Re. Amazon's declared $15./hr. starting wage: if anyone believes Amazon is going to save Kroger or other retail workers, and that joining their ranks will better your lives, you are sadly deluding yourselves.
Non salaried management retail work in general is unskilled labor that is supposed to be under paid. Amazon is right now doing what other retailers have done when expanding into new territories, they're conducting a mass cattle-call to recruit experienced help. Once these folks are on board, BAM! The rug gets yanked out beneath them. Seen this many tmes.
You want better wages, benefits, etc.? Get some education and/or voc. tech. training. Hourly retail work is not the way.
Kroger is not the way. Getting paid $8.30 an hour (or maybe $.5-.20 more), part-time, and only temporarily (while in school, for example) is the dumbest career choice, since the Union takes $9/wk. There's no point in the Union for a temporary job. With all deductions, including taxes and Union fees, that boils down to just about $6/hr. Go work for Amazon and make $15/hr, no Union, and no problems like Kroger.
So, $15.00 an hour isn't better than less than $15.00 an hour?
Since you read right past the childishly simplistic point I worded as easily as anyone could, I won't bother explaining it to you. Please sit at the kiddies table.
Yep OP is probably right...it may be $15 an hour, but how many hours will they let you work? How much work are you expected to do for that wage? Will you get any benefits and if so are they expensive? Between all of this is may be more worth it to just stick with Kroger, because at least with Kroger they generally won't fire you unless you do something really stupid (they don't want to pay unemployment). And the benefits are not too bad to be honest.
All retail is the same, but if your only looking at the Hourly Wage your leaving $$ on the table. Yes, Amazon is expanding, but have you ever listened to one of their hiring commercials? I question any company that has 24/7 open interviews and from the commercials they are not really interviews they are "Show up and your hired, no application, no resume, no drug test, no nothing". If Amazon is paying suck high wages, why are they hiring 24/7 in the same warehouses that have been around 10 years? If you haven't noticed, everything is PR. Yes, they are raising the Hourly Wage, cutting the previous stock options, performance incentives. So in reality its complete PR, since I'm guessing most employees will make exactly the same as they did before (in the long run).
With all the differing areas Amazon is expanding, eventually they will be broken up.
He basically got all the hours he could stand, including overtime. That was part of the problem, with mandatory overtime for Prime Day and the entire holiday season.
Reportedly, benefits were decent but expensive.
He says it's grueling work, though. Just go go go go go go, all day long, punctuated by drama, politics, favoritism, infighting, unreachable metrics, attempts to metagame them, and then fallout from both.
He absolutely hates it, but he's trapped since he got his Kroger deli girlfriend pregnant.
Yeah, Amazon's mandatory overtime is ridiculous. Mandatory 60 hour weeks! 10 hours a day for six days, only one day off! Sounds delightful /s
If you think Kroger screws you over, you ain't seen nothing. Amazon is a hellhole.
Right, I've heard some of the horror stories from reliable sources.....I guess it's REALLY bad on managers. They're literally having mental break downs
Yeah, Amazon's mandatory overtime is ridiculous. Mandatory 60 hour weeks! 10 hours a day for six days, only one day off! Sounds delightful /s
If you think Kroger screws you over, you ain't seen nothing. Amazon is a hellhole.
Right, I've heard some of the horror stories from reliable sources.....I guess it's REALLY bad on managers. They're literally having mental break downs
If anyone works Clicklist now, the warhouses are basically the same in theory. Your told to go to location XXX and pick XXX, and then go to XXX and pick XXX.....but in a day pick 1000 items in a HUGE warehouse with orders never stopping! Most jobs described are too good to be true.
Un air-conditioned warehouses with minimal breaks 10 hours a day and call ins on your off days and they'll fire you if you don't pick fast enough for them. Bitch about the union all you want but you definitely benefit from having one.
