absolutely. the job where i worked the hardest and felt like i was providing the most value to people around me probably had me getting something like $4/hr. an incredible amount of agricultural labor is exempt from minimum wage protections in the US, if you did not know.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) does require that most agricultural workers receive at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. However, specific exemptions to the minimum wage requirement include employers who did not use more than 500 “man-days” of agricultural labor in any calendar quarter of the preceding calendar year. Additionally, agricultural employees who are the employer’s immediate family, employees primarily engaged in the range production of livestock, and certain hand harvest laborers are exempt from the minimum wage requirements.
i ended up "snapping" because some very wealthy, leisurely feudal lords tried to squeeze me just a bit too hard, too many times in one year. so i went back to school, took all the loans, and do reputation laundering for academia that only occasionally allows me to help people in a meaningful way. i make so much more it makes me dizzy sometimes, because i'm not afraid of my car needing a replacement part or losing the food in my fridge due to a multi-day power outage. and the people above me make sick bank for absolutely indefensible nonsense.
You think picking vegetables with your hands in the 100 degree heat and getting skin cancer is hard and warrants minimum wage? Try merging two lists in excel, buddy.
absolutely. the job where i worked the hardest and felt like i was providing the most value to people around me probably had me getting something like $4/hr. an incredible amount of agricultural labor is exempt from minimum wage protections in the US, if you did not know.
i ended up "snapping" because some very wealthy, leisurely feudal lords tried to squeeze me just a bit too hard, too many times in one year. so i went back to school, took all the loans, and do reputation laundering for academia that only occasionally allows me to help people in a meaningful way. i make so much more it makes me dizzy sometimes, because i'm not afraid of my car needing a replacement part or losing the food in my fridge due to a multi-day power outage. and the people above me make sick bank for absolutely indefensible nonsense.
being around it is toxic.
You think picking vegetables with your hands in the 100 degree heat and getting skin cancer is hard and warrants minimum wage? Try merging two lists in excel, buddy.
No that's the interns job, you just ask them to do it and reply to emails with chat gpt