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Originally Posted by Sunny Day
The delivery guy was way over 40. Jobs around here are scarce as shit. There are great paying jobs, but you have to be damn lucky to get one.
As for people leaving and employers paying more , I once did a contract account gig for a company where I was the only person over 30. My supervisor said it's because we pay crap. There all waiting for BIG FUCKING TELEPHONE COMPANY to hire them.
I was asked back a couple of months later and was offered a permanent job at a lot less than the contract agency was paying me. I started laughing. The HR person looked at me and I said, "look out the window. McDonald's pays more to cook burgers." She said the interview was over. I replied it was over when you said $8.75 an hour. They didn't care, as there was always another crop of just out of college kids.
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Many years ago I worked for an electronic manufacturing company. One of the jobs in the plant was called "touch up." These people looked at the circuit boards and if they found any soldering flaws they fixed them. They also sometimes attacked awkward parts that the machines couldn't. It was a tedious job and they had huge turnover. The reason was they paid $5.25 per hour (at that time this was about 25 cents over minimum wage). The manager of the area complained that quality would never go up if they were constantly having to train people, but the owners didn't care. So people came in, took the job then 3-6 months later when they had experience they went to another company that would pay them $8 per hour to start.
The funny thing was there was so much turnover that they hired a person who just trained new people and paid her $50K per year. If they had just paid the other people more money they wouldn't have had the turnover and wouldn't have needed to hire her so they were likely spending more than if they paid the other workers more.