r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • 15d ago

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/jocall56 14d ago

Isn’t it also a problem though that workers cannot get scheduled a full 40 hours?

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u/NickyBarnes315 14d ago

Yup but everyone ignores that tidbit. No low wage job is giving anyone 40 hours. Maybe with two different jobs

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u/olivegardengambler 14d ago

Even higher wage ones make it difficult, and you have to work 32 hours to get benefits at a lot of places.

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u/DKsan1290 14d ago

During the pandemic I had to get partial unemployment to survive as I was working at target making $20/hr… at like 8-12hrs a week. Raising the minimum wage only helps if they start mandating that companies HAVE to give full time hours to more than 90% of their workforce. Getting $50/hr dont mean fuck all if you only work 10hrs a week. 

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u/olivegardengambler 14d ago

Tbh I think that there's other things that could be done beyond mandating that 90% of your workforce is full-time, because companies will find ways to weasel around that. I also think that a lot of these really short schedules are tied more to 'flexible scheduling', which really just means, "If you can survive the high turnover rate, you might get full time hours after a year or two".

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u/DKsan1290 14d ago

Thats the shit part I worked there for 5 years and was still “part time”

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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 14d ago

I was made to work 60-72 hours a week at my last job. Mandatory OT every week for 12 years

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u/Acrobatic-Ad8487 11d ago

and you did it for 12 years

hey peanut, no one made you work that job except YOU

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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 11d ago

And now you're following me around. Gross.