Welcome to Our Forums. Once you've registered and logged in, you're primed to talk football, among other topics, with the sharpest and most experienced fantasy players on the internet.
You have 5 workers making $12/hour that have worked for you from the start. You need to add another person, but min wage went from $10 to $15. How much are you paying the loyal workers who have been with you from the start?
Thanks but I don't see how any of that is relevant to what I posted.I've got a lot of the Corrupt Corporate Media clips I can show you from places all over the United States from last summer that show real people going off on emotional rampages if you would like me to post those as well.
CCM for short
MoP threads don't allow things like the Media to influence how we are going to discuss things or suddenly prove one person over another. There doesn't have to be a wrong answer here but it is very concerning that they just barely lifted some of the restrictions in certain areas after forcing a lot of folks inside for a year and conditioning an entire country to wear masks outdoors even though that completely is the opposite of what the science shows us. We saw people wearing masks outside in parks, Disney(ABC) is still running commercials with kids wearing masks playing outside, it's shameful.
So we we won't be putting much stock in anything the CCM is reporting,
If your business was 20 min from Nevada and they were totally open, you couldn't be aggressive. That is what we faced.
It’s like on Oprah, you get a raise and you get a raise and you get a raise and you get a raise, And you go out of business! Hooray everybody lost their job.
I do have a problem with people getting "rewarded" with $1000-1200 for working a month, but I don't have a solution.
While you and I do not exchange often, you were actually one of the folks I was thinking about when i fired up this thread. I don't keep notes much but I think I asked you point blank about a Guaranteed income and much to my shock at the time it was exactly what you were suggesting, socialism which i don't think is a taboo word to you.
but what do I know?
Agreed. Anecdotally there are lots of people who have similar sentiments about gov't incentives being given for vaccine shots. Similarly I don't have any solution.
Do you do anything in philanthropy? Before you answer, my wife and I have been in fundraising and non profit for well over 2 decades now and I think you would appreciate a lot of the work we do. Rather than going out and constantly trying to get money to keep funneling the same project, we work on "endowments" and large piles of money that make interest so that you don't have to constantly keep trying to fund the same projects, you raise 10x the money you really need and just run the expenses off the interest and the pile stays in tact forever in theory...
The rich people can afford a $6 starbucks, they can also afford a $10 starbucks. Good luck getting $10 from the Average Joe. Then again, if we moved a lot of manufacturing back to the US, Average Joe could afford more of those $10 starbucks. We all know that won't happen, because the WalMart-types control a lot of pricing.While you and I do not exchange often, you were actually one of the folks I was thinking about when i fired up this thread. I don't keep notes much but I think I asked you point blank about a Guaranteed income and much to my shock at the time it was exactly what you were suggesting, socialism which i don't think is a taboo word to you.
Supply and Demand, time for employers to provide a real wage that people can live a normal life on and if that means higher prices for the rich people they service daily then i guess so be it.
I've been paying $2 for a can of Tennis Balls since MobyDick was a minnow, like all the way back in the 80s they were about $2 a can, that's great for Tennis players but probably not good for the guy running the machine in the tennis ball factory in Taiwan.
Very general basic idea and I would put down that GOP Hatred Playbook you want to inject, it won't serve you in here. I don't think all these folks screaming get to work in here are all Republicans
So I’ll share my experience with the minimum wAge hike here in Connecticut. As a small business owner I felt compelled to fight for my parents because they would bear the financial burden. Connecticut minimum going from $10.10 to $15 would increase my operating expenses 35% which I had to pass along. This correlates into $3600-$4000 per child pre-tax. Some parents left for financial reasons and some left as they now made too much for support from state child care program . While testifying at state hearing, a state senator asked me how I would solve the problem. In my head, I said gee isn’t that your job but instead said minimum wage jobs should be transient in nature. For people looking for advancement, we can offer vocational training etc..
So they get a free ride because they dont want jobs that are beneath them. We are all marxists now.Here we go
Let's go with this thought, it's pretty good.
The Ministry is a big fan of folks who acknowledge this and it really goes back into the late 70s and 80s. I can remember when Time magazine and others were running stories showing men and women laid off after decades in the same company back when there was an unwritten rule that if you put in enough time that most companies would keep you until you wanted to retire but suddenly they were churning 55 year olds on to the streets with few job options.
This year my biggest expense category will be charity. My time is lacking in doing much more (when I retire I'll have time!).
for sinking your time into something like this.
What if we processed them thru one main entrance where they could sign a book and perhaps get a fast track for an ID right there and a social security card? The fact is a lot of folks are not going to work the jobs the companies need filled right now, got a feeling there will be a lot of new folks in America over the next couple years, we need the cheap labor to build more homes.
Yes. When the 125k person is also having work extra hard to do the job of the person sitting home (on top of the job that they are earning said 125k from) so that person sitting home can play World of Warcraft and smoke pot. Oh yeah not only do they have to do that extra job they happen to be the ones paying that person to sit home.
One of your other posts asked about how much a skilled worker should make...
BTW, studies have shows that overall compensation has gone up, but that many folks just don't see it as it has been sucked up by the dramatic increase in health insurance costs.
I also think you are looking at things thru Hospitality and we've discussed in the past, I used to run nightclubs back in the 90s Central Florida, very familiar with what you do, big tip of the cap from me, very difficult to do what you do and have done.
I don't sweat them, I worry about them.
2008 and now were very different. 2008 was a white collar man-cession. This time around it was relatively lower paid jobs and affected women more (child care and schools being closed being a huge, huge driver).
What do you mean?
This isn't the way it works. If it was I'd be Richey Rich diving into pools of money.
Because people who could go to work and function just fine had their lives completely destroyed over the last 12 months and we have a rampant rise in alcoholism as an example, drug addiction is thru the roof, and I would like to get people some mental help since that type of horror is much harder to discover beneath the surface. Just because the leaders say its safe to go back to work or just because you cut off bare necessities to folks you are going to have other issues and problems.
Maybe the person who is sitting at home thumbing their nose at minimum wage or close to it should be paid more? Avg salary in this country is like $30k or less, that's $15 an hour which is what many in here are posting. $15 an hour is basically minimum wage.
I agree and pointed that out, it was the reverse of this past one but you frame it better with "white collar man-cession" good description.
You can't pay everyone who doesn't want to work 40k. There aren't enough productive people to allow for that. There is more than enough help needed for those who can't work. Society should dedicate resources for those who need it. We all deserve to pursue happiness, though we are not guaranteed it.
Or maybe entry level minimum wage jobs are supposed to be exactly that. Entry level. Let’s be real, the overwhelming majority of those thumbing there noses at these jobs are doing it not on principle but for 2 reasons. 1- they can because we are supporting them, and 2- because they are lazy and don’t want to do something hard to earn the next thing. Both things are the exact opposite of the moral base you obviously instilled in your son. Based on what you’ve said here he’s not willing to be ok with those 2 things, good on him! We need more of that attitude not less. Our generation has by in large screwed up our kids by trying to protect them from pain, and far far far too many are entitled, they believe the world owes them because they are them. That’s a dangerous mindset and what is allowing the vast majority of them to sit on there’s ### right now while the rest of us continue to support them.
I agree with your focus on happiness. That’s exactly the journey we should each be on individually, no doubt about it. But why do I have to work to support your happiness? Because that’s the only way what you’re describing works, if some else is willing to pay for it.
And if those other people, who are willing to work, aren't happy then what he's basically saying is some of us should work and be unhappy so he can not work and be happy. That doesn't seem fair, does it? Pay for your own happiness.
Weekends off? Lol. Wtf is wrong with people? It’s a wedding business for #### sakes. Good luck and you can land some decent workers.
depends on where. Agree in urban areas it does not. Inflation will return them to the exact same station.
I’m telling you it takes all my will power to not say “are you ####### kidding me!?!”, but instead I smile and say “thanks for coming in”. Then proceed to go bang my head again the wall.
I can’t imagine. If I were you I’d be hoping they let everyone in on the southern border. I bet those people would work their nuts off for you to have a steady job like that.
My point is higher wages equates to higher operating costs means increase in prices for everyone. This just gets passed onto the consumer. So the minimum wage earner who went from $7.25 to $15 per hour doesn’t really have any more purchasing power as they will end up spending more for goods and services.
That why I believe letting the states handle the minimum wage issue. They have a better handle.
So the working class should pay $300 for people who determine they are too good to work a lessor job? Ask your son if he's OK with that. Lets face it, the rich are not paying this, everyone else is.
Is there any way to screen the applicants for that type of nonsense before the interview? Create a "weekends-only" position?
