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Slight disagreement here. Former bank employee.

Banks hire knowledge workers/creative types/snowflakes.

In fact, they hire the absolute best-credentialed and most-experienced in the market. Our receptionists, mail and facilities staff at minimum had a Masters degree, went to a Tier 1 school and did something very interesting/exceptional with their off-time.

They just try to turn them into drones via compensation schemes and internal politics.

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  Our receptionists, mail and facilities staff at
  minimum had a Masters degree, went to a Tier 1 school

I'm curious as to how you convinced such people to take such jobs?

I would have thought it would be difficult to convince a graduate from an Ivy League university or similar to take a janitorial job?

Would not Janitors be outsourced

They pay them. A lot. Plus exit ops

Girlfriend has climbed the ranks in a bank over the years to a pretty decent pay right now. The tellers you talk to when you walk in generally have a degree to a masters level education, and make about 28k to 35k CAD. Outside of tech and a select few other industries, jobs like this are pretty competitive with limited payoff. That 60k entry job (here at least) that is the norm for CS and other eng disciplines is a pipe dream for many with more general degrees.

It's a situation a lot of us here forget or don't even know exists.

Banks aren't just your local branch office. There's a huge range here.

This was a highly-regarded financial.

That is so sad. What a waste of human potential.

Pitty

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