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I hate how work can keep me hostage without telling me beforehand.
Pteryx
Mm, the US has serious labor law problems.
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I'm scheduled till 7, we close at 6 and at 5:45 I'm informed we were actually going to close at 7 today and if I'm lucky I could leave at 7:30.
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in general, states generally make up for it by making their own ontop of federal
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Arizona is not one of them
Pteryx
A lot of states seem to be outright attacking the very concept of workers having anything resembling rights, really.
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well retail workers are trash and worthy of contempt since if they don't like being treated like the scum of the earth they should go get real jobs, otherwise they are inhuman waste.
Pteryx
Yes, unions can overreach. That doesn't mean there's no such thing as middle ground...
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this is what I have learned while here.
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and been practically told to my face too!
Rogal Dorn
Basically, red states love to shit on workers 
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Like one woman telling her child if they didn't work hard in school they would end up like me!
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While I was rining them out.
Pteryx
Mm. I think a lot of the country simply has no idea how few and difficult-to-obtain "real jobs" are...
I think a lot of the country simply has no idea how few and difficult-to-obtain "real jobs" are...
Rogal Dorn
And unions have had unpopularity manufactured for them by powerful businesses with connections to media.
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Yeah, real jobs don't even exist here outside of like 2 employers!
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and the third major employer? (Which was the second top employer) was the U of A, but since the state no longer supports any kind of education at all, (since it gives 0 budget to any school or house of
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education) The U of A laid off a WHOLE LOT OF JOBS!
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So now all those laid off people have to go find jobs elsewhere
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So there's even less jobs outside retail and fast food!
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also if you do get some of those other jobs, they don't even garantee you to make more than minimum wage, which is 8.05
Pteryx
At least the minimum wage fight seems to be making decent progress.
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unless federal minimum wage is increased it won't even matter here. :c
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I hope that fight is won federally though
Pteryx
$15 is popping up in isolated pockets, $12 is starting to look likely nationally...
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I hope so
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because the cost of living is getting rediculous
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they;ve been jacking up rents here to like 800-900 for 2 bedrooms
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at the cheapest cheap you can find
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in the worst areas you can imagine
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and the average wage can't even cover that sort of rent ontop of the average utility bill being 100+
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and then garbage, water, sewer tax and everything else they charge you for ontop of your rent
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for an apartment :|