I see rather nice wooden cubicles sufficient for a call center at my local Wal-Mart's furniture department for $89 plus tax.
Posted on 08/06/2015 8:52:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
COLUMBUS, Neb. (AP) - Officials say nearly 300 Columbus jobs will be lost with the closing of the Apogee Retail call center.
The Columbus Telegram reports (http://bit.ly/1Ikppdx ) that the company announced the closing on Tuesday, after workers were informed. The closing is planned for Oct. 4.
Apogee is a subsidiary of Savers LLC and operates more than 330 thrift stores in the U.S., Canada and Australia. The Columbus operation employs 176 full-time and 120 part-time workers....
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...freed from the tedium of their dead-end jobs.
I know this story very well. The city has very low unemployment but a large number of Hispanic family members whose husbands etc worked in manufacturing or food processing, so the city gave this outfit an incentive $ to put this call center in the old Walmart building. Evidently the business model based on begging for used clothing was not as solid as they said when they made the plea for free money /s
About 12 years ago the city fathers and state potentates did something similar in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Many were agog at the high ($11/hour!) wages. What a farce.
They received $200,000 in local incentive money when they opened this call center in 2008. In addition to which the company supposedly invested “more than $1 million” to upgrade facilities and equipment. Think about how many particle-board desks and phones that will buy.
$200K is a lot of money for a town of 22,000.
The company said it would “target employees who are disabled, unemployed, underemployed or students and others not currently in the job market.” There’s a reason they weren’t then, and won’t again.
The call center business is neither dead end or low paying.
The trick is be ambitious enough to get off the phones.
I retired the first time at 43 after developing call centers.
Not a bad gig.
I see rather nice wooden cubicles sufficient for a call center at my local Wal-Mart's furniture department for $89 plus tax.
I’ve posted on other threads that the trends that caused the job losses in 2007 are still very much here; we haven’t seen the bottom of this Greater Depression yet.
Why would any company hire American workers? If they are willing to accept third-rate results, they’ll hire third-rate, Third World people. When I see the employees currently working as cashiers, bank tellers, etc., it is very obvious that the competent adult A team has been let go in favor of a much cheaper third string team; now apply that logic to a global workforce...
Agreed. I was paraphrasing something I had heard from Ødumbo.
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