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Originally Posted by mjr
Have you asked about going full time? What did they tell you?
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I have I've made it clear I'm interested. People sitting around waiting to work is an accepted cost of doing business in most fields. There are many higher paying (more than I make) office jobs where people show up 8 hours a day because Salary and do like 2 hours of actual work.
I think PT/FT should be the choice of the employees. Many of our employees are fine with part time especially those in couples where their joint paychecks allow them comfortable lives.
They have most of us part timers working nearly fulltime hours right now to cover all of the shifts as they hire back up to where they want to have staffing levels.
I think it would be smarter if they kept a core base of us as Full time and then plugged the gaps with part time. Have flexibility and yet a dependable workforce that won't vanish.
During my interview they made it clear my willingness to be there for years was important. How do they think they could get me to do that at part time? Arranged marriage with a co-worker? Ignoring health insurance alone I can't reliably pay rent on an apartment on part time hours.
I feel like this all comes back to the difference between financially healthy companies and Let's make a profit companies. If a company focuses on making sure they're still around in sixty years they will be more stable than if they focus on how much money can they suck out without an immediate collapse while ignoring the collapses this will cause later on.