#also i reported them to the health department today 😌

[bougonia]

It pisses me off so bad that oftentimes lower paying jobs demand so much more than higher paying ones.

Like, my roommate works from home, 80k a year, is able to do chores like laundry during the workday, has a full hour for lunch and gets 5 weeks of PTO on top of sick pay. I'm not saying their job is super perfect or easy but I make $20/hr and I have zero flexibility or regularity in my schedule, have to bite and kick just to use a single vacation day (of the five I get for the entire year), and the job exhausts me to the point where I am only able to get chores done on my days off. They have us lean staffed to the degree where if any one person calls out sick, it basically ruins the day for everyone.

It's much worse for my coworkers, several of whom are chronically ill, because the manager making the schedules doesn't give a fuck about the time they absolutely need off for medical appointments.

I feel like there should be some tradeoff for lower paying jobs, but that's just 'not how it works', since people willing to work lower paying jobs are more desperate so you can treat them like dirt. Either you luck your way into a decent job or you're fucked forever.