Author: Olivia

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I have always gotten the impression I am an older member of this community. At 40, I share many more similarities with Boomers than Zoomers, and have an above average lifestyle than many in the sub, despite living in California. So, why does someone like me post here? The recent news about child labor laws being relaxed is the best example of why I am here. See, despite being 40 years old, if you were to take my total lifetime hours working and divide it by 2080 to represent one year of full-time work, I have 49.2 years of work experience. Why? I grew up on a dairy and was conscripted to chores starting at the age of five that ran 3 hours before school and 5 hours every night after. In the summer, we also harvested feed crops that often put me to twelve hour days. The result of…

Hey guys, My wife has been working at a pretty big health call center for nearly a decade now. Recently they opened a lead position which she applied and interviewed for. Long story short, she got an offer. The problem is that I personally think the wage is far too low when you weigh in the change and her new responsibilities. She currently works full time for about 24 an hour. They have offered her 26.25. A $2 raise. I told her she should ask another lead what their wage currently is to gauge the wages and properly ask and negotiate but as per usual, it’s a whole thing over there where everyone that works there fears some time of consequences if caught. Added details: She will be a lead to a 4-5 employees Training of said employees Change in schedule Possibly a new location Might work on shortages or…

i have worked at this job for almost a year. regular employees used to make $14.25/hour in 2022 (i work in massachusetts). starting 2023 regular employees got bumped up to $15/hour. it took our payroll person a week to fix our pay to $15 after january 1st and pay us what we were owed. we have a manager that never works at our location nor does she oversee anything, she works at another location 90% of the time. our manager and assistant manager, after me and another reg employee bugged them, started training to be supervisors. me and the other regular employee, we will call him X for the sake of privacy, started training to open and somewhat to close. we were told we would get the $17/hour supervisor pay as a stipend, meaning we would get our regular $15/hour plus the difference of the supervisor pay. we never got…