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In Plain English at Last
Author: Olivia
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Six flags has called me 3xs
So I filled out an application for Six Flags to see if I could just get a job there. WEll, I'm an hour away from them. That's not enough money to drive there. I told them where I live and they are like, “Oh ok, so then what about the warehouse or security?” I didn't know this was an option. Each times they've called them, I told them that $11/h is WAY too low for the average person. Even when I talked to one manager there he said that they won't likely hire for more than $11/h. Sorry, bur that's basically not a livable wage for me right now. Not where I live or how I live. I would love to work for Six Flags but they won't give me enough. These corporations make almost 4B a year and they have 29k employees and you're telling me that you can't…
“You know, plumbing is easy. I mean, what do you actually do? Go in and unclog drains and screw pipe together? Maybe run some pipe up a wall? It’s easy billy. That’s why your making 14 dollars an hour.” – the guy who has been making 3 times that for two decades doing the same thing Many plumbers would be pissed to see that. However, this hypothetical is common practice by management when dealing with IT related jobs. I currently troubleshoot and oversee network infrastructure and user management for a decent sized group of large and small businesses. Sounds fancy? Sounds important? It is. What do I make? A dollar more than an Amazon warehouse worker. “Well just go find a better paying company” is an easy cop out, but I’ve been in many different IT roles and this issue spanned all of them. For years I was told “listen…
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Its not fair
According to the authors of a study released Thursday by the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University: “While in place, the monthly child tax credit payments buffered family finances amidst the continuing pandemic, increased families' abilities to meet their basic needs, reduced child poverty and food insufficiency, and had no discernable negative effects on parental employment.” There was an attempt to extend it, but because the Senate still thought “it was discouraging parents from working” despite statistics showing otherwise, the program ended up expiring and families stopped receiving those benefits. We live in a society that sends almost 4 million children into poverty to punish parents for not working enough in a pandemic. SOURCE 1: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/594892-study-us-child-poverty-spiked-41-percent-after-end-of-child-tax-benefit?amp SOURCE 2: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/02/17/child-tax-credit-poverty/
Imagine that. The top 3 things that employees say would improve their mental health are: 1) Higher pay (58%) 2) Four-day work week (46%) 3) Flexibility to work whenever, wherever they want (36%) Survey: 58% of Working Americans Say Their Jobs Are ‘Main Source’ of Mental Health Challenges – Nextgov
It just means I'm tired. I want to live. I'm 23 years old and the last time I was able to do something for myself that wasn't survival related, I was skipping school to go to the zoo for no reason in Middle School. Discussions welcome