Tracy Kinne
07/12/12: Tracy L. Kinne recently published "On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap." Five years ago she was concerned that the news media were backing away from hard news, so she took a buyout in 2007 and left the newspaper where she had worked for most of her 21-year career in journalism. Her timing couldn't have been better...or worse. The Great Recession began six months later. She rode out the recession, and the years after, as a low-paid sales associate and cashier at a chain store.
"On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap" is her first book, a memoir of her four years at the store she calls Big Box. "On Sale" also is the story of her coworkers; an underappreciated, underpaid, but intelligent and hard-working group of compassionate, down-to-earth individuals. Her coworkers are young people finishing college but unable to find jobs in their chosen fields. They are middle-aged people who can't find a decent job after the place where they worked for 30 years laid them off or closed. And they are senior citizens who can't make ends meet on Social Security.
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July 12, 2012: Tracy L. Kinne recently published On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap. Five years ago she was concerned that the news media were backing away from hard news, so she took a buyout in 2007 and left the newspaper where she had worked for most of her 21-year career in journalism. Her timing couldn't have been bette...or worse. The Great Recession began six months later. She rode out the recession, and the years after, as a low-paid sales associate and cashier at a chain store.
On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap is her first book, a memoir of her four years at the store she calls Big Box. On Sale also is the story of her coworkers, an underappreciated, underpaid, but intelligent and hard-working group of compassionate, down-to-earth individuals. Her coworkers are young people finishing college but unable to find jobs in their chosen fields. They are middle-aged people who can't find a decent job after the place where they worked for 30 years laid them off or closed. And they are senior citizens who can't make ends meet on Social Security.
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July 12, 2012: Tracy L. Kinne recently published On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap. Five years ago she was concerned that the news media were backing away from hard news, so she took a buyout in 2007 and left the newspaper where she had worked for most of her 21-year career in journalism. Her timing couldn't have been bette...or worse. The Great Recession began six months later. She rode out the recession, and the years after, as a low-paid sales associate and cashier at a chain store.
On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap is her first book, a memoir of her four years at the store she calls Big Box. On Sale also is the story of her coworkers, an underappreciated, underpaid, but intelligent and hard-working group of compassionate, down-to-earth individuals. Her coworkers are young people finishing college but unable to find jobs in their chosen fields. They are middle-aged people who can't find a decent job after the place where they worked for 30 years laid them off or closed. And they are senior citizens who can't make ends meet on Social Security.
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Carol Painter
Posted on July 17, 2012 at 01:04 PM | Permalink
Big box truths....
Really fascinating interview with a very dynamic woman who, thankfully, was able to write about her experiences as an employee of a big box store. No matter which one of these stores you choose to patronize: remember that the employees are the ones who need our support so that working conditions can ever improve. And yet some people still wonder why we have unions or what their value has been? Unbelievable.