Part time job at Rock and Resole

Help Wanted at Rock and Resole
info@rockandresole.com

• 10 – 15 hours/week
• hours flexible – in the shop no less than 3 times per week
• must review vacation plans 2 months in advance
• possible Saturday hours
• $8.25/hr.
• customer service and desk work
• no knowledge of climbing necessary
• Minimum age 16

I'm pretty sure CO minimum wage is $8.23 now.

And it hasn't been below $7.25 for a number of years.

Let's just hope that is a typo in the OP.

CO minimum wage went to $8.23/hr as of Jan. 1. Good luck living on that kind of money in Boulder.

mark felber wrote:CO minimum wage went to $8.23/hr as of Jan. 1. Good luck living on that kind of money in Boulder.

It's 10-15 hours a week, I doubt anyone would try and live off that even if it was 20$/hr.

Thanks for the info on the minimum wage - we will certainly abide by the current rate.
This job would be ideal for a high school student. At 10 - 15 hours per week, minimum wage, we are hoping some parent will pass this posting on to their son or daughter.
Thanks.

For me it's kind of a bummer to know that if you could pay your workers less, you would. I don't want that type of unappreciated labor working on my shoes

I've heard pretty shifty things about the current management of rock n resole. Really taking advantage of their employees to make more per resole, which makes the employees try to do as many as possible which results in a worse resole. Until they go back to the way it was only a few months ago I'll take my business elsewhere.

I have used rock and resole for a few years.The last few times service has not been great.can anyone recommend someone else.

jacob sidorin wrote:I have used rock and resole for a few years.The last few times service has not been great.can anyone recommend someone else.

Plattsburgh Shoe Hospital 518-561-2580. Tell Mark Wild Bill said hello.

Do u what is average turn around time on shoes?

Looks like the wrong place to post a shitty job ad!

@RockAndResole: Thanks for being bold and starting a business that offers great services to the climbing community! Thanks for also considering the climbing community first when looking for help. You guys Rock, keep up the good work and thanks for offering affordable services to your clients.

It's 10 hrs a week at a place that glues rubber on smelly shoes.. Sounds like a minimum wage job. No need to grab the pitchforks.

Years ago I spent some time learning to resole my own shoes. I don't do it anymore since I can get a better job by sending them out.

What I learned was that there are real legit skills involved that take practice. Minimum wage work shouldn't have "skilled" attached to it in any way. If the job is sweeping up around the shop, opening boxes, getting finished shoes shipped, and answering phones, then cool this should be a minimum wage job.

If the job is actually resoling and working on the shoes. Not only is that BS but it also casts a lot of doubt on the quality of work they are performing there now.

Ben Kirby wrote:@RockAndResole: Thanks for being bold and starting a business that offers great services to the climbing community! Thanks for also considering the climbing community first when looking for help. You guys Rock, keep up the good work and thanks for offering affordable services to your clients.

Agreed. Too bad the responses are vilifying R&R. It would be a great opportunity for a high school kid who climbs. You can count on MP to criticize the pay. Some people don't believe in minimum wage or entry-level jobs.

Rock and Resole has given me better than new resoles for years. I'm sure there are other good resolers out there, but R+R is good enough that I've never needed to look. I have on occasion used other resolers because they were closer, or more convenient, and their work is never close to the same quality.

The profit margin on a pair of resoles is pretty small, and I don't think anyone at R+R is getting filthy rich off their business. Cut the dudes some slack, they're just looking for some part time help around the shop. It's not as if major brands that probably CAN afford to pay better than minimum wage for their retail store clerks DO. Not to name names, but the top selling brand in the outdoors industry, which outcompetes its next three competitors combined, starts their employees at... you guessed it, minimum wage.

FrankPS wrote: Agreed. Too bad the responses are vilifying R&R. It would be a great opportunity for a high school kid who climbs. You can count on MP to criticize the pay. Some people don't believe in minimum wage or entry-level jobs.

Actually I do believe in minimum wage, but the OP was offering less than the legal minimum wage. Apparently he doesn't care enough about the job he's offering to do a little research and find out what the legal minimum wage is.

I also believe that the minimum wage should be consistent with the local cost of living, and $8.25/hr is not consistent with the cost of living in Boulder. Calling this "a great opportunity for a high school kid who climbs" does not justify offering an inadequate wage, that's just asking the kid's parents to subsidize Rock & Resole by providing cheap labor.

Few moths back they resoled my shoes. I thought, heck, for 50$ i could get more life out them. Toe box started to come undone after two climbs, I had to fix them afterwords, good old fashioned superglue did the job. I'm not going back there, personally I think it's better to buy a pair of new shoes.

jacob sidorin wrote:Do u what is average turn around time on shoes?

Call and ask. I believe its 10 days but I could be way off. I hire Mark to guide so maybe mine get done quicker. I handed Mark the last pair of shoes he fixed. No mail probably cuts two or three days.

Either way, send your shoes there.

Josh Kornish wrote: if you could pay your workers less, you would.

I think that statement is valid for nearly every major corporation in existence.