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Topic	American factories are desperate for workers. It's a $1 trillion problem....
PoundGarden 05/04/21 2:55:31 PM #161:	Snakebone99 posted... Just pit in zip code 41144 and look at the wages. Costco and Walmart pay $12.50 to start. No factory around here competes with that. The call centers for Amazon and AT&T pay $12.50 an hour. The factories don't even try to compete. They know that people with little education and little social skills will take the jobs No matter what, so they pay minimum wage, or as close as they can get. Factories in your area may be great, around here they are not. They are old, outdated, dangerous, and underpaid. Whats the cost of living like? I just moved from MN and work at a shitty factory (Amazon) started at about $14-$15, most were $18 and up. Higher cost of living. Just moved to Iowa and the pay is about the same, some factories start as low as $11 but the cost of living is dirt cheap. Costco i have heard nothing but good things about, can't comment on them much. Walmart and most other retailers though, they love to advertise attractive hourly wages but don't tell people they aren't getting 40 hrs/wk. Hell, $20 an hour does me no good if I'm only getting 15-20 hrs/wk --- "You go. I'm just going to stare at the lake and think about how I almost just killed a baby." <cite>PoundGarden posted [p:953549447] in American f... [t:79440810]...</cite> <quote>Snakebone99 posted... </cite> <quote>Just pit in zip code 41144 and look at the wages. Costco and Walmart pay $12.50 to start. No factory around here competes with that. The call centers for Amazon and AT&T pay $12.50 an hour. The factories don't even try to compete. They know that people with little education and little social skills will take the jobs No matter what, so they pay minimum wage, or as close as they can get. Factories in your area may be great, around here they are not. They are old, outdated, dangerous, and underpaid.</quote> Whats the cost of living like? I just moved from MN and work at a shitty factory (Amazon) started at about $14-$15, most were $18 and up. Higher cost of living. Just moved to Iowa and the pay is about the same, some factories start as low as $11 but the cost of living is dirt cheap. Costco i have heard nothing but good things about, can't comment on them much. Walmart and most other retailers though, they love to advertise attractive hourly wages but don't tell people they aren't getting 40 hrs/wk. Hell, $20 an hour does me no good if I'm only getting 15-20 hrs/wk --- "You go. I'm just going to stare at the lake and think about how I almost just killed a baby."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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