• elephantium@lemmy.world
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    The headline is really misleading. She now works for Costco corporate doing marketing training. The typical store employee is still around $18/hour.

    This just in: Corporate jobs pay more than public school teaching jobs. Film at eleven!

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      The headline is really misleading. She now works for Costco corporate doing marketing training. The typical store employee is still around $18/hour.

      Downvoting you, because you are mischaracterizing the article content.

      The first half of it describes how she started there and the regular positions she had, before she moved up and into the teaching position she has at corporate office, which is similar to the teaching position she had before; both are of a teaching.

      From the article…

      At first, I made $18.50 an hour — a little less than what I earned as a teacher. I put in 40-hour workweeks, five days a week, and got a $1-per-hour raise when I hit 1,000 hours.

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        How TF am I mischaracterizing it? The teacher in this story got a pay bump by taking a marketing job with Costco corporate, not by working in the warehouse. The headline implies that she got a raise by working for her local Costco. That’s misleading.

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      The important thing to remember is that she’s still a teacher. She’s just not teaching children anymore, since it doesn’t pay enough. This should be a wake up call to most people…