Publix will pay a high school kid with no experience $15/hour to work in the bakery

January 31, 2025, 08:52 PM

Skins2881

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
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Originally posted by Blackmore:
Vail Resorts has had a $20/hour starting wage for anyone with a pulse for 3 years now. Higher skilled positions get you more money. The catch is most are 4 day positions where you might work more than an 8 hour day but supervisors are to make sure very, very few get over 40 hours meaning you could do 4 x 9.75 hour days with no overtime.

Four days of work...And THREE DAYS of skiing/snowboarding! What's not to like?

While I tend to agree, the big problem with that plan is there's no way $20/hr is going to pay the rent in that neck of the woods. You'd have to commute in from afar, eating into the pay as well.

I fail to see the problem with commuting one less day, especially from far away?

January 31, 2025, 08:57 PM

Skins2881

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
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Originally posted by Blackmore:
The catch is most are 4 day positions where you might work more than an 8 hour day but supervisors are to make sure very, very few get over 40 hours meaning you could do 4 x 9.75 hour days with no overtime.

Personally, I'd consider that a selling point, not a "catch"!

4x10s is a very common shift schedule in police work.

I've worked 5x8s, 4x10s, and 3x12s/4x12s alternating, and 4x10s is my preference by far.

Having a 3 day weekend, or even better a day off midweek, more than makes up for the extra couple hours you spend at work. You're getting up, getting dressed, and going to work that day anyway, so might as well stick around a little longer in exchange for not having to do so for an extra day each week.

(But it's not exhausting like 12s, which is too far that direction.)

I currently work 4x10s, with Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays off. I never work more than 2 days in a row without either 1 or 2 days off. Every other workday is my "Friday". It's the perfect schedule.

I've done every schedule possible, days; nights; front half; back half; 8's; 10's; 12's; alternating 3/4 12's; and probably some I'm forgetting. By far my favorite was back half 10's day shift. Could go out Saturday night and sleep in Sunday. Had Sunday off for football and Mon/Tue for doctor/car/errands/appointments.

Currently I'm working 5 12's sometimes more, while the overtime is nice, I'm hopeful it ends soon.

January 31, 2025, 09:57 PM

Rey HRH

It's not the 60s either and you can't get for $7.50 what you could get for it back in the 60s.

The Nuke Machinist Mate rating I had in the Navy in 1980 paid a bonus of $20,000 for re-enlisting for another 6 years after your first six years. I heard they have a sign-on bonus now of $50,000 if you just qualify for your first hitch.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

February 01, 2025, 03:31 AM

trapper189

One of my son’s friends signed up for Nuke out of high school; $50k signing bonus and another $25k shipping bonus. Plus, he’s on a sub.

February 01, 2025, 03:56 PM

patw

Sadly, even at that pay rate, some of the employees will still try to do as little as possible. My daughter works at Market Fresh and they pay their employees pretty well but some of them are not good at all.

February 01, 2025, 04:03 PM

Bulldog

Starting hourly where I'm at for basic positions at the grocery store is $18/hr.

February 01, 2025, 06:35 PM

Fredward

Be glad they're training her on cakes. I worked for Panera as a production baker for several years. It is extremely labor intensive, I went for a 38 inch waist to a 30 inch waist in about 15 months, and ate everything I wanted, including hot buttered sourdough. Finally had to a higher paying job in my pre-retirement area of expertise when my daughter was accepted to Purdue.