A TikToker is going viral for defending a Costco worker’s pay after people said she didn’t deserve to make that much.
In the original video, which garnered 14.5 million views in three days, the Costco employee said she makes $29.50 an hour “just to draw smiley faces on receipts.”
In their response, TikToker Khaleah (@lilyleia) points out that the comments in the worker’s video are “littered with mostly people in the healthcare field who are bitching because they make the same amount.”
Khaleah green-screens a comment from a person in the health care industry who said they’re out in the field “saving lives and you’re putting smiley faces on paper AND we have the same pay… Make it make sense.”
Khaleah says they often hear people in other fields express that they should be making more than people working “easier jobs”—”easier” was said sarcastically—like retail or food service.
“They always bitch about how those people should be making less instead of how they should be making more. If you think it’s unfair that you and this person make the same pay, maybe you should be upset with your employer instead of another working-class person,” Khaleah ends.
The Dec. 1 video has more than 350,000 views on TikTok and was accompanied by the caption: “It’s frustrating bc it’s like you’re so close you’re SO fucking close.”
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