Please, and may I add, Jesus Christ. On this sub you hear countless stories of how people are barely treading water, cutting corners to make ends meet all the while suggesting better ways to spend the money. Use it like that! I know it's not a lot for one person but just scroll through the top posts. If that money were aggregated for a better cause it would add up, and if it weren't, saving is still infinitely better than giving your money to reddit. I mean seriously? This sub?
So I took the low paying job because I'm really new to this industry at 26 and realize I have little chance of any other auto shop taking me in. One shop owner assumed I'd bitch out because the job has you getting dirty a lot and kinda talked down to me the entire time about it. So anyways, no one really gives a shit about this job. Even the highest paid guy who isn't a full service tech is paid what some other shops will start people at. My manager is constantly complaining to me how no one gives a fuck, how people won't work together or are lazy. No one cleans anything up. We had one guy go on break and never come back on his first day. They just hired a guy who actually knows more than me but is paid an entire $1 less than me…
I didn't understand it when I was 12, but I get it now. Jack's total lack of awareness that is common amongst the super-rich, the exploited low-level workers, the nepotism, and, by extension, hypocrisy of Maya. Really put into perspective that not much has changed in 23 years in the workplace. One recurring joke is “New York is a tough city” when characters are in financial pickles, and the utter tone-deafness of that joke makes it a perfect example of the disconnect in reality of the elite, then and now. It has a very “let them eat cake” vibe to it.
This happened to my wife in June 21. Backstory She was a recruiter for a college. In fact she was the top recruiter and half new classes would be from her. They opened up to recruiting on Saturdays and she volunteered to do so if she got Sunday/Monday off. She stayed late 8pm on Fridays to do website walk through because of covid. May 28th 2:30ish PM she bursts into the bedroom waking me up (I was working over nights) telling me she just got fired. I asked what happened. Well apparently they decided in January to get rid of the recruiting department that made 40k plus a year to get people making min wage working phone lines. Her manager the department VP who treated her like a friend (had cook outs with this guy) knew and never said anything. Even though they fired him also he refused to tell…
I found a job in a factory where you sit for 45 minutes to the hour it's a 10 hour shift with 3 breaks that equal 50 minutes total (includes lunch as a 30 minute break) get Friday to Sunday off starting pay is $9 an hour and I seen my relative get it up to $13 an hour after 6 months this all on the clock so it's basically paid 30 minutes. The state is also still using the awful $7.25 an hour minimum wage, anyway I heard some coworkers complaining and wanting to try and do something like a union against the factory and I thought they were spoiled because in my opinion besides the high heat of the factory( can get to 100+F in summer but there are fans everywhere to cool off at and apparently they let you go the break room any time to cool…