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TranscriptA tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . Totally makes sense.". It has a reply saying "Where the hell did you get that number? If someone's working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year." the reply has 2 likes.

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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How about the recent trend (past decade or so) of managers requiring their employees to find their own call-out coverage?

This has been the norm my entire life, and my first min wage job was in the mid 00's, mid 2000's.

I guess I just also assumed people knew this was and has been the norm basically forever, this is what I meant by 'managers not actually managing and gaslighting you into doing their job for them.'

All your points and details are correct though.

I guess we can also tack on the nonsense American workplace cultural norm of:

Your boss can basically fire you on a whim, in many common scenarios...

But you as an employee are expected to give two weeks notice before you quit.

This is more widespread and isn't unique to min wage service/retail jobs... but this also literally makes no fucking sense and every European I've explained this to has been appalled by the concept.

this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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