Pricing Specialist - Better than flipping burgers I guess
Pros
Weekends off, holidays off, decent work culture for a corporate work place, only missed payroll once, good for getting office type experience on your resume and then leaving.
Cons
It's a dead-end office job where you stare at excel spreadsheets 40 hours a week that pays crap. The job doesn't require any skill, since most of it is mindless data entry. Pricing management will try to tell you to learn everything you can and to go above and beyond, but it's all fluff that leads you on. Pricing management only recognizes people with self-learned IT skills that provide insignificant automation to the department , but even then they don't get paid well, and this is a problem in the entire company, unless you're an actual real specialized IT pro. You get two bonuses a year that are a joke. They are based on how long you've been at Mouser and pricing management acts like a 300 dollar bonus is a gift from the gods. I had an increase in responsibility without an increase in pay, which in my opinion warrants questionable ethics. Pricing management just said it was, "A fluid environment." But in all fairness a monkey beating on a tambourine is enough skill to do anything in this department. You won't ever make money here if you're anything less than a manager. For instance if you get promoted to a coordinator you can expect a 50 cent raise and tons more responsibility! This is a slap in the face to experienced employees that make them quit. This means your options are either to transfer around different departments for years and years and schmooze with enough people until maybe someone likes you enough to make you a manager, or leave. Compensation reviews for pricing specialists give you about 30 cent raises when you make 13 dollars an hour. Don't expect to raise a family on this. Upper management is a good old boys club. I feel bad for everyone still there, and feel lucky I was able to get out.
