[Claiming that being a “Greeter” at WM (And I don’t think they even have those anymore)is a real job is insulting.]
Correct. It’s the people that check receipts that are at the door. They are part of the asset protection group. There are actually very few full-time jobs there but some people have been doing that for a long time, so there are a few.
]So I read all the responses, and can hardly believe the level of conceited contempt on display for folk who have to deal with this very real issue.]
Yes it is. I survived (barely) the crash brought on by George W. Bush spending like a drunken sailor in 2008 (no offense to drunken sailors) and the further disaster of the Obama administration. A lot of people didn’t survive. People know it all. Until it happens to them.
I get contacted by a few FReepers in FReepmail. Stories I won’t share with any detail. Only that a variety of things have happened (obviously) and they have survived by the skin of their teeth.
Everyone and I mean everyone is just one car accident, one medical diagnosis, one company bankruptcy away from being where some of us have been. Medical can wipe a person out though a 401(k) is protected in bankruptcy.
But people don’t believe it until it happens. It can happen and it does.
[Everyone and I mean everyone is just one car accident, one medical diagnosis, one company bankruptcy away from being where some of us have been. Medical can wipe a person out though a 401(k) is protected in bankruptcy.]
Oh, and meant to add, possibly even one divorce / child support decision (no, this did not happen to me).
But I worked with a lot of guys who had to deal with this issue.
(one guy, after complaining his support left him with no money to eat, his ex-wife’s lawyer told him to use his credit cards).
Well, let’s not ask how he pays the credit card bill or anything.