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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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I do network engineering and also have worked in manufacturing (mostly driving forklifts). Those things are indeed hiring; but they only want to pay $18/hour. How hard of a concept that is to understand?
But if you wanna pay my tuition, I'd be happy to get a degree in something instead of just being Cisco and A+ certified and just going by years of experience doing the work.
My friend, you gotta get a different job. They are criminally underpaying you. I am currently working Desktop Support making $35/hr, I'd be astounded if any of our network engineers make less than that.