Why do you link bonuses with curtailment of power for people who refuse to pay?
If I do my job, and achieve certain goals, I get a bonus. If you don’t pay us, you don’t get our products. The two are entirely unrelated.
It’s interesting that you think they are related, however; Do you think that businesses should have to provide products or services for free?
For free??? Of course not for free, but, it could be akin of price gouging.Food, water, energy and other services are not luxuries. They are basic requirements to live.No one is saying you shouldn’t make a profit but charging in excess when you don’t have an alternate less expensive way to obtain these sevices is, IMHO, highway robbery. I live in a county of about 6 million residents and pay an average monthly light bill of about $400 for reidential service.Thats over 2.5 billion $$ a year in revenue for the power company and thats not counting commercial services. That seems a bit high to me.
>>Why do you link bonuses with curtailment of power for people who refuse to pay?
They always do. A utility company in my city won’t give employees a pay increase this year (and may ask for pay cuts) because “the customers are suffering” and it would look bad. Total employee salary plus benefits is about 2% of the company’s total budget so this will have no effect on the “suffering”.