My employer starts everyone casual then you eventually get part time. Full time employment is rare, and ever decreasing as boomers retire and their positions become allocated to other shifts or split into two part time shifts.
Meeting my financial needs means needing a second job, while meeting both my employers needs means I can end up working 7 days a week between two places. From their individual perspectives I have a few days “off” where I'm at the other employer. Finding a second employer to be flexible was difficult enough.
What gets me is the apathy of my coworkers. While I understand little can be done, they seem to side with the employer, always saying, “That's the job. You need two jobs these days. If you don't like it they'll just find someone else.”
I don't understand these people. I understand needing a pay check, what I don't understand is the defending of mismanagement that undercuts us as employees. Reminds me of battered wife syndrome.
/rant