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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by Consultant32452 on Friday June 02, 2017 @03:33PM (#14472704)
I'd be interested in any examples you have.
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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by dllthomas on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:22PM (#14473008)
Unpaid internships?
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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by Consultant32452 on Friday June 02, 2017 @05:03PM (#14473296)
Well, you got me there so I gave you an upvote. Temporarily bartering labor for skills training is a complexity I hadn't accounted for.
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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by dllthomas on Friday June 02, 2017 @08:24PM (#14474196)
Yeah, a rather extreme example, and of course we hope they are being sufficiently well compensated in experience, though we know that's not always the case.

As another example, there's the people working 70 hour weeks across 3 jobs - no one of those is paying what's necessary to sustain the employee.

Moreover, if you're okay with high turnover, there may be people willing to work for you unsustainably for a time just to lower their burn rate.

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