I am sure there are a lot of people working 40 hours a week who don't usually do overtime.
I am sure there are a lot of people in SC who work more than 40 hrs/wk and get $8/hr, no benefits and no overtime from any of their 2-3 jobs.
My Company was moved from Colorado to NC by its new owners. In Colorado we started entry level personnel at $11.50, and moved to $14 upon completion of a 30 probationary period. They now start at $7.75 with no promise of advancement. I had a chance to press several of them, and found that their 25+ hours on the line was just one of their "part time" or "temporary" jobs. Almost all of them are black people. ALL of the management are whites, several of which are making six digits - far more than we ever paid ourselves as owners.
And those management people aren't racist, right? Though I think that they'd consider it racist if it was black management paying themselves that much while they pay white employees very little.
IMO? Fuck no - they're TOTALLY racist.
They don't even realize it themselves. After all, they get along great with all the darkies they've hired through temp agencies. (If they don't, those employees are gone.)
But they see themselves as helping out the otherwise unemployed. I found that attitude mysterious, since all of them with whom I had the chance to chat had other jobs as well...
As an irrelevant side note, the very success of our Company would have been a different story had it not been for one black guy with whom I contracted for outside IP support. We had just broken into the arena of multimillion dollar revenues and I realized I was over my head. Got reference for a local IT professional who had worked for the fed (CIA specifically) setting up their cybersecurity and stand-alone LANs.
Those were impressive credentials, so I called him. He sounded far more knowledgeable and capable in the IT/cybersecurity world than I ever hoped to be (I was the "IT Officer" as well as VP of the Company) so I invited him in.
I was actually taken aback when he showed up in casual dress. About 6'3" and an apparently fit 280lbs or so of black guy. Well shit - he
sounded white on the phone!
He took a few glances around our computer room, inspecting the RADE array, various boxes and wiring sequences. Asked a couple of questions, then called me and my partners together and calmly announced that we had to do a,b,c and d - most of which I had no idea about. He addressed all the minutiae - everything from the ownership of the DNS servers to vulnerable hardware components - he had the plan, it made sense to me and I immediately put him in charge. In the ensuing years we never had any problem related to systems or security that he or one of his employees (all whites - go figure) didn't fix the same day, usually within an hour or two.
A fascinating guy - still one of my favorite people in this town. I think the managers in NC would be floored if they knew.
