One of my friends delivers to HD and lowes here in Columbus, OH. He's
always showing me huge gouges in his trailer, where the guys cant work a
forklift and dig into the bed. He said every once in a while they'll dump a
pallete over the side.


"Bruce" wrote in message
...
I don't think you know what HD employees make. At least
down here in Northern California they do ok. A buddy of
mine went to work doing exactly what the OP was asking
about and he started out somewhere between $10 and $11
per hour. This was about 2 years ago and since then he
mentioned a raise at least a couple of times. He has a lot
of forklift experience but had never worked in a place like
that before. He likes it and most of the other employees
at the store seem to like their jobs ok. Minimum wage here
is $6.75/hr, (I think) so he may be coming close to doubling
that by now. Not going to get rich doing that but he has good
benefits and room for advancement. I doubt that any HD
anywhere would actually pay minimum wage. Around here
if you run a forklift you will definitely get above minimum
wage.
And in response to the rest of your rant...Damn The Man!
The Man is always trying to get me down! Workers unite!
Damn The Man!

Bruce
Redding, Ca.

"G.E.R.R.Y." wrote in message
.. .
In article , Nate B
wrote:

seems happy and well paid for what he does

Anyone who uses "retail" and "well paid" in the same sentence can't
be
taken seriously. ;-)

I don't know how low minimum wage is where you are, but, up here in
Canada, I could weep for anyone dead-ended in any kind of retail
job,
Home Depot or otherwise. The poor (pun intended) devils are working
for
the same kind of money that I earned in my twenties, back when it
was
actually a living wage /and/ /you/ /could/ /even/ /save/ /a/
/little/.
Now, a young, single person couldn't possibly live on the hourly
rate
HD pays, /even/ /if/ /they/ /could/ /get/ /forty/ /hours/ /a/
/week/.

The suits who run these corporations wouldn't get out of bed for the
kind of money they pay their front-line workers. Then, those same
arseholes bitch about how impossible it is to find /and/ /keep/ good
staff. Duh!

Maybe if they paid less for never-ending training for constantly
quitting workers and used the same money for living wages...

Gerry