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Sigarms
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This is what I don't understand.
My son is actually a good worker and has been promoted wherever he is at over time. He left the grocery store because they wouldn't raise his wage from $12 to $12.50 or $13 because after he was there a year, he was offered a promotion, yet they never came through with their promise, and he found out pretty easy that they were hiring new people younger than him at $12.50 an hour. After he interviewed at dollar tree, the manager said he would be hired as an assistant manager, get paid $12.50 an hour, and the manager promised him he could work 4 to 5 days a week (keep in mind he still has another job on top of that). The kid got a couple of "awards" for helping people out with their groceries, like walking a older woman out to her car in the pouring rain and he held the umbrella for her while he got soaking wet).
GREAT thing about the dollar tree was it was only 7 minutes from the house vs a 20-25 minute drive to the grocery store or 30 minutes from his other job on top of that.
Keep in mind, my boy is a senior in high school, planning on enlisting and shipping out in September of this year.
He's worked a Panera bread, the grocery store and this car wash, and started working at age 15. Kid works hard IMO and honestly, my boss already told me he'd hire him, but he needs to be age 21 LOL
Nice thing is the car wash wants him to work 7 days a week, and we had to have a in depth discussion with him that he's NOT working 7 days a week until he graduates high school (he can work 8 hour shifts or longer on the weekends, but two nights off during the rest of school.
My son wanted to text dollar tree and wanted to give his notice (surprised at that because he knows thats not how it works). This AFTER he showed up for work on Monday and told he wasn't needed, and was scheduled to work on Tuesday. Honestly, we felt like they jerked him around. He did call Tuesday morning at school and was informed he wasn't need Tuesday either. He called us, told him at that point to call and tell them he quit. Honestly, don't like it happened that way, but man, I really wanted to have a talk with the manager about his "management skills".
What I scratch my head over is pretty much every job he's worked at (less the car wash), it seems people who are in a management position can never seem to create a work schedule when they are supposed to have it done. The nice thing about the grocery store is they had an app, which my boy loved keeping track of when he was supposed to work, but even when he put in weeks ahead on a day he needs off for school or something else, they would still screw it up as the person planning the schedule would forget about it even though it's on the app LOL Because it was on the app per the groceries stores own "rules", his butt was covered. For the record, I myself even 30 years ago had to create work schedules on paper and have them up for the employees to see, and have them out in a timely fashion so people could plan for work on their end. After a short time, you find out pretty quick who wants to work and who doesn't.
You would just think if you have a teen who works whenever he's asked to, gives 110%, that's someone you would want to keep in the sub $15 hourly wage.
I just had a training class with an old friend and co worker from another company I hadn't seen in 15 years. Told him about my upcoming California vacation, and we were talking about my work in general and I brought up my son. He laughed. He was in Sacramento the other other year for work and they had a guy go out to lunch, came back, and he gave his notice. Turns out that the fast food place would pay him more to work fast food than the HVAC industry so he decided to switch "careers". Go figure.
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