Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees

tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It reads like the minimum went from $18 to $23. So the minimum is up from $18, to $23.

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  • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Aldi announced that it it looking to hire thousands of new workers, as well as increasing their minimum wage to $18 and $23 an hour.

    My read on this, is that they are discussing the minimum for two separate positions. Potentially cashier and team leader. Would make sense as they don’t have many employees on shift at a time.

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    • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah that could be. Either way, $23 isn’t the max

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    • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Should have kept reading:

      The national average starting wages for Aldi workers will be set at $18 an hour and $23 an hour for warehouse workers.

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  • tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope so. It would be a nice change compared to… Well… Everything.

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    • princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It really is. The fact “up to” can mean either a maximum value, or an increase to a value, is stupid.

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      • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sale, up to 90% off!

        Where the 90% off is the triple clearance table that’s been inventory they genuinely can’t get rid of, while everything else is 10-15% off

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Minimum does not mean “up to”.

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• damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s just being read wrong, it’s not written like a “save up to $10” kind of line. The “up” just describes the change (i.e. ‘the starting wage is going up; becoming $X’). Within the article, it’s completely unambiguous:

  The national average starting wages for Aldi workers will be set at $18 an hour and $23 an hour for warehouse workers.

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