Ok, I will give it to you straight, since I am in this very position. I am a double digit long time associate who only makes $15.00 and hour? Ok, I mean $15.30. Wait what? yes, that is it. It's not right since I get leaned on quite a bit to do more outside of my job that I was hired for. New hires start out at that, and maybe more, and they do the bare minimum. They stand around in a group with other workers from other areas while I pass by with things to be stocked. I mean why work when they are going to school, and making 15 bucks and hour and can BS all day with friends. I have been asking this question for a long time, with no real answer or a shrug and a walk away kind of attitude. What myself and all of you here should know is this. Sams Club will never change, so you have to change. You think that just because they give you Turkey's, or Jackets, or Sams Club shoes, or little bonuses that are taxed way to he-l, that they care about you? Trust me they do not care one bit about you or your issues or complaints. Regardless of how legit they are, there seems to be nobody who can give us workers a straight answer about unfair pay. They give you scraps, and you all eat it up and think it's a meal, when the bigger issues are being brushed aside. And before I go further, the advice I am going to give, is what I need to do for myself. Here it goes. 1. Stop believing or hoping Sams will change, because it will not. The writing is on the wall, and they do not care about your opinions. 2. Instead of complaining, use that energy to find something else before it is too late. Get out if you can, and stop thinking that the world begins and ends with Sams. There is untapped potential in all of us that we refuse to see. 3. FEAR. Fear is holding some of you back (myself included) from venturing out into something else in the work world. Find out why that is, and put one foot in front of the other and put applications in somewhere else. You don't have to commit, you just have to try. 4. Maybe you find something that is less money to start with, but you can work your way up to more, and your mental sanity isn't suffering like it is a Sams. 5. Time is not on your side. We are not getting any younger, and you need to decide what your life is going to be, or become stuck at Sams, with no way out. 6. Stop thinking that you can't do it. We only have 1 life, and its short enough as it is, so why be miserable for a place that will never change or listen to senior workers, or appreciate them? If anyone has the solution for better pay for long time workers, I am all ears. But what you long time workers should do is this. Slow down!!! Stop running yourself in the ground everyday, and pace yourself and do your hours, and go home and live your life, and fill your life with your joys and hobbies. Don't allow Sams to eat away at your time. Why work so hard when others are just passing the time. I am not saying don't work, I am simply saying work smarter not harder so you have more energy for other things. Pace yourself since those other workers are just chilling and talking to their friends. Sams is not worth your life, EVER!!!
This was too good to stay buried in replies. Bumped from @3rjk+1hMXqoqm.