Walmart is raising its minimum wage to $14 an hour

[Orbital-Fetus]

Too little too late.

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

The $/hr don't really matter.

Walmart never has enough cashiers and they'll just hire more people while reducing hours. I'm sure they've got a formula/algorithm that helps determine how many folks to hire....keep the hours high but below the threshold where they can get healthcare.

 

[Elim Garak]

Should be higher but it's better than nothing.

 

[Bar Razor]

Lol if the min wage had been tied to inflation it would be like $28. $15 isn’t a living wage. Obviously better than the present $7 but still way off. Also a lot of places try to skip benefits by having limited hours and such. Just another soulless corporation trying to look benevolent by offering a pittance more.

 

[Legal]

People need to go to college, trade school, or military. Or do something like truck driving if you got to. People will call you a bootstrap c00n, but there is no tried and true alternative. Voting wouldn't work because even if minimum wage was $20/hr that's still not even enough.


Get up and grind people. Move back in with your parents, get a roommate, shack up with the opposite sex, whatever needs to be done to get ahead.

What you're saying isn't necessarily untrue, but assuming you're around my age (mid to late 30s, or maybe you're older), shyt ain't the same as when we were out here trying to figure it out. The work market as of now is geared toward you really having one shot at entering the workplace at an acceptable pay due to college, trade schools, etc. Once you're in, most career paths don't really offer most workers the time or money needed to be able to reinvest in themselves for career improvement. If most people don't have enough money tucked away to deal with an unexpected issue with their car, they're not sitting on the resources needed to facilitate a meaningful career change.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Comical. Any given Walmart store makes more in a minute.

 

[Cakebatter]

Don't believe the hype. If you aren't in a management position, they will do all they can to keep you from working anywhere near full time hours.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

What you're saying isn't necessarily untrue, but assuming you're around my age (mid to late 30s, or maybe you're older), shyt ain't the same as when we were out here trying to figure it out. The work market as of now is geared toward you really having one shot at entering the workplace at an acceptable pay due to college, trade schools, etc. Once you're in, most career paths don't really offer most workers the time or money needed to be able to reinvest in themselves for career improvement. If most people don't have enough money tucked away to deal with an unexpected issue with their car, they're not sitting on the resources needed to facilitate a meaningful career change.

Internet is right at your fingertips breh. A lot of careers pay great. I'm not even talking about just STEM. I work in the Construction industry and trades are dying for young blood, a lot of the old heads are retiring.

I legit don't understand where do yall get these talking points

Now ask yourself, are you gone continue to struggle or get it out the mud? This isn't a yes or no question

 

[Originalman]

Nooooooo!! If you do this how can kats like @papa pimp and Corey Holcomb gonna be able pick up women who work at Walmart. Now these heffas that work at Walmart not gonna be in desperate poor economical situations where they have to make bad decisions... so kats like Corey and Papa Pimp can take advantage of these heffas with no options...


Damn you Walmart you rotten sons of bytches.....you cock blocking hoes Walmart!!!

How JBO kats gonna be able to do this to these Walmart heffas?

If them heffas making enough money to support themselves...

 

[Deltron]

For one of my classes all the way back in 2006 we watched that one Walmart documentary where they was saying they purposely pay them low so they spend it all at Walmart for their supplies, groceries, etc.

Even with the pay hike, they probably aiming for that still

 

[Cakebatter]

Internet is right at your fingertips breh. A lot of careers pay great. I'm not even talking about just STEM. I work in the Construction industry and trades are dying for young blood, a lot of the old heads are retiring.

I legit don't understand where do yall get these talking points

Now ask yourself, are you gone continue to struggle or get it out the mud? This isn't a yes or no question

I worked adjacent to the construction business for about 5 years (AV and automation integration). There really aren't as many trade job openings as you think. I watched Boston's electrician rates drop during the early 2000s as trade schools pumped out graduates for the field. The good pay is only a representation of the shortages. Once the shortages go away, so will the good pay rates. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google layed off a combined 40k people over the past couple weeks. That number alone is greater than the number of vacancies for trades throughout the country. So yes, if an individual sees a trade opening, I'd highly recommend they go for it, as it can be lucrative. But it's not a fix that can applied universally.

 

[Armchair Militant]

Disgusting

I thought they were at 15 already

 

[Atlrocafella]

They got rid of most of their cashiers and converted a lot of those check out lanes to self check out.

 

[Dave24]

Still not enough. Though I can't judge them because this is better than the minimum.

We need a federal minimum wage hike...it's insane that $7.25 can still be offered. After taxes you're practically worked to afford gas to get to work.

@TheGreatMTB how much per hour would be enough?

 

[FukYaFeelings]

I worked there back in college and I think I got paid $9.50, this was in 2014 or 2015.

Amazons minimum wage is like $15 I think now..and Amazon is an easier job imo