It's Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way.

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38. Nope, it's still there

The turnover and perpetual understaffing was before Covid. They were always close to or being in violation of Oregon's minimum ALF staffing requirements. Residents in that Assisted Living Facility I worked at were paying $4,000+ a month for us, $6,000 for a couple with billing Medicare or other insurance also. Those were before Covid prices too. There were usually 60 or so residents. 60x 4,000=$240,000 a month.

That bad night before I quit. I was the only resident assistant for 60 people, we had a Medical Assistant and that was it. For 60 people. If someone had fallen or died, the company wouldn't have taken the blame for it, they would have blamed me and hung me out to dry with any violations due to not being able to keep up. "We can't find anyone to come in and help you". That was too much responsibility for $9.25 an hour.