Ours did, as well— for a while. Now we’re even getting screwed on those.
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I see this more often in “right to work states” in the US than non right to work states. Id never live in a “right to work state”. What that really means is right to make sure you get screwed over as the employee
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zuma probably scored top of there class in peon school.
I guess that’s our problem, then. But since he’s a lawyer… we’re stuck in our state. Ain’t no way he’s taking the bar again and we don’t have the funds for reciprocity.
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Fast food workers in CA are paid more than that @ $20 /hr.
I could make more than $16 per hour at McDonalds.
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When I lived in California and made about $45k a year, my state tax rate came out to be about 3%. I was a Head of Household with qualifying dependents, though.
But, yes. The finances just don’t work out. I worked right down the street from their Irvine HQ but had to drive an hour and a half each way to get to where I could afford to live in a duplex owned by a friend of my best friend from high school’s family, that put HIGH costs of wear and tear and gas on the car.
Im sorry and I feel for you. Having lived in a right to work state in the past? The difference in how you are treated as an employee is night and day.
In general when working in a non-right to work state company’s are not always trying to get away with things as much. They tend to mind their Ps and Qs better so they dont have a state rep come in and slap a huge fine on them. My state also awards “whistleblowers” a % of the fine. So you better believe people are ready to blow that whistle lol
Exactly lol. Thats an entry level position pay. Heck I think our Janitor makes more than that. Hes a nice Guy too.
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At the start of COVID, my friend who works at Blizzard was offered $38,000 for an associate level role (he made a counter-offer, he was paid more than this). He would have needed to move to Irvine. But he lucked out and they opened up their CS offices in Austin to them.
But the fact they offered him $38,000 is so far below the poverty line, it’s scary.
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Yes, and it’s tragic how Blizzard has traditionally steeply underpaid their staff compared to industry averages, depending on people to be starry-eyed about working for BLIZZARD and the ‘cool’ factor of it when you tell people that which is…much less, these days.
But, also, McDonald’s (or any other fast food place) usually won’t give you full-time work or benefits.
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Kinda stuck in sorta but not really the same boat… after learning from the Borrower Defense of Discharge, I don’t have to pay my loan back cause the institute I went to decided to do some shady dealings and no longer accredited university.
Sad news, my Bachelors in Animation, Illustrations and Graphic Design is now null and void outside of that state… good thing those I worked with are in good standings, but will be bottom of the lists now if some one of equal experiences and education come along if I go for any of the upcoming animation spots happening here real soon.
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“double the minimum wage” means nothing when several states haven’t updated their minimum wage since they had to in 2009.
Whether or not $16 is enough in Texas depends where in Texas you are.
I make $14 in non-KC Kansas and it’s enough. Not a lot. But enough.
$12 is effectively minimum wage in my town. Nothing relevant offers less than that anymore despite being legally allowed to do $7.25.
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So about 10 miles?
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Where’s the extra-long cane when you need it? Lol
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Depends on state. In a non-right to work state they HAVE TO. 32hrs = Full Time Benefits. Maybe this is why so many states have become “right to work” states over the years.
Right? It was about 30 miles each way, but traffic was so bad. SO bad. Most of the people I worked with schlepped out from Riverside or Corona, though.
On a weekend when I’d come in to work overtime, it’d take me 20 minutes to get there. It was tragic.
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Damn, my dog-walker makes more than that. 
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Yes, I worked in California for many, many years. Employers would skirt around the full time line by scheduling you for 31.5 hours in a week and then flip out at you if you didn’t clock out on time.
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My previous company is headquartered in Gardena. I’ve been through that area a number of times. I even road by the big donut place by happenstance on the way back to LAX once. Ironman was not there.
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If you aren’t married, own a home, etc, you get virtually nothing back. You hardly even get a kickback from being a renter. The tax breaks are set up to promote and help a traditional family. But the simple fact is that my generation largely cannot afford “the next stage of our lives” because we can barely save anything.
(Plus, the number of banks and companies that buy up entire neighborhoods just to rent them out is borderline criminal.)
Not to sound like a whiny millennial ofc, but damn dude; I feels like we’re trapped and told to suck it up. But there’s nothing to look forward to.