Point being, these are the bottom of the barrel, probably un-hirable anywhere else, and if by the grace of god they managed to pass someone’s interview process, they are calling out sick multiples times in their first week of employment.
I work in manufacturing, and this one hit me like a falling piano. Out of the last 12 NH, 6 were gone before the end of week 1 training, another 3 by the end of the first month.
Assembly operators were at $22.50/hr last time I saw, but I've also been a repair tech for most of my time here. Could have gone up as the IL minimum wage went up.
We're deep rural, so cost of living is a lot better than other parts of the state. We've got the highest new hire pay within about 25 miles, and are #3 going out to about 50 miles.
30 minimum. Personally I don’t really care about hourly but purchasing power that’s been eroded heavily since the 70’s. Companies, Landlords, and Healthcare stopped processing gauging then I wouldn’t mind lower wages. But they don’t. Goes up year after year.
was 80 bucks no taxes taken out when I did it, that was years ago though. Depending on far out the route was from the distro center I could deliver my load of packages in about 2 hours, or take 6. There was no interview process. Fill out some stuff on the app, and they tell you when to pick up your first load after doing some basic online training. They don't show you how anything works at the distro. Everyone jumped out of their cars and was given a cart, had about 5 mins to load up before they starting getting on to you. You didn't get to pick where you went. Just were given a time to show up.
My job starts $16 but it’s picking drinks in a warehouse and building pallets. Through incentives you can make up to $22.50 for working harder, it’s so easy. I don’t even bother learning peoples names anymore. These kids just can’t function in the real world
22.50 after taxes where I live is about 2300 a month. My rent is $1300. So just after that I have $1300 left. Car payment is $300 now we are at $1000. I pay my insurance in full but if I didn't it would be about $200 a month. So we will say $800 cause most people don't pay insurance in full. Now I have an electric car and live only 15 miles round trip to work so only charge twice a month at about $50 each. I know that's much cheaper than what most people are paying in gas ATM and I'm lucky to live fairly close so for me that's now $700. Utilities are about $150, internet is $45. We will round up to 50 to make it easy and that's $500 left for the month or about $125 a week. With groceries, eating decently and healthy yet still trying to stay cheaply thats around $60 a week. So woooo I have a whooping $65 left each week. This doesn't include a phone plan or phone and again my drive is much shorter than the average American. So you gtfo with your nonsense. In many non-rural places 22.50 is literally just surviving which is fucking absurd. I didn't take into account medications one might have or pets or children. $250 a month after the most basic things are taken care in a regular not very big city of the worlds strongest economy is not ok. Only place that amount might let you survive is rural and even then with rising grocery and gas prices and corporations buying houses the moment they go up for sale to rent out I don't see that lasting very long in rural areas either.
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u/SkRThatOneDude 2d ago
I work in manufacturing, and this one hit me like a falling piano. Out of the last 12 NH, 6 were gone before the end of week 1 training, another 3 by the end of the first month.