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Minimum wage workers can be and are fired for any reason. Applied for a job minimum wage job 100's had applied for it as well. Too be fair however it is getting that way for almost any job these days
You don't exactly get the most qualified employees at minimum wage. Sure they quit as soon as they find something better. And if all they can get is minimum wage there's a good chance they don't take showing up every day too seriously.
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Around here there are call centers that fire everyone before they can get through the 90 day probation. They're like people mills, the ads appear in the classifieds every 89 days. They do it because they can get away with it since people are desperate for work. I was a temp for a couple of days for the receptionist at one of these places. They had an armed guard because the mostly recently fired bunch were coming to pick up their paychecks. They all told me: "You don't ever want to really work here."
Minimum wage workers who take on a positive "can do" attitude either because of or in spite of their low wages, are the ones in a far better position to move on to bigger and better things.
Excellent point. Especially younger people entering the workforce for the first time at minimum wage - oftentimes one has to start at the bottom and work their way up. Many of us sucked it up early in life doing a mundane job for minimum wage - fast forward 10-15 years and we're doing much better in terms of both the jobs we do and the money we make.
If someone in the work-force is still making working for minimum wage because they are not qualified to do any other type of job...the job is likely not the problem.
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I've worked two minimum wage jobs in my lifetime and they were both positive growth experiences. I wasn't working those jobs to make a career out of it but to use it as a stepping stone for better opportunities by gaining work experience and a little extra cash. Minimum wage jobs are NOT meant for folks to earn a living off of and the minimum wage earner should be gaining marketable skills and education to move up to bigger and better things.
In my case, I worked for minimum wage in college delivering pizzas for 3 years - in order to help me pay for my degree, which then allowed me to go to grad school, which allowed me to get a real entry level job in my field, which eventually led to me having the job, position and salary that I have now.
Around here there are call centers that fire everyone before they can get through the 90 day probation. They're like people mills, the ads appear in the classifieds every 89 days. They do it because they can get away with it since people are desperate for work. I was a temp for a couple of days for the receptionist at one of these places. They had an armed guard because the mostly recently fired bunch were coming to pick up their paychecks. They all told me: "You don't ever want to really work here."
Why don't they want to keep their workers longer than 90 days? surely everybody couldn't have been a bad worker
What's today's going rate for selling your soul, or doing what goes against your own self-interest?
I want a loyal pet, a loyal spouse/SO, loyal friends. Loyalty at the workplace doesn't interest me, at any price.
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