“There are minimum wage jobs everywhere now.”
By federal law, a company can establish their wages based upon the lowest minimum wage of all the states they do business in. If a state somewhere within the US has a lower minimum wage amount of the area you are working in, and they do business in that state, they can use that wage. So if the area you are in is higher than another state, they don’t have to give you that wage and notoriously don’t. Their commitment is to their prime stockholders, not their employees. They let you know that at every team pep talk right before they open in the morning. And God help you if don’t think that way. You will have your hours cut till you will starve to death working, or not working. And you will be forced to quit and look elsewhere.
This has been an area I have talked about with our representatives that minimum wage is not a workable wage. That amount is for jobs that are not expected to be a profitable or important position the company depends upon for the overall success of the company like high school kids or others that wrap packages at Christmas or someone to go out and get the store carts at a certain point in the day like at mid day or after closing. Not high education or stress jobs that people train for. But as long as the use of minimum wage is wide open, it can be used instead of an entry level wage which can be for the anything from the mail room to a junior sales person. But that is for the young employee trying to become someone within the company at some time in their life. But entry level doesn’t exist so unless you go to work for a company interested in the advancement and improvement of their employees, then you work for companies like Walmart who can replace you in a minute because there are that many people that are willing to do a hard job for peanuts.
rwood
Well WM lost me. They just had too many expectations for minimum wage.
I’d rather cook burgers at Wendy’s for a lot less stress.
I think there was a 70 percent turnover rate for the front end cashier job and I can understand why.
As a customer, just know what going in.
BTW, even after a year I still hadn’t met their scans per minute job expectation.