Reply #70: My daughter works at a grocery store with a couple of people who will be graduating from college

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this year. Both had planned to leave their jobs.

One works in the office and just graduated with a degree in teaching. There aren't any jobs for teachers in this area, so she is going to stay where she is with the same job except now she has a degree.

The other graduated with a degree in Business and he was just promoted to a Dept. Manager and put on the Management track.

I do have to say that this grocery store chain does it best to move people up into positions to accommodate their achievements.

In the last couple of months, everyone has seen their hours cut because business was slow, but the manager had a meeting with everyone and told them that if they could hang in there, this was the only way he could save everyone's jobs--and that business picks up in the summer and then everyone will see their hours go up. This was an across-the-board hour cut--it affected them all. "Real" shared sacrifice.