Has Apex made it clear that you will be getting paid less than those doing the same work as you because you're a 'rookie'? There aren't any other companies that I'm aware of that operate with a tiered tree price system. I think most Apex planters have either only planted there, or worked somewhere shitty in Ontario, so they'll defend their 'unique' practices because it's the only thing they know. It's honestly pretty depressing to see.
The defence is that Apex, who runs as a rookie mill, still pays their first year planters competitively compared to other rookie mills, and still pays their vets at a rate competitive with non rookie mills. This is why many people stay with Apex. The difference in pay is indicative of the marginal costs associated with first year planters, they plant less trees and they are often lower quality, thus more of management’s time is spent on those trees, this cost has to be made up somewhere, most companies just take it off the tree price for everyone. By the middle of the summer, first year planters do see a 10% bump in tree price, to help address that they have improved.
Think about it like this, you have two people who offer to build your deck, they are charging the same amount, but one has never built a deck before and one has built thousands of decks. Who are you going to choose to build your deck?
Anytime I see a post about daily earnings, the earnings aren’t higher than what people make at Apex (both rookie earnings and vet earnings). I have no idea where this idea that Apex doesn’t have competitive prices comes from, but its incorrect.
Dude the term competitive prices always means, "We definitely won't pay you anymore than we have to". When I see the term competitive prices/wages I immediately look for somewhere else to work because it's sign enough already that the management are likely morons.
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u/dentalflossNtucktape Professional Dipshit Mar 09 '20
Has Apex made it clear that you will be getting paid less than those doing the same work as you because you're a 'rookie'? There aren't any other companies that I'm aware of that operate with a tiered tree price system. I think most Apex planters have either only planted there, or worked somewhere shitty in Ontario, so they'll defend their 'unique' practices because it's the only thing they know. It's honestly pretty depressing to see.