what gives corporate america?

Question

I would love to know how to survive on 25k ? it seems my company thinks running an entire warehouse and showroom floor/handy man isnt worth more for one of the largest homegood stores in the country.

I know someone is going to say ,find a new job.I am currently looking but there isnt much out there if you dont know someone.

The other issue is, they posted an internal ad for a warehouse managers job at the hub for our district. I called both district managers and sent them my resume. Two weeks later i find out that they filled the positions, without even interviewing or atleast a phone call back. it atleast would have been nice to be told no you didnt get the job or atleast an interview.

sorry im kinda po'ed since this position payes in excess of 55k a year. I was even given a reccomendation from an old boss that works for the same company a few weeks prior.

How does one survive and support a family of three when corporate america has a strangle hold on you?

Answer 1

Do you feel better for having vented? As to "what gives," one answer is that you need to think of this job as a stepping-stone to the next one, and not a long-term, permanent position. As long as they can get someone to accept and hold the job at $25,000 (and that would not be so bad in some places, depending on the cost of living), they do not need to offer more.

One other factor you may not have noticed, since you are probably pretty young: nowadays entry level jobs are not paid on the assumption of one breadwinner in a family, but two. It's unfortunate, but that is the consequence of women entering the work force in large numbers during the 1960s and 1970s. When I was a child, men had jobs and women were housewives for the most part, and salaries were calculated on that assumption. But the so-called Women's Movement (which did as much harm as good, in my opinion) insisted that women should have the good jobs and be paid correspondingly higher wages, similar to a man. The outcome is that they not only raised the women's wages (relative to inflation, of course), but they also lowered the men's!