That is how the company keeps employees at low wages and expensive healt insurance. I know one single mom that works strictly to keep her son in the charter school and have health insurance for them both. She doesn't take much else home after that. she makes just a wee too much to get any assistance ( the public dole as they call it). But struggles week to week to pay for much other than her monthly bills.
If the are any extra clubs or trips her son wants to participate in, she can not afford it.
I commend her for sacrificing making any kind of money, just to keep her son in the villages school, but how shameful it is that they are kept under these restraints. She is afraid to ask for more money or even apply for another position, as she fears she will be fired or let go.
She even mentioned that one of her co-workers was being sexually harrassed and when she went to HR and her boss, she lost her job.
Doesn't sound the like the magical villages we all know does it?
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