Posted on 02/28/2022 8:10:57 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Workers at Target stores and distribution centers in places like New York, where competition for finding and hiring staff is the fiercest, could see starting wages as high as $24 an hour this year.
The Minneapolis-based discount retailer said Monday that it will adopt minimum wages that range from $15 to $24 an hour, with the highest pay going to hires in the most competitive markets. It currently pays a universal starting wage of $15 an hour.
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Not enough to get me back into the workforce. SSI and a decent IRA will do that.
So the answer is this: 1) Eliminate welfare and watch those positions get filled. 2) Every retired guy/gal works part-time a few months here, a few months there. Live out of their Winnebagos. Target is national(many other companies too). A nice database of temporary workers ready to go. It would be a nice life.
Just don't ask me to participate. I'm done working.
Park the RV’s in the company parking lot in return for the paid labor. Parking is the benefit. 20 hours a week will allow for plenty of sightseeing time.
Doesn’t Amazon do that in Arizona for snowbirds?
Do they get to use the bathroom of their choice?
So if you refuse to take a low-end job you’re standing up for yourself but when a Millennial does the same it’s because s/he has a “dead butt”?
I swear sometimes the jokes about Boomers’ double standards write themselves.
“Just don’t ask me to participate. I’m done working.”
I’ll be done this June. I have grown to dislike my job, burn out or maybe the changing workplace. I’ve worked hard, have a decent 401k, small pension and SSI. I want to enjoy some time doing what I want, being bored like a kid on summer vacation. But if I find money getting tight, $24/hr is pretty substantial.
Deadly stabs undoubtedly required.
Not enough to get millennials off their dead butts though.
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LOL. How true.
Inflation and rising costs just means they’ll stay at Mommy’s place longer. I see it first hand in our neighborhood.
“I swear sometimes the jokes about Boomers’ double standards write themselves.”
He’s retired. Not really an issue for a retiree. Someone who won’t work for $24/hr is a dead butt, unless the job is dangerous or unreasonably demanding.
The work environment has become such a toxic place its no wonder so many people are leaving.
Everyone I talk to wants out.
Its what they do. :)
So I was in a Panera’s the other day, dining with some friends. A bowl of soup there now costs almost $8. One of my friends starting to complain about that. I just pointed to a sign near the entrance. It was advertising for workers. Starting pay was $16 an hour.
Brandon’s policies strike again. Case closed.
those getting paid that much will the first to get fired if and when things go back to normal.
Thank goodness I no longer have to compete for employees at this rate. Commercial lease rates are still sky high, utilities going up - for mom & pop establishments there’s no way to stay in business paying this kind of price for labor.
“Everyone I talk to wants out.”
It really is a soul crushing experience. People are now micromanaged to the extreme. I suspect that this is done to keep people productive, since it’s nearly impossible to fire employees now. And as you’d guess, the micromanagement and time accounting render employees much less productive. Creativity is all but discouraged.
Back when I started, you were given tasks, if you had an issue, you went to your supervisor for assistance, otherwise, you did you job. If you didn’t you got fired. Simple.
I’m counting the days.
They have it much harder then boomers who really had it pretty easy their whole lives.
This is the same korporation that insisted men who projected themselves as women had the right to join girls in the women's dressing rooms and that employees who didn't support such a crime were to be fired.
> People are now micromanaged to the extreme. <
Yes, indeed. And that was one reason I retired from teaching. In the old days I welcomed a classroom visit from a principal or a vice-principal. They were there to help, a fact they made clear.
Things changed maybe 15 years ago. The new breed of administrators were fast-tracked into supervisory positions. My last principal had taught a grand total of two years before being promoted!
When she and her staff entered my classroom, they weren’t there to offer assistance, or even just to see how things were going. They were there to pick at me. “Mr. Leaning Right, when you mentioned Newton, you should have gestured to the picture of Newton on your wall. We expect you to do better in the future.”
Ok. ESTABLISH a fenced parking lot with a trailer for bathrooms equipped with showers. Several bigger employers can share it. Doesn’t need any government help. So why don’t these companies come up with the idea? Probably because it wouldn’t work in the winter.
The wokeness and PC culture that pervades the workplace has also made it feel oppressive. I hear that a lot.
Why bother to excel at your job when PC considerations dominate the promotion process? The people who do their jobs wind up also having to do the jobs of others who won’t or can’t do it.
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