Part-time employees don’t get benefits, so they limit you to just under what is considered full-time employment because they hate you.
Isn’t being poor cool?
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Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
If he wasnt stuck working 25 hours a week and was able to do 40hr a week he’d be living pretty well.
Why is obamacare limiting him to 25 hours?
lohky@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 day ago
For similar reasons in my current independent contractor role I’m limited to working less than 32 hours per week, presumably to prevent claims of being misclassified as a contractor.
Now as for why I’m an independent contractor and not a full time employee that’s down to freaking corporate politics following being laid off, leaving for another role and then being begged to come back because they needed my expertise and organizational knowledge (I’ve been heavily trained to pick up the torch for an employee who’s retiring in 2 years, which with the amount of undocumented nonsense and organization-specific decisions it would take a solid 2 years just to get anyone trained up on everything and I’m the only one with the technical and organizational knowledge in the organization right now) so in short they’d greatly reduce costs by bringing me on full time but the CFO won’t approve the job offer (and that’s literally the only stakeholder holding it back)
lohky@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I worked for one of those for a while. Worked in their office, on their computers, on their schedule, but somehow I was still 1099?
I just stopped showing up one day and let all of their maintenance systems fail. 🤷
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They’re taking advantage of you.
justaman123@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I hope you’re spending all your time looking for a new job (I know, I know, go down to the jobbie tree and just get a job, right). But if you can get any kind of leverage or safety net to walk away you might be able to get the job offer by threatening to leave. Best of luck to you
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I absolutely have been, but holy crap this job market sucks. I’ve gotten so close on multiple interviews just to get passed up at the last minute.
On the upside, with this contracting gig I’m making more than I made when I worked for them full time while only working ~30 hours a week fully remotely so it’s not a bad gig at all. I’m just frustrated that my boss wants to get me a job offer, the CTO wants to get me a job offer, I have the director of safety saying he wants me to get a job offer, but the CFO just isn’t budging
Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s not, his boss is.
Ledivin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Their employer is a scumbag. Instead of being mad the actual problem, they choose to believe their exploitative employer, who throws their hands up and claims “it’s not MY fault you aren’t paid enough!”
papertowels@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Do you know if they get a second part time job and still qualify for Obamacare? If they can subsist on 25 hours a week, then adding another 15 would really help with savings.
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If I’m understanding comments in other parts of this post, I don’t think Obamacare is cutting into his profit. His employer is making sure his hours are sub-full time, i.e. less than 40 hrs a week, to ensure they don’t have to provide him with healthcare, which is required by Obamacare.
So getting a second job and qualifying for Obamacare are not part of the equation.
papertowels@mander.xyz 1 day ago
My impression from the rest of the thread is that his current employer is the one that wants to avoid Obamacare.
So if he just finds a second job with another employer, he can at least be earning more money, instead of being called at 25 at his current one. And since he already is able to sustain himself on the first job, the 15 hours of working can significantly boost his savings from ~$100/month to 4 weeks *15 hours per week * 7.25 (fed min wage) ~$500/month. Doesn’t solve all problems, but just finding a full 40 hours of work significantly improves his financial outlook.