but aren't those the people that need jobs the most? At least he got a job rather than standing in front of your store with a cardboard sign "Money plz"
They might pay $15/hr but how many hours are you going to get? It doesn't do any good to be paid that much and only get 16 hours a week. What really counts is your annual salary. Also, will you still get raises or is that $15 a permanent figure?
Most union contracts at Kroger that haven't been updated within the last year or so don't even top out at $15 anyway. So even if it is a permanent figure, you start out at Amazon making more than you could get paid 2-3 years down the road at Kroger. And we are talking about a minimum wage job. So you can't compare something like a Kroger dept head with a Amazon customer service rep.
But it we exercised some discretion and only hired employees that were worth $15/hour (and helped them work for it), it might be a little different.
We once hired a homeless guy to work in our deli. Seriously. He lived behind the dumpster at the Circle K across the street.
This. No way in hell do some of the people I work with qualify for $15.00 an hour. They don't even do sufficient work to justify being paid what they are making now. If Kroger were to bump starting pay to $15.00 then I better freaking go to $20.00 an hour considering the time I've been with Kroger and the work I do everyday 'cause if not, I'm cutting my productivity back by at least 50%.
amazon's net worth is over a trillion dollars. they have the money to raise the min wage by that much. i hardly doubt kroger's grocery chain is even worth half a billion to raise the min wage by that much
