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Originally Posted by Locke
However, I was the outlier. I worked there because I could. It was close to University so literally on my way to and from school and it paid obscenely well for unskilled manual labour.
I just never realized how much attention I'd have to pay to not getting hurt.
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https://negotech.labour.gc.ca/eng/ag...3/0373510a.pdf
According to page 86 of this old collective agreement, in 2011 the start rate for the “platform loader” classification, which I’m assuming is what you were, was $15.41/hour. The top rate after 4 years was $18.98. I’m assuming you probably worked there somewhere in the neighbourhood of 5 or 6 years earlier than that, so they had probably increased from your time there.
But even had those been the rates during your tenure, in what universe would that be considered as being compensated obscenely well for a job where even a person intelligent enough to graduate from university has to pay a lot of attention just to not get hurt? While those rates were higher paying than a lot of manual labour jobs, they certainly weren’t at the top of the mountain either.
I guess I’m just a little perplexed by your position here. I mean how little do you think people should have been getting paid to do a dangerous job that you seem to think was the worst thing ever?
Some of these stories are pretty funny, some are also more than a little concerning too. But just to offer you a little perspective in what appears to be your ongoing road to recovery from your time working there(which I totally get) you may be surprised to hear that many of the things you’re describing aren’t exactly uncommon at a lot of big companies. In many cases it’s actually far worse.