Someone did the calculation and if this is using minimum wage ($7.25/hr), it’s 38 hours for the first job, 33 for the second and predicated on your boss not shafting your schedule

let’s put everything else on hold for a second. let’s say you genuinely have these living expenses. fine.

the most interesting/disturbing part is that your employer is expecting you to work a second job. mcdonalds vehemently opposes minimum wage raises with the argument being that it increases unemployment, right? assuming a situation where you have one vacancy per potential job-seeker, which is a perfect market, every single job-seeker filling several vacancies at once will increase unemployment on their own.

I worked in cable. You could *maybe* work phone bill and cable in your first year. Beyond that deal? It’s unlikely. Hell, most of the cable packages with anything of worth are over 50$ before taxes or hidden fees.

And internet is nowhere on that list. So it falls under cable (in which case you definitely can’t afford all three outside of signing deals) or ‘other’. Which means you can never buy a nice pair of shoes/go on a paid date/etc.

And don’t tell my you don’t need internet- short of libraries (which now often have computer time limits)- internet is not free to access and most jobs require an email address at least. Any job in my fields would require me to have internet access.

What this is saying is that they think it’s okay for some people to live a few steps above hand to mouth so others can dwell in opulent extravagance.

Also where tf is the water bill??? Under “other”?? That shit’s a NECESSITY

So was talking to my dad about this.
Gas/trasportation (~30/wk)
Food (~100/wk)
You could barely make it.

Of course, my brother is diabetic. So he automatically can’t do this. Insulin is expensive.

And then my dad pointed out something we’d overlooked. Taxes. So assuming this 2,060 a month, you’d have $24,720 a year. And this is NET INCOME.

Federal and state tax means most ppl pay ~33%. You need a gross income around ~36,000/yr.
An expected work week is 40 hours. So 40 hr week x 52 wks = 2,080 hours

36,000/2,080~ $18/hr You’d need a wage of $17.31/hr for a 40 hour work week. And that is assuming no vacations aside from weekends.

Assuming the 71 hour work week above, you would need $9.75/hr to achieve the $36,000/yr.

7.25/hr x 71 hrs x 52 weeks = $26,767 per year 36,000-26,767 = (9,233)

A person working off of this budget would end the year $9,233 in debt.

the mere fact that they expect it to be the norm for someone to have 2 jobs is enough to stop reading and set fire to the whole damn thing