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Old 05-21-2023 | 05:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Forman
Why would someone with a business degree be working in customer service for $14/hr?
Probably doing it for the love of “plabes”!
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Old 05-21-2023 | 05:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Desdi;[url=tel:3639521
3639521[/url]]Probably doing it for the love of “plabes”!
it was a typo for plabes sake. Let’s move on.
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Old 05-21-2023 | 06:01 AM
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OP -- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...e/id1451649159

Good history and place to start for your downtime during training.
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Old 05-21-2023 | 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Forman
Why would someone with a business degree be working in customer service for $14/hr?
They aren't. They are supervising entitlted plebes (plabes?) making that much. Read more carefully.
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Old 05-21-2023 | 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Forman
Why would someone with a business degree be working in customer service for $14/hr?
Because that’s what a “quality” college education in this country will get you these days.

And I’m not being dramatic either. Especially prior to Covid you’d go to college to get garbage jobs like this.
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Old 05-21-2023 | 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Forman
Why would someone with a business degree be working in customer service for $14/hr?
2.7 GPA
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Old 05-21-2023 | 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Forman
Why would someone with a business degree be working in customer service for $14/hr?
I manage recruiting and hiring in a company and the amount of resumes of people I receive apply for a job with starting pay of $12/hr and they have bachelor’s degrees is insane. A lot of the managers at the company I work at have BS degrees and unfortunately after four years of studying and student loans that they will be paying until retirement their salaries are capped at 65k a year and I’m not saying this is bad but they get to number after 10+ years of working and getting mentally abused by customers. The reason I was asking because again from outside looking in coming from my work history and background working at a regional airline now making what the new salaries are for the regionals sounds better than doing the 9-5 CSR job and I wanted to get an insight from people inside of the industry
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Old 05-21-2023 | 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by APCHCLIMB
Because that’s what a “quality” college education in this country will get you these days.

And I’m not being dramatic either. Especially prior to Covid you’d go to college to get garbage jobs like this.
I couldn’t agree more with you!
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Old 05-21-2023 | 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Plabelover
I manage recruiting and hiring in a company and the amount of resumes of people I receive apply for a job with starting pay of $12/hr and they have bachelor’s degrees is insane. A lot of the managers at the company I work at have BS degrees and unfortunately after four years of studying and student loans that they will be paying until retirement their salaries are capped at 65k a year and I’m not saying this is bad but they get to number after 10+ years of working and getting mentally abused by customers. The reason I was asking because again from outside looking in coming from my work history and background working at a regional airline now making what the new salaries are for the regionals sounds better than doing the 9-5 CSR job and I wanted to get an insight from people inside of the industry
Sounds like that degree wasn’t quite worth it.
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Old 05-21-2023 | 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by ExperimentalAB
Sounds like that degree wasn’t quite worth it.
for some people it is worth it but for others that are not passionate about it wouldn’t really matter
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