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In reply to the discussion: I Am Pissed Off Today [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)59. Really? No other reason?
I've worked for start-ups where the pay was far less than the rest of the market for technical jobs just because that was all the company could afford.
At my own company, I pay everyone, including myself, the same wage, but it is less than equivalent jobs elsewhere, because the economy is so poor in our region that I cannot even charge a reasonable amount for my product. We have a profit sharing program, but the profit has been on the order of a couple of hundred dollars each month for years (or a loss), so the employment piece of the company pie, though the largest cost, still isn't large enough to pay any of us a good wage.
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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