Kmart also offered an insurance plan, but I never got a chance to get into it. (When I found out I was eligible, that’s when I was having stress-related illness).
I lived quite comfortably in Burlington, NC on about $18,000 per year.
Food allergies? How about someone who’s just mildly picky about their food? How do you indicate via pointing things like, “Hold the mayo,” or “well-done,” or “I want the dressing on the side”? A waiter who can’t communicate with the majority of his or her customers is by definition a poor waiter.
When? Kids? Mortgage?
Maybe I’m just skewed by living in one of the highest C-O-L areas in the country (Washington DC region) but $18,000 isn’t even going to get you a lean-to around here.
I lived on $8/hour in Pittsburgh while I was also taking out student loans to pay college tuition. Lived on as in that $8/hour paid for my housing, utilities, food, entertainment, clothes, school books, etc.
I don’t know if this is true for Thea too, but my sister who works at WalMart has health insurance including eye and dental (UPMC HMO) through WalMart.
C-O-L is much higher in DC than where I live now, but in general around here a single person with no kids can live decently on 18,000 to 20,000$ a year. Married people with one or two kids live decently on 30,000 - 35,000$ per year in this area, which is not that far south of Pittsburrgh, PA.
1993 - 1996. No kids, escpecially since I was not making much money. I had a 1 bdrm apartment for $350/month, including water and steam heat.
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Wow… In Toronto, it’s hard to find a room in a shared basement apartment for under $400.
Oh, please. You must be kidding- the OP wasn’t about the fact that someone was inconvenienced by the workers problem. See this:
That is absolutely true- a person who cannot communicate does not belong on a sales floor where people expect them to talk to them. To assign someone to work on a sales floor that cannot properly communicate seems cruel to me, and can only serve to frustrate the worker and the customer.
I would guess that the employee was probably not usually a floor worker and was on his way to break or something when he got stopped, or at least I hope that’s the case. If he is regularly a floor worker, he should have some means to communicate or have the ability to go get another worker to assist him in dealing with customers. Even the floor stock people at Wal-Mart get asked where things are, and management knows that.
What exactly did the lady in the OP do wrong? Bernse showed her where the shredders were, so the communication issue was solved that way, but come one- is everyone supposed to carry paper and pen in case someone they come in contact with cannot speak? Is this reasonable? Or does it make more sense that a person who cannot speak has some alternatives when dealing with customers?
My experience at Home Depot.
I had bought some gear that would not fit into my car, so I had to rent their truck to haul it. After I set this up, the manager sent two guys out with me to help me load it.
One guy said something to me that sounded like, “You got de lodin go?”
Sorry?
“You got de lodin go?” he said, irritated.
“I just want this stuff in the truck,” I said.
“De lodin go?”
Finally I just gave up and walked out and said, here, this truck.
He shook his head in disgust.
After my gear is strapped down, I look at the side of the truck and notice a logo that says something like “Load 'n Go.”
The idiot gopher thought that just because he called the truck the “Load 'n Go,” everyone in the world must know the name.