What the hell is a firestick? Is that like a sparkler or match? If so both of those are now illegal in CA!
That's the deep South for you where $20/hr is largely considered a fair wage by most businesses and any talk of unionization results in immediate termination. Right to work laws are a ****ing joke. There was a time decades ago when fair compensation and unionization was really pushed for in the region but the same southern Democrats that opposed the civil rights movement struck it down.Sounds like you need a better job. I can't remember the last time I made less than $100k as an hourly person and I never worked much more than 300 hours overtime a year.
I guess you have proved it. You have to both work hard and also be smart.
I don't by doubt your anecdotal story, but it certainly is not the norm. Hard work makes for a great employee but a terrible businessman. As a business owner it is your goal to profit off of the labor of others which requires charisma, intelligence, cunningness, and a bit of ruthlessness. In my thirty years here on this earth I have worked years of 100+ hr weeks working hard and it has only ever given me tinnitus, arthritis, heat strokes, and liver damage.
Every business owner I have ever encountered has not been some benevolent person with a can do work hard attitude, but rather a shrewd and calculated individual whose sole purpose is to extract as much profit off of you as an employee as possible. My father for an example runs a small farm and constantly complains about "not being able to find good help". Like I should empathise with him in some manner??? As an employer you have complete control over the competency of your labor by the wages you offer.
Can we just please stop the false narrative that working hard will actually get you places in life? It won't.
There was a time decades ago when fair compensation and unionization was really pushed for in the region but the same southern Democrats that opposed the civil rights movement struck it down.