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"We can't find truck driver to drive a trash truck for $90k in Houston, but I can hire an MBA from small school for $60k, & I can get them all day long."
There's no way Waste Management is paying 90 grand for a driver.
Also, he he says "MBA from a small school" which must mean diploma mill. MBAs from legit accrdited schools, inclusing state schools with minimal experience (basically going to grad school almost immediately after undergard) are still make 80-90k to start and wil very quickly be at 6 six figures. With work experience? LOL, who is taking 60k? I call BS on that unless it Podunk, USA at Podunk Corp.
The CEO is misrepresenting the salary. Check the careers section on their company website. https://www.wm.com/ Search for driver jobs.
The hourly rate is $23.00. See the attached picture. The rate is the same for many cities. The drivers work 10-12 hr shifts. You might come close, if you work more than 40 hours and get 1.5 x regular pay.
This is a dead end job, not a career. You have no chance of moving into a $200k+ middle management job.
I just looked up what they pay the ones in my area. They start at $26.75 an hour (which is 85% of union scale). Full scale is $31.47. So, that's $55k to $65k. I'm guessing they probably do make some overtime pay; but, I cannot confirm that.
They are able to get around all the cars and get the trash bins I think because they have very long automated arms that pick the bins up. We have narrow roads with cars piled up on both sides of the street and people put their bins very close to parked cars and there's still no one getting out of the trucks. They have the trucks running on natural gas.
I just looked up what they pay the ones in my area. They start at $26.75 an hour (which is 85% of union scale). Full scale is $31.47. So, that's $55k to $65k. I'm guessing they probably do make some overtime pay; but, I cannot confirm that.
They are able to get around all the cars and get the trash bins I think because they have very long automated arms that pick the bins up. We have narrow roads with cars piled up on both sides of the street and people put their bins very close to parked cars and there's still no one getting out of the trucks. They have the trucks running on natural gas.
Around here they still have folks tipping the bins. I wish they'd pay those guys a dollar an hour more and tell them to put the damn bins back where they found them. It's literally three or four steps... but instead they'll leave them in the middle of the alley. I can always tell when there's a new guy, because he'll put them back for a week or two.
And what state/city is this in? I Know where to find you a hundred people right now!
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