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Comment by michaelt | Hacker News Reader

  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?

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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.

They pay them. A lot. Plus exit ops

Would not Janitors be outsourced

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