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In reply to the discussion: My co-worker got an Outstanding evaluation at the grocery store where she works. Want to guess what [View all]noamnety
(20,234 posts)55. My husband got that once - the employee parking space.
The first time it snowed, the snow plow jammed all the snow up against his car because it was the corner of the parking lot. He ripped the corner off the car bumper trying to get out at the end of the day and it cost us a few hundred dollars to fix.
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raccoon
Jul 2012
OP
$4 more a week? She'd better be careful it doesn't kick her up into a higher TAX bracket!
TrollBuster9090
Jul 2012
#26
Making more money only potentially pushes that additional money into a higher bracket
Kennah
Jul 2012
#160
So, people who work in grocery stores now earn a whole $16 000 per year?
TrollBuster9090
Jul 2012
#29
Well...the woman got ripped off, IMO. Talk about not getting your money's worth! nt
MADem
Jul 2012
#37
Yes, and those Rolex's are heavy and ugly too--the counterfeits look better, actually!
MADem
Jul 2012
#119
Also long fingernails and "trophy wives" incapable of doing a lick of work. /nt
TheMadMonk
Jul 2012
#173
And a grocery store worker would have to work 32 years to match the 'charge account'
TrollBuster9090
Jul 2012
#162
She wears shit from Target and I doubt her entire wardrobe, even without discounts,
MADem
Jul 2012
#120
Its not just walmart, its almost all grocery stores both chains and independants.
cstanleytech
Jul 2012
#144
Ah, well Bi-Lo just bought them so dont expect them to change much in that regards. In fact
cstanleytech
Jul 2012
#146
In the DC area, Giant cut hours for its supermarket workers some years ago
LiberalEsto
Jul 2012
#139
My husband once got employee of the year award once........he got a 3 day 2 night stay
a kennedy
Jul 2012
#15
Damn, you had me there for a second. Please throw in a sarcasm smiley or something!
Zalatix
Jul 2012
#20
Right-to-Work-for-Peanuts state is more like it. My, my, how they can spin those lies.
Stardust
Jul 2012
#157
Why stay there? In 2009 I quit a job after three consecutive years of excellent reviews, zero raises
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#19
I've been working for more than 30 years, and found that things go a lot better for me when I...
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#23
Moving to a new employer doesn't improve your standard of living if no one's hiring.
Zalatix
Jul 2012
#34
You're right. The more people choose to stay in dead-end, low-pay jobs, the better for...
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#48
Yours is not exactly an 'alertable post,' but it is certainly reprehensible and
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#54
I feel so little empathy for you or interest in anything further that you have to say
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#63
In your rush to be insensitive and condescending, you didn't answer my questions.
Zalatix
Jul 2012
#77
Where did I say that there were enough IT jobs for everyone who needs a job?
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#106
I'm just speculating here becauese the OP doesn't have a lot of information but unless that store...
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#49
Yes, prejudice (seriously, WTF?) against willfull ignorance is something I will absolutely keep.
wickerwoman
Jul 2012
#178
The thread is about raccoon's friend getting a stingy raise. We don't know much else about her.
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#180
My advice is simply to look around and see if there is a possibility of getting another job
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#108
Think about it from the employer's standpoint--why pay more if they don't have to?
MADem
Jul 2012
#40
Yes. My first job was at a small neighborhood grocery store. $2.35 per hour in 1975.
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#82
"You always have other options"? Hahahahahahahaha. Yup. Quit a low paying job to join the unemployed
uppityperson
Jul 2012
#91
Let me rephrase it so you might understand - You always have the option of LOOKING AROUND to see...
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#109
I have the option of looking around to see if I can be an astronaut or president!
uppityperson
Jul 2012
#124
People do just that for a lot of reasons, uppityperson. The most common is low self-esteem.
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#165
In this economy, many are happy to have any job at all, and employers can easily abuse them.
uppityperson
Jul 2012
#177
The scales, hopefully, will fall from a lot of eyes concerning "right to work."
AngryOldDem
Jul 2012
#22
by the way i went to the great big orange screw called the university of tenner'see knox vegas.
part man all 86
Jul 2012
#116
your co-worker, where she works? You aren't there as well or you share another job together?
snooper2
Jul 2012
#31
She works part-time at the job where I work and part-time at the grocery store.
raccoon
Jul 2012
#83
I proved I was working ten extra hours a week once and got a $25 per week raise.
brewens
Jul 2012
#33
coupla years ago, I won an award -- and got a zero increase that year, like everyone else.
spooky3
Jul 2012
#46
The job market really sucked in those days. Took me months to find a job. People that had been
raccoon
Jul 2012
#87
Funny story about the Reagan Recession (if there is any humor to be gleaned from it, even
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#95
Same here: I came out of grad school in the Reagan recession, and the only place
Lydia Leftcoast
Jul 2012
#96
That meshes with my experience. I finished my Master's at UMKC in 1986 and, still
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#149
LMAO. Your post prompted me to remember my favorite all-time interview Q&A
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#168
At one time, I was actually considering going to the University of Wisconsin
Art_from_Ark
Jul 2012
#171
I think the 'liberal paradise' idea was pretty much a relic of the 60s. When I
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#172
I had a couple stellar reviews in my last job and got a pay cut for my problems
Posteritatis
Jul 2012
#152
Hey, if she doesn't like her raise, she should quit and get a job as a Wall Street banker.
tclambert
Jul 2012
#56
That's one of those "Woo Hoo. In three days I'll be able to afford a Miller Lite draft!" moments.
HopeHoops
Jul 2012
#61
I'm working on it. Threads like this one are helping me in my pursuit. - n/t
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#76
Or at least the lowered blood pressure. On a quasi-humorous note, it
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#93
IMO, if you can't demonstrate empathy, you really do not belong on this board. There
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#73
No, just curious as to why they chose sixteen instead of, say, fifteen or twenty.
Posteritatis
Jul 2012
#176
Union clerks at Vons, a typical chain grocery in Southern California, average a little over $8/hour
slackmaster
Jul 2012
#86
One of my brothers (in sales) turned a territory around and made it profitable again
Lydia Leftcoast
Jul 2012
#97
In the mid-1970s I had a short-term job at a very small manufacturing plant
struggle4progress
Jul 2012
#125
We have been living top-down Reganomics for the last 30 years... giant fail
lib2DaBone
Jul 2012
#126
What's her hourly rate? Need to know what % the 10 cents is of her hrly rate. Suffice to say...
Honeycombe8
Jul 2012
#133
And they'll probably levy an .11$ an hour processing fee on each of her paychecks.
Ken Burch
Jul 2012
#161