I realize that the Obama-created economy is so bad that any job is better than nothing. However, Walmart jobs are NOT a career, and do not pay career-level wages. They are not a job you should expect to be able to live off of.
Except for assistant store manager and above. There are not that many of those compared to cashiers, stockers, janitors and the like. A store manager makes rather decent money (average of $137,778 in US) and an assistant is in the mid five figures.
What are you, crazy? Don't you realize that every job that was considered entry level training jobs are now to be considered full time, full pay, full benefit jobs! And that would put the pay for jobs that actually require a skillset born of education and training in the $100,000 per year scale, so that means that a Doctor should be making a minimum $500,000 per year. Anyone without a brain like this whiner could see how that would work. NOT
WalMart jobs were not supposed to lead to a career there. Burger King jobs were not supposed to lead to a career there. On and on.
Well...all was true until the Reagan era. This massive growth of service sector jobs...lead onto service sector careers. So, ask yourself...where does the BK french fry guy go onto? Where does the cashier at WalMart go onto?
I look around now in the local town near where I grew up. When I left...there were two mom and pop restaurants, four gas stations, a grocery, a drug store, and maybe 150 low-paying jobs in the local area. Today...bulked up since 1977...there’s around ten restaurants (McDonalds, KFC, and several others arrived). There’s maybe fifteen more business operations in the town, and maybe a total of 400 low-paying jobs. The only way you could escape this route is higher education. If you don’t do that? You stay for forty years...as the french fry guy.
There’s something wrong, but to say the government can fix it....I don’t think that’s possible.
“However, Walmart jobs are NOT a career, and do not pay career-level wages. They are not a job you should expect to be able to live off of.”
When they opened a Wal-Mart in my town in NJ they had thousands of applicants for a few hundred jobs; in dying Red (communist) states they are one of the few prospective employers left as business flees. While I see many people posting she should either leave for another job or get another part-time job, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend here in NJ that is probably occurring in similar states: A dozen years ago, second-shift work dried up; part-time jobs were the 10am to 2 pm type (not a supplement for a full-time job, but rather a substitute for). Five years ago, part-time jobs started requiring scheduling flexibility that would make holding multiple jobs impossible; you couldn’t be available to work the second one (the part-time jobs were expected to be your ONLY job).
I have no sympathy for this woman, but I’m curious as to how the government intends to deal with people with no future. At first they lashed out by electing a communist president; where do they go from here?
But they do have managerial programs that can make it a career. They also help workers who have to relocate, to find slots in stores in the new area.
One thing Walmart does well is promote from within. If she was a good employee she would have been promoted before now.
“They are not a job you should expect to be able to live off of.”
As long as the government is chosen by universal franchise voting, that view (more correct than not) will cause defeat after defeat.
I will offer you a few thoughts on this statement. There was a time when you would be dead on correct. I worked 'starter' type jobs like these and would fallback on them as betweeners, Christmas bankrolling jobs...etc. You get it, these were the jobs that often 'filled in' the extra financial needs when things ran short, when the 16 year old son/daughter learned their 'recreation' money came from 'earning it.'
BUT, that is not how it is today for millions of Americans. In fact, if one listens to the rhetoric coming out of the Democrat party, one quickly realizes these are the 'new careers' in the post collapse America.
Wait? What are you talking about, 'post collapse America?' We haven't collapsed yet? It is coming, but not here ...yet.
On the contrary, as we watch the apathy of the worker being encouraged by the political, we have entered the post collapse phase of lowered expectations and the unwinding is very well underway.
This means to the great unwashed, life in America isn't going to get better. One needs to consider the "Why do all these workers feel locked/trapped into these low-skill set jobs?" What is the propaganda that keeps them stuck in this rut?
I grew up in my early working years on the coat tails of Carter/Reagan. Reagan, while being a great orator, restored America's vision of herself, restored her belief in herself.
Obama isn't doing that, he isn't lifting anyone up to dream. In fact, listen to their rhetoric...it is about settling for one's lot in life. It is about knowing one's position in the New American Economy.