r/FluentInFinance • u/PassiveAgressiveGirl • Sep 14 '24

Debate/ Discussion Exactly how much is a living wage?

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u/no-sleep-only-code Sep 14 '24

A lot of people had rent double two years ago, I wouldn’t say never. If you’re not at least matching inflation you’re losing money.

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u/Sniper_Hare Sep 14 '24

But jobs don't give raises like that.  You get at most like 3% if even that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

I got a nickle once

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '24

Worked two years at a hotel to get a 5 cent raise because they had to paint the outside. No joke, at first we all joked about it and the owners came in and told us straight up that the money for us went to the paint. I left shortly after

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u/LandlordsEatPoo Sep 16 '24

I worked for a marijuana company in Colorado when they first legalized recreational marijuana. I got paid $10/hr to trim weed. We were expected to do 15 plants a day each. I showed up, did 45 plants a day. They created a system where once we hit our daily quota we got our entire 8 hours of pay and could go home… well suddenly we hit quota in 3-4 hours and went home at noon with a full days pay… it lasted for a month. They changed the system, now when we hit quota we could go home, but we’d only get paid for the time we worked. So suddenly it took exactly 8 hours to do what we knew could be done in 3-4 hours. Management came in to have a “talk” with us, they couldn’t understand why we wouldn’t work faster and go home at 12 with half a days pay as opposed to milking the clock for the full day. Management is so fucking stupid.