It’s rarely two 9-5 M-F jobs that add up to 40 hours a week.
It’s usually a combination of a primary job that is just below the threshold of full time and therefore doesn’t qualify for basic benefits like health insurance, paid time off, or retirement <32 hours.
Usually the second job is in the evening and weekends. Service jobs, retail, etc. Often the schedule varies wildly and changes often.
Typically both jobs are paid hourly and can end at any time.
A lot of people work much more than 40 hours per week, but don’t have the security of a full time, salaried job.
Don’t forget, the reason those jobs are <32 hours is because they don’t want to pay benefits and benefit from your feelings of insecurity in terms of employment and wages. If you feel that, you’re more likely to do things employees who feel secure at work would balk at even if it’s as simple as taking extra shifts at a moment’s notice.
Which, by the way, outside of “the cruelty is the point” which is obviously the real reason I’ve never been able to get the logic of this
Surely part time, seasonal, temporary, or otherwise insecure jobs should pay more and have better benefits, no? As that’s the balancing factor for the insecurity?
Like, I’m in academia so talking about what I know, I feel like it’s incredibly obvious that a tenured professor should make less money than an assistant professor who should make less money than an adjunct. And yet it’s the opposite. Adjunct professors get paid a few thousand dollars a semester, when it should honestly be like a thousand dollars an hour to encourage the school to hire actual full time staff. Tenured professors basically can’t lose their jobs unless they really fuck up but they get paid the most and also get extra benefits like closer parking and shit like that.
Travel nurses are basically the only people that actually get higher pay to compensate for the precarity.
It’s rarely two 9-5 M-F jobs that add up to 40 hours a week.
It’s usually a combination of a primary job that is just below the threshold of full time and therefore doesn’t qualify for basic benefits like health insurance, paid time off, or retirement <32 hours.
Usually the second job is in the evening and weekends. Service jobs, retail, etc. Often the schedule varies wildly and changes often.
Typically both jobs are paid hourly and can end at any time.
A lot of people work much more than 40 hours per week, but don’t have the security of a full time, salaried job.
Don’t forget, the reason those jobs are <32 hours is because they don’t want to pay benefits and benefit from your feelings of insecurity in terms of employment and wages. If you feel that, you’re more likely to do things employees who feel secure at work would balk at even if it’s as simple as taking extra shifts at a moment’s notice.
Which, by the way, outside of “the cruelty is the point” which is obviously the real reason I’ve never been able to get the logic of this
Surely part time, seasonal, temporary, or otherwise insecure jobs should pay more and have better benefits, no? As that’s the balancing factor for the insecurity?
Like, I’m in academia so talking about what I know, I feel like it’s incredibly obvious that a tenured professor should make less money than an assistant professor who should make less money than an adjunct. And yet it’s the opposite. Adjunct professors get paid a few thousand dollars a semester, when it should honestly be like a thousand dollars an hour to encourage the school to hire actual full time staff. Tenured professors basically can’t lose their jobs unless they really fuck up but they get paid the most and also get extra benefits like closer parking and shit like that.
Travel nurses are basically the only people that actually get higher pay to compensate for the precarity.