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> while the assistant managers I think were in the 60-80k range. Don't know how it was at Home Depot, and my experience at Walmart was ~20 years ago, but asst
by raydev 3y ago
> while the assistant managers I think were in the 60-80k range.
Don't know how it was at Home Depot, and my experience at Walmart was ~20 years ago, but asst managers were in-building 10-12 hours/day, usually there 6 days a week for various reasons, and at that time were only making $50k salary to start. Unless there were other bonuses I was unaware of, it was absolutely not worth it.
I wasn't making a living wage as an hourly associate, but they were super strict about me working beyond 40 hours, and when they "requested" beyond that (it was rare but never truly optional if I wanted to keep climbing) I was well compensated because they were terrified of lawsuits by that point. Small blessings.
- swozey 3y agoYeah, asst managers lived a brutal life walking back and forth through the stores on walkie talkies all day long. I have a feeling its a lot of peoples first salaried jobs, they move up from front line to asst mgr so willing to take more abuse to not make $15/hr anymore. I was there at many points. I did that leaving HD, 12.50 to 40k in ops. I can picture the faces of all of my managers, ASMs. I can't picture the face of either of my store managers. I'm not sure I actually ever saw them. They definitely weren't in the store often. I loved my first store and HATED my second store. If you're full-time at HD you have no control of your hours at all. They'd schedule me to close 11pm-12am then open at 5am the next day at the second store. I just quit one day. I constantly got sick from getting no sleep. If you're part-time there you have 100% control of your hours. Tons of people in college who worked 2-4 hours a day. It was miserable watching them come and go.