Comment on 31-year-old teacher quit her job. Now she works at Costco—and boosted her income by 50%: ‘I've never been happier' (these are not feel good stories, this is sad)

• SomeKindaName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well then in that case your reading comprehension is pretty bad.

  In September 2022, I started full-time on the memberships team at a new warehouse in Athens, Georgia. I had two 15-minute breaks, and 30 minutes for lunch. Otherwise, I was on my feet all day.

  At first, I made $18.50 an hour — a little less than what I earned as a teacher. I put in 40-hour workweeks, five days a week, and got a $1-per-hour raise when I hit 1,000 hours.

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  • elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My reading comprehension is fine. Do you understand the difference between the headline and the article?

    To recap, my critique is that the headline obscures the real story – that she got a raise by getting a corporate job. “Works at Costco” clearly implies working at a store, not corporate.

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At first, I made $18.50 an hour — a little less than what I earned as a teacher.

    So you agree the headline is a lie because she was not making 50% more by switching to work at Costco but by finding a job with vertical promotion possibilities and getting a corporate job using her degree which few would be able to follow in her footsteps cause their is limited positions.

    She took a pay cut to work on her feet all day.

    This is a recruiter article bragging about how much better it is to work for Costco and they try to make the pay cut seem like not a big deal when there is vastly different perks and benefits.

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    • SomeKindaName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      At 60 hours a week she was making 15.06/hr as a teacher. Base pay at 18.50 is a raise.

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