As I was going through this past weekend’s edition of the Argus Leader I came across their yearly publication ‘Welcome’.
With employment I found some interesting numbers. Obviously, the fewer full-time staff you have, the less benefits you have to pay out, though I will admit, Hy-Vee does offer 401K, bonuses and healthcare to part-time employees. Whether they take it or not is another story.
Smithfield was the best claiming of their 3,400 employees ALL were full-time. BRAVO!
Hy-Vee was dead, dead, dead, last of their 3,347 employees only 719 were full-time (which is probably mostly management and supervisors running an army of teenagers and retirees). No wonder Milky Way can’t find anyone to work for him.
The city doesn’t fair well either, of their 1,585 employees, only 1,256 were full-time, and I heard half of them worked in the engineering department 🙂
But my favorite was the vagueness and secrecy of Walmart. They said they had 1,500 employees in Sioux Falls and that (a majority were full time). They also stated they love the environment and that 99% of their products come from the United States 🙂
The Sioux Falls main (Louise) Walmart is 2nd in performance nationally. Perhaps it’s why we have so many now. But, is it overkill?
The new environment is not a career. Middle generation moves around to improve their income and position. Planning via industry and skill no longer applies. Custom skills are on the job and temporarily relevant. Secondary and trade schools can’t relate. If anything, they lead into dormancy. You (yourself) must find the demand and fad. Realize it’s temporary and flow into another venture that seems vibrant. There are lots of mistakes but they’re recoverable. Later life becomes small dividends and inflationary appreciation.
Advice I give but subject to the next business and cultural evolution.
To become and stay affluent, lie your way into political office. You’ll live well off the backs of the general population with tax free public funds and side income bribes. I’d have a problem living with myself and would hide my grave somewhere as anonymous John Doe.
Cola man your the best when it comes to getting this info up,When I see you again hit me up for another campaign donation.
walmart is the largest employer in the country. 8 of the top 10 are places just like walmart. I can speak from going through my own working years what has happened to a once thriving middle class. From 74 thru 80 I had a construction type skill that paid between 60 and 80k a year in today’s dollars. Almost in tandem with the election of reagan I changed career paths and went to work for a federal agency. Good, fair wage, along with twice a year COLA’s (no, not the soft drink) It remained that way til 2006 when I retired early. How? Good union wages, a solid 401k plan, and most important, a pension. I ignored during all those years what was happening around me. I don’t anymore. I cannot imagine what kind of country this will be in 30 years. It is scary.
A good read about the last 30 years.
http://prospect.org/article/40-year-slump
Your all spot on! If you want to see something that will blow your mind, check out this video of Norman Dodd who was told: There will be no sound banking anymore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8cC21jB9EE
A interesting career #4. Thanks for the example. #5, I worry about bank failures. Doesn’t anyone realize that PayPal, Bitcoin, Ipay etc is tax evasion and drug money laundering? This and low interest makes banks vulnerable.