by Ice Cream Jonsey » Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:19 pm
Rochester NY had a unique problem in that a fortune 500 company started shedding thousands of middle managers about 25 years ago to the point its buildings became either empty shells or parking lots. All the useless fucks who drove that company into the ground hit the streets and with their pensions and exit packages unfairly competed with people starting their careers, sending Rochester's job prospects into the toilet.
Wouldn't they have been less attractive because they would have demanded a greater salary? Or do you mean that because they had pensions and such they would take "less" and were competing with people with less experience who really needed every dollar they could get?
I could tell I had to get out in 1998. I was making $8.60 an hour at Xerox then. The first interview I had in Colorado would have me at 37,000 a year, which I guess is $17.70 an hour. I didn't get that job but did get one where I think they had me at $11 an hour and I got an offer for $24,000 a year three months in. 24,000 was a shitty wage in 1998, don't get me wrong, but the fact that it was much, much better than Rochester made me glad to have left.
People say there's cost of living differences all around the country and I understand what they mean, but at some point money is money and I'll take the job where there is more money.
[quote]Rochester NY had a unique problem in that a fortune 500 company started shedding thousands of middle managers about 25 years ago to the point its buildings became either empty shells or parking lots. All the useless fucks who drove that company into the ground hit the streets and with their pensions and exit packages unfairly competed with people starting their careers, sending Rochester's job prospects into the toilet.[/quote]
Wouldn't they have been less attractive because they would have demanded a greater salary? Or do you mean that because they had pensions and such they would take "less" and were competing with people with less experience who really needed every dollar they could get?
I could tell I had to get out in 1998. I was making $8.60 an hour at Xerox then. The first interview I had in Colorado would have me at 37,000 a year, which I guess is $17.70 an hour. I didn't get that job but did get one where I think they had me at $11 an hour and I got an offer for $24,000 a year three months in. 24,000 was a shitty wage in 1998, don't get me wrong, but the fact that it was much, much better than Rochester made me glad to have left.
People say there's cost of living differences all around the country and I understand what they mean, but at some point money is money and I'll take the job where there is more money.