Since minimum wage increases today (to $8.15) does any one know if they will be increasing the pay of all employees to keep the pay difference the same between long term employees and new hires? It's been so long, I don't remember how it was handled last time there was an increase.
I'm pretty sure that last time everyone started making the same despite some people working there longer. I doubt it will be different this time around.
Here, the baggers got a nice increase, everyone else a much less nice (or none at all) increase. So some of us on the registers are making the exact same thing a bagger is now.
If a relatively new (less than 3 years) store clerk makes the same as a bagger, something is wrong. It would be laughable in my opinion if the same person running the meat counter is getting paid as much as the high schooler sweeping the floor. Gee what would you rather do in Kroger? Supervise the front end and move a thousand directions at once, or be a bagger that wanders out to lot duty for some smokey texty time? If you chose the former, then you are further proof against evolution.
