What do you think would be fair pay and benefits for small businesses hiring non-skilled, entry level workers for retail and food service? Especially in an expensive state like California. Everyone deserves to be paid more then current minimum wages, but at certain point, merchandise and food prices would have to go way up since there is not as much profit margin compared to large corporations.
Want to believe they are a Fezziwig, but are definitely a Scoorge. It’s sad and delusional really. At one point they all rave about a mentor who was tough, but fair, respected, because they did the same work side by side with their employees. Who was genuinely interested in them, generous, and “ a pillar of the community”. Didn’t stop them from tearing down that ole mom and pop shop and putting in a Walmart now did it? Now these bosses want the same kind of loyalty they felt towards their bosses? They haven’t earned it.
I live in an unhappy household with my folks and have been plotting to move out of state for a while now. All the support and love I've known throughout my life has come from friends I've met online over the years. I'd started making plans with friends in similar situations to all split an apartment together in 1-2 years, even broke out of a year-long depressive funk and started shotgunning applications to anywhere I could think of. Started a lube technician job at $12 an hour, but got a job offer from a transit agency and quit in order to pursue that. I started my new job a few weeks ago and I'm still in training. With a starting pay of $18 with guaranteed raises over the course of 5 years up to about $25 an hour, thanks to the union. Was absolutely over the moon about it at…
I'd rather not give too many details so I don't get doxxed. I was on a date with a girl interning at a big public accounting firm and she showed me the interns group chat. The interns received a pretty shitty offer and banded together to refuse to sign the offer letter. About 90% of the interns held out (based off the responses in the GC) and on the morning of the offer deadline the company caved and gave an almost 15% salary bump to all new hires. I remember years ago when someone tried the same thing in my intern group and there was no support for it, back then I didn't even support her. But seeing Gen Z pull this off is amazing and really woke me up to the fact that collective bargaining does work and that we need to push back on employers.
I started a new job this week (a large retailer notoriously good to their employees) and I had an old boss of mine who has been asking me to come back and work for him. I saw him shopping yeasterday and he offered me a job while on the clock at my new job. I polightly told him “I now have a far better job than you can offer me” I have felt like a Rockstar since that encounter. Just wanted to share my little victory with people who would appreciate that story.
