On average, how much money can be made working two retail jobs?

[YBE]

that's what the typical retail manager is. they're basically paid to collect a check. they delegate and sit on their asses much of the time. they push their work on the lower level managers or to the regular employees. thing is all these stores really need are those lover level managers. everybody knows what they're supposed to do and typically if they're a good employee they do it so the higher up managers end up doing nothing most of the day.

imagine if they got rid of all those higher level managers in these stores and better compensated their low level workers. productivity would soar and the stores would function better.

back when i worked retail out high level managers got bonuses that wore worth more than half our annual pay for making goals.

that would make sense, right?

 

[AVXL]

@ all the hate for retail. I currently work retail as a department manager, but I started out as a selling associate making less than $9 an hour 2 years ago. Some of y'all who are disgruntled with retail, are you doing it just to collect a check? Are you trying to build a career? Alot of y'all complaining about wages & shyt are the same low productive associates I interact with on a daily basis. Y'all want the perks, but don't work hard enough to get them. Then you got the nerve to criticize the management team

Retail ain't for everybody, but if you grinding you can make it work for you

 

[Reid2Achieve]

I think you should only work retail/restaurants if you're in school or just as a second job (short term or seasonal). Otherwise, don't waste your time in that bullshyt! Don't be 30 years old and settling for an assistant manager position at Foot Locker....aspire to be more...

If the money is low and/or you're not a 4 year college type, you're better off going to trade school, community college, or the military.

 

[winb83]

@ all the hate for retail. I currently work retail as a department manager, but I started out as a selling associate making less than $9 an hour 2 years ago. Some of y'all who are disgruntled with retail, are you doing it just to collect a check? Are you trying to build a career? Alot of y'all complaining about wages & shyt are the same low productive associates I interact with on a daily basis. Y'all want the perks, but don't work hard enough to get them. Then you got the nerve to criticize the management team

Retail ain't for everybody, but if you grinding you can make it work for you

I worked retail. it was all political. the hardest workers at our store were doomed to forever be drones because it wasn't about how hard you worked its was about who above you liked you enough to open a door. same people that got those doors open smiled and took in all that hard work from those drones and used that hard work to help meet a goal on a report so they could get a bonus check. all the hard workers got was a meaningless pat on the back or a choice of their favorite soda (20 oz) at the end of a shift.

our managers got to a point where they were kids fresh outta collage. they'd come in the store and know less about how to run it than the people they were managing. i'm talking about managers that don't know how to use an LRT or PDA well enough to put in a sign batch and print it out but are collecting 40K+ a year to manage people that know more about running the store than they did.

all our managers did mostly was sit at the cafe and gossip or talk about life or sit in their offices then they'd use the low level department managers to do their dirty work. they'd give us shytty raises and write up our reviews themselves then have department managers deliver them to us. what do you know about getting a review from a department manager from Softlines when you work in Hardlines. a person that you don't even work with giving you a review like they know you.

you wanna sit up and bullshyt and pretend like retail is about "hard work" then go head but don't insult the rest of us that really know how the game is played. if yall structure is like ours was a department manager ain't shyt really. our executive team was the real managers and 85% of them didn't do jack shyt and all the executive managers that did actual work were disgruntled and most of them left or quit.

don't even get me started on the transformation process all the executives basically had to go through. the vets would pull the younger ones aside cause they'd come in the store being nice respectable people that treated all employees fairly and after that pull aside you'd slowly watch them turn into a$$holes like the vets were. it was a culture or bullshyt to your face but daggers in your back. the attitude was basically you don't treat these low level employees like that you treat them like the underlings they are.

if you really are just a department manager like HBA, domestics, or some shyt like that and not over Hardlines, or Softlines store wide or the store manager or in charge of human relations then you're not much better than the underlings even if they pay you a lil better.

 

[FreshFromATL]

@ all the hate for retail. I currently work retail as a department manager, but I started out as a selling associate making less than $9 an hour 2 years ago. Some of y'all who are disgruntled with retail, are you doing it just to collect a check? Are you trying to build a career? Alot of y'all complaining about wages & shyt are the same low productive associates I interact with on a daily basis. Y'all want the perks, but don't work hard enough to get them. Then you got the nerve to criticize the management team

Retail ain't for everybody, but if you grinding you can make it work for you

Breh, you my nikka and all, but ....A motherfukker can't even live off the salary made in retail and you got the nerve to tell them to work harder?

 

[Demon]

I worked night shift at a shoprite in Philly when I was like 22. My shift started at 12 when the store closed. I usually got there at 11:30 and bullshytted with the employees in the warehouse in the back. One night it got around to like 11:55 and all the alarms went off...went up front and learned 3 dudes with shotguns robbed the joint. 2 of them stayed up front while one forced the manager, and the cashier at the only opened register at that time of night into the money room. When they bounced is when they rang the alarm.

The nightshift boss i was mad cool with told me a few nights later even though the armored truck comes to pick up the money at 3pm, they got off with almost 75 grand

 

[Nuke Dukem]

I can relate to this thread.. fukk retail.. Im working it now while in school.. Ill list my complaints...


1.) They expect you to work like a slave for $9.75, They dont really respect you either.. my store has this bullshyt group meeting where they show "appreciation" to workers everyday.. yeah everyday we have to hear some made up, forced bullshyt "Thanks for___"

Its funny to the same bytches giving you praise in the groupd meetings are 2 faced bytches saying the complete opposite about employees when they arent around

2.) these motherfukkers got us starting around 8/9pm on thanksgiving PLUS we need to come in at 4am for 4 hours the SAME DAY.. I know they are all greedy fukks, but damn we arent your slaves we have families and shyt that we would like to spend some time with.. instead you got us working 12 hours on a holiday

3.) 10 cent raise after one year......


Like people said if your going to get a part time job while your in school or just looking for some extra $$ avoid retail.. not worth it

 

[Majestic Pape]

When I was 19 I worked at Office Max and CVS, both part time, both minimum wage (was around $6.50 or something); I think I made about $350 every two weeks from Office Max and $120 or so every week at CVS.

Right now I work two jobs (one restaurant, one moving company) and I'm making about $650 per week (maybe $100-$150 in tips) between them, working 70+ hours a week. shyt ain't worth it, breh, but I just gotta save up some money to catch up on debts.

 

[Majestic Pape]

@ all the hate for retail. I currently work retail as a department manager, but I started out as a selling associate making less than $9 an hour 2 years ago. Some of y'all who are disgruntled with retail, are you doing it just to collect a check? Are you trying to build a career? Alot of y'all complaining about wages & shyt are the same low productive associates I interact with on a daily basis. Y'all want the perks, but don't work hard enough to get them. Then you got the nerve to criticize the management team

Retail ain't for everybody, but if you grinding you can make it work for you

Man, shut the fukk UP with all of that BULLshyt!


No wonder you all up in the red.

 

[BrothaZay]

You might as well sell weed and pills on the side thats what i would do if i was u

 

[Danny Up]

20-30 grand max. More if you do carryouts and shyt where customers give tips

 

[AVXL]

@winb83, breh I hear you. IDK your company structure or all of your experience, but I feel your frustration. I used to be an associate working the floor, working back breaking hours and getting a minimal check. Yea it is political to advance, but name me a place where you're getting promoted when people don't like you.

IDK what hardlines or softlines are, but I'm getting groomed to be senior management by the beginning of next yr & my approach has been to work my ass off & connect with the right people. Not saying that you or others in here haven't, but you saying you kno (or knew) the game, then play it to your advantage



@FreshFromATL, yea I am telling folks to work harder. Less than 2 yrs ago, I was the same nikka working for $8.25 & barely able to pay my phone bill working retail. I know the game & I seen nikkas bullshyt through their job & then complain when shyt ain't go their way. I'm tellin these nikkas to stop fukkin slacking

Man, shut the fukk UP with all of that BULLshyt!


No wonder you all up in the red.

 

[nomoreneveragain]

Apart from fukking the Assistant Manager, nothing ever good came out of Retail.

The Manager was like, I can make you Asst. Manager in 12 months and than be a Manager in a different store in 3 years and than District Manager if your a lifer.

I quit after 3 months.

The Hospitality Industry is about the same (in Terms of Trickledown) but the GM's over there have too earn their Salary on a commission basis

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Two retail jobs?

Dont do that to yourself. One is bad enough, low pay, bad hours, little to no recognition. In a way I feel every one should work in retail and fast food for a few months to learn hard work and humility.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Hell yea he's forreal...

On an average day, one Target store makes $55,000 to $70,000 per day.

A Wal-Mart, around $80,000 - $100,000 per day.

I've heard from someone that use to manage at a Kroger that their individual store raked in over $100,000 K per day.

I don't know how true that Kroger sales figure is but I know for a fact, Target and Wal-Marts make A LOT of doe per day, but pay their employees minimum wage or close to it.

And we not even talking about what these individual stores make during the holidays, SMH....


Retail = Modern day slavery.

As much as I hate retail. Its not as simple as that

You are taking into account the rent, inventory, insurance etc. Its not like a private owned store which is taking in all that revenue and its all profit. But they can and should offer better incentives and pay raises.