Wal-mart beats many jobs available in my immediate locale by a
pretty good margin. The lowest paid jobs start at $6.15 or so. Sure,
there are better jobs, but when you compare the expense of driving
40 to 75 miles one way to work, a local WM job looks OK with over an
hour of time and $2.50/gal gasoline saved each way. And they have a
good ESOP program if one has the sense to take advantage of it, as
mentioned elsewhere.
Sure, many people that work there would rather make $25/hour
standing around a factory watching some machine work, but most of
the factory jobs here are gone for that reason. It is a lot cheaper
to move the machine away to Honduras, Mexico or where ever and pay
someone $2.50/hr to watch it run.
Production workers have priced
themselves out of the market here in the US.
Raising the minimum wage will solve nothing in the long term. The
real problem is that many younger Americans place an unrealistic
value on the limited skill sets that they have. As one local paper
said recently, if you are 35 years old and still working for minimum
wage it is your own fault, not anyone else's.
AW
--- In
ham_amplifiers@yahoogroups.com, FRANCIS CARCIA
wrote:
>
> I don't think admitting 1/2 a family works for WM is a source of
family pride. Who puts a roof over their heads? Not WM.
>
> pentalab ...> wrote: --- In
ham_amplifiers@yahoogroups.com, "ky4sp" wrote:
> >
> > I beg to differ; half my family works
at Wal-Mart. It beats
flipping
> > hamburgers by quite a bit. Of course they realize that having "a
> > job" in itself doesn't guarantee that you will have a nice
house,
> > car and pocketful of $$ for the weekend.
> >
> > The fact is that many entry-level jobs simply are not worth the
> > current minimum wage, if that.
>
> ### say what ?? How can any entry level job not be worth current
> minimum wage ?? What is current minimum wage..... and when was the
> last time somebody raised the current minimum wage ??
>
> ### Here's an interesting experiment. Let's say there was no
minimum
> wage. I wonder just how low employer's would go... and how low joe
> smuck would work for ??
>
> Later... Jim VE7RF
>
