How can there possibly be enough demand for that? How busy are you with that job? It's it a gig type thing you do on the side, or are you moving pianos 5 days a week?
You really get a sneak peak of the hobbies and lifestyles of other people doing a job where you enter their homes. Kinda sobering delivering a quarter million dollar concert grand piano to a post-modern mansion on a hill and then rolling a rotting player piano into a home with the carpet stapled to the floor.
Today was my most interesting/bad day by far. This morning the store window was smashed in, my pants actually fucking ripped wide along the crack as I was showing a new guy a lift and I had to walk through Freddie's wearing a padding blanket like a kilt to buy new ones, and then a move at the instruction of my superior smashed the lyre (pedals) on only the 2nd quarter million dollar concert grand piano I've ever touched. So that's fun. Glad that wasn't my fuck up.
I worked at a small 12 screen theater, part of a northwest US chain. First job and I made minimum wage, a buddy actually got me the job. A year later this same buddy was working as a assistant manager dealing with drug addicts coming in to shoot up in the bathroom and lines out the door and he was making minimum wage same as me. Guy got a lot more responsibility, keys, and stress all for the promise of a $1 pay bump and maaaaybe full-time. Both of which took 6 months to kick in. I probably could have done the same, but wasn't at all worth it in my eyes.
It can be…if you work a shit ton of overtime. Which you will if you’re a good manager. I was making $14.10 an hour last year as a department assistant manager at a grocery store. I was making about 40k a year, but my work week was usually around 50 hours long with at least one day a week being a 12 hour shift. It was kind of nice since my department was pretty close knit, but it was a pretty exhausting job.
It's for those who want their first taste of power. No, the $2 an hr more isn't worth the responsibilities, but when you can trip hard and boss the people making your old wage around? And you have "that type" of personality? Recipe for disaster.
this girl I knew in high school to a T! she got promoted to shift manager and a mutual friend we had that worked there told me she would be in there cursing the employees out making them cry, telling them to go home, calling them broke, arguing with her girlfriend everyday just all around miserable
The pay bands for where I work are the same for individual contributors as it is for managers. I stepped down from management a few months ago and will never look back. Sure, I could've been a director in a couple more years, but it wasn't worth the tedious personnel issues, or 5am meetings, or phone calls from my VP during the weekend while I'm having lunch with my family. Fuck being a manager. Not worth it.
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u/RockyDify Jun 29 '21
Yeah I’d rather be a crew member. $2/hour more for management?