I worked at the tire center in wal-mart when I was in college. To accomodate my school schedule I started at 2 in the afternoon and worked until the tire center closed. Then I was supposed to work with the people inside doing whatever they did for the last few hours. They never actually told me who to report to or what I was supposed to be doing for the last 3 hours so I would just go sleep in my car then go back in and clock out at the end of my shift. I did this for like 9 months and no one ever questioned me.
Did you quit or did someone noticed after 9 Months?
I quit when I got another job. My boss was gunning for me for other reasons when I left though.
Lmao my man came here with his green text telling everyone how happy he is for getting money for doing essentially nothing and people here are just straight up calling him a dumb poor bitch.
People see a 4chan post and just immediately go full hater mode.
Fucking ballistic
Getting paid to be there through the night for the times when a person is actually needed, as well as being on site to keep an eye on things. Sounds like honest work to me
Especially since it’s nights - when most people don’t want to work, and when it fucks up your health doing it regularly.
Home Depot is an hardware shop in the USofA, right?
If so, why is an hardware store open overnight? What DIY emergency can come about that it can’t wait for working hours?
These stores are not open at night. They sometimes have overnight staff that process loading bay trucks and/or restock shelves on the retail floor.
Basically every chain grocery store does this at least once a week as well. I remember them trying to get me to do it when I worked for one while in college. Acted like it was such a great opportunity to get an extra buck an hour, which I quickly refused.
Go to any 24/7 store around 3-4am and you’ll probably see people restocking shelves.
I actually forgot 24/7 stores existed. I am too rural to have those nearby.
Yeah, most of our stores close by 10, with a couple open to until 2. I worked as a night custodian for a time and hit the one 24/7 store sometimes on the way home.
I worked retail at a major store ~45k sqft and we had people come in at 2-3am and work until 10-11am “stocking shelves”. Thing is, part of our closing duties when it wasn’t busy was to restock the shelves. So most of the time the people stocking just ducked around for 8 hours. They were always super chill but had terrible weed.
They were always super chill but had terrible weed.
Gotta save the good stuff for after work 😎
Ok, but what are the benefits? Is there a union? $17 is barely more than minimum wage.
The federal minimum is less than half of that
$7.25 is the federal minimum, which is the still minimum for many states.
And $12-15/hr is a completely reasonable wage for an adult in many states.
Wot now?
Which states? And can they have the same kind of financial freedom like the 80s?
Many of the southern and central US states with low cost of living, like Alabama, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, etc. You’re not going to be rich, but you could afford housing, food, and other basic necessities.
An equivalent yearly salary in SF, for example, is $45-56k/year (cost of living calculator), or $22-28/hr. You certainly couldn’t survive on $12-15/hr in SF, but $22-28 might be doable.
Calculations assume 8 hours/day and 250 work days per year.
It’s livable in rural ohio
I work overnight at a home Depot, this has not been my experience.
You’d have to be pretty low volume not to have shit to do. Hell, moving pallets around that were placed in overstock way far from their stock location because people were too busy would be a full time job itself. That said, it’s rare for anyone overnight to get the training to actually know what needs to be done.
European here (we don’t have Home Depot),isn’t Home Depot a hardware Store?What is there to do at night for eight Hours?Nevermind the Question was answered one comment below 😂
