Economy getting worse and these asshole franchise decides to lower the hiring range.
When my son started less then year ago he was hired at 13 an hour. Now it’s 11. They been short staff and losing workers and my learned this.
Added insult to injury he is getting a promotion to Team Lead which used to pay 17 an hour now it lower to 16. He about fed up working his ass off and a promotion means little when Walmart pays more with a starting wage then where he currently works.
Fucking corporation are fucking stupid.
He needs to lower his output!
Everything is more expensive so we will pay the most important part of the business, the employees who need the money to live, even less. This only makes sense in bizzaro land.
11$ per hour is not an okay wage in the U.S.
he was hired at 13 an hour. Now it’s 11
You mean that new people get a lower starting wage? Or that his own wage has been lowered?
Name and shame.
Wateraburger.
That place seems like they put in the minimum amount of work to be considered a business. I went in one near me and the vibe is just weird. Almost liminal. The walls were bare and they had one or two people working tops.
The condition of the laboring man at Walton’sThis is from 1894, nothing has changed, the systems are still in place and arguably have grown to cover a wider spread of the socioeconomic classes.
It blows my mind, for all the advances in technology, human nature hasn’t changed and we’re still exploiting our fellow people. It’s just one “fuck you” after another
They’re greedy, not stupid.
Not necessarily
People aren’t eating out much anymore especially at fast food. Fast food as a business model is falling apart
Greedy and stupid because no one applying even when they need the help and have been hiring. No one will apply at a job paying 11 when all the jobs around them are starting at 13 and higher.
Unless the existing staff break down and can’t do enough work to keep the place running, management don’t care.
Unless the existing staff
break down and can’t do enough work to keep the place runninggo on strike, management don’t care.Which will eventually happen, although who knows when.
For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it’s $21.30).
*not counting Washington DC
Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.
If Walmart is paying more, than it’s time to go work for Walmart. As the other comment said, they’re greedy, and the only way to get around this is to show them that they won’t take it. They lowered the wage because they know the employees won’t do anything about it.
I’ve known many people who were rejected from Walmart
I’ve unknew Walmart rejects too, fricken methheads
Not just meth heads. If you live in a really populated area, Walmart is actually super picky.
Their HR departments are basically brainless. The computer makes all the choices
when you apply to Walmart you drop into a 3 colored queue, red yellow/orange green
- green: worked their before no issue
- yellow/orange: no job experience or left in bad terms not violently or a way that harmed the company
- red: you stole something or you had massive red flags when they searched you
They’re heavily pushed towards hiring greens, and if forced to, they’ll hire yellows, and they’re not allowed to hire reds outside of excruciating circumstances.
I had a friend who had no criminal record whatsoever, but due to someone being disabled and needing care in their household, they had never really held a job into their late 20’s, The Walmart that was closest to her house wouldn’t touch her with a ten-foot pole after repeated attempts, but that was in a massively populated area. However, the one that was in her old town, which was significantly lower population, called first try (but sadly that was an accidental application didn’t notice the town defaulted back)
He plans on doing it but only after working as a Team manager for awhile. Will look good on his resume. Also he worked hard for the title. Had to take a test that apparently can use anywhere.
Walmart starts at like 21 an hour for team leads as well, at least around here. So that’s not a bad idea.
He should unionize the staff before he leaves.
That sounds very sensible actually, and hopefully would mean earning more than he otherwise would when he moves.
Given the high inflation, his pay has actually been reduced $2.50, not $2.
Yeah one of the most trumped up thing of our time is rising costs and lowering wages. I simply will not work to lose money. Its not a tough equation. It has to pay for food, houseing, utilities, transit, etc. If you can’t so much as get a beer because your already in the red. whats the point.
I’m not sure there is an alternative
I would rather not be homeless
What if working didnt even guarantee that?
why is he wirking gis arse off? ge is not being paid enough to do that. as team lead he should be encouraging the same.
You’re a better parent than the ones I have who would laugh at my learning experience as they tell me “welcome to the real world”
Classic
