A receiving manager at B&N makes around $15-17/hour. If his partner works, that's a reasonable enough amount of money to live, but not in a high COL location. How is this abnormal?
What's abnormal is thinking that this is abnormal. $35k/year isn't a high salary.
Have you?
Which is that Barnes & Noble is currently digging their own grave, and that this did not have to be so.
Don’t get me wrong I love the stores, and it’s sad to lose nice things. I’m not happy about it.
But don’t blame the new CEO, blame the old CEO for doing nothing for a decade as the market transformed around them.
That said, I agree on the evictions front. One of the worst things I saw in the debate about evictions in SF was tenants getting compensation based on how much their rent would go up post-eviction -- so they're PUNISHING landlords for letting tenants have cheap rent for decades??
Has this guy never taken a look at his situation and noticed something off?
He works in a relaxing huge retail store reading books to kids for free, and makes above min wage and keeps his job for the next 20 years and supports 5 kids???
That’s insane, and completely abnormal. No one else with that same type of job has that kind of life.
It reminds me of someone I know who lived in an in-law with no rent control and no law against eviction, for 15 years, paying 60% of market rate. And then was completely stunned and devastated when the landlord gave 60 day notice. Really???