Female Machinist Learns She's Making Less Than the New Hire She's Training, Internet Seething

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Jul 20, 2022 10:00 AM EDT

This female machinist took to the popular r/antiwork Reddit sub in order to share her recent experience at her workplace. She had been training a new-hire machinist and discovered that the person she was training had been hired for more than she was getting paid. When she pressed the issue with her supervisor, she was just stonewalled. This led to her seeking a new role. 

Commenters explained that the current job market will be causing multiple instances of this to happen as older employees miss out on the more competitive rates new hires are earning. Others shared their own experiences. 

"As someone who's also worked in a handful of machining shops, good on you," commented Satirical0ne. "Many places these days will try to screw you if you let them and then try to dangle the job in front of your face. I'm glad to hear that you were able to find somewhere to pay more. Places like your soon-to-be ex-employer don't deserve skilled machinists because obviously they don't appreciate them."

"Good buddy of mine is a machinist with 30 years experience… The last 20 of which were with one employer (small shop in north Alabama)," replied skint_back. "He was making, get this.. $18 a(n) f-ing hour. Oh, he did get a jug of homemade wine at Christmas every year. I (had) been trying to get him to leave for years, and he finally did it last year. Took him about a month to find a machinist job starting at $30/hr."

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