Posted on 08/01/2003 2:05:33 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Ebaneezer Scrooge is alive and well today.>>>>>>>>>
Scrooge is such a well-known icon because the character is so recognizable! I work at a place where the company is probably costing themselves a fortune if a true accounting were done. They have cut wages by bringing in a subcontractor to furnish labor for three years and just recently threw the contractor out and hired the employees directly, now they have two wage levels, the people who have been there for twenty to thirty years still make a reasonable wage while the new employees work for slightly more than half the old wage. This results in huge turnover among the newer employees, tremendous training costs, all sorts of quality problems etc. The management is so set on squeezing the workers down to the last penny that it probably costs them a lot more than it would have cost to keep on paying a decent wage. I have seen this sort of thing before but this is the worst case I have ever seen. I ran my own business for nearly twenty years and I always paid MORE than I had to, I think I saved money as a result of this policy. An employee who is resentful, discouraged and is only trying to see how little they can give for the miniscule earnings they receive is of no value at all.
I doubt you know 100,000 people and if you did, I suspect more than one of them would have financial problems linked to exported jobs, etc.>>>>>>>
Yep, it appears that 99.87 percent of statistics are made up out of whole cloth, on the spot, pulled out of the air, etc. etc.
I have a very good friend whom I have watched have this sort of thing happen to. He is working through a contract house to one of the Big Three.
He is one of two people left in this country who know how to do what he does. (this is white-collar, non-Union work, BTW, for all of those who were about to begin screaming about the Evil unions)
Still the Automaker, in it's infinate wisdom, would rather keep my friend as a contract worker at half the wage and not have to pay him a pension or healthcare.
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