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I worked for 4 years as a merchandiser (to this day one of my favorite jobs). I made $14.25 an hour for driving around to stores and "facing" chips. I would bas
by legitster 5y ago
I worked for 4 years as a merchandiser (to this day one of my favorite jobs). I made $14.25 an hour for driving around to stores and "facing" chips. I would basically clean up the chip aisle for the chip company so it looked nice and people would buy more chips.
It's hard to imagine that job makes any sense at $25 an hour.
This wasn't a case where I was being underpaid for my labor. There is only so much value a job like that is ever going to create, and at a certain point it doesn't make sense to employee people doing it anymore.
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago> at a certain point it doesn't make sense to employee people doing it anymore I’m honestly convinced a growing slice of America sees employment as inherently oppressive and undignified, and so yes, believes you would have preferred unemployment to working.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>I’m honestly convinced a growing slice of America sees employment as inherently oppressive and undignified The problem is that this slice mostly isn't the unemployed but people far from it. This is yet another societal problem where people are telling other people what's good for them and would probably be solved if people put their money where their mouth is.
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- prawn 5y agoWas a part of that job being enjoyable coming from the fact that you weren't interacting with customers? Low pressure, hard to muck up, not dealing with disgruntled and abusive customers, etc. My wife has talked about enjoying the merchandising aspect of her early jobs for a bakery and winery.
- legitster 5y agoI actually like customer interaction, but it was the first job where I got to self direct. Drive around - listen to audiobooks or music. Clock out and take a nap when I felt like it. Good times.