I just interviewed for a management position at Cook Out that claimed a very high salary on Indeed. Turns out it was $15 an hour but you can work all the overtime you want to get a higher salary, even said some people with families would work 65 hours a week. It was also a group interview, so I made a point of asking a ton of questions just to slow down the process and waste their time during the group part of the interview, once they started calling back people for 1 on 1 interviews I stayed asking the DM questions like “You said people are lazy and don't want to work right anymore, but how much do you pay your crew members?” When he answered $12 an hour starting I just asked how he thinks employees inability to pay their bills on a single full time, 40 hour week, income correlates with a lack of motivation to “go above and beyond” as they expect their employees to do.
He said they should be better with their finances, so I asked him if he had kids, he said 3. So he needs a minimum of 3br house if 2 kids share a room. The average in this area is $1500 a month of rent for a 3br house, meaning $20k a year and he's paying his employees less than $25k a year for a full time position without overtime. In order to make enough to cover 3 times the rent, the standard just to sign the lease, they would need 38 hours of overtime every week. I asked if he was willing to approve up to 40 hours of overtime and if he was willing to work 80 hours a week, every week, 52 weeks a year in order to pay his bills and if he felt that his work ethic would be the same working that many hours vs 40 hours a week. He said that as a company they value family and did the whole “we're a family” thing. Said that employees can work as much or little as they wanted as long as the manager keeps labor costs in check.
Somehow he was still shocked when it was my turn to interview and I said “oh, y'all aren't interviewing me today.” And when asked why I told him that they didn't pass the initial interview process with me and don't qualify to go to the next step.
I don't have an income right now, almost out of savings and I'm literally in line to donate plasma right now but I'd rather do this than work for another company that exploits their workers until they're drained dry.
Oh the salary for the management position was advertised at $125k a year.