I was working min-wage part-time retail so my hopes weren’t super high, but by this point I had been working there for longer than any other employee at the store, knew how to do the work 10x more productively, was often asked by managers how to do things, yet I’m getting paid as much as a new hire. So I figured I’d go for it.
The response was that since minimum wage had recently increased (by less than $1, mind you), it was “basically like I had already gotten a raise”. I live in Seattle and my rent has gone up exponentially the past few years. EVERYTHING is more expensive. I told that to my boss and her response was basically “damn, sucks to suck”
This is a company that charges $60 for a t-shirt that was made in a sweatshop in Bangladesh, by the way.
So a couple days later I quit, no call or anything. Felt amazing.