<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>elliekelly</author><text>When I worked in consulting we had a large retail client who had a lot of turn-over and was looking for ways to &amp;quot;stabilize&amp;quot; hiring. (Short of paying more money, of course!) When we looked into it their system was regularly over-scheduling shifts &amp;quot;just in case&amp;quot; there was a rush and then having store managers &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot; shifts if there wasn&amp;#x27;t a rush. There aren&amp;#x27;t a lot of surprise &amp;quot;rush&amp;quot; shifts in shopping malls outside of the holiday season so sometimes employees would come in, work an hour of a scheduled eight hour shift, and then get cut. The cuts tended to happen by &amp;quot;seniority&amp;quot; (so newest hires, paid the least) and a decent number of these employees who were frequently cut were traveling at least an hour by public transportation. Some days employees &lt;i&gt;lost money&lt;/i&gt; by going to work.&lt;p&gt;We were thrilled by what we&amp;#x27;d found! It would be a quick and easy fix for the client: they had solid and reliable sales forecasts for each location so estimating the number of employees they&amp;#x27;d need on a given day wasn&amp;#x27;t going to be difficult. In fact, they were more or less already doing it. It would hardly cost them anything to implement aside from a few tweaks to the corporate scheduling tool and a bit of training for the store managers. So when management immediately shot down our proposed solution it came as a bit of shock. The erratic scheduling and the &amp;quot;cut&amp;quot; shifts were a feature, not a bug, we were told. It kept employees from getting a second job that they might dare prioritize over their current job.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtkwe</author><text>&amp;gt; guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week&lt;p&gt;This I think is part of the huge problem with modern &amp;quot;low level&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;minimum wage jobs. Companies don&amp;#x27;t pay enough to live of of one salary but expect to have full say over their employees time just for their own convenience in scheduling and staffing.</text></item><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>In Ireland, the minimum wage is €10.50 per hour and the standard work week is 40 hours, that works out to €420 full time minimum wage per week.&lt;p&gt;At Dublin Airport, security staff are only guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week, and entry level workers are paid €14.14 per hour.&lt;p&gt;Guaranteed pay: €282.80 per week, i.e. 67% of the minimum wage.&lt;p&gt;Are there any surprises why there are staff shortages?&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extra.ie&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-dublin-airport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extra.ie&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-du...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September</title><url>https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/07/12/heathrow-tells-all-airlines-to-stop-selling-any-flights-until-11th-september/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>brianbreslin</author><text>Wait till you dig into companies forcing non-competes on non-full time staff like this. Jimmy Johns didn&amp;#x27;t let their minimum wage sandwich cooks work at other fast food places. So not only are you not getting full time hours, you aren&amp;#x27;t getting health coverage, and have to find a job outside of QSR (quick serve restaurants) to make ends meet.</text><parent_chain><item><author>rtkwe</author><text>&amp;gt; guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week&lt;p&gt;This I think is part of the huge problem with modern &amp;quot;low level&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;minimum wage jobs. Companies don&amp;#x27;t pay enough to live of of one salary but expect to have full say over their employees time just for their own convenience in scheduling and staffing.</text></item><item><author>shaicoleman</author><text>In Ireland, the minimum wage is €10.50 per hour and the standard work week is 40 hours, that works out to €420 full time minimum wage per week.&lt;p&gt;At Dublin Airport, security staff are only guaranteed 20 hours per week, need to be available for 40 hours per week, and entry level workers are paid €14.14 per hour.&lt;p&gt;Guaranteed pay: €282.80 per week, i.e. 67% of the minimum wage.&lt;p&gt;Are there any surprises why there are staff shortages?&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extra.ie&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-dublin-airport&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;extra.ie&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;daa-taoiseach-criticised-du...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Heathrow tells airlines to stop selling additional flights until September</title><url>https://www.headforpoints.com/2022/07/12/heathrow-tells-all-airlines-to-stop-selling-any-flights-until-11th-september/</url></story>