Sysco Vancouver

sounds like a channel 19 cb rambo, 3 years experience and wants to change the world. the industry won't change, you have to change. don't like the wage go some where thats better. i left edmonton and moved to saskatchewan, cut my morgage by $ 1300/mth. quit the hiway game and now driving in the oilfields in alberta and doubled my wage per month. that allows me to work 9 or 10 months a year and take the rest off very comfortably. work smarter not harder....

 

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Precisely why I have decided to withdraw my interest in that place. You shouldn't have to work 17, 18 hour days, only to make a lousy $1,600.

The girlfriends sister's boyfriend is a Electrician, just finished his 4th and final year of schooling, he is now making $35 an hour, and takes home $2,000 every 2 weeks, for working 8 hours a day, or less, Monday to Friday, and he has a company van, with a gas card.

In all honesty, I think I am headed for the trades. Pick a trade, any trade, and your guaranteed steady wage increases and after 4 years, I will never make less than $30+ an hour.

At least there unions stand together because they have thousands, if not tens of thousands of members. There wage almost always keeps up with inflation.

 

Smart move. I only moved to B.C for the lady, and almost everyday I wish I was back in SK where I was born and raised. Very cheap living, and good money to be made.

 

Yes, we are worth $30-$40 an hour. It isn't just about the work, it's about how expensive life is, and how us, the common worker, have been getting it up the tailpipe since the 80's.

The cashier at Wal-Mart getting $12 an hour, SHOULD be getting $20 an hour. The truck driver at Sysco delivering food for $25 an hour, SHOULD be getting $35 an hour. You see what I am getting at? Everyone, with the exception of people making $100,000 a year or more, should have there wages bumped up drastically.

Why?

One reason, wages have stayed almost the same as they were 20 to 30 years ago. Prices for everything else on earth have tripled, quadrupled, more in some cases. The quality of life you could afford on $25 an hour in the 1980's, is nowhere near what you can have today. Is that fair? Of course not! Now, of course, I don't expect prices to stay the same forever, or for it to be fair all the time, but come on people....we are being shafted like never before.

You fill up your car at 2011 prices, with a 1980's wage. You buy a house at 2011 prices, with a 1980's wage. You try to live a life in 2011, with a 1980's wage. The ratio is seriously off. Everyone get's rich except for the average joe worker. We have gone from 1st class, to 2nd class, to 3rd class, and now we are in the stages of being shoved into the bottom of the ship to shovel coal. We are merely peasants in today's world. The middle class is gone, you are either rich, or poor.

A house built in the 1980's, is exactly the same as a house built today. Let's say a house then cost you $100,000. It's lumber, drywall, screws, nails, plumbing, electrical, and paint. Today, let's say your paying $500,000, for that same house. It is STILL...JUST.. lumber. It's the same old drywall, electrical, plumbing, paint. Products have gotten better, but not enough to justify paying 5 times the amount. Yet, people buy them everyday, on 1980's wages.

 

it's called profit margin...get used to it.. ok, i agree to pay you $30.00/ hr, from $20.00, that means the load revenue needs to be increased, which increases at the warehouse, then store,then till. that means the raise you just got, your paying for at the till. try explaining that to your girl when she comes home and didn't buy that fruit because it was to expensive. the load that you might of just delivered to the warehouse yesterday. it's a vicious game that you won't win. as i've said before..."work smarter not harder"

 

I understand what I said is not feasible, I am merely pointing out, it should be that way, but somewhere along the line greed took over, and it's still steering the ship.

A lot of people do in fact start there own company, and then they charge people the high rates they themselves would not ever pay before they started this venture. They hate CEO's and greed, until they start there own company and charge $200 an hour for there work.

Last year at this time, my girlfriend's horse died. This horse meant the world to her, so we decided we would have a hole excavated, and bury the horse at home, on our property. We phoned a guy who owns a small excavation company just up the road from us, he is neighbors with a good friend of ours. So naturally we assumed he would give us a good deal, not free, but a good deal considering the circumstances and who we were.

His quote....$400, PER HOUR!! $400 per hour for a small backhoe that costs $40,000 brand new. This is not a $200,000 machine that can justify that kind of charge. I quickly told him where to go and it took everything I had not to beat him to within an inch of his life, just for being such a lowlife. You can rent a mini excavator for $800...A WEEK!

People are stupid enough to pay these kinds of prices. They must be, there house is worth about $1,500,000 if I had to guess. The vehicles are all fancy with after market wheels and accessories. But oh wait, what a shocker, the equipment is all junk! Another one of these guys who spends all his money on himself, and does not reinvest it into the business. Every piece of equipment he has is a broken down wreck, except for his own "private excavator" which he uses for his property. His employees get low wages and bad equipment to put up with, and again, they take it on the chin.

 

Tank I Understand your point of view and for the most part i agree but as Otr Truckers we get the complete shaft we will never make what we should. The money is in food service work before i made the mistake of deciding to try out otr work i was with Coca-cola my base pay rate was 20.03 a hour i worked 55-60 a week and also made commission after taxes id typically bring home between 775-1025 for a 24 yr old guy that's plenty to live on. Sysco is the same yes i have to hump but that 21-25 rate will end up being 55 hrs with ot which is way more than otr drivers are making. As i said i make .43 a mile now and im lucky if i can bring home more that 700 after running myself silly trying to make the miles.


Laci you must have gotten screwed every sycso driver ive spoken with has said they made atleast 50k year one and 55+ year 2. If you started in a slow season checks will be lower its a seasonal business.