The job that many immigrants went through: how they recruit and how much do movers in New York get paid

Movers, movers in the USA, people that employers are afraid of. It is easy for them to save $ 5000 and can live off tips. Edition Geoposition talked about the intricacies of the hardest work in America. The guys from the CIS countries shared their experience.

Cyril's story:

Kirill flew to the USA from Russia in 2020. He looked for work in Russian-speaking groups, on VK, Facebook, and monitored Russian sites. And on the third day of the search I saw an ad “We need a helper for moving”. Helper, roughly speaking, an assistant. They don't need English, work permit or driver's license to get a job. In the US, this is the easiest way to get a job. Kirill called the employer, he was called for an interview, and the next day at 8 am he went to work.

Andrei:

Andrey moved to the USA from Ukraine. As promised to the officer at the airport, he was a tourist for the first week. He had a huge stash of $ 2000 by Ukrainian standards. When he saw that she was disappearing before our eyes, he decided to look for work. He had no documents for work. His goal was to save up $ 5000.

“After the tourist euphoria, everyday reality has come. Without a work permit, all your LinkedIn and other stuff disappears instantly. Russian-speaking communities come into play. VKontakte groups, RussianLA, local newspapers. Found an ad - called - came to the parking lot. So we came to the part where I turned into a loader, ”Andrei said.

US condos, if not AirBNB, have little furniture. Therefore, Americans carry and carry everything with them. Sometimes people move 2-3 times a year. Furniture and "other trash" are pretty cheap, says Andrey. Therefore, the locals overgrow them very quickly.

Andrei states that 80% of immigrant men used to work as movers.

Keep your managers, CEOs and CEOs. In the MA there is only an assistant, a driver and a foreman. I mean helper, driver and forman, if in Nashenski.

Way of working

1. We receive SMS from the manager.

2. We come to the parking lot.

3. Distribute roles.

4. We enter the client's address, we report about the time of the arrival.

5. We are amazed at the number of things, we open the "contract".

6. Getting started.

7. We stop the timer, we count the client, we beat out the tip.

8. Repeat the next day.

pros

1.Andrey believes that got to know American culture well on this job.

“Having visited over 100 different houses and apartments, owners and their belongings, I saw a lot. From the dildo in the nightstand to a full box of sand brought back from vacation. Collections of comics from the 80s, dozens of dusty treadmills, furniture worth $ 20 and weighing 200 kilograms; "

2. Salary. As ridiculous as it sounds, it is one of the most lucrative anti-intellectual jobs;

3. Working tourism. Due to the growing competition, companies take orders from everywhere, covering an area of ​​up to 150 kilometers around. Unexpectedly for myself, after a year of work, I found myself in all tourist and non-tourist places, which I would not have visited while working elsewhere.

Cons

1. “You know exactly how much the treadmill, the piano and the box of books weigh. Your back knows it too ”;

2. “Clients are different, that is, dirty”;

3. There are practically no career prospects.

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Did you manage to save $ 5000

It turned out that it is quite easy to accumulate this amount by working as a mover. At the same time, Andrei did not need to limit himself to partying and entertainment. During the season - from March to December - sms from the manager come daily.

Workers don't get a day off until they ask for it, but pay for the hours they work. So, Andrey believes that the weekend of their vacation turns into regret that he did not earn his $ 150-200.

“$ 5000 is an incredibly small amount for most Americans (their credit limits exceed it by 2-10 times), but for me this is the only proof that I am not working in vain.”

Andrey says that at work with a mover, you can turn off your brain completely using only your arms and back. So he set aside money for school to keep the brain busy with something. Otherwise, he thinks, you buy empty things that give temporary relief.

Ilya's story:

Ilya moved to the USA from Moscow in 2015.

“Movera are the movers. They come to the client's home, pack their belongings and transport them to a new location. The work is elementary, at first it seems that they pay a lot (especially right after moving to the states), therefore it attracts the finest dicks ... from all over the CIS. But more about them later. "

Ilya says that in California only Russian-speaking and Latin Americans are engaged in moving. Therefore, many moving companies speak Spanish or Russian. Sometimes the foremen (foremen) speak a little English. Ilya has a different opinion about making money, which differs from previous storytellers. About where else Russian-speaking immigrants work in the USA, he told Forum Daily New York.

“Only illegal immigrants will plow such a job for $ 15 an hour (or less). Local Americans have to pay three times as much, plus insurance. Thus, prices would soar so that movings would only be available to very wealthy people. For example, the minimum salary is 3 hours and 2 people - the client pays $ 300 for this. If it were not for newcomers, but for Native Americans, the price would have risen to at least $ 1. "

Fast money

Ilya thinks that the only plus for the moving is quick cash. Cash in an envelope and no taxes. There are those who work with documents, but they also work there. They are paid a minimum check so that they show at least something to the tax authorities, and the rest is already thrown in cash.

According to Ilya, a mover can earn 700-1000 dollars a week during the season. But in the season, the movers are happy that they can make at least $ 500 to pay for the apartment.

That is, the conventional Vasya from Taganrog plows for six months, saves on everything, lives in a box, and takes with him $ 10-000 to the Russian Federation, where he is already chic. You will be surprised, but there are literally thousands of such people. Thousands of provincials from Russia make money only in this way and are considered successful guys - everyone envies them at home and friends also dream of an American visa in order to follow this path.

Ilya finds it amusing that it is among the movers that there are many who express hostility towards the Americans. And one of the immigrants even watched all of Solovyov's programs through the speakers.

“It's funny, but among them there are a lot of fierce birch quilted jackets that chant:“ Russia! Russia! ”At every opportunity. They sincerely consider the Americans "stupid rams", and the fact that they work for "these rams" does not bother them at all. "

Ilya added: “There are no more racists than Russian movers. Although everyday chauvinism is generally our national trait. If the client is dark-skinned or Indian, then all his work will be discussed and called names. Of course, although the client does not understand Russian, he feels dislike. Therefore, at the end there is almost no tip from such clients. Because of this mover, blacks are hated even more. "

Case of life

Ilya recalls this case from the moving house.

“One Armenian worked with me, let's call him Suren. He was 60 years old, he sat for a long time in politics and led a typical dzhigit lifestyle: cigarettes in blocks, brandy in liters and dissolute Snezhans at night. And so we transported a somehow tough German architect, as Suren felt bad. So bad that he began to lose consciousness and die in my arms.

He was lucky that it happened in a nice town of Santa Monica with a cool hospital, even by American standards. The doctors arrived three minutes later, Suren was rescued, it turned out that a blood clot came off our kayfarik and began to hammer in the very heart. They made him a bunch of operations, most of which were done through ultra-modern equipment with super-mega-hyper bells and whistles, which in Ukraine, where Suren came from, does not exist at all, and it is not a fact that they would have saved him there. In short, they pumped it out, issued an invoice for $ 200 and wrote off the debt, because there is nothing to take from the poor migrant.

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As a result, the situation is as follows: Suren can no longer work, the disabled person is now, after all, and the money must be sent to the family. Then he, without hesitation, goes to the boss of that Movers' office and says, "brother, unfasten me $ 50, or I'll mortgage your company." And the boss, the Moldovan, had a lot to lose. There he has illegal immigrants, and taxes, and a bunch of frauds. In general, they agreed with Suren for $ 000 in cash and he sent our Armenian to his native Cherkassy to retire from sin. "

In fact, there are many reasons why immigrants leave the United States, and Forum Daily New York talks about them.

Moving employer is afraid of a mover

Because any mover can go to the Labor Department. Then the employer will have to pay huge fines. Ilya says that moving in California is a business of immigrants from Uzbekistan.

“The scheme of Uzbek happiness works like this: there is the very main boss who has a lot of websites of different Movers' offices. The trick is that this is all fiction, there are websites - there are no offices. He just vacuums up huge traffic and transfers these orders to contractors for a 20% commission. The contractors are other Uzbeks (Moldovans), but with trucks (trucks) and a dozen poor movers.

The Uzbek dream in Los Angeles is to take a couple of trucks, and the supreme boss will provide jobs. Such is the system. They earn a lot. No, not like that. They earn a lot. My partner and I were counting how much cash we bring to the office from just one truck per month. It turned out about thirty thousand dollars. "