wtb: a new job. pst w/offer.

So, I’ve kicked my job search up a big frickin’ notch.
Having been with my current employer for nearly two years, though realizing that for much of the time I’ve worked at this store:
The wage slaves for the Golden Arches make more than I do to start;
The wage slaves for the Golden Arches do far less work than I do;
I am wasting my sheer talent on a place like where I am;
I can’t afford my bills at all on these wages, especially when my hours get assraped down to part time like they are doing now…

I have to find another source of employment.

It’s sad when base pay at McDonald’s is $7.25 / $7.50 / $7.75, depending on shift, but a grocery store that I won’t name in this entry, which sees rather high volume, and has relatively high prices can’t even afford to pay their Customer Service desk competitively.

This is why the people I’ve trained have all left! They all say the same thing:
“Daaaaamn. They want us to do all this, and only pay ~$7 an hour?!”

Maritza is right in wondering how people live on this kind of salary.
My answer to her: Up until last month, our family owned our home. I have yet to move out from living with my mother, because I can’t afford it in this area! Apartments are disappearing, replaced by condos; Trailer Parks are being obliterated, being replaced by more condos. They all want way too much for the condos, as well. Let me quote a price for one set of condos: “From the low $350’s to $1 million” — Three hundred fifty thousand dollars is low?!

Now, of course, some of you would ask me why I haven’t considered moving somewhere else where the cost of living is lower.
I have, trust me. However, with the current state of my mother right now, in that she needs constant watching and help, being far away is something I can’t do.

Time to tighten the belt and get to searching.