I hear people talk a lot about there being jobs all over, but no body wants to work. I just came home from an interview for a store manager at a national chain car rental company. Prior business background and a Bachelors degree was needed. Sounds reasonable for a manager position.
I have 3 associates, a bachelors, and a masters, plus banking experience and prior business experience, both commercial and industrial. They seemed somewhat pleased to offer me the position. (They did not ask about my health and I did not mention my condition either)
The salary was $475/week. Here is the other shoe. They expected me to BE ONSITE for a minimum of 63 hours per week! Plus be available and on call (with a cell phone I have to pay for) 24/7 for that $475 per week. They said they estimated it was more like 52 hours a week because you could drink coffee and watch TV when you were not waiting on customers, but you had to stay on site. Isn't that like paying a cop only when he responds to a call? I held my cards close so I could try to reason through it when the shock was over, a few years back I would have been a lot more expressive.
As I opened the mail there was notice that because of Federal manipulation, my county is re assessing the property taxes. How much can they squeeze?
I am not making excuses, but I am understanding why people get discouraged. If that is what I can find, what can a person without any skills get?
This is not the first job I have looked at that was unrealistic. Have I lost touch with reality or has the world gone mad?
If you need prior business background and a bachelors degree to make $7.53/hour ($475/63 hours), something is indeed wrong. What do the non-managers make? I bet the people that issue the receipt at the car return and drive the cars to be cleaned and readied for another rental make more than that. 10 years ago my son was an over night stocker at WalMart and made twice that.