Sounds great. In the past year, I’ve learned about Elance.com and have grown to LOVE it.
You can post a job, and you get people from all countries bidding to do the job. I kid you not...I’m paying THREE BUCKS AN HOUR to do my data entry.
And these guys are fast and really want to do a good job!
Just last year I was paying a lazy employee (who would take a week off here or there so she could go to her lesbian friend’s wedding or to her unemployed mohawk wearing boyfriend’s paintball tournament) $18 an hour + health insurance to do this.
I have many other job positions I plan to outsource as well!
I’m assuming the people you’re hiring at $3 an hour are not in the US. Paying someone $18 an hour + healthcare insurance to do data entry is absurd, but $3 an hour? Even if they worked 16 hours a day, they’d have a sub-poverty level income.
Yes, how dare someone want to take some time off for functions important to them.
In Maine, at least, you get 5 weeks to shitcan a new, under-performing employee before the Unemployment Insurance hit kicks in. I set an alarm in my phone one week in advance at each new hire.