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Whats a good $ amount to ask for?
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If you don't have a degree or relevant experience doing whatever you're doing, you pretty much take what they offer.
You might find a job paying 10-11 hourly, but you won't convince someone running a grocery store to pay you that to be a cashier or something when they can train someone off the street to do it for minimum wage.
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Jezza_Belle
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purplehugmonkey posted:
If you don't have a degree or relevant experience doing whatever you're doing, you pretty much take what they offer.
You might find a job paying 10-11 hourly, but you won't convince someone running a grocery store to pay you that to be a cashier or something when they can train someone off the street to do it for minimum wage.
uh, cashiers often make a buttload of money, they're unionized in many places.
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don't forget to mention you smoke lots of weed, that's good for an extra $5-10 an hour!
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Right, but it's a set pay. You can ask for $20/hr or whatever you want and they'll hire you at the same rate they hire everyone else, because that's what they're paying cashiers.
I hated the union when I was a cashier because you got hardly any benefits from it other than a 1k life insurance policy and a review process before you could be let go for any reason, but you had to pay dues out of your $9.50/hr regardless of whether you wanted to join or not.
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I'm not just a cashier though, I'm adaptable. I can cashier, or I can answer phones or lug boxes or deal with customers or do stuff on the computer. I'm a reasonably smart product of the American educational system, If I can't do something, then I can learn quickly given some training.
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purplehugmonkey posted:
Right, but it's a set pay. You can ask for $20/hr or whatever you want and they'll hire you at the same rate they hire everyone else, because that's what they're paying cashiers.
I hated the union when I was a cashier because you got hardly any benefits from it other than a 1k life insurance policy and a review process before you could be let go for any reason, but you had to pay dues out of your $9.50/hr regardless of whether you wanted to join or not.
Cashiers have always made more than that here, I think they start at $11 and move up quickly.
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Eh, it was Chicago about 10 years ago. Small little grocery store. Minimum wage was 6.25 or 6.50? at the time I think.
Edit: Anyway, the point is that they, along with a lot of other unskilled labor/entry-level jobs generally offer a set base pay or set range based on how much experience you have.
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ikkoikki posted:
I'm not just a cashier though, I'm adaptable. I can cashier, or I can answer phones or lug boxes or deal with customers or do stuff on the computer. I'm a reasonably smart product of the American educational system, If I can't do something, then I can learn quickly given some training.
doesn't really matter what you CAN do, it's what you've BEEN doing that matters. You can tell a prospective employer until you're blue in the face that you can use Microsoft Word, but until you've had a JOB using Microsoft Word, they really don't count it as a skill.
If you want higher wages now, and working part-time you might want to look into call center work, Customer Service is something you've been doing (nearly everyone does in one way or another) and you can translate that into experience that will get you a Call Center job making more money.
It's pretty static as far as advancements go though, you're stuck in a call center, and the only "up" is through management of the call center, or quality control and training.
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purplehugmonkey posted:
Right, but it's a set pay. You can ask for $20/hr or whatever you want and they'll hire you at the same rate they hire everyone else, because that's what they're paying cashiers.
I hated the union when I was a cashier because you got hardly any benefits from it other than a 1k life insurance policy and a review process before you could be let go for any reason, but you had to pay dues out of your $9.50/hr regardless of whether you wanted to join or not.
Um getting paid $9.50 an hour 10 years ago sounds like a pretty nice union benefit 
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-Ducky- posted:
purplehugmonkey posted:
Right, but it's a set pay. You can ask for $20/hr or whatever you want and they'll hire you at the same rate they hire everyone else, because that's what they're paying cashiers.
I hated the union when I was a cashier because you got hardly any benefits from it other than a 1k life insurance policy and a review process before you could be let go for any reason, but you had to pay dues out of your $9.50/hr regardless of whether you wanted to join or not.
Um getting paid $9.50 an hour 10 years ago sounds like a pretty nice union benefit
it REALLY depends on the location, $9.50 an hour here, even ten years ago, was entry level.
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