I work parttime at a sports equipment chain for 12.60/hr (my state's minimum wage is 7.25) but pre-pandemic, they were only paying 9/hr… Only managers are able to work fulltime, and all us “part timers” are scheduled for 6 hour shifts, which is the max amount of time we can work without the company being required to give us a lunch break.
There's absolutely no benefits: no insurance, PTO, etc, and they have such high turnover that all the stores around us are struggling to stay staffed, so the DM has been harassing my store manager to send some of us to other stores, but some of them are upwards to an hour away, and they only recently began offering to compensate us for the drive.
The only reason I work there is because I'm fortunate enough to not have too many payments right now, and it's super close to where I live, and the management at my store is super cool. But I don't plan on staying for long.
I get the impression that this company wants me to fully invest in it while offering the absolute minimum in return