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pkang0202

Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:49 pm Post subject: US McDonald's shift manager makes more money than us. |
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That is just sad. You could flip burgers in the US. Take that money, convert it to won, and you'd be making more than we make. |
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ajuma

Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, but do they get free housing or a housing allowance? If you could even FIND an apartment for $400 a month you'd be shelling out $4,800 of that income. |
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Ramen
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Isn't shift manager like the jack of all trades of McDonalds?
Flipping, frying, cash registering, taking orders, mopping/sweeping.... have I forget anything else?  |
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marlow
Joined: 06 Feb 2005
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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ajuma wrote: |
Ah, but do they get free housing or a housing allowance? If you could even FIND an apartment for $400 a month you'd be shelling out $4,800 of that income. |
Do they have to live overseas? |
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Jeff's Cigarettes

Joined: 27 Mar 2007
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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No, but they don't have to live in the US either. |
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ajuma

Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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I did a little research, and shift managers make about $18,000 which is $1,500 a month. Doing the conversion at current rates, that comes out to about 2.2 mill in Korean won. I can't imagine trying to make ends meet on that little money in the States since I WOULD have to pay for my own housing. |
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ReeseDog

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Location: Classified
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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ajuma wrote: |
Ah, but do they get free housing or a housing allowance? If you could even FIND an apartment for $400 a month you'd be shelling out $4,800 of that income. |
Here's the rub. You can't find an apartment for less than, oh, say, $500US per month. Auto insurance and the note itself...well, there's another, say, $400. Untold bucks for utilities and such. The point has been made here many times before. Good savings, when you consider the benefits.
(Benefits being nasty Hagwon owner, manager, students, parents, ajummas sniping at you every chance they get, colored bags for your garbage, xenophobic douchebags hatin', not turning on the heat motherfuckers.)
Weigh out your lot, folks, and may ye be happy. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Time to go back to the job you left behind before coming on over to South Korea, Einsteins. |
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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Don't forget taxes folks and higher food costs. |
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sarbonn

Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Location: Michigan
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Um, hate to say this cause it makes it sound even worse, but your chances of getting the "shift manager" job at McDonald's is not even a guarantee, considering they may want you to "work your way up" first. While I understand not a lot of Americans pay a whole lot of respect to McJobs, that doesn't mean that everyone gets to start out as the boss when they apply to their local McJobs. |
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Xuanzang

Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Sadang
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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You have to put in the time as the oilboy or toliet girl before you get the McDonalds tie and jacket... |
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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sarbonn wrote: |
Um, hate to say this cause it makes it sound even worse, but your chances of getting the "shift manager" job at McDonald's is not even a guarantee, considering they may want you to "work your way up" first. While I understand not a lot of Americans pay a whole lot of respect to McJobs, that doesn't mean that everyone gets to start out as the boss when they apply to their local McJobs. |
Bingo, before coming here I applied to a bunch of these positions since I ran my own business in college.
They're not desperate and the ones who did have the position s | |