@ wrote:
Wages for rank-and-file workers are rising at the quickest pace in more than a decade, even faster than for bosses, a sign that the labor market has tightened sufficiently to convey bigger increases to lower-paid employees.
Gains for those workers have accelerated much of this year, a time when the unemployment rate fell to a half-century low. A short supply of workers, increased poaching and minimum-wage increases have helped those nearer to the bottom of the pay scale.
@BuffaloNY101 wrote:
That is if you take those jobs at those rates. You need to be emailing and asking for better and fair pay. Banks shops just wait and they will bonus back to $85 plus. Testing shops I regularly get $70. Storage shops got $50 each. I don't know what you are doing but if it takes you an hour to go over the guidelines your in the wrong business. If the tour takes more than 30 minutes again What are you doing?
@Tarantado wrote:
All speculative, but it's not a cut of wages on the shoppers specifically and directly, but more-so cutting overall project costs for the MSC's clients to accept work from the MSC's. It's like in ANY industry where clients want to cut costs more and more when paying for consulting work.
@BuffaloNY101 wrote:
If your asking for a $5 bonus on a $8 shop then you clearly don't value yourself.
Nah - I actually didn't see our dialogue as arguing. More like explaining. (Although, I did think your original post was slightly abrasive towards the end.)@ wrote:
I don't wish to further argue on here.
@ wrote:
A helpful hint may be not recording and then having to listen to entire shops. A simple statement of the approx. greeting is good enough.
@shoptastic wrote:
I actually think it could be the "opposite" in some cases.
The MSCs may be negotiating MORE money from the clients, but simply paying out less to shoppers, due to over-supply of people willing to take these jobs at base. The result is that MSC people get more $.
Also just speculation on my part, though.
@shoptastic wrote:
@BuffaloNY101 wrote:
If your asking for a $5 bonus on a $8 shop then you clearly don't value yourself.
Ah, I re-read and saw that was probably confusing how I wrote it...That was $5 extra for the $25 ACL shops. I actually wouldn't recommend them to anyone even for $30, as they are a pain and I was taking them as a newbie back then.
Nah - I actually didn't see our dialogue as arguing. More like explaining. (Although, I did think your original post was slightly abrasive towards the end.)@ wrote:
I don't wish to further argue on here.
@ wrote:
A helpful hint may be not recording and then having to listen to entire shops. A simple statement of the approx. greeting is good enough.
For ACL, there are so many observations to internalize and some that are very specific statements to look for that, unfortunately, I had to listen to a lot of the shops (I think the whole thing on occasion). I might just have a bad memory compared to others - I'm not sure. But, I definitely think ACL's self-storage shops are meticulous and hard to nail down. I've done about three or four total and I think every one I had to put something in the disclosures that I missed.
E.g., Did the associate use your name at any time during the shop? I had to repplay the whole freaking audio file to make sure she did or didn't in case I missed it in the midst of the bazillion other observations I had to make.
I haven't done Alta's $8 self-storage shops, but figured they were roughly similar. If anyone knows and I'm wrong, I wouldn't mind knowing for comparison's sake.
@JASFLALMT wrote:
How could I have possibly guessed.
@shoptastic wrote:
I haven't done Alta's $8 self-storage shops, but figured they were roughly similar. If anyone knows and I'm wrong, I wouldn't mind knowing for comparison's sake.
@shopperbob wrote:
One of the first posts I read after joining the Volition forum in 2003, dealt with decreasing fees; 17 years later, the subject still applies.
@sestrahelena wrote:
@shoptastic wrote:
I haven't done Alta's $8 self-storage shops, but figured they were roughly similar. If anyone knows and I'm wrong, I wouldn't mind knowing for comparison's sake.
They are not bad. Simple & very little narrative. I have done them but only when significantly (by their standards, anyway) bonused.
@NinS wrote:
A close friend is a manager of a high-volume retail outlet. I'm sure he makes decent money, but he works long hours six days a week. And his store isn't open late like a Taco Bell is. Those managers basically work two full-time jobs and their pay reflects it.
@NinS wrote:
A close friend is a manager of a high-volume retail outlet. I'm sure he makes decent money, but he works long hours six days a week. And his store isn't open late like a Taco Bell is. Those managers basically work two full-time jobs and their pay reflects it.
This is true, but it's also true that their day is generally 8 hours long with an hour for lunch and often another hour for prep. They're also working 3/4 of the year. In my neck of the woods, the average (which includes newbies) is over $60k (extrapolated to $80k as a base.) That doesn't include after-school/before-school hours (for which they're paid if they volunteer), summer school, club hours, parent-teacher conferences, chaperon pay, camps, or a myriad of other pay. My son-in-law makes a boatload of $ and he's in his 20s. My brother-in-law makes six figures, although he does have a Master's degree.@shoptastic wrote:
Teachers grade papers and prepare lesson plans at home without pay. .