Hey everone...dont you love going to the stores and the cashier is slower than Joe's turkey..particularly ( Value CitY ) I think I understand why they finally closed down so many of the stores, not sure.

The employers there were astonishingly slow..I almost felt it was more than purposeful, they were miserable and making sure you were too..sorry,,its just seemed to be the only store it repeatedly happened in..I'm not talking about those who were fatigued, that you can see, I mean people who just kept talking and being distracted from person to person..it was a nightmare..but it had good prices..so worth putting up with at the time...I realize you have to cut slack for all...but I do believe there was a vast difference in the service to those particular stores.

Sherri

And to think there are people that believe minimum wage should be raised.

Even equally as slow and aggravating are those damn automated checkout machines. Boy, what a waste of time those things are!!!

They are more of a damn nuisense than a convenience!! I won't use them!!

From what I've seen its not usually anything wrong with the machine, its the dullard who can't figure it out. Present company excluded I'm sure.

You calling me a dullard?

Using those damn things is like trying to talk to that goddamn automated crap that comes on the phone when you try to call certain companies.

I don't use that eiter!!

Did you read the last sentence of my last post? Maybe you did. What that means is, I was not refering to you when I said the problem with the automatic things is usually the person using it. So no, I wasn't calling you a dullard. But now I am.

Just kidding. A little.

You really are a stirrer of shit. Haha!!

Hi Ras

Ok you are right here and I see your point...now if that were the case..maybe two out of 3 of the deadbeats may actually increase their efforts to be more of a service...I have said before many times that maybe if they would increase their income that it would be worth doing more for. I'm not sure but I dont think they can openly converse about the income they make hourly with one another because of that little issue..just what I heard. Something else that kills me is a an office clerk friend of mine worked years before she made it to the pay she has..and yet they turn around and hire in the new gal who gets the exact amount that my friend increased to after the 23 years of service...now thats a kick in the teeth..I hate it when they do this to people its just not fair.

Sherri

I have my own side business so I have never had to experienced this..but my employment to is very physical and takes it out of me...thats life/

Hey Daquan..

Husband would chop up cards and off my fingers if he caught me using the machines..he believes they put many people out of work...and if you stop to think about it...that is true...the cashier isles are less and then there is the check out for personal use..someday..ya just push the whole cart through the different Arches and it will total the amount and you just slide the card through the holder...well I suppose if they stamp your hand or forehead may be the same difference...just put your hand up so as to see your marking or your head...mmmm, ya anything is possible..

Sherri

Your husband may be right, but I wouldn't want him to hurt you!

Those machines also accept cash as well. I've used both plastic and cash. But no, I don't like them at all and I avoid them like the plague!!

That's the main problem with this country! They are replacing humans with machines.

It's strange how some people will use the rationale "if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys" to justify outrageously exorbitant executive salaries ... but (probably the same) people don't think that the same principle applies to the lower end of the wage range.

This was the case also, at United Airlines. The goddamn top brass execs in the administration offices were NEVER ordered to take any cuts in pay or benefits - yet the little poeple (ground workers) were forced to take THREE pay cuts or more as well as many cuts in benefits!! Then we lost our jobs because of outsourcing.

Why are the top brass always treated like gold, yet the other employees of all these big companies have to suffer big time?!

Welcome to America...they top cookie gets the chocolate chip because they know that they know we have to work...we...have...to...work...and it will always more than likely be for them...

I hate it...I hate jumping for that carrot when my options are limited..for many ignorance is the worm that had kept us under the rock...but many people have jobs handed down to them from family..well truthfully the reasons go on and on for both the elite (financially only) and those who struggle to keep there boat floating...

Sherri

It shouldn't even be that way. EVERYONE deserves a piece of the pie!

The last co that I worked for is ALSO that way. They slave-drive the employees!! Full-time workers only got 1 break working 10-hour shifts while the part-time workers got no break at all!!!!

The manager was a jerk and a moron!! I hated him, the way he runs the place and the way he treated the employees!! His assistant was the same!

I attended a culinary arts traing program to become a cook and all I got out of it was a lousy low-life demeaning disrespectful job washing goddamn dishes!!! The rat manager had the balls to start yelling at me and the others - claiming the work wasn't being done to his satisfaction!!!

Yeah, him and his piece-of-crap assistant as well as the over-abundance of supervisors all over the place are living high off the hog, while the people under them are treated like slaves, peasents and peons!!!

They made me bust my butt just to keep that two-bit lousy job - working for slavery wages! I had to go into the mens' room to sneak a little break and pretend that I was using the toilet because I was just way too tired to do that kind of work!! One break - 9-1/2 hours of work; I don't think so. That's too much!!!

I just couldn't do that kind of work any more, and it was making me tired & sick - literally. I felt it coming! I was becoming too increasingly weak to be pushed around like that. Getting beat up by their slavery tactics and taking the bumps and bruises!!

That's when I got sick and was stricken by heart failure. Having had enough of their controversial ways and bullying tactics of treating the employees, I filed for disability at a SS office and was accepted two months ago.

The job I do now, I like a lot! Helping small children to read better. I will NEVER do any more hard-core work for some nasty dont-give-a-crap slave driver ever again!!!

I'm making much more money now than I was, working for that company - close to $2,000.00 a month verses only $800.00 a month!! I made out much better financial-wise!! No one is ever going to treat me like a slave ever again!!!

I'm living better, I'm more at ease and am in a stress-free world!

One of several things is probably at work with your friend.

A. She's the type of worker that does the minimum to get by and thus only earns the minimum. She has received raises over the years as the employer raised her own minimum wage, or the legal minimum wage rose, but the employer is not willing to invest more than the mininmum in your friend because your friend hasn't demonstrated she is worth it. She is being compensated according to her performance.

B. Your friend is an outstanding employee but doesn't have the courage to take care of her own needs and demand a raise. The employer is taking advantage of this. If this is the case, your friend should muster a little fortitude and ask to be compensated according to her performance, and if the answer is no - seek employment where she will be.

Either way, if she is not being fairly compensated, its her own fault. No one in this country needs to accept being paid less than their worth once they've had the opportunity to demonstrate their worth.

I love to read your story - that's America! You had a crappy job that you didn't like, and instead of accepting that, you moved your ass, took control of your environment, and found a better-paying job that is rewarding financially as well as spiritually or whatever. It sounds like it makes you happy in more ways than one.

Hopefully, more people who found themselves working for the bad boss will do as you did. If so, it will force him to change his ways or wash his own dishes and do his own cooking. Win-win.

Thanks for sharing that.

"Outrageously exhorbitant exectutive salaries" don't need to be justified to anyone - what they get paid isn't anyone's business. None the less, its worth pointing out that their salaries are decided by the same people who have the most to lose if they don't perform well.

The same principle does apply to the lower end of the wage range. Employers generally give raises and promote their top performers because it isn't profitable to lose them to another employer who wants to take advantage of their skills. Those "overpaid" executives didn't likely start out as CEOs or whatever, they began somewhere far down the wage scale, and proved their worth over time.

Not to mention that it was awfully hard trying to find work as a cook. Every place that I tried for employment, they were playing goddamn games and just would give me a job!!!

I was sick and tired of being sick and tired!! I'm at ease now.
The tutoring job doesn't pay much, but it's so rewarding and a pleasure to be with the kids and helping them to read better!!

Especially with the boy who just LOVES to talk!! He makes my day!!

Staunch capitalist that I am, I can still say money isn't everything. My top priority for my second career is doing something rewarding like that, not money. I'm perfectly content where I'm at financially.

Hey Ras..well the latter is the answer...I told her to make a difference and stand up to her boss...well she never did, she was single and for the moment struggling to keep her house because her ex ran off with a younger hot cookie and dumped her like no tomorrow, ya and he just purchased her a 2 karat diamond right before that..go figure..

I thought maybe he was buying time to run off with the chick-a-dee so as to play catch up with her later and bind all issue to her emotions..so in this the card plays to his advantage..

I havent heard as of lately what the on-going saga is..my hats off to her for giving it her all..in that particular situation you tend to bend over because of a gallery of dissolusion, I feel its for a time only in her life. This gal is a beauty..but then again I dont live with her..

Sherri