Once you get out of the larger cities, there are still plenty of $7.25 an hour jobs out there. The little town I grew up in still has some small industries but they constantly are looking for people because no one wants to handle hot iron for minimum wage.
I don't know how these companies are getting workers anymore, not with Amazon sopping up the workforce. I have noticed a lot of the long-time established shitty industries around me are casting their nets further and further, but who is going to drive 40 miles one way down two-lane highway for a job that requires you work in a factory that blows glass, but pays less than Amazon?
That's nuts, if you are driving that far for low wage, how is it worth it?
Although we get people from the other side of town that spend 3 hours a day on the bus to work (round trip). IDK why they do it. Did they burn through all the jobs on their side of town? Although I did have one black tell me, "I don't like working with a lot of other blacks, so I come out here to work". lmao...
It isn't worth it. The one company I can think of, a glass manufacturer, is used to having a captive audience. When I got a call from them, I literally told the caller that Amazon pays more, and L Brands pays even more than Amazon if you're a maintenance guy. She was just a deer in the headlights, and didn't understand.
"I don't like working with a lot of other blacks, so I come out here to work".
Yeah, even they don't like them. LOL
As if right on cue. I had a junk mail from McDonald's in my mailbox this morning. They are hiring crew at 11 and managers at 15.
I'm sure by managers they likely mean shift leaders.
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