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Don't major employers like Walmart, Target, Amazon, etc. start at 15?

I'm an engineer and we've been under staffed to a laughable degree, and the workload has not been adjusted for it. Our plant is budgeted for an engineering manager, and 3 engineers. One project engineer, two associate engineers. With the AE's each taking 25% of the project load, Project Engineer taking 50%, and engineering manager keeping everyone on track. Our current capital plan was created when we had all positions filled, with me being an AE. The engineering manager retired, Project Engineer was promoted to engineering manager, I took over as Project engineer, and the other AE took a position at a different plant. So I was left to execute that plan, and develop the next one while the new manager filled the positions. We have not been properly staffed since February 2021. We hired one AE, who executed about $40,000 worth of work(out of our $6mm plan) then took…

I no longer work there so no worries about me getting fired. It’s been nearly two years since I quit so I thought I’d share my tid bit. Worked at QFC for three years and never got a raise, they never even mentioned giving me one. I found out that they never formally changed my title from courtesy clerk in the system. I worked in bakery, the Starbucks kiosk, floral and courtesy. Bakery is the hardest department in the store, I should’ve been paid triple for all the shit I did for that department. We were understaffed everyday (only had three people employed for the bakery) and I never got trained properly, they gave me three hours of training by an employee they fired two days later. They gave me 8 hours of work to do in 5 hours and my manager told me that he knows it’s not enough…

Worked as a forklift operator/foreman for an animal nutrition company. There’s two factories, the mother factory and the secondary factory (smaller and in a smaller city) so, one day we received the pay checks of the workers from the secondary factory by accident and discovered they earn $5-7 more dollars an hour than us. We were fuming and only then, did we get a small pay rise. I straight up just quit.

I work at an elementary school as an educational assistant. I got the job right after quitting another job, where I was making about $3k/month, but was constantly threatened with being fired after being thrown into situations sink-or-swim style. It was a community mental health nonprofit as well, so everything I was threatened with was under the guise of being helpful and healthful. I love the job I have now. I love the kids, i love the work. Seeing their minds expand as they learn is the absolute most rewarding thing. But I make $900/month full-time. I was given very little information about pay when I was hired because they were so desperate for workers, and I took it because I was so sick of being home doing nothing. I found out that my pay was being split according to the school year, so it’s fixed every month, except in…