re: #249 GeneJockey

Yeah, I think I was getting 25 cents/hr raises as a secy back in the 70s. But I know about the 10 cents, because that’s what I got in a “retirement” job 10 yrs ago, and it’s what my g-son was “rewarded” with last year. Even if you can do everything in a store, if you don’t go for “mgmt”, which doesn’t pay a lot more, you are stuck. But the mgrs put in pretty long hours, and are on salary, which isn’t a great career move money-wise. Per hour, they don’t make much more than the hourly workers.

A lot of minimum wage type workers are not only getting shafted on pay, but in hours, too, as you probably have read, since retail is cutting people down to below 30 hrs per week.