While I’m trying to get a work from home writing-related job to go with my college degree, I’ve also been looking for custodial jobs. I have 3-4 years worth of experience in the field and it’s my current job at a local gas station, the most time I’ve had at any job, so it can serve at least as a transitionary gig.
I found one job that had a pay scale for 14-15$ an hour. Since I currently make 14, I thought my experience could earn me at least somewhere higher up on that scale. And then I got to the interview, and without even asking the guy said even with my experience I wouldn’t be making that. I’d have to wait six months for the company to see if I’d earned, wait for it… a 50 cent raise. And then another six months for another 50 cents.
But he did tell me that someone had started out on the 15$ scale once: a guy who had 30 years of experience at a local college.
Yes. The only way your experience earned you a bigger starting pay for this company was if you had been a custodian for longer then I have been alive. I’m not kidding.