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Originally posted by foofighter24
It was pretty rare, tbh. I think most buyers see the commission and assume the agent is getting much more of that than they actually do. Yeah, I think a restaurant gift card is appropriate, and would be very appreciated.


Yeah, and it sounds trite but referals are the lifeblood of an agent's business. People *deserve* good representation, and without people like you spreading the word far too many of your co-workers could end up working with somebody's brother's aunt next door neighbor just because they didn't know any better.

The pay for being an instructor was misrepresented to me by an outgoing instructor. It's $1300 a semester flat, I was given an estimate for about $1300 a month. With the hours setting everything up, meetings with other instructors, grading, in-lab time, dissection hours, etc., it is less than minimum wage. I had to politely decline and stick with just being a TA to get my volunteer hours

Originally posted by rams78110
The pay for being an instructor was misrepresented to me by an outgoing instructor. It's $1300 a semester flat, I was given an estimate for about $1300 a month. With the hours setting everything up, meetings with other instructors, grading, in-lab time, dissection hours, etc., it is less than minimum wage. I had to politely decline and stick with just being a TA to get my volunteer hours

Send a letter to the HuffPost comparing academia to Wal-Mart and McD's. Let's see if it gains any traction.

Originally posted by foofighter24
Send a letter to the HuffPost comparing academia to Wal-Mart and McD's. Let's see if it gains any traction.

I know Foo was jesting, but his words echoed my thoughts upon reading your post.

Originally posted by foofighter24
Send a letter to the HuffPost comparing academia to Wal-Mart and McD's. Let's see if it gains any traction.

I work at a Walmart pharmacy. It beats the shit out of working in academia as far as I see tbh. 99% of the people who act like walmart is awful for employees are either shitty employees who'd have the complaint anywhere or people who have no work experience at walmart. The other 1% probably have a gripe based on a bad boss or something.

Edit: Research assistants excluded. That's probably the butter zone for liking work in academia. Very few person-to-person interactions, good pay (on the order of $50,000 a year to start cold on a low-value project), hours limited by both university operation hours and contracted hours, less than full responsibility if the research comes up dry, some share in any gains from the research

Originally posted by rams78110
I work at a Walmart pharmacy. It beats the shit out of working in academia as far as I see tbh. 99% of the people who act like walmart is awful for employees are either shitty employees who'd have the complaint anywhere or people who have no work experience at walmart. The other 1% probably have a gripe based on a bad boss or something.

Edit: Research assistants excluded. That's probably the butter zone for liking work in academia. Very few person-to-person interactions, good pay (on the order of $50,000 a year to start cold on a low-value project), hours limited by both university operation hours and contracted hours, less than full responsibility if the research comes up dry, some share in any gains from the research

Oh, I don't hate Walmart because of their employees apathy nor do I really care about how their employer treats them. I hate Walmart because I don't like their inbred customers.

Originally posted by Dub J
Oh, I don't hate Walmart because of their employees apathy nor do I really care about how their employer treats them. I hate Walmart because I don't like their inbred customers.



The long lines at checkout kill it for me. I love saving a few bucks, but I'm not going to stand in line for 15 minutes if I'm only buying 3 items at a savings of $1.19. Its just not worth it.

Yeah, Kroger has become the same way. Went in there today to get a script filled and there was one checkout open and customers lined all the way up to the little floral kiosk. It was comical since one of the checkers was out by the front door cooking on a grill, another was scratching a lotto ticket at the service desk, and the others were obviously in hiding. The poor gal actually doing her job looked like she was ready to walk out.

Originally posted by Dub J
Oh, I don't hate Walmart because of their employees apathy nor do I really care about how their employer treats them. I hate Walmart because I don't like their inbred customers.



Yeah, they can get fucking irritating really quickly. No real argument from me or any other walmart employee or customer.

Originally posted by Larry Roadgrader
The long lines at checkout kill it for me. I love saving a few bucks, but I'm not going to stand in line for 15 minutes if I'm only buying 3 items at a savings of $1.19. Its just not worth it.

Blame that on massive operational inefficiency and reluctance to make any companywide policy changes. There are usually 'just barely enough' cashiers scheduled. Thing is, they're not rotating or staggered. You'll have 5 cashiers come in at say 6 and 5 more come in at 10. They all must take one-hour lunches not before 4 hours and not after 5 hours, and being that cashiers aren't incredibly smart they take lunch as early as they possibly can, usually at the same time. In the pharmacy we're a little more lax on the exact timing as long as you do take a lunch. I usually take mine 5-6 hours in when I start to run out of energy so I get shit done in the morning and come back to a short 2-3 hour shift, but hey Im smart. There are 'register trained' associates in apparel or electronics or wherever the fuck else they don't do anything but organize shit for 8 hours, and when they don't have enough, a PA goes off and asks for all register-trained associates to the front. They don't ever go, and they can't be forced to since they aren't technically scheduled to. Side-note; non-register trained associates are either massively retarded or untrustworthy. On the floor it's some medium-large sized responsibility to be trusted with a register and to be granted training. In the pharmacy we're all trained on it as soon as we take the job since our cashier works 8 hours out of a 12 hour operating day and 5 out of 7 days of the week. It's irritating and I pity people who look up to the opportunity to work register.

tl;dr cashiers don't give a dick about operational efficiency, neither to managers or owners. We do not ever have the correct amount of cashiers, and the people who are cashiers in the first place don't really care about your hurry or life, unfortunately.

Originally posted by Dub J
Yeah, Kroger has become the same way. Went in there today to get a script filled and there was one checkout open and customers lined all the way up to the little floral kiosk. It was comical since one of the checkers was out by the front door cooking on a grill, another was scratching a lotto ticket at the service desk, and the others were obviously in hiding. The poor gal actually doing her job looked like she was ready to walk out.



Hey sounds like Kroger has the same issue. That's pretty much what I see in my store or any other walmart I go into. Customers all pissed off at anyone wearing blue, some semi-moron register trained associate re-folding a shirt for the 13th time happy as a pig in shit to be getting paid $9+ an hour to do a kid's chores.

Originally posted by Dub J
Oh, I don't hate Walmart because of their employees apathy nor do I really care about how their employer treats them. I hate Walmart because I don't like their inbred customers.



I think the lack of quick and friendly service is part of that customer equation. Go to a Chick-Fil-A and the customers are willing to pay a bit more to be treated like humans don't behave and look like they just crawled out from a sewage pipe. Same thing with Trader Joes or Whole Foods.

If people are going to go to the trouble of setting up a scanner for home use, they should at least learn how to use it properly. Documents should be scanned as pdfs, not jpegs.

Originally posted by rams78110
Yeah, they can get fucking irritating really quickly. No real argument from me or any other walmart employee or customer.


I live in the center of Wallyworld (Arkansas). Most people here refer to Saturday as "Walmart day".

"hey mah, it's walmart day! i ain't not gonna wait one mo minute! they got some of them there good shoes for 5 dollars. Hurry your ass up, woman. Don't make me beat your'n ass!".

Random factoid about the American beer industry.

When Sam Adams launched in 1984, there were 97 total craft breweries in the United States. At the close of 2014 there were 3418, a 20% gain from 2013.

http://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/number-of-breweries/

Originally posted by InRomoWeTrust
Random factoid about the American beer industry.

When Sam Adams launched in 1984, there were 97 total craft breweries in the United States. At the close of 2014 there were 3418, a 20% gain from 2013.

http://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/number-of-breweries/

alcohol is so demonized in this country