I work on a farm in the farm market. I float from cash, to bake to birthdays. I do a lot. The average age of employee is like 16. I am 21. There are only 4 out of 40 of us older than 19. When I was hired, I got 25 cents over minimum wage. It is my first year there.
They are now hiring me to be a junior supervisor. I said I should get more money but they label this as training. I believe that I should get more money because I am doing more work. They want to label me as "training" until next year (we are only open May to Nov 1.) So that means for 3 months, I will be doing supervisor work for the same pay. True, I probably will not get as many shifts as the full supervisors, but I am still doing more work.
The argument is I was hired and received 25 cents more than minimum wage already. There is a huge misconception that i make more than some of the younger staff who have been there longer. But they don't account for inflation or market changes. They cannot expect me to be happy with my pay cause it's "more than what they got for the same work last year". Plus I am a lot older and I am only doing this to fund my Master and then Phd at university.
Would you ask for more money on the basis of more work? Or would you agree that I already make more than minimum and this is my first year so I should let it go? I don't know what to do.
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