Posted on 05/21/2021 9:21:27 AM PDT by kjam22
If it were perfect capitalism their company would be traded publicly and I could short it.
“What are the alternatives to hiring this worthless sack of crap?”
He is not “worthless”, he is worth less.
There has long been a large market for second-rate imported computer programmers, and also for slackers.
Maybe if they paid a decent wage then they wouldn't have incompetent big, fat, white millenial, turquoise colored hair guys working for them? You get what you pay for.
Poor management. He should be fired and replaced. That slacking had nothing to do with his hourly rate.
Most mechanics still work for flat rate.
That is what it is called, I have done it a lot.
You get paid for labor hrs sold.
You make good money when there is plenty of work and starve when there isn’t.
This kid is not working flat rate, sounds like he is just a sloth.
Maybe he had to wait for the tires to be delivered?
He’s the kid who drags his feet across the crosswalk not even looking at traffic around him while you are waiting to take a right turn.
Dumb and slow is how they raise em these days.
You can't really believe that???
“Inequality”
I very much doubt that Dr. Jill Biden and I will have the same annual income while the both of us are alive.
“Maybe if they paid a decent wage”
The boss can only pay the wages the business can support.
Service sector wages are higher in DC because it is densely populated with highly paid people.
Not all businesses are equal -> not all employee compensation can be equal.
If your business model is dependent on paying the minimum wage then don't be surprised when you are forced to choose your staff from those who can't get jobs for anything higher. And don't be surprised if the response from your customers is like that of the gentleman who started this thread.
ABSOLUTELY! Every bit as much and more than you believe your endless themes of paying more and apparently believing money grows on trees somewhere and that you are just one of the poor unfortunate souls that does not have one but should.
He is chaff. A waste of human protoplasm. Our society’s safety net needs to have bigger holes.
Am I sympathetic to some poor dude/dudette on the street because of efforts like BernieMaddoff, or horrific med bills because of sudden illness, etc.? “Ell yeah. But wastrels? No. Junkies who refuse rehab? No. Obvious nutters who spend time yelling at trees ‘cause the state got rid of asylums? No.
I know your type and I have worked for your type. I’ll take your low ball offer and look for a new better paying job on YOUR DIME. Greedy chumps....
“Part Of What Is Wrong With This Country”
That a slacker can find an economic place in our system is a strength.
We have lots of lazy people.
This guy sounds like he is the Poster Child of the Left’s “Living Wage” campaign.
I would guess they would let him go, but I’ll bet that, with the turquoise hair, there would be a lawsuit.
You hire a 17 year old kid at minimum wage out of high school, find one that works hard and wants to learn all he can about cars, suspensions, tires, and how to fix and replace them, and he will move up the ladder on his own.
By the time he is 21 (or earlier) he won’t be working at minimum wage like this turquoise-haired no-load would be. By the time he is 25, he might be an assistant manager, and by 30 he might be a manager, and that business has a great employee.
That is what things USED to be like a long time ago.
I despise the Left and their focus on giving minimum wage jobs more money, trying to achieve a “living wage” (whatever the Hell that actually means) for wastes of oxygen like this person.
I suppose I should be grateful they give more focus to giving someone who has a formal job more money...I guess they haven’t had time to focus on what they REALLY want which is a universal basic income in which no-loads don’t have to even have a job.
Oh, come on! Admit you just took that off a calendar in the garage!
Oh, yes she does...
“If your business model is dependent on....”
Potential employees have a limited set of choices.
And living/breathing potential employers have a limited set of choices too.
People in charge need the ability to place themselves “into the shoes” of others.
See, if management fires this slacker they would have to do real work for a few days or a week until they could replace him. So the slacker slacks and the manager spends afternoons at the local titty bar. Life goes on.
The “living wage” is a defective idea outside the field of politics.
A guy who makes AOC’s $24/hour for one hour each week isn’t going to be able to support a family.
The fundamental economic equation is:
(hourly wage rate*hours worked)-taxes > necessary expenses
Potential employees always have the choice to go to whoever is paying the higher wages.
And living/breathing potential employers have a limited set of choices too.
I would disagree with that. Employers have a myriad of choices. If their choice is to go for the lowest qualified, lowest paid employee then that's their choice. Live with the results.
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