So I work front desk at a Vet clinic. An emergency vet nearby is opening in a couple months, and they have put out a search for customer service reps….at 22-26/hour. This is about +4-8 bucks more than any of us now.
To be fair, I'm pretty happy where I am, but damn those rates are very tempting….and not just me. My coworkers have seen the ad as well. The only difference is we'd be looking at 10 hour days….which sucks IMHO.
But if any of my coworkers head over there, the rest of us are screwed. We're already at rough numbers. If someone gets sick, we suddenly hit Graveyard Shift numbers and it really sucks. But my manager's hands are kinda tied. Being corporate owned, they want to squeeze every penny out of us. So if someone DOES leave, I can't imagine being able to hire anyone else to replace them because those rates are right across the street so to speak.
So where to go from here? Jump ship? Or try to push the manager into bigger raises this year?