Someone please explain to me the reasoning to bring in new associates at a higher rate of pay than current longtime people are making. This is a huge insult and I for one cannot wrap my head around why home office would do this. Our club has been hiring 18 year olds, who know nothing and they are making more, $18.00 an hour. Morale is in the po---r. No respect for the people who have given their all to this company.
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Ok, I will give it to you straight, since I am in this very position. I am a double digit long time associate who only makes $15.00 and hour? Ok, I mean $15.30. Wait what? yes, that is it. It's not right since I get leaned on quite a bit to do more outside of my job that I was hired for. New hires start out at that, and maybe more, and they do the bare minimum. They stand around in a group with other workers from other areas while I pass by with things to be stocked. I mean why work when they are going to school, and making 15 bucks and hour and can BS all day with friends. I have been asking this question for a long time, with no real answer or a shrug and a walk away kind of attitude. What myself and all of you here should know is this. Sams Club will never change, so you have to change. You think that just because they give you Turkey's, or Jackets, or Sams Club shoes, or little bonuses that are taxed way to he-l, that they care about you? Trust me they do not care one bit about you or your issues or complaints. Regardless of how legit they are, there seems to be nobody who can give us workers a straight answer about unfair pay. They give you scraps, and you all eat it up and think it's a meal, when the bigger issues are being brushed aside. And before I go further, the advice I am going to give, is what I need to do for myself. Here it goes. 1. Stop believing or hoping Sams will change, because it will not. The writing is on the wall, and they do not care about your opinions. 2. Instead of complaining, use that energy to find something else before it is too late. Get out if you can, and stop thinking that the world begins and ends with Sams. There is untapped potential in all of us that we refuse to see. 3. FEAR. Fear is holding some of you back (myself included) from venturing out into something else in the work world. Find out why that is, and put one foot in front of the other and put applications in somewhere else. You don't have to commit, you just have to try. 4. Maybe you find something that is less money to start with, but you can work your way up to more, and your mental sanity isn't suffering like it is a Sams. 5. Time is not on your side. We are not getting any younger, and you need to decide what your life is going to be, or become stuck at Sams, with no way out. 6. Stop thinking that you can't do it. We only have 1 life, and its short enough as it is, so why be miserable for a place that will never change or listen to senior workers, or appreciate them? If anyone has the solution for better pay for long time workers, I am all ears. But what you long time workers should do is this. Slow down!!! Stop running yourself in the ground everyday, and pace yourself and do your hours, and go home and live your life, and fill your life with your joys and hobbies. Don't allow Sams to eat away at your time. Why work so hard when others are just passing the time. I am not saying don't work, I am simply saying work smarter not harder so you have more energy for other things. Pace yourself since those other workers are just chilling and talking to their friends. Sams is not worth your life, EVER!!!
Even if you quit and come back with the new current pay rate with job credits. In about 3 years or so you will be back in the same situation with new hires making the same amount on their paycheck.
Salary compression levels the play field and you either try to go to salaried or chase the dollar.
Back in the 90’s they raised the starting pay from $6 an hour to $9 an hour. Anyone that was already at $9 or more got NOTHING. There were associates that had put in 5-10 years of service making the same as 18 year olds with zero job experience. It happens. Times change. Deal with it.
Exactly, we went years without a raise, they bumped up the max but we didn’t get a bump up for the years with no raise. We still have to wait for the annual raise. Should have gotten some kind of compensation.
Quit, wait 6 mos and re-apply. You'llose PTO but will gain $/hr.
@idh+1hMXqoqm Thank you, finally someone with an intelligent answer. Paying PT peeps more due them being able to get benefits makes sense, however it is still not fair and equitable to others. I also have been told that it is Workday that makes the offer and if you cashiered at Jack in the box, they figure you have enough experience, so they pay them more.
Are the new hires full or part time? If they are part time the company doesn't have to pay benefits like they do to full time employees. Benefits add another 40% on average onto the hourly wage. Example: $20 an hour full time wage actually equals $28 an hour when benefits are included.
Quit and reapply and come in at the higher start rate.
their are many answers to this question all of which are correct in its own way. 1. Home office sees long times as hangers on , folks who should have left long ago. 2. Id--ts run home home office and have no idea whatsoever how their decisions truly affect affect people on the street. 3. Its none of your business what others make. 4. You agreed to a rate of pay when you hired on and it is the company's right to give you raises as it sees fit. 5. there are other reasons but I am tired of typing , a thing that keeps me from being a novelist. 6. The biggest reason is that hourly workers are literally seen a liabilities , enemies of company profits. ... You ( we ) are leeches in their eyes. To me the most laughable and tragic thing is that local managers often see themselves a as "important" to the company all the while missing the point that they are seen as leaches just like us.
to @zer+1hMXqoqm : This is not just about me, but for every employee who has been with the company for more than a minute. I am looking for definitive answers not smart a-s ones. Perhaps there is a manager or two on this page who can explain to me why they bring new people in and pay them more to do the same job as what I and others have been doing for years. When merchandisers were raised up last year, we did not get a 2% raise, nobody did for that fact. Why should some newbie get paid more than what all of us have been doing?
Shouldn't you be maxed out if you're "longtime"?