[Jewelry making - Article 00388] - Re: [Orchid] Employment in the Metal arts/Jewelery Field

[David L. Huffman]

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Hi Maegan;

>     I manage a Jared repair shop in MN. We do basic bench jewelry,
>     repair, setting, pearl stringing and a little custom. Our company
>     is always working (you mean looking? *DLH*) for enthusiastic people 

    I'm afraid the word is quickly spreading the Jared is not a good
    place to work. I have at least two jewelers who have described, to
    me, a nightmare of high pressure expectations, truly inferior
    jewelry that is difficult to repair, and that old trick of making all
    employees managers so they can be worked way over 40 hours per week
    with no overtime. Seems they have landed on a magic number of "40"
    jobs a day, but this doesn't count time spent fishing the stones out
    of the ultrasonic that regularly fall out of the shoddy merchandise.
    Are you ready to tell me, then, that the stories I have personally
    heard are just anomalies? 

David L. Huffman, always with an ear to the ground.
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