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In reply to the discussion: I Am Pissed Off Today [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)11. I can't know about that particular job listing,
but sometimes the person putting the listing out there has no clue what the job really ought to pay.
A friend of mine worked for six or seven years for a state employment agency, and he ran into that all the time, and would try to get the companies to understand that they will get what they pay for. Once he received a posting for a French language translator, and they were offering $10/hour. He can do French translation, and would have applied for the job himself except that he already knew that translation jobs more typically pay $25/hour. He explained that to them. They said, No, we think we'll get someone at this rate. No one ever did apply for that job, at least not through my friend's office.
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I work for a blood center and that's about what we pay phlebotomists. I don't think a rookie just
brewens
Sep 2014
#2
I donate platelets too. They make it convenient for employees, sometimes letting us do
brewens
Sep 2014
#20
Good going. If you're doing platelets, you won't get anyone very green. At least at my center,
brewens
Sep 2014
#25
At our center, we have the edonor chairs. They are set up with a PC, screen and keyboard on a boom
brewens
Sep 2014
#52
yeah its better people should be unemployed instead of taking a "shit" job paying $15 an hour? nt
msongs
Sep 2014
#5
I think it was kind of implied that established corporations were what was being referenced...
Veilex
Sep 2014
#88
I worked at a place once where they called the minimum raise an introduction....
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2014
#55