Always talk about your pay. It's better for everyone
Employer: We fired Asafum for disobedience and poor conduct. (No mention whatsoever of retaliation for discussing pay.)
I was told when I was hired that they would fire anyone discussing pay. We work in a factory, there is no such thing as email proof when you're a meat machine with no email.
Single party recording consent laws if you're lucky
Well depending where you work that could have been illegal. This is where unions come in. I'm sorry to hear of such mistreatment my friend. I was also forced out of a job for talking about wages
I did that at my first job. I got docked pay for it. I didn't mind, the others used it to leverage for more.
I often wonder similarly. comes down to double income. We went from families being raised on 40 hours a week labor to 100 or more.
Yup. Something to remember whenever Forbes or WSJ publishes some feel-good article about how, "household income is keeping up with inflation."
What they don't mention is the "household" now includes everyone except the family dog. And even with everyone working, the quality of life continues to decline.
As someone currently raosong 2 kids on a single fairly meager income, it comes down to budgeting, extreme price sensitivity and using the annual child tax credits as a cash injection to rebalance everything every 12 months and/or subsidize major needed purchases
Food pantry time
In addition to this way too many people I know are receiving SSI disability checks on top of that. 😅 I got folks on oxygen and walkers that get less SSI then a bunch of 20 year olds I know.
The entire SSI/SSDI system is fucked. It's arbitrary and unnecessarily complex. Linking disability benefits to time worked is also cruel and arbitrary to younger workers who become disabled. And especially to people who never have the chance to build a work history at all. Then the idea that it has to be capped to an even outcome instead of a livable floor plus medical expenses...
That last part might just be why the younger people get paid more. They have less assets that count against the monthly pay.
But there is one thing SSI/SSDI have in common. The pay drops in step with money earned. So if you go get a job then you're not going to get much of an SSI check, if any at all. And SSDI can be outright revoked for working.
I find this hard to believe. I'd be curious to hear roughly how many people you know that are on disability.
For those unaware, social security is extremely strict with earned income affecting benefits. It's also incredibly difficult to start getting disability benefits, even with mountains of documentation and medical records. It's quite common to have to appeal a case multiple times, and it often takes years for people to be approved.
The trick is that they are working another job, and their partner is probably working two as well 🙃
They aren't. Your coworkers are making more. Talk about pay with coworkers as you may be getting screwed
My kiddo is just a toddler, but in our VHCOL area, at this age the only thing that really matters is childcare expenses. If we had family/grandparents taking care of them, the additional cost would be pretty minimal, in the scheme of things.
The max contribution to dependent FSA (tax free account for daycare) is a joke, less than 2mo of care.
The material things we've needed probably amount to less than one month of daycare expenses (diapers notwithstanding).
Saving for college, on the other hand...
