WhoopsyDaisy posted...
Waiters make lots of money. Seriously look into it.
I worked at a grocery store and the only reason it was terrible was that it was 5 miles away and that required a bus ride there and a walk back. The actual work was decent, and I was making over $9.50 at the end. But I've heard that Home Depot is supposed to be one of the best stores to work for so maybe you should just try to get a skill that isn't retail.
There's a decent chance it might be better at other areas, but our district is all kinds of f***ed up. The district manager and store manager are completely insane about money and give people a 25 cent raise for busting their ass for a year.
People who start out in the lot for $7.50 can get moved to an associate position where they are supposed to get paid $9.10. But they refuse to give them a pay raise. They literally tell them "Sorry, there's nothing we can do." Meanwhile, they'll hire a new associate and pay them $9.10 instead of giving these guys a pay raise.
Other insane stuff is that one guy was going to take our department head position and told them that he wouldn't do it for anything less than $16 an hour. So they came up and told them they could only give it to him for $13. He tried to even level with them and say $14, and he was refused. So they held a grudge against him and brought in a guy from another store who gets paid +$20 an hour to be the department head.
They also run it under the bare minimum of workers. Millwork department has three people in it now. Which means that they have one person coming in an hour after the store opens, and another person working until an hour before the store closes every night. On Sundays, they only let one guy work there. They are in desperate need of more people in that department and have for over a year, but they don't do anything.
Due to stuff like that, my department, which is the biggest department in terms of what we need to do, how many aisles we maintain, and what we need to stock, is trying to cover other departments. One day I was alone and covering four departments at once.
And they refuse to hire more people to cover that, because they are so insane about money. Because the district manager and store manager get a bonus in their paycheck if they only have so many people employed. It's insane.
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