'No one wants to work for $10 an hour': Out-of-touch boss refuses to pay new hires more than $10/hr, throws a fit when nobody responds to their job listings

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Aug 21, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

Remember your first job? 

You were probably washing dishes in the back of some family-run restaurant, pulling weeds for your dad, or maybe you had a paper route with the other local kids. Odds are, you probably made a little extra money and as a teenager, having a little extra butter in your spinach meant that you could finally buy that new skateboard you wanted! Or if you saved, maybe you could even earn enough to buy a cheapy beater car with no muffler and questionable brake pads. Your first job opened so many new doors financially, there was probably a brief moment of excitement for the adult years to come.

Even though you didn't make that much money, you felt like a king–and soon you'd be a millionaire, right? But truthfully, the excitement of your first paycheck wears off pretty quickly…

With your first job, you never make much money, but in 2024, if your employer offers to pay you $10 an hour, is it even worth it to clock in? I know we've had the same federal minimum wage for a couple of decades, but there are few instances where minimum wage jobs can actually afford you to live any sort of normal life. Most employers realize that $10 is frankly insufficient to offer their employees, but according to the recruiter in this next story, their out-of-touch boss insisted that $10 was more than enough to fill a position. 

Keep scrolling to read the tale of a silly supervisor that blames the job market for their problems, instead of tackling their very obvious poverty-wage problem.

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    My boss is upset I haven't been able to find someone to work for $10 an hour.
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    I needed to renew the work ad for customer service. I also noticed that another had had expired for a different position she's hiring for. I figured I'd ask if she wanted me to renew that one as well and this is how it went.
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    Me: I need to renew the ad for customer service. Do you want me to renew the ad for the other position Her: No. I also don't want you to renew the ad if we're not going to hire anyone.
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    Me: The kid I wanted to hire ended up getting classes for the days I need someone and there hasn't been anyone else that is promising.
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    Her: Fine, but you need to hire someone. So she's getting upset at me because no one wants to work for $10 an hour. I'll get applications but as soon as they hear that the pay is $10 and hour they stop responding.
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    Of course, she's never wrong and I'm just refusing to hire someone. Update: She thinks people are ridiculous to think they deserve more that $10 an hour for running a register. Her definition of running a register:
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    Filing medications in will call Answering phones Curbside orders Checking in orders Putting away orders Packaging packages for mailing Processing phone payments Setting up deliveries Building medical equipment such as shower chairs, wheelchairs Cleaning wheelchair rentals Greeting every customer before they get their foot in the door.
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    She LOVES to yell at her employees and sometimes customers. She got mad at a deaf lady. She slammed a door while she had customers in the store. She's sent people home crying.
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    anonymous2278. Post the pay rate in the ad. Why be coy about it? If that's the rate, that's the rate and you should be upfront. They won't message at all if that's not sufficient, and the ones who apply anyway are aware that the pay is low.
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    WayneKrane Yeah, you're just wasting time not putting in how much you'll pay. I've turned down quite a few jobs because the recruiter finally tells me their offer and it's way below what I currently make and sometimes less than my first job over 10 years ago. Such a waste of time not to divulge that from the get go
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    Few_Acanthocephala30 I won't apply for a job if it doesn't list the pay because I know 99% of the time it's going to be low as . Or when it gives a massive range of pay, because it's almost always the bottom number in the range and if it's corporate you're unlikely ever going to get close to the mid-top end of that range.
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    1trekker_fanboi ⚫ I wouldn't for ten bucks an hour. It's offensive. It's not your fault of course. She sounds charming.
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    Ace-of-Xs My 14 yo makes more than that mowing lawns, pressure washing, and pulling weeds!
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    ReaverRogue Arrange a zoom meeting with a potential applicant, invite your boss along, watch her face when you bring up the pay and the applicant goes "lol srsly?" In her face, then quietly suggest that she's not offering enough. Up to her if she listens or not.
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    flyingemberKC Missouri's minimum wage is $12.30. Missouri is one of the ten lowest cost states Some people have no perspective that a place it's cheaper to live thinks that $10 is too low
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    Peterthinking. $10 an hour. Zero experience? Gaps in your resume? Horrible references? We don't care! There. Post that. You'll get someone.
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    PianistMore4166 Tell your boss that it's 2024, not 2014. $10/hr is poverty wages in today's economy. ¨, even back in 2014 $10/hr was still poverty wages.
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    pinkfootthegoose. I suggest that you suggest to your boss that they pay themselves $10 an hour. If it is sufficient for a new hire it's sufficient for them.
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    Ok-Willow-9145 You're lucky to get applicants. I don't bother with job listings that don't include a salary or salary range. No mention of compensation means they routinely lowball people.
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    ZeroXTML1 · Feels like a case of "I would have been happy to make $10 when I was a kid!!!! " lol
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    EmmalouEsq I was making that 22 years ago in a small banking call center. That's why it's a slap in the face. Nobody can live on that, much less thrive and feel a sense of accomplishment in life.
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    lemko1968. She needs to contact Mr. Peabody and Sherman to use the WABAC machine to travel to 1988.
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