"KCnRichmond" wrote in message
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You Go Harriet....Thought this whining would stop ages ago....Oh, but
she's
NOT whining.........

Well, I know it's not nice to poke sticks but I said I was NOT whining, and
when I say I ain't whining, I'm NOT. Believe it or don't. The post I put
here was just that. That someone mistook it for a whine didn't "hear" what
I was saying.

I was offered a job with Lowes as garden associate at
$10.34/hr...

How NICE for you!!! And just where were you offered this job with Lowes as
a garden associate for $10.34/hr???? Out in Morristown, Newport, and even
KNOXVILLE the starting wages are averaging $7.30 an hour, a little bit more
for someone of specialist capability, and managorial.


HD offered me $15.00 to start 3 yrs ago............

Again, which Home Deprived offered you $15 to start three years ago???. I
left Nashville in 1992 after working for the school board for 9 years and
was making $9 an hour and came to Eastern Tennessee to literally minimum
wages. $5.15 an hour. For a professional cook/institutional food service
intern/prep professional with manager qualifications. Three years ago I
worked at a good bistro restaurant in Gatlinburg making $9 an hour and had
it not been for the traffic nightmares, I'd kept the job. It was the first
time I earned the money I was making in 1992..........And just that Home
Deprived offered you $15 an hour doesn't mean you're good enough to deserve
it. They'll hire ANYONE.

I am good at what I do. I know this. I am always an asset where I work, and
just about all the people I work with like and respect me. I don't demand
it, I earn it. And customers who meet me and are serviced by me not only
return but return as more than customers. I've made so many friends of the
customers where I work, I know differently. You are trying to rile me by
insulting me and it's just not working honey. I'm so happy that you make
$10 more an hour than I do. I'd not know what do do if I was paid my worth.
Probably get caught up on my bills and buy real groceries.

But then, if you were really smart, you'd get your CDL license and make
$1700 a week take home driving a semi-truck like 47% of the women truck
drivers out there are doing.

I am now
over $17.00, and still an associate and loving it....

I'm so happy for you!

I see the ones who get
hired at just over 7 or 8 dollars and that group is huddled in the break
room whining about everything just like her.....

Well it's a good thing I don't go to the break room, now isn't it? I take
my breaks in my car to listen to music. And the store where I work, most of
the 169 employees are extremely happy. Again, where the shit do you get that
I was whining? You wouldn't know a good whine if it was poured into a cut
glass goblet.

Maybe no one at work would
listen to her anymore so she expanded her outlook to this NG..........

LOL you're hilarious! It's people like you who make my job so much fun. I
ALWAYS expand my outlook to this newsgroup. If you don't like my opinions,
then just don't read them. I don't write for your amusement or need your
approval or disapproval. Your attitude is pretty apparent. Jealosy is so
unbecoming of someone of your low caliber. And plenty of people listen to
me honey. I don't have any problem at all with some of my opinions being
heard. If I spout off, and it's just a spout, it'll get ignored. If it's
worthy of a thread, then it's worthy. As for people listening to
me.........I do just fine sweetie.

I
dunno.........I have to wonder how much PK she has done with Lowes
training?

I've only been working for them since last February, but already I have my
certification in Level 1 Outside Lawn and Gardening, made a 98% on that one.
Made 100% on my HazMat, made a high score on my Cashier certification, made
an upper 90's score on Inside Lawn and Garden with a little problem in
mowers. Aced the receiving quiz, and aced the SOS training and Commercial
Sales. I just don't want to do Commercial Sales.

So far, since last February, it's been estimated that I've personally
probably been responsible for over 30% of the plant sales in our nursery.
Now if that's bad odds for someone who's just rolled over their FIRST YEAR
with the company, then someone can't cipher. It was noticed over the last
two weeks that there was an average of at least 5 customers coming into the
nursery looking for me, and out of 5, 3 would leave if I wasn't there and
they weren't the same people either. That means a lot to me. Makes me know
that I am needed and wanted at my store. sheesh.

I may not be paid what I am worth, but the customers and fellow employees
give me respect, and you can't put a price on that.

Now away w'ya!
madgardener