Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Brooklyn Attitude
If the workers dont like it they can find another job

You're kidding, right?

59 posted on 12/10/2012 7:38:15 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies ]


To: P.O.E.; All

The poster is not.. I agree.. Don’t like your current job find a new one..


62 posted on 12/10/2012 7:59:26 AM PST by KevinDavis (And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies ]

To: P.O.E.

He’s not kidding, and he’s right. You’re no more obligated to stay with any particular employer than an employer is to keeping you, so smart employees will stick with,an employer until they have learned something useful, then move on as quickly as possible.

However, in regards to your concern about wages, the problem with Walmart is not the wages. You do earn enough to survive.
The real problem is that the ability, to learn useful skills, has been strangled. We’ve created a situation where the only way to learn marketable skills is to completely be able to devote years of your time learning a skill, with no guarantee of employment. Not everybody has the capability to take those years off, so they are trapped.

There used to be a time where you could have no skills whatsoever. However, if somebody hired you, and you might have to start sweeping floors or shovelling manure, so to speak, over time you would gain marketable skills. Unfortunately, thanks to government interference by subsidizing education, it has become uneconomical to do that.

The real solution is not to just keep bumping up the minimal wage, but to make it possible for people to acquire marketable skills in their spare time, as they are able to do it, however they can. If all they got is 15 minutes per day, a couple of times a week, they should, over time, be able to use that somehow to improve their situation


63 posted on 12/10/2012 8:03:09 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies ]

To: P.O.E.

“”If the workers dont like it they can find another job””

“You’re kidding, right?”

I must be kidding because its unheard of for dissatisfied employees to seek other job opportunities. But seriously, why do think that is so outrageous that it must be a joke? Do you think walmart workers are so stupid they cant possibly find higher paying jobs? Are they being forced to work for the company against their will? Maybe you think there are no other jobs for them to go to? If that’s the case it’s because of people like you who prefer to dictate to businesses how to run their operations, based on “feelings” and without regard to financial realities. You drive businesses out of the country or to bankruptcy and harm the people you claim be helping. You dont like Walmart, fine, dont shop there, but dont presume you and your ilk know how to run the company better than the owners.


75 posted on 12/10/2012 9:17:04 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson