Home depot is the most depressing of hardware stores. I wouldn't want to work there even if what this fake ass post says is true.
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Also $17/hr is shit pay. You can't even rent an apartment at $17/hr.
Depends on your area.
This was how it was in the good old days working third shift at Walmarts back when they closed at like 9-10pm. You were just there to unload the trucks and restock the shelves, so our store would put the peddle down and be finished at 3-4 in the morning. Our shift was until 7am so we'd typical goof off playing video games in the electronics department or watching movies.
Holy fucking shit. I almost was exposed to a swear word on the Internet by some asshole cunt. That bitch didn't know it's fucking illegal to swear on the Internet. Thank fucking god someone put a thin line over it that barely covers it. I was about to shit a brick.
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So this is why when I come in for the morning shift nothing has been done.
Where is $17 a lot of money? In your parents basement??? I guess tendies would be covered for this greentext. Get an education and get double that, still be broke, and still work until your mental breakdown, at which point if all of you's can organize your break downs to align, we might be able to take that mental anguish out of the 1% families who's houses are burning in the palisades. Yeah I said it, the universe hates the palisades. Burn baby burn.
Applies to all Palisades equally
I worked at the tire center in wal-mart when I was in college. To accomodate my school schedule I started at 2 in the afternoon and worked until the tire center closed. Then I was supposed to work with the people inside doing whatever they did for the last few hours. They never actually told me who to report to or what I was supposed to be doing for the last 3 hours so I would just go sleep in my car then go back in and clock out at the end of my shift. I did this for like 9 months and no one ever questioned me.
Did you quit or did someone noticed after 9 Months?
I quit when I got another job. My boss was gunning for me for other reasons when I left though.
Manager: "We're getting closer to finding out who pooped in the walk-in. It's just a matter of time."
Lightnsfw: "...So I'm quitting for unrelated reasons..."
Getting paid to be there through the night for the times when a person is actually needed, as well as being on site to keep an eye on things. Sounds like honest work to me
That's basically it. They're just there just in case they're needed and many people actually can't stand working like that. There are a ton of jobs where someone only needs to be there just so any potential work gets done right away. But it's shocking how few people actually enjoy getting paid to do nothing most of the time. It definitely takes a certain mindset.
I work a similar job right now. I'm support in a factory. I show up to work with the expectation that I'll only actually be working for maybe about 20-30% of my shift. If a machine needs attention or a production coworker has a question then I deal with it, otherwise I read a book. Whenever one of our production workers gets promoted to support, it always takes them months to get used to not working. They always start out trying to take literally every call just to have work to do and nervously twiddling their thumbs while staring into space at their desk when they don't. Eventually they start pulling out their phone but they always look so guilty about it and hide it as soon as a boss walks by. And these are internal hires who even have the advantage of having personally watched me fucking around on my phone sending memes to my boss all day at work every day without issue. We actually just lost an external hire maintenance guy because he was constantly woried that he wasn't doing enough work and was going to get fired.
That's a failure of management.
Or rather, that's a symptom of a certain kind of management that incentivizes people to look busy, punishes those who don't, and doesn't give people accurate and realistic guidance on their responsibilities.
Especially since it's nights - when most people don't want to work, and when it fucks up your health doing it regularly.
Ok, but what are the benefits? Is there a union? $17 is barely more than minimum wage.
Less than, in some places
$7.25 is the federal minimum, which is the still minimum for many states.
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Home Depot is an hardware shop in the USofA, right?
If so, why is an hardware store open overnight? What DIY emergency can come about that it can't wait for working hours?
These stores are not open at night. They sometimes have overnight staff that process loading bay trucks and/or restock shelves on the retail floor.
Basically every chain grocery store does this at least once a week as well. I remember them trying to get me to do it when I worked for one while in college. Acted like it was such a great opportunity to get an extra buck an hour, which I quickly refused.
Go to any 24/7 store around 3-4am and you'll probably see people restocking shelves.
I actually forgot 24/7 stores existed. I am too rural to have those nearby.
Yeah, most of our stores close by 10, with a couple open to until 2. I worked as a night custodian for a time and hit the one 24/7 store sometimes on the way home.
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Home Depot getting inventive with their recruiting strategies
That's how I learned to code. Got a night security job to pay bills and just took my laptop there. In my whole time there I had to get up from my desk maybe 2 times because some drunk dudes would get lost and stumble into the territory lol
It's somewhat the same argument for universal income. Gives people time to learn valuable skill sets without giving all their time and energy to some company.
I agree, though I prefer the Negative Income Tax formulation over Universal Basic Income, for the simple reason that there's a lot less bookkeeping (only need to pay out for people making <$X). Ensure everyone is over the poverty line whether employed or not and we can eliminate the minimum wage and people will likely be better off since they can pursue their passions (which they'll likely be a lot more productive at) instead of doing whatever makes enough money.
Not disagreeing with the idea, but it seems like this would also have the side effect of incentivizing employers to aggressively and artificially reduce wages and pass that burden on to the taxpayer, if you're eliminating minimum wage.
I think it's an interesting idea, but one that seems prone to abuse by unethical parties. Not that our current system is immune to that either.
My state has no minimum wage, so we inherit the federal minimum wage ($7.25 IIRC), yet starting wages tend to be $10-12 in my suburb (probably higher closer to downtown) and median is $13 for fast food.
Yeah, companies will probably try to reduce wages, especially if those wages are essentially subsidized by NIT. But at least in my area, that would only happen if worker supply increases (in this case from people quitting worse jobs). Since almost nobody actually works for minimum wage here, I don't think that's a major concern.
On net, workers would probably be better off. I think we'd see a bit more intentional unemployment, which should drive wages up instead of down.
The main people who would lose out are middle class people relying on Social Security for retirement. We could balance that by removing the income cap on Social Security to preserve some traditional benefit for retirees (I propose income caps for benefits).
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