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Old 12-29-2009, 01:53 PM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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Actually it's been shown that WM can raise all of their employees pays $1 per hour per person simply by charging an extra penny on all of their products. It wouldn't hurt their bottom line either.

Maybe for you and me it's not a career but for many people it is.
If that's true, I'd be all for that. I wouldn't mind one bit paying a penny more if the employees got an extra dollar an hour. And yes, I'm being dead serious.
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Old 12-29-2009, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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I just don't understand how companies like Home Depot or Lowe's, my former employer, can compensate their employees respectably while Wal-Mart, a much larger company with higher profit margins, pays their employees rather insulting hourly wages. When I left Lowe's at age 22 I was earning nearly $11.50/hr. (plus commissions), which isn't bad at all for a college student in NEPA. I loved what I did, and because I was compensated fairly I returned the favor back to my employer by driving more sales in their direction. Money motivates people. Perhaps most Wal-Mart associates wouldn't seem so feckless or disinterested in customer service if they had a decent paycheck rolling in.
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Old 12-29-2009, 09:47 PM
 
Location: NE PA
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I just don't understand how companies like Home Depot or Lowe's, my former employer, can compensate their employees respectably while Wal-Mart, a much larger company with higher profit margins, pays their employees rather insulting hourly wages. When I left Lowe's at age 22 I was earning nearly $11.50/hr. (plus commissions), which isn't bad at all for a college student in NEPA. I loved what I did, and because I was compensated fairly I returned the favor back to my employer by driving more sales in their direction. Money motivates people. Perhaps most Wal-Mart associates wouldn't seem so feckless or disinterested in customer service if they had a decent paycheck rolling in.
To be fair, there is more manual labor and more product and home improvement knowledge involved in most jobs at Lowe's and Home Depot than there is at Wal-Mart. Not that you have to be a rocket scientist, but I would say those jobs are not quite as unskilled as your average job at a discount/grocery store like Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart actually does pay Sam's Club employees more due to the heavier lifting involved at Sam's. And the Wal-Mart distribution centers, there is one in Tobyhanna, pay pretty good for the area. I think they start around 14 bucks an hour for warehouse work. Much better than the TJ Maxx distribution center with starting wages around 7 or 8 bucks an hour (and hiring illegals yet).
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Old 12-30-2009, 04:00 AM
 
Location: Sheeptown, USA
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To be fair, there is more manual labor and more product and home improvement knowledge involved in most jobs at Lowe's and Home Depot than there is at Wal-Mart. Not that you have to be a rocket scientist, but I would say those jobs are not quite as unskilled as your average job at a discount/grocery store like Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart actually does pay Sam's Club employees more due to the heavier lifting involved at Sam's. And the Wal-Mart distribution centers, there is one in Tobyhanna, pay pretty good for the area. I think they start around 14 bucks an hour for warehouse work. Much better than the TJ Maxx distribution center with starting wages around 7 or 8 bucks an hour (and hiring illegals yet).
Exactly, from what I hear WM treats their employees very well. Whether it be in their stores, in their warehouses or their drivers. I've heard many people say they're happy with their jobs. I can see why Lowe's and Home Depot might pay their employees a little more than WM, like you stated.
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Old 12-30-2009, 05:35 AM
 
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Exactly, from what I hear WM treats their employees very well. Whether it be in their stores, in their warehouses or their drivers. I've heard many people say they're happy with their jobs. I can see why Lowe's and Home Depot might pay their employees a little more than WM, like you stated.

How is not paying enough to even survive treating an employee "well"?
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Old 12-30-2009, 05:36 AM
 
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And cashiers at Home Depot and Lowe's do not need any expertise to work there. Yet they still make more than WM cashiers.
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Old 12-30-2009, 07:15 AM
 
Location: NE PA
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How is not paying enough to even survive treating an employee "well"?
Once again, lets go back a few pages on this thread. Jobs as a cashier, stock person, greeter, or cart pusher are not meant to be career jobs....they're great jobs for students, second incomes, or seniors just looking to get out and do something and make a few bucks in the process. When I was in school, I was glad jobs like that existed. Running a register in a store is a lot better than flipping burgers for minimum wage in a greasy kitchen at McDonald's.
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Old 12-30-2009, 07:16 AM
 
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Once again, lets go back a few pages on this thread. Jobs as a cashier, stock person, greeter, or cart pusher are not meant to be career jobs....they're great jobs for students, second incomes, or seniors just looking to get out and do something and make a few bucks in the process. When I was in school, I was glad jobs like that existed. Running a register in a store is a lot better than flipping burgers for minimum wage in a greasy kitchen at McDonald's.
And for the people who simply don't have the aptitude for higher education? Let's face it: there are people for whom WM is as good as it's gonna get.

They should make a livable wage as well.
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Old 12-30-2009, 07:23 AM
 
Location: NE PA
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And for the people who simply don't have the aptitude for higher education? Let's face it: there are people for whom WM is as good as it's gonna get.

They should make a livable wage as well.
Its not Wal-Mart's responsibility to support people who don't have the smarts or motivation to do anything better with their lives. Nobody is forced to work there. And actually, if you're a hard-working employee, WM does have a lot of opportunity to move up into management...and those jobs pay well (store managers at WM and general managers at Sam's Clubs make 6-figure salaries, and the assistant managers are paid pretty well too). They offered me the chance to move into their management training program, but I really had had enough of retail at that point, and didn't want to move.
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Old 12-30-2009, 08:19 AM
 
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Its not Wal-Mart's responsibility to support people who don't have the smarts or motivation to do anything better with their lives. Nobody is forced to work there. And actually, if you're a hard-working employee, WM does have a lot of opportunity to move up into management...and those jobs pay well (store managers at WM and general managers at Sam's Clubs make 6-figure salaries, and the assistant managers are paid pretty well too). They offered me the chance to move into their management training program, but I really had had enough of retail at that point, and didn't want to move.

People are forced to work jobs in stores or factories when they cannot get anything better - either due to aptitude, the economy, etc.

Many management positions require a college degree.

So your whole post is moot point.
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