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!”
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.
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.
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 capped at 25 hours 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 quintuples how much financial slack they have, which is very significant.
Don’t feel great dropping personal info online just to prove a point. I’ve had 3 concurrent part time jobs in the past, but one was tapering one off, so it was only 3 jobs for a few months, rest was 2 jobs. I was lucky that I had a regular schedule for all of them so I could make it work.
I mean, yeah it sucked, but so does only being broke and I wanted out of it.
I’m going to guess that this comment beat you to the punch?
So yeah, if you’re being scheduled for irregular shifts it’s not going to work out. Maybe something like Uber could help earn some extra income? But car wear and tear could cancel that out, unsure.
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)
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
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
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?
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!”
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.
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.
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 capped at 25 hours 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 quintuples how much financial slack they have, which is very significant.
A lot of part time jobs are inconsistent and demand full time availability so there’s no way to have 2 at once without them inevitably overlapping.
Yeah that’s fair. When I was working multiple jobs I was lucky enough that none of them demanded full time availability.
How old are you and what type of jobs have you worked in your past?
Don’t feel great dropping personal info online just to prove a point. I’ve had 3 concurrent part time jobs in the past, but one was tapering one off, so it was only 3 jobs for a few months, rest was 2 jobs. I was lucky that I had a regular schedule for all of them so I could make it work.
I mean, yeah it sucked, but so does only being broke and I wanted out of it.
No, what type of work? And is it fair to assume under 25 years old?
I’m going to guess that this comment beat you to the punch?
So yeah, if you’re being scheduled for irregular shifts it’s not going to work out. Maybe something like Uber could help earn some extra income? But car wear and tear could cancel that out, unsure.
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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?
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)
They’re taking advantage of you.
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. 🤷
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
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
It’s not, his boss is.