I’m basically just a stock boy. But I’ve been doing it for three years now. My old job was cutting my hours and I really couldn’t afford to just stay there.
I spent over a month trying to find a second part time job with little success. Until I decided to apply for a new full time job with some competitors. It meant giving up on having two jobs and getting more than 40hrs a week, but no one wanted to give me a part time job with the odd hours stockers have to work.
I got a call from one store within an hour of applying. And took a job from a different store that did the entire hiring process over the phone in one day because they didn’t want to wait and have someone else make an offer before I could come in for an in person interview.
Now I’m making about 20% more, getting full time hours, and possibly most important of all will have health insurance (something my old job didn’t provide).
I was surprised how in demand someone with experience can be, even in a low level position. Although if your job is anything like mine you’ve had to put up with an endless stream of shitty new hires who couldn’t do a job even as easy as stocking. So it makes sense why managers and hr are excited to see what should be a sure thing applying.
This subreddit is full of information that has no use in my current financial situation. But I encourage everyone to look around at your other options. Even if you don’t have a degree or certification or a real carrier. Companies are always hiring for low level positions, and some of them are willing to pay more to not have to train someone or worry about them not being capable of the job.
TLDR: If a stocker can get a 20% raise by changing companies you should at least give it a shot.
Also I’m on mobile and I always see people apologize for that with formatting so hopefully this doesn’t look crappy. And I don’t think I’m breaking the rules by posting a success story. The details of my own experiences are just there to help anyone else in a similar position realize this applies to them as well. I’ve seen plenty of posts about changing companies that I didn’t feel like applied to me, so I tried to make a post that would’ve gotten me to explore my own options sooner.
Submitted February 24, 2018 at 09:23PM by mehaffc http://ift.tt/2GHLTck
