what's screwed up is at 2010 a month it also disqualifies you from Medicaid in states that have low income eligibility. It's not uncommon that if you aren't getting benefits to self cap your hours at 20-25 hours a week because any more and you lose federal aid, so its cheaper for them to actually work /less/. All stemming from the companies inability to let their workers work.

I've never been the same since it clicked in me that welfare payments are used in a huge part to subsidise the businesses that refuse to pay more than minimum wage. So when the news trumpets that "$COMPANY has made record profits this year", all I hear is a story about how much profit that company has made while also receiving an indirect government bailout.

This is how you radicalize a generation btw.

Where I work you can only work temporarily for 2 years before they automatically get a permanent contract (it's UK law basically). I got a colleague come to me for support yesterday saying he's been told his contract won't be renewed beyond 1year+11months and they're going to advertise to hire another person into the role (presumably for another 1 yr + 11 m).

Back in 1960, the minimum wage was $1.00/hour and the cost of the average US home was $11,000.00.

When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, 'middle class' was defined as one job paying for a house, a car, and enough money to send the kids to college. In those days $1 million was considered a vast fortune. After five GOP Presidential terms, middle class was two incomes to support a family of four, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.

So this has been the case for over twenty years now with people "discovering" this well known and well documented practice of keeping employees below full time to keep them from giving benefits every couple of years. Hell it was exactly like this when my sister was working there as a teenager.

I mean this is kind of what is wrong with America honestly, memories of a gold fish and one of the reasons why no progress ever gets made.

I've been boycotting WalMart for 25 years, but regrettably this has not put them out of business. Fortunately, it meant that not a single one of my dollars went into their greedy, overstuffed pockets.

What we as a society can do is create fertile conditions for unionizing to stop stuff like this.

This is not a new thing. There's a documentary from 2005 called "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" that goes into detail about similar actions they were taking back then.

All of my life I been lied to
Just found out my boss makes 500 times what I do
And still wants to cut my hours back
To 39 and three quarters 'cause 40 gets you a health plan
And I got a feelin' I'm a need it
Losin' feelin' in my knees and my lower back
And I'm going back, trapped like a lower class clown
Hold a rat down, so we kill each other over cheddar
Keep us hungry so we never organize for nothing better
Just make it through the day, make it through the week

-- You Say Millionaire Like It's a Good Thing, Guante

Many places won't rent to someone that cannot prove monthly income greater than 3x the rent.

Tips help the owner not the employee.

Why are there even brackets and thresholds for benefits? It should be a linear scale. 1 hour of work = 1/40th, 29h = 29/40, 30h = 30/40th etc.

nO 1 wAnTs 2 wOrK nE mOaR!!!1!11!

Otherwise known as corporate welfare.

Walmart plans for extraordinarily high turnover. If the median worker is there longer than a year, they are overpaying for labor. If less than a year, they'll bring on new workers at higher rates than their experienced workers. Why give the experienced people higher pay when they've proven they will stay on at less?

Walmart is one of the scummiest employers on the planet, and they have an outsized influence on the rest of the labor market.

When I worked as a restocker at a grocery store, they planned the majority of us for 3 hours a day (we were mostly minors so we didn't know better), from 17:00 till 20:00. Because, at 3.5 hours, you were entitled to a 30 minute break, and even tho it was an unpaid break they still didn't want you to take it. Did you get a lot more stuff then normal and so you had to work overtime? Tough shit, you still ain't getting that break even tho it's now 21:00

Sometimes they would even cut some people their hours back if they felt that they weren't working hard enough (again, we were minors, some of us making 4 bucks an hour, they were that petty). Fuck this system

Even at 32 hours I don't get any benefits at Walmart.

Seems the answer would be to end exemptions like this for companies with gross revenues or profits over certain figures that people smarter than me can figure out.

We have been cowed too much to take back everything that has been stolen from us 😒

Shareholder profits over people. Got to find Grandpa's golf outings in retirement... 🫠 I can only imagine them attempting to get healthcare