic firing) but kicks the problem of finding the money for those raises down to the school districts.

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