Apple hires 800 at $8/hr

[Gale Hawkins]

What would have been the hourly rate if they hired 800 in China?

 

[tcreeley]

Working at the minimum wage end of the salary scale generally means you get less that 30 hours/week = no benefits.
Box stores like Walmart find it a good strategy to hire often and not retain employees.
People don't quite make enough to live on and if they have families, generally qualify for food stamps and medicaid (maine care in maine). The government ends up subsidizing a company like Walmart by making it possible for their low end minimum wage employees to keep showing up for work. We, the tax payers pay the bill. Walmart should raise the wages to make up the difference, or pay the government directly for the cost of services provided directly to their employees. Whenever a Walmart comes to town, local business suffers, and wages are undercut. And the money does not stay in the community. Walmart helped to accelerate outsourcing.
Apple is not much better.

Apple, Walmart, McDonald's: They All Stiff Their Workers as They Get Subsidized by Taxpayershttp://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/...r-workers-as-they-get-subsidized-by-taxpayers

How McDonald's and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens
How McDonald's and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens - Bloomberg

Wal-Mart shopping for subsidies?
Watchdog group's report says $1B in government subsidies have aided the retailer's expansion.
Report says Wal-Mart received $1B in government subsidies. - May. 24, 2004


Wal-Mart Relies On Taxpayers To Subsidize Low Wages
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/wall...heet)&utm_content=Google+Reader#ixzz2uwjnqjDz

 

[Industrial Toys]

Isn't it better to have lousy paying jobs at Walmart being subsidized to some degree by the Government rather then Wellfare people staying at home squeezing out kids that will largly never work either.

 

[Pixguy]

For many......

 

[300UGUY]

Isn't it better to have lousy paying jobs at Walmart being subsidized to some degree by the Government rather then Wellfare people staying at home squeezing out kids that will largly never work either.

You really should move to the states. Maybe Mississippi? You'd feel right at home there, lots of other folks there feel just like you do!

 

[Industrial Toys]

I'm not suggesting that either scenareo is particularly attractive. Just which you would choose between the two. I enter a Walmart maybe once a year. But I do ackowledge all the Chinese stuff in my life! I don't make a lot of money and have never made a lot of money, so having all these cheap goods available to me, increases my standard of living. When I demand quality, as with my tools and equipment, I buy traditional name brand stuff. You mostly get what you pay for.

 

[troutsqueezer]

I don't know, TS... the newscast you linked to said an employment agency was looking to fill 800 positions for multiple companies. One of those interviewed said she hoped to get into Apple's call center or warehouse. But nothing I heard said anything about Apple hiring 800 people at $8 per hour. The thread title doesn't fit the content. That's all anyone is trying to tell you. Now if you want a debate on $8.00 per hour jobs, why not just start a thread about that?

I'm not being stubborn here, I just don't respond to people with attitudes (not you) as they would like me to. Also, I know what I heard and the wife heard it too. We had a long conversation about it directly after. I made the post shortly after so I stick to the premise. It is interesting that the only published newscast I could round up that was done by that particular station was not the one we witnessed. So I dunno, maybe Lisa Gonzales (the anchor we heard) revealed more than station management wanted her to and they posted a later version of the story. I used to hang around Elk Grove and until Apple moved in, there wasn't 800 jobs in the whole town. Whether it's 800 or 400 doesn't really change anything. Call it a typo if desired but I wrote the title with clear conscience and a fresh memory. All told, no doubt Apple has hired one heck of a lot more than 800 at that low wage and lower.

 

[DeereMann]

I try to buy American made products whenever I can. You go to the websites to find companies/products, and most have been reduced to irrelevant trinkets. All the normal stuff we need & want has been outsourced, thanks to favorable tax treatment to ship manufacturing overseas.

And who did that? Why our illustrious government 'representatives' who have been bought off by the lobbyists of the same companies that benefit from it.

Welcome to the Bannana Republic of the Americas. :thumbdown:

 

[rsallen]

That thank you goes to blow it hard William lick it dry and like it Clinton.

 

[DeereMann]

That thank you goes to blow it hard William lick it dry and like it Clinton.

Yup. = NAFTA & now PAFTA