44,000 Apply For 3000 Part-Time Jobs @ Zappos - $8.00 per hr.

[otohara]

Christmas comes early for a few, but come February, bye, bye.


Christmas comes early: Zappos hires 1,000s in Ky.

(CBS News)

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. - You'll find some of the most relieved workers in America at the Zappos distribution center in Shepherdsville, Kentucky.

Relief is what happens when you find a job in a town where the unemployment rate is 10.3 percent.

CBS News national correspondent Jim Axelrod reports the online shoe retailer is bucking the national trend and hiring 3,000 workers for its busy Christmas season. So far, Zappos has received 44,000 applications for jobs starting at $8.25 per hour.

Danita Young started barcoding new inventory last week. She'd been out of work for a year and a half. If Zappos hadn't hired her, "I'd still be eating Ramen noodles every night, that was my meal. It was getting bad, very bad."

You hear that a lot from the people here. In this economy, they would have taken any job. But a job at Zappos, even a temporary one, for them, is like hitting the employment lottery. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/06/eveningnews/main20116951.shtml

[otohara]

1. Kicking - This Blew My Mind

44,000 people - that's how bad things are.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. ratio of about 44 to 1 - that's low compared to most jobs. we see 65 to 1 or 150 to 1 here

[Initech]

2. This is getting really sickening. Time to overthrow the financial oligarchy.

[virgogal]

3. Great news---I love Zappos.

[otohara]

5. A 3 Month Job

not sure that's great news. Barely, okay news, but great not so much.
what's scary, is that 44,000 applied.

[SoCalNative]

4. Really sad

that so many would apply for jobs that pay so little.

[Obamanaut]

9. Isn't a job that pays that "little" somewhat better than no job at all? nt

[Marrah_G]

31. Could you support a family on less then 300 bucks a week?

That's like saying slavery is okay because at least they have food and housing.........

Really, when I see comments like yours it makes me wonder if you've ever had to struggle.

[Obamanaut]

35. More easily than at 0 bucks a week, the current pay scale for no job at all.

Are you suggesting that having no job at all (0 dollars per week) is as good as or better than having a job at 300 bucks per week?

[Marrah_G]

29. I had to take a second job at minimum wage

My original 35k a year job's hours were cut in half (the small business is barely staying afloat), so I am not ringing a cash register at night. It's all I could find and I needed to pay the bills. I'm a single mom, sole income with one in high school and a second in college. I don't have cable, I piggyback on someone in my buildings unsecured wifi. No retirement, no savings, engagement fell through. I don't have much hope for the future. I am one of the 99%. Those people on Wall street need to realize they can only push so far before the people will push back.

I now work that second job that brings in 300 dollars for 40 hours pay... soon it will be even less then that when they start taking out money for health insurance that barely covers anything, but was considered enough insurance to kick me off the subsidized Mass health that I had been on, paying 77 dollars a month for good coverage.

[catabryna]

6. I'm a regular Zappos customer...

I figured the workers were making little money. That's why the pizza guys and gals always smile when they get my tip! :hi:

[NBachers]

7. Let's see - That would be Kentucky's Second District- Represented by Brett Guthrie (R)

and, of course, Mitch "Tortoise" McConnell (R) and Rand Paul (R) in the Senate

How's that staunch Republican voting workin' out for ya?

[bengalherder]

8. Welcome to Precarity everyone!

Enjoy those Zappos and that warm snuggly philanthropal feeling that comes from knowing you are helping an $8.25 zappos worker eat Hamburger Helper insted of Ramen for three whole months.

Feel good don't it?

[ashling]

11. Do you mean precatory?

as in supplication?

but the point of your message is...what,exactly?

[JI7]

10. I have heard good things from people who work there, i'm sure some who applied already have job also

but want something better. even if the pay is similar.

[Capitalocracy]

12. I could use 8.25 an hour right now. nt

[Marrah_G]

32. What you need, what I need, is a LIVING wage

[otohara]

13. Shameless Kick for Weekend Crowd

[SOS]

14. In 1986`

a very wise co-worker and I were commiserating about our lousy jobs.
He said "The future of American labor is $7 an hour, no benefits. Better get used to it."

It is now 25 years later and I see he was only off by $1.25.

[sabrina 1]

16. The Global Capitalists have achieved their goal. They have leveled

the wages of Americans down to the low wages of third world countries. So now they can use US slave labor as was their longtime goal. And to think, both parties helped them do it.

[n2doc]

17. Not there yet

Wait until it is 8.25 a day. Or a week. Then we'll be there.

[Brigid]

18. Somebody tell me again that the unemployed are "lazy."

:eyes:

[Dr Fate]

19. It takes more than 44 thousand Chinese jobs to produce all those shoes Zappos sells.

Would be cool if those jobs were over here again.

[otohara]

21. Just One Factory Would Be a Nice Gesture

throw your country a bone... at least.

I like Chico Bags, and was disappointed to see such a young company already has 4 factories in China, never had one here.

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[TheFarseer]

22. My MBA professor was talking about this company

Apparently it's a super fun place to work. Their thing is that it's so much fun people don't mind working for peanuts. They have a training program where at the end of it, you can walk and get a good chunk of $$$(I forget if it was 5 or 10 K), but by then, they've convinced you it will be so super terrific to work there, that no one walks. I wonder how much of this is true and how much of it is their employees really dont have any other options but to work there. Maybe it is fun though, what do I know?

[otohara]

24. Food Is Free

in the report, this was reflected - happy camper workers and lunch is pretty darn good.

[Romulox]

23. Is that enough to afford a Prius?

Solidarity!

[Obamanaut]

25. People must be wanting to relocate there. According to this, there

were fewer than 10,000 folks there in 2009.

http://www.city-data.com/city/Shepherdsville-Kentucky.html

[malthaussen]

26. I Don't Know Which is Scarier

... the implication that people should be grateful for these jobs, or the implication that they are.

-- Mal

[Bozita]

27. This thread is just begging for another kick

[blueclown]

28. GOP: Be happy with your low-paying, low benefit jobs, peons!

This is the "job growth" that all "right-to-work" states laud.

[jmowreader]

30. It gets better...

Shepherdsville, KY, has a population of less than 10,000 residents...so! 44,000 applicants means that if every single person in Shepherdsville applied (not likely but say they did), 34,000 people were willing to drive twenty miles from Louisville to make $8.25 per hour. Ouch!

[Safetykitten]

33. But the recession is over. Two years ago.

[Ilsa]

34. Herman Cain, Ron Christie, Eric Cantor, et al, need to read this story. nt

[flobee1]

36. and the M$M can't understand

why people are angry and occupying wall st?

Exhibit freakin A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!