conversation: User (PrinceSimean): "eta: wow front page! (also please stop dissing my major-- lets see you get up on that stage with no mic and move people to tears singing in a language they don't know 🙃 )\n\nokay so. as i stated in the title, I was just hired by a teen and twenty somethings mall store (stay golden 😉) \n\nthe store recently suffered a serious loss of employees due to poor pay, back to school, and not enough staffing (ironic eh)\n\nanyway i was hired as a sales lead but we have no store manager at the moment, so im basically acting as the sm. DM wants to train me to be a manager in October. \n\ni love the store itself, and my fellow employees are pretty damn cool, but the pay right now is so low and i had to drop out of college due to medical and financial issues this year. my bio parents both work in retail and say that as a store manager i should make $12-$15 per hour but like i said right now i make 36 cents above minimum wage\n\ni have a second job where i work far less hours but earn a dollar over minimum wage, so i would have to quit there if I would like to have a life in addition to a full time job at this store 😩\n\nmy point is, how the hell do i go about getting paid more, if not now then soon? and i would love to get my fellow employees pay raises too, they've been really fucked over by the situation lately :(\n\nEDIT: ugh fuck it, i work at fucking p** s** guys. i had to quit school bc of a tank in my mental and physical health, which is what caused my financial demise. i  cannot go back to school until i  can pay off my UBill (completely unrelated to student loans) i was going to school for opera performance as a music major, which is what killed my mental health, but opera is what i love. im losin my parents insurance in the next few weeks bc im not a student anymore and that's a clause in my dads insurance thru his employer. minimum wage in my state of the us is $7.25, and i make $7.61. \n\nive been reading all of your responses at work today and taking to the kid who is currently the part time asst manager (he was hired 2 wks before me, he's a freshman in college and he makes diddly squat also. he's helping me gather intel lol, i kinda feel like a spy with how much more ive figured out about our computer system than our dm, so im compiling some documents that particularly outline each store position to compare and contrast and then use during our conversation\nthanks for all your help guys, if i can actually do something about my pay before manager training starts i could use the money really bad and i could use the benefits, I have a tumor in my nose that i badly need removed  "
  Self: "Tell your boss that you will not accept those additional responsibilities/ the title without a manager pay."
  Ithinkitstricky (Ithinkitstricky): "In retail, especially this time of year, that will not work. Youll gwt laughed at.\n\nIm a DM.\n\nEdit:looking at the downvotes a lot of good comments are getting I would say listen to no advice in this thread. These people are comparing normal jobs to retail jobs during holiday season."
  