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Starting wage at Target $17.00
yoshmyster
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I've seen this for a while (about Christmas?) but I didn't have a soap box to complain. I know with nearly 10% inflation that's still pretty good for a first job you can't wait to quit.
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right close my hourly wage after 40 years at same company when I retired, though I may have had better benefits...........
Target is overpriced hipster and valley girl store. Only works in upper income communities that are soon to disappear with the Coming economic crash. Automation with home delivery is the reason why,just look at the shopping malls that are gone already.
serf
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/business/target-baltimore-store-closings.html
All these places hiring at never before seen starting wages.....I'm torn between being happy for the people getting paid and being the surly woman that thinks everyone should have that crappy job they start out life with to look back on.
$17.00! Wow, my first job (stocking grocery shelves) was $0.65/hr. On the other hand, dad's new Olds 98 was just $3500.00.
First car that I bought myself ws a 1969 Cougar convertible, from a dealers only auction in 1971. All in i had $1012 .00 in the car . I was farming and going to high school at the time .
The company I work for has starting pay at $22 an hour and full benefits from day one and are still understaffed.A company about 30 miles from us is starting at $25 an hour with full benefits.
Just another reason for inflation. Businesses don't just absorb the cost of higher wages, they pass them along to their customers. Starting wages rise causing prices to rise and the entry level worker is no better off than he or she was before. The rest of us are the ones losing out. Bob
I remember workin' as a ranch hand for $5 a day and my room and board during Carter's recession...
My first minimum wage job was $2.85/hr at Burger King in 1984.
I currently work hourly and have a huge problem with what I am making v these starting wages now.......
You were living high on the hog... my first job was pumping gas at a sunoco station for 1 buck an hour.
My very first job was a paper route for about 6 years in grade school and junior high................$120/mo..........saved it all up and bought a 1984 Mazda 626 when I turned 16 in 1985. I was living high...............................still at home, no expenses, and had my own sweet ride.
My first "real" job as an electrician apprentice was $1.08/hr.
That was about what I got paid for one of my first jobs picking tobacco for 13 cents per bin. A bin was about 2 ft. X 3ft.
Well at least I had A/C in the summer at the grocery store SW0320.
The places around here like fast food, if you are living you are hired. You can work ONE day and get paid at the end of the shift, about $15.00 minimum an hour.
Yeah but I bet silver coinage was in circulation at that time.Stocking groceries is great but sacking groceries was better. Twenty dollars in tips on Saturdays was/is a lot of money if the change is 90% silver. Those were the days before The politicians started debasing our currency. Yep it was the good old days back then.
serf
My kid started working at Target, he was sharp with the phones, so they put him electronics, good paying with good advancement possibilities, but he kept calling in sick, so he got a warning. Instead of his pseudo sick calls he really got sick and had to take a sick day and got another warning. The supervisor would run after him and stick her finger in his face and say, "one more sick day and your gone" Then they kicked off electronics and had him push carts in. He quit shortly after.