A C.E.O. giving decent raises to several of his employees? I could get past his best friend being a homeless man he went to school with, but now it’s getting silly.
Why not pay the productive part of a company? No more waste than buying new equipment or facilities. Back off corporation haters, might be a good paying job for the right man. But if you expect good wages in the 21st century putting tab A into slot B————
If tab A needs to be put in slot B, the people who do it deserve a living wage. Paying labor as little as possible just because you can is pretty much the definition of “exploitation.”
@fritzoid: Absolutely right. @DesultoryPhillipic: I’ll assume you just don’t know the common term “living wage.” It means enough to live on (providing just the basic needs of food, basic clothing, shelter, health care).
How do you define “merit”, DePhill? Is it simply “what the market will bear”? If a person is incapable of putting tab A into slot B, then of course you shouldn’t be employing that person at all. Unskilled labor isn’t many people’s idea of a dream career, but if your business relies on it then you have an obligation to ensure the laborers are making a living. Anything less is simply starvation on the installment plan.
If worker A want $20 and worker B wants $15 and I can see a hiring line stretching down the block, do I have a responsibility to a left wing moral or my stockholders? Am I running a charity club or a for profit business. If you need a living wage, I suggest you get a need trade or education.
Lew, if everybody in the nation had education or skills, there wouldn’t be enough jobs for them all, and there’d still be a need for unskilled labor. You think it’s a problem NOW that people are scrambling for jobs for which they’re overqualified?
When that infamous Leftist radical Henry Ford set up his assembly lines, his fellow industrialists complained that he was overpaying his workers. Ford’s response was “If my own employees can’t afford to buy my cars, how can I expect anybody else to?”
Edcole1961 about 13 years ago
A C.E.O. giving decent raises to several of his employees? I could get past his best friend being a homeless man he went to school with, but now it’s getting silly.
chaosandcake about 13 years ago
Love the expression in the second panel.
lewisbower about 13 years ago
Why not pay the productive part of a company? No more waste than buying new equipment or facilities. Back off corporation haters, might be a good paying job for the right man. But if you expect good wages in the 21st century putting tab A into slot B————
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
If tab A needs to be put in slot B, the people who do it deserve a living wage. Paying labor as little as possible just because you can is pretty much the definition of “exploitation.”
DesultoryPhillipic about 13 years ago
I’ve never seen a wage take a breath or move around. Paying labor more than it’s qualifications merit is idiocy and rape of the buying public.
ladywyntre about 13 years ago
@fritzoid: Absolutely right. @DesultoryPhillipic: I’ll assume you just don’t know the common term “living wage.” It means enough to live on (providing just the basic needs of food, basic clothing, shelter, health care).
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
How do you define “merit”, DePhill? Is it simply “what the market will bear”? If a person is incapable of putting tab A into slot B, then of course you shouldn’t be employing that person at all. Unskilled labor isn’t many people’s idea of a dream career, but if your business relies on it then you have an obligation to ensure the laborers are making a living. Anything less is simply starvation on the installment plan.
lewisbower about 13 years ago
If worker A want $20 and worker B wants $15 and I can see a hiring line stretching down the block, do I have a responsibility to a left wing moral or my stockholders? Am I running a charity club or a for profit business. If you need a living wage, I suggest you get a need trade or education.
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
Lew, if everybody in the nation had education or skills, there wouldn’t be enough jobs for them all, and there’d still be a need for unskilled labor. You think it’s a problem NOW that people are scrambling for jobs for which they’re overqualified?
When that infamous Leftist radical Henry Ford set up his assembly lines, his fellow industrialists complained that he was overpaying his workers. Ford’s response was “If my own employees can’t afford to buy my cars, how can I expect anybody else to?”