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MrRoboto

MrRoboto

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Funny story kinda related. My wife got an awesome promotion to move to Charlotte NC some years back. It was during the housing recession and I was having trouble finding a job after we moved. She was making plenty of money but I needed a job for my sanity. I did an interview at a landscape business for a "lawn care professional" position. Brought my resume with a college degree at the top and +15 years of heavy equipment experience inclunding a position as foreman over a job with $1.5 mil in equipment. All work history was with 2 companies at that time. So educated, experienced, loyal is what he should have read. Hell I probably could have managed his whole operation in short time so he could dick off or expand or whatever.

Guy said I didn't have enough qualifications because I had never run a zero turn lawn mower.
 
Smidge34

Smidge34

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MrRoboto said:
I also never heard back from the dollar store lol.
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Lmao, they did you a huge favor. They pay their managers like $35K and expect you to live in the store with shit for payroll hours. EVERYTHING is on you because finding a competent assistant on 50 cents over minimum wage takes some doing. I was in the retail management game a few years and heard horror stories about that place. Almost as bad as Walmart's management program.
 
Larry {the} Gardener

Larry {the} Gardener

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Smidge34 said:
Lmao, they did you a huge favor. They pay their managers like $35K and expect you to live in the store with shit for payroll hours. EVERYTHING is on you because finding a competent assistant on 50 cents over minimum wage takes some doing. I was in the retail management game a few years and heard horror stories about that place. Almost as bad as Walmart's management program.
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My wife was in the convenience store trade. She managed a store, and it was the same thing. All the responsibility, but no money to speak of. She got out of it about 25 years ago, going into government work. She will be retiring at the end of the year with a defined benefit for the rest of her life. Not too many of those around anymore.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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MrRoboto said:
Funny story kinda related. My wife got an awesome promotion to move to Charlotte NC some years back. It was during the housing recession and I was having trouble finding a job after we moved. She was making plenty of money but I needed a job for my sanity. I did an interview at a landscape business for a "lawn care professional" position. Brought my resume with a college degree at the top and +15 years of heavy equipment experience inclunding a position as foreman over a job with $1.5 mil in equipment. All work history was with 2 companies at that time. So educated, experienced, loyal is what he should have read. Hell I probably could have managed his whole operation in short time so he could dick off or expand or whatever.

Guy said I didn't have enough qualifications because I had never run a zero turn lawn mower.
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Lol what a fuckin moron.
 
ttystikk

ttystikk

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Larry {the} Gardener said:
My wife was in the convenience store trade. She managed a store, and it was the same thing. All the responsibility, but no money to speak of. She got out of it about 25 years ago, going into government work. She will be retiring at the end of the year with a defined benefit for the rest of her life. Not too many of those around anymore.
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Yep. Somehow we work harder and longer, yet get paid lower wages, with fewer benefits and less retirement than our grandfathers.

And then they tell us that the economy sucks, so they can't pay more.

I'm kinda done with this flat out lie, myself. I've never seen so many Mercedes, Ferraris and Lamborghinis rolling around my city before.
 
Vnsmkr

Vnsmkr

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ttystikk said:
Yep. Somehow we work harder and longer, yet get paid lower wages, with fewer benefits and less retirement than our grandfathers.

And then they tell us that the economy sucks, so they can't pay more.

I'm kinda done with this flat out lie, myself. I've never seen so many Mercedes, Ferraris and Lamborghinis rolling around my city before.
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I been done with the bullshit lie for a LONG fucking time
 
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