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  • Avoid retail because those jobs will be brutal and pay less. Check indeed for warehousing, the good jobs will be small businesses and 3PL as they both typically operate during normal business hours. Apply even if you don't have experience, it's not complicated work so... I can only speak for myself but I mostly look for aptitude, effort, and attention to detail.

    We currently have 2 full-time jobs open and our 3PL is an hour away in the suburbs and they're also struggling to find people, full time M-F. Obvious positions like receiving and pick/pack, forklift drivers, and also kitting/assembly, special projects like labelling, etc. It can be mind numbing work at times but if you stay open to trying new things you'll end up doing something different every day and moving between departments. If you're reliable and put in effort it's easy to move into a supervisory role and salary can be anywhere from $50-$80k+ but 60k is typical.

    I did all these things and I'm an operations manager now and make very good money. People see warehousing as a dead end job but honestly it opens a lot of doors into operations jobs.

  • Well maybe we shouldn't turn something people need to survive into a game of min/max P&L. I know construction and real estate companies need a profit to survive, but unchecked profit maximizing is bad for everyone but shareholders.

    Why build a ranch when you can build a 2flat or multi family unit that takes up the entire lot, that only corporations can scoop up as an investment, or already wealthy individuals can buy outright and rent it out to squeeze any potential profit out of the working class that's struggling to survive. That's why there's so few affordable single family homes being built, and if you don't see that as a problem right now then I don't know what to tell ya.

  • Fr you never see ranch houses being built anymore, they're all luxury townhouses or multi story mcmansions or generic suburb homes that trade good design for maximum sq ft.

    I just want a small house with a decent yard... $500k easy around where I live. The affordable ones are bought above asking price and demolished to build two-flats or luxury homes.

  • No link but American wild burger, the one in the city shut down apparently but there's still one in the suburbs. Add bacon cheese and BBQ sauce and you're at a little over $20 for a burger with no fries.

    If you go to Google maps and just type burgers and filter price $20+ or $30+ there are plenty burger bars that will match that criteria.

  • To be fair tho I live in Chicago and there's 2 of these places by me. But there's another 2 that I can get a loaded combo with fries and a drink for about $10 USD and it's always fresh and delicious.

  • Or in a ditch when it's snowing. Couple years ago a big lifted jeep sped around me and the highway wasn't fully plowed. I had to wait all of 5 seconds to watch him lose control and veer off into a snow bank.

  • Yeah... I feel like I contributed so much more before but managing people, but this is where the money is sadly. I went from supply chain/purchasing/logistics manager to operations manager. I used to be a one man team and single handedly saved maybe $200k this year so far, and took our aged inventory from about $1M to basically nothing, all of our KPIs are primo. This is a company that pulls $10M/yr in revenue... small company.

    I got rewarded with spending half my time babysitting the warehouse team, getting reamed by my boss when they're not getting through things fast enough, and fixing their mistakes and bandaiding bad processes. But I got a 30% raise so I guess it's worth it? I could be doing so much more.

  • I just looked it up you're right lol. I imagine it's intended for pricing compliance and maybe data security, those are common lawsuits. If you get food poisoning and they find food safety violations... or if the golden arches falls on your car, or really any other negligence they're still on the hook.

    Compliance is a really big deal in corporations and pricing is a big one. Again not a lawyer tho.

  • Yeah most of our ERP dumps data into an Azure database, but we frequently pull queries for ad hoc reporting/analysis into Excel as well as maintained BI reports.

    The real issue is a lot of our SaaS isn't fully integrated like that so we have to csv dump data that loads into other queries and we pull from that 🙃 But those csv dumps are set with automations so it's mostly hands-off, just a little janky lol.