Month: September 2022

For context, I’m a full time college student living with my parents in a rather cushy and expensive part of California. I recently got hired at a lovely little bistro-type cafe as a kitchen worker, specialising in morning prep for their food. The hours are awful, 3:30am-12 most days, but it’s what I signed up for. The advertised pay was a start at $18 an hour, plus tips. During the phone interview process, the hiring manager mentioned “… we try to pay our employees a liveable wage, especially for this area…” Now, I get that it’s not up to interpretation of what the actual “liveable” wage would be. The average rent for an apartment around here is $1350-$1800 a month, which would include utilities. However, at $18 an hour, and 35-40 hours a week, my paycheck would hand me anywhere from $1200-$1400, making that $2400-$2800 a month. Gas is also…

I'm a mid-level Marketing Strategist in Iowa with about 4 years of experience. Recently I’ve discovered a dramatic variance in what marketers get paid, for essentially the same jobs. Wondering where my peers fall on the scale. Please respond with how much you make, your job title, location, and total experience. That’ll give other marketers a good idea as to if they’re overpaid or underpaid.

Edited: That's what I get for typing on my phone. Sheesh. Let me try this again. I had a cushy job at a former company. Globally known as a leader in my field, but limited in growth due to politics. So when a former boss of mine offered me the backfill of their position as they were getting promoted–I signed up. Quickly. Despite being warned this could hurt my career. Flash forward a few months. After months of being harassed over my 12 year old, deaf and dyslexic dog barking when people come to the door (I was even yelled at for ANOTHER person's dog barking during a call), after realizing I was leading a team that was messy due to no previous coaching (including a few bad hires), to being told “pass on the magic you did at the last company”…and I have no clue how. My nerves are…

I was assigned mandatory training for a recent promotion. It consisted of an 8ish hour class that had to be taken around my regular work schedule – my industry works a rotating schedule so we have days off during the week but also have to work some weekends. I asked my Gen X supervisor if I would have additional pay added. His response was to say “you’re a salaried employee” and kind of shrug. At the actual class of 30+ people, most of whom were millennials mixed with a few elder Gen Z (if there is such a thing), the group I was in got into a discussion about how unfair it was that we had a full day of class on what should have been our day off and also how the person teaching the class was getting paid to do it. One woman made an excellent point -…

I'm very lucky in that I actually like my job; I'm a bartender at a local brewery. My boss is very nice and accommodates schedules as well as she can, and is just a friendly and pleasant person to work with. Recently I've reduced my hours (school is starting) down to 35 hours a week and no availability on Sunday. My boss was complaining about how difficult it is to schedule on the weekends now and the difficultly of hiring; the touristy nature of our town leads to a very competitive service industry. I know I don't want to/can't work more hours, but I still feel guilty I can't step up to help her out a bit more. Anyone else ever get that feeling?