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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
It's a good article.
But I'm also thinking about Wegman's, the number one rated grocery chain in Consumer Reports, the US nonprofit product rating magazine. They are also on best employers lists, but unlike Costco and Trader Joe's, they stock more items than other supermarkets. Pretty much, Wegman's is a WalMart-type food market (both in items stocked and price -- sometimes lower!), and a Whole Foods, in the same building.
Now, Wegman's is like Costco in that, at least in my metro area, they shun low-income neighborhoods. Nobody's perfect.
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Well the affluent must eat too, and I doubt that Value Village has premises on Rodeo drive.
Strangely enough the Vancouver Costco is located between Chinatown and skid row.
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The best employers can often get away with paying less, and will. I imagine that because of their terrible reputation for high pressure and uncaring bosses, Amazon has to pay its computer programmers more. There are companies with a good reputation for how they treat programmers (Hyland Software) that are also known for having below-average salaries.
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I am not up on best employer standards. I have always applied for jobs I thought I would like and sometimes quit the first day. Either you like it or you don't and their are a hundred and one reasons for either I have found.
But last year I was thinking of retiring a bit more. I work summers and goof of in the winter, and figure without something to go to that I must go to I will become a fat blob. So I started looking at best companies to work for for part time casual employees. I was surprised at the low wages most of them offered. One was even below minimum wage.
Wage is not really a factor for me as anything over a certain amount would be clawed back in reduced government pension. But I can't see this being the case for most.
I wimped out on the issue by going back to my summer job which pays enough to make any claw back trivial, but I shall no doubt look into it again in the fall.
What is the big factor for job satisfaction I wonder? For me I think it is money, the feeling that you are at least adequate, and preferably better than adequate, and co-workers that you enjoy and who enjoy you. I don't think money is that important to me at this stage, but I would be unhappy and refuse to work in a position where I thought they were messing around with me. I always seem to get along with people I work with and for and don't have any adequacy issues at present. But mostly I have worked for small companies or individuals so am curious as to what makes for job satisfaction in an unskilled labour position in a place like Wal-Mart or Costco or Amazon.
Helen