My mother has been searching for a new job since it’s getting more expensive to straight up live in the US and because it’s difficult to take care of her adult disabled kid (me) because of all the appointments she has to take me to.
Her current job pays “somewhat well” for a small town at 16$. But, the place we rent is 975$ and it feels like necessities like phone bills, utilities, and gas for the car are getting more expensive.
So, she was excited when she got a interview offer for a job that promised 39-49,000$ a year at a pretty well known “product rental” company. I feel like the wide gap between the possible pay should have been a red flag.
She got as far as the final interview and discussions of pay and was offered the job at 18$ an hour with “bonuses every month.” And, hey, of course we were excited because 2$ and hour is a lot when you need the money.
All we had to do was wait for her to get the letter verifying her employment. Well, she got it and they said they were giving her 14$ an hour.
She was rightfully confused and called the general manager to see if there was some mistake and he said there wasn’t. She said she couldn’t agree with that, but would be willing to take the job if they could at least match what she was making currently, to which he outright said they “couldn’t” (Read: Wouldn’t).
So, she told him she couldn’t accept, then, and unsurprisingly, he went on the whole spiel of how she could “grow with the company.”
Yeah, growing with the company is nice and all, but not having to live paycheck to paycheck would be better.
Now, she’s depressed about this because she got her hopes up and I don’t know how to comfort her.