The job market is looking worse than ever. With it becoming increasingly difficult to find decent work and unfair pay looming overhead, people are out there struggling. Or worse, working two or more jobs, but that doesn’t mean anyone should settle. This is what one North Carolina woman decided she wasn’t about to do when she interviewed for a job. Facing incredibly low pay, she stood firm on the idea that she deserved way more.
TikToker Savannahkl8 — Savannah — shared a video where she finds out she pass the initial interview for a remote job. She doesn’t state what the job was for, but said she should be making at least $100k a year from it. During the second interview, the interviewer asks her, “Did they go over the schedule and pay with you?” which Savannah says they didn’t. He tells her they would offer her $15.50 an hour for the position. You can see Savannah raise her eyebrows slightly and smile as she says, “Uh… $15.50, huh?”
The interviewer tries to backtrack, saying it’s “totally understandable” if she isn’t happy with their abysmally low pay. Even he knows this is so much less than standard and not within most people’s means. So, why is the company offering so little when they know it’s not enough for most people to scrape by?
The interviewer even says Savannah is clearly worth more than $15.50 an hour just by the looks of her resume. He tells her he “apologizes” for wasting any of her time. You can tell Savannah is incredibly displeased, as she disappointingly ends the call and declines the poor offer. This is what so many Americans are dealing with on a daily basis.
One commenter, shocked by these revelations, asked, “Like $15.50 an hour and they have a recruitment??? That’s Burger King money.”
Another argued people shouldn’t be paid “less than $20 in this economy.” And it’s crazy to think the federal minimum wage is still $7.25 — since 2009!
Another person pointed out, “Employers are low balling people cause people are desperately accepting it! If you take a low wage like that it makes it harder to scale up later,” or be pushed into filing for food stamps.
