Archived Walmart raising starting pay to $10.

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Unless you have a degree and/or past management experience and are interviewing for TL or above (and even TL is stretching it) you have no power in negotiating your pay during the interview. I mean, by all means you can try, but they're not going to pay you more than the base pay as a level 1. It's just not going to happen.
 
I negotiated the fuck out of my TL pay. Trust me, it can be done.

Now, Cart Attendant or Sales Floor TM? Good luck with that. I wouldn't bother trying to negotiate your pay for anything below TL.
 
Going back to BTS, aren't there computers in your stores that are available 24/7 and somewhat private? You could take the survey 2 more times at least. One to cancel out the monitored one and one to put what you really want. I'll be taking it many, many, many times this year.
 
konk said:
Going back to BTS, aren't there computers in your stores that are available 24/7 and somewhat private? You could take the survey 2 more times at least. One to cancel out the monitored one and one to put what you really want. I'll be taking it many, many, many times this year.
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This. If you're working a late shift, do the BTS on the sign & label PC in the fixture room where it's highly unlikely anyone will watch you.
 
So , do you all think spot will increase wages? There was some fluff piece in mag (Fortune? , Business An) about what a dynamic and future oriented CEO this Mr Cornell is.
Will I still get a raise if I cried and threatened to walk out?
 
I make $9.50 and minimum wage in my state is set to go to $10 next January, so as I said earlier in this thread, none of this means anything to me.
 
Nauzhror said:
We start 35 cents over minimum wage here. Min is 8.15 N03 is 8.50. Min here becomes 8.50 though in January.
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Yeah. My store used to start at 25 cents above minimum for N03. That was when minimum wage was $8/hour here. As soon as it went up another dollar, we didn't match our old 25 cents extra rule, and base is now just minimum. ETL-HR thought she was absolutely hilarious when she held that huddle all those months ago -- "Team, I have great news! Due to a new state law, nearly everyone in the store will be getting a raise next week! Yay!! So whether you're new in role or a long-time team member, you could be seeing up to 75 cents extra on your next check. How exciting!"

She of course forgot to mention that veteran TMs would now be making the exact same as TMs who started yesterday, and merit raises would vanish. How exciting.
 
Patty said:
So , do you all think spot will increase wages? There was some fluff piece in mag (Fortune? , Business An) about what a dynamic and future oriented CEO this Mr Cornell is.
Will I still get a raise if I cried and threatened to walk out?
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They have already said they won't and that they already pay competively. But you can cry and walk out all you want. There are already plenty of people who will work for your salary because they are convinced Spot is the best place to work.
 
thatcashierdude said:
Have there been many cases where they pay less than the minimum wage? I was under the impression walmart got in trouble for that, along with their off the clock working, but I haven't heard anything for target. They seem to keep their wages above the minimum wage of the area, so if a state's minimum wage is 8.00 they will be at that or more for base pay. It's still shit pay, but it is above the minimum.
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RG was stressing that they often pay the minimum wage, whereas the article says, above, not above or equal to.
 
I seriously doubt that N01 pay at Target will ever be the same at every store in every state. Target has been and continues to be too cheap for that. They just don't care enough because they're still riding on the fact that people think Target is a better place to work than Wal-Mart. (I personally believe it is, but only given that the pay is the same. Give me $10/hr and a regular schedule cashiering and I'll be more than happy to switch over to Wal-Mart.)
 
Target's policy mostly pisses me off in the matter that the competitive wage increases cut into yearly raises.

I was hired at 7.50, min wage was $7.40 at the time. I was then boosted to $7.75, and then a yearly raise pushed it to $7.97. Min wage then jumped to $8.15. I didn't get boosted to $8.37 or $8.72, I was boosted to $8.15, and then a few months later to $8.50 due to a "competitive wage increase". Then went $8.50 to $9.50 when changed from N03 to N07.

I might actually get a raise this year, but only because minimum wage will rise to $8.50 (our base pay) in January, but if they raise N03 again when that happens my yearly raise will once again disappear. All said and done min wage in my state becomes $8.90 January 2017, and I doubt I will make more than $10.25 then ($8.90 + another .35 cent raise to push cashier higher than minimum, plus a dollar for N07) unless I have been promoted to a TL or found a job elsewhere.

Then again, I can guarantee one of those things will happen, because I won't continue working at my store as a TM for another two years.
 
Dear retAil gal,
I think you misunderstood me. I didn't cry or threaten to walk out over wages or a raise! I would never do even consider behaving like a 2 year old. I started crying test cuz it was 3rd day alone in fitting room and I was getting nagged about 7 carts of hardship while 8 people were throwing clothes at me. Phones kept bringing, hadn't had a break and low blood sugar thing going on. I said I was sick and wanted to go home. They wouldn't let me leave because I couldn't stop crying.
What I was referring to in this post was that I can pretty much assume I won't be get to g even a 2 cent raise. I have asked to be taken out of there. The next day (yesterday), they put me back there alone again with even more hardship.

I didn't communicate that in this post. I had talked about it in another thread
 
Patty said:
Dear retAil gal,
I think you misunderstood me. I didn't cry or threaten to walk out over wages or a raise! I would never do even consider behaving like a 2 year old. I started crying test cuz it was 3rd day alone in fitting room and I was getting nagged about 7 carts of hardship while 8 people were throwing clothes at me. Phones kept bringing, hadn't had a break and low blood sugar thing going on. I said I was sick and wanted to go home. They wouldn't let me leave because I couldn't stop crying.
What I was referring to in this post was that I can pretty much assume I won't be get to g even a 2 cent raise. I have asked to be taken out of there. The next day (yesterday), they put me back there alone again with even more hardship.

I didn't communicate that in this post. I had talked about it in another thread
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That sucks and you should probably be looking for another job. But that doesn't change the fact that they won't give you a raise if you've been having a hard time and threaten to quit...the best they will do is hold the door for you on your way out.
 
I hate the fact that target doesn't pay the same for all positions across the whole United States. We are United aren't we ?????

I am a PA. and only make a little over $9 dollars per hour in some states that is what a cart attendant makes. WTF WTF. Need I say more. So so so under paid as a perishable assistant after 2 years
 
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Cart attendants make 8.50 here, PA is 9.50 I believe (PA is N07, right?). Most stores PA is only .50 over CA though to the best of my knowledge.
 
PA is N09. Same as specialists used to be. Should be $1.00 over base.
 
Hmm, wonder what PA's make here then. I assume 10.00 or 10.50 as I make 9.50 at N07 and here N07 is 1.00 over N03.
 
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