Meijer is not a place where you can go in to as an adult and make a livable (non-poverty level) wage. There's basically no flexibility whatsoever on starting pay and benefits were expensive, especially for what you got - during the 6 months I worked there, they had to file a legal waiver because their max coverage level was 1/5th of that required by law ($20K instead of 100K) for catastrophic accidents.
During the time I worked there I was a Systems Monitor/Pricing Integrity Auditor and then a Ad Product Coordinator. As a systems admin, the things I was given access to as a minimum wage employee were shocking - the server room, administrative tools, ability to change pricing within the store. If anything suspicious was flagged in the system it would come right back to me to investigate as the Pricing Integrity Auditor....
In order to work full time, I had to move away from Systems to the warehouse - I did not like the warehouse at all. My boss said he needed somebody with a brain for the APC job (I can tell you this isn't true). What he needed was someone who could haul overloaded pallet jacks across the store all day.
That manager once scheduled me for a 12AM-7AM shift (covering for another position) and a 12PM-5PM shift on the same day. When I asked him about it and mentioned how far away I lived he said, "Can't you just sleep in your car in the parking lot or something?". No - no I'm not sleeping in my car to make $30.
