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☆ Opinion | Part-Time Employees: The Plight of the Mistreated
  + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “Part-Time Work Has a New, Predatory Logic,” by Adelle Waldman (Opinion guest essay, Feb. 20):This essay resonated with me. After retiring from academia and relocating to Maine, I took a part-time seasonal position at one of Maine’s iconic retailers. A way to get out of the house — and out of a significant other’s way a few days a week. The other group was consistent with the employees described in Ms. Waldman’s essay: people who needed the income and who juggled more than one part-time job, always desperate for more hours. In retail environments, the seasonal, part-time sales representatives are the public face of the company.
Persons: Adelle Waldman Locations: Maine
☆ Opinion | Adelle Waldman’s Journey From Brooklyn Literati to a Big Box Store
  + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
But instead of capitalizing on her sudden stardom, Waldman didn’t publish another novel for more than a decade. “To my surprise, I just didn’t have another idea,” she told me over lunch near her house in the Hudson Valley town of Rhinebeck. Especially after the shock of Donald Trump’s election, she lost interest in exploring the romantic and psychological struggles of the upper middle class. At first, her shift started at 6 a.m.; then management abruptly changed it to two hours earlier. While “Nathaniel P.” had delighted me with its uncanny familiarity, this new novel thrilled me for the opposite reason.
Persons: Adelle, Nathaniel P, Obama, cads, Waldman didn’t, ”, Donald Trump’s, “ I’ve, “ Nathaniel P, Waldman Organizations: Love Affairs, Ivy, Target Locations: York, Brooklyn, Hudson, Rhinebeck
☆ Opinion | I Worked at a Big-Box Store. Here’s a Way to Improve the Lives of Low-Wage Workers.
  + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Adelle Waldman | Vishakha Darbha | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
One of the lesser-known problems facing many low-wage workers in America is unpredictable and scarce work hours — something the writer Adelle Waldman knows firsthand. She worked at a big-box store for six months to research her latest novel, about a group of employees plotting to overthrow their bad boss. In this audio essay, Waldman explains how her experience exposed her to the way inflexible hours can wreak havoc in people’s lives, from lack of health insurance to the inability to pick up a second job. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available within 24 hours of publication in the audio player above.)
Persons: Adelle Waldman, Waldman Locations: America
☆ Opinion | It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way.
  + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Adelle Waldman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Most of my co-workers had been at the store for years, but almost all of them were, like me, part time. This meant that the store had no obligation to give us a stable number of hours or to adhere to a weekly minimum. The unpredictability of the hours made life difficult for my co-workers — as much as, if not more than, the low pay did. On receiving a paycheck for a good week’s work, when they’d worked 39 hours, should they use the money to pay down debt? Or should they hold on to it in case the following week they were scheduled for only four hours and didn’t have enough for food?
Persons: we’d, they’d Locations: America, New York
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