In about eight months, I turned down at least three offers to get promoted to assistant manager.
As you stated, a little hard work and application, and you can move up very quickly in the ranks, and pay for management in retail is nothing to sneeze at.
In about eight months, I turned down at least three offers to get promoted to assistant manager.
As you stated, a little hard work and application, and you can move up very quickly in the ranks, and pay for management in retail is nothing to sneeze at.
Exactly!
Higher minimum wages add to all the other government mandates that make human labor uncompetitive with automation.
Have worked with a number of manufacturing processes where the flexibility of human labor and other advantages offset the cost savings and high throughput of automation solutions.
Every few were evaluate and automation always lost out - until now. We are now converting to automation and not because of significant changes on the automation side of the equation.
It all has to do with the Obama era labor policies and regulations
The economy is starting to recover and my concern is that higher minimum wages are going to be the final nail in the coffin to kill many jobs as manufacturers look to add capacity.
employer will weigh the enormous costs of hiring and training new workers under the new labor realities and opt to invest in automation solutions simply because the government has made human labor undesirable and uncompetitive.
This will make job creation slower in this economic recovery.
You really see this in the fast food industry . I am stunned at how quickly companies like McDonalds has responded to high minimum wage laws with what are clearly automation and labor saving solutions that are phasing in at the same rate as the increases in minimum wages.
When we finally hit the magic $15, we will find that there will be far fewer minimum wage jobs than there are now