Try Vancouver (BC) to San Ysidro, CA with a few patches of nothing in between.

Seems like an ethical definition of humor. Not that it doesn't make sense.

Though I would also argue that humor may be repugnant as a form of persuasive speech: calling into attention acceptance of injustices.

Humor that offends can be meant to offend as a way to force you to reassess your view.

I don't care, I just like you.

And overtime exempt salary positions is how you bilk the same people out of tons of overtime pay.

At a minimum wage of $15.74/hour a person would have to work over 26 hours a week in overtime to meet the exempt rate.

$3200/month when you can get an apartment for $1100/month is right about on par.

You can't clue in the clueless.

NACs don't go to nursing school.

I would question how many of the jobs your mention here are the minimum exempt salary versus just being above the minimum salary.

"In my experience" people receiving salary are usually management or administration. Retail managers, HR, administrators, assistant administrators, etc.

These would be the majority of the workers covered by this, a lot closer to blue collar with a white clip.

That is the minimum salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime pay.

If you take a job that pays the exempt salary, you can damn well guarantee you will be working overtime. Positions like that have shit like 6 day requirements or 50 hour requirements.

If you are not overtime exempt, the actual minimum salary is minimum wage × 40 hours per week, and all time over 40 hours is paid as overtime.

So, for nurses, this is a DNS/DON type salary where they are on-call 24/7 for their job.

Though, smart nurses set up their contract that they get an hourly rate for covering thr floor.

Washington State minimum wage for 2023 is $15.74/hour × 40 hours/week x 52 weeks/year = 32,739.20/year.

Now, I will argue that $20/hour isn't going to be a good pull for NACs when Walmart or McDonald's are offering the same.

But I have no idea from which orifice your number was produced.

Nursing and NAC pay has actually grown pretty well over the last 10 years because of demand.

I know NACs in my facility make over $20/hour.

I'm paid fairly well, and giving me a 50% raise isn't going to fix the problem: we aren't, and haven't been, licensing enough nee nurses for decades.

Washington is looking at a stepped internship program, but they still need to lay it out and get the bodies in line to get it going.

Looking at executive pay at the provider level, and administration pay at the university level is one part, and then increase pay for nursing teachers so we can increase student capacity.

The work is always going to have an attrition rate, and often times bedside is a gateway to other areas of nursing.

When I advocate for people to consider nursing, that is the real seller: an RN license has damn near infinite applications, and they are all short.

This is about Matiners baseball. Why don't you honor that and put some balls in your mouth so we don't have to hear your bullshit for 9+ innings.