Hey everyone, Ive never posted a story here before, but I want to share a story from a few years ago in 2019. I am a college student and I was back then, and I was trying to strike it out on my own with my brother while my mom went to a different state to take care of my grandma for the last 8 months of her life. Anyways, it was late summer to early fall in 2019, and I had just quit decent paying job making around $12 an hour at Best Buy. I loved my job there, except for the constant pushing for their card, geek squad, and total tech support subscriptions (now called Total Tech that locks PS5s behind a $200 paywall). Anyways, I left there because I wasn’t getting enough houses because they scheduled you based on how well you pushed those 3 things. I went to work at Waffle House, doing a job I did as a teenager in high school. Back then I figured minimum wage was okay for a high school student, and I also worked part time at Best Buy at the same time during the holidays that year. When I got hired in 2019, I needed more than 7.25 hour, the legal minimum wage I could be paid in my state and federally as well. During the hiring process, I was told that I would start at $11 an hour. It was less than what I made before, but was a better pay overall because I would be getting a few more hours in average and they were guaranteed hours. Well, cut to couple weeks later, I see my first check and I’ve got $100 to my name. The wages said it was $7.25 an hour. I asked about it and they said it was training rate. They told me it would only be for that week and then it would go up. Well, second week I get my paycheck, it is still $7.25 an hour, and the manager that hired me had already left that location to work at a remodeled location. I was mad, but maybe it was an error. Third week comes and goes and I get my third paycheck. Well, it’s the same rate, and I find out that that was going to be my pay rate. I got lied to about my pay rate. When I left the location that day, I told them I would see them Saturday. That was a lie, and I never went back. I still haven’t been back to that location nearly 3 years later. That’s my story. Nothing too crazy, just wanted to share it.