I like your excersize with regard to picking up the dime. It’s Biblical too!
I haven’t read through this entire thread yet, but the earlier comments were talking about paying more money, etc. Agreed that if Lowes is paying $16.50 an hour vs. $16.00 at HD (actual entry level pay in Billings, MT) it might be worth it to go over to Lowes.
But these companies aren’t just competing with Lowes, they are also competing with government welfare. My kids know people (20-somethings) that will work for a little bit and then quit as soon as they don’t like something about the job. They don’t get welfare, but they have free health insurance through the state which they have commented on as one reason why they don’t need to have a job. (They also live in mom’s basement, use the food bank and go get another job when they run out of money for pot).
“Agreed that if Lowes is paying $16.50 an hour vs. $16.00 at HD (actual entry level pay in Billings, MT) it might be worth it to go over to Lowes.”
I’d like to think money is the endearing factor for employees but many have been brainwashed into thinking that a few cents an hour is the threshold of heaven. And billionaires count every cent in this type of theory on being closer to a wrongly worshipped deity, i.e., greenbacks.
Employees to our bad mouthed rich guy in this thread are supplied by the failing participation minded school systems that make promises to their students that just don’t happen. So the former student flounders in each job as he/she travels through life on the edge of hungry going from one minimum wage job to another to be looked at as a loss by the employers to start with. And this is where the short circuit actually is.
The employers never expect more than what they are complaining about, but bitch about it anyway, and the employees never make the effort to excel because they don’t have to/care to, using your thread’s operandi. And have the attitude that “I was looking for a job when I found that one.”
So the employees never get better at what they do or grow with responsibility and reward to become a real master at the aspects of the job so they can promote and someday groom another minimum wage employee for better things. Sounds like our government doesn’t it? The leaders thinking the voters are stupid and keeping them there so they can get richer while the stupids get poorer and get less possibility of change or even improvement. There are only so many keys to the executive washroom.
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