holy shit. Just reading that makes me want to fly out to Wisconsin and pat Scott Walker on the back. That is just fucking insane.
Just think about this for a minute. 32 bucks an hour to collect a ticket, stick it in a machine, ask for a sum, receive said sum, and maybe make change.
yes, which coupled with presumably strong union protections as to job tenure, would ensure that all of them would be given the opportunity to max out their hourly wage.
Frankly, should I care how long you’ve been doing that nonskilled job after a certain point? I have a masters’ degree. I make about 42,000 a year and with the budget as it is do not see a raise in the near future.
You left out “make change for literally hundreds of motorists per day, all in seconds so no 1 gets pissed off and shoots me since I’m trapped in a little room with tons of steel whizzing past me all day while I breath exhaust fumes.”
Hey, the money is good. If you think that’s a better job than whatever it is you do for money now, go apply. Go get that job. You won’t be fighting me for it, at least.
Then why not apply for one of those toll collector jobs? With enough applicants, they might not feel the need to pay so much. You know how much a garbageman makes? A sewer worker?
$31 per hour for a toll collector and they go after the classroom teachers? Isn’t that like looking for a lost wallet under the light rather than in the alley it was lost?
My Dad was a toll collector for a brief period during the '70’s recession (despite having a degree in chemical engineering). He said it was the worst job he’d ever had-- worse than the stint involving roofing tar. It’s broiling in the summer, freezing in the winter, surprisingly filthy, full of assholes and mind-numbingly boring. It’s 8 hours alone in a box on a highway, where you get to play chicken with cars every time you want to piss. The money was good, but he jumped at the first job he could get to get away from it. I got the impression it’s kind of like garbage collection-- it’s an unpleasant job with no other redeeming qualities, paying people well is the only way to keep it staffed, assuming you don’t want call-center turn over. (And because it involves money, you can’t go to the other solution for “staffing jobs that suck”, illegal immigrants)