So trying to keep this short I'll start with the facts: I work at a drive thru where my duties are to load 50# bags into customer's vehicles, cars or trucks(anywhere between 50-2000# at a time depending on the customer) and then run the register to take payment. I work an average of 42-48 hours per week and get paid $12.25 an hour with weekly paychecks that after taxes come to about 400-410$ a week. My manager works 56 hours a week and gets paid $15.50 an hour for the exact same workload that i do. We just had a conversation that we can both do exactly the same duties in labor, customer service, and administrative areas of the job, we have essentially the same job. The difference in hours and pay is because the company defines me as a part time employee and manager as full time. Is it wrong of me to ask for a considerable raise to make up the pay gap for the same work? Note: manager has worked only 4 years and my second year is coming up in September so there isnt a real "experience equals more money" thing going on.

The boomer bit of this is a couple of older trump supporter customers that we've made good acquaintances with were telling me that I'm whining like all these other kids that I'm being entitled. Back in their day, if you started doing extra work and started doing a manager's workload, then you would get a promotion and a raise so i must not be working hard enough and i should buckle up and get to it. I quite literally am doing that and manager is 30 years older than me, i can and have run circles around him and the higher ups whenever they come to visit. So even by their own condescending boomer logic i deserve a raise right?

And just a legal question: am i wrong in remembering that part time(at least in ohio) counts as less than 40 hours per week and above 40 is full time? Their excuse is i am a "part time employee" when they are the ones who schedule me to work at least 42, can they even use this as a legal way to keep my wage down, or could they just change my job title and keep my pay the same?