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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]barbtries
(28,789 posts)100. i never watched it.
but i know this: i received a raise in 1977 of $1.00 an hour.
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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