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To: steelhead_trout

Just what is the average “skill-set” of your average Wal-Mart employee?

I’d venture it’s not much and if it’s not much, then the pay shouldn’t be much either.

I don’t like the idea of shopping in Albertson’s here because they, like just about every other grocery chain have unionized employees...the checkout clerks can make as much as $20 or more an hour to do what?

Scan bananas and not know how to make change out from $20.25 for a $13.25 purchase?

The problem here is that there is a move afoot to redefine what an entry level job is and what the pay should be. I worked for $2.85 an hour when I first started working...and I was damned glad to get it.

But as with all things...all one has to do is look at the vocabulary being used today...”deserve”, “entitled”, “worth”, etc....that does a lot to condition the current generation who believe that they are “deserving” and “entitled” to start with middle to high tier wages...

Wal-Mart is paying their people what W-M believes they’re worth...again, skill-set.


197 posted on 01/06/2014 8:25:38 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: SZonian

“The problem here is that there is a move afoot to redefine what an entry level job is and what the pay should be. I worked for $2.85 an hour when I first started working...and I was damned glad to get it.”


I worked for $2.50/hr. and thought that was fine. But that was back in the 1970s. $2.50 in those days was probably like $10 now, adjusting for inflation. Postscript, I had a summer job in 1979 that payed $4.50/hr. and people thought that was like “wow.” That’s probably close to $20/hr. in 2014 money.


199 posted on 01/06/2014 8:29:02 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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